Camerosity

In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus was the home of the Twelve Olympian Gods, Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena, and others looked upon the mortals of the world and accepted their worship.  In modern times, Mount Olympus is also home to the Camerosity Podcast where Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike gaze down upon their followers, accepting tributes and praise.

No, just kidding, none of us are that egomaniacal, no, the real Mount Olympus is in modern day Greece on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia near the Aegean Sea.  It was the inspiration for a small Japanese company formed on October 12, 1919 as K.K. Takachiho Seisakusho, or Takachiho Works Co., Ltd. in English.  The company would originally make microscopes, one of which was branded the "Olympus".  A series of cameras would come next with the same name, and in 1949, the entire company would then become known as the Olympus Corporation.

In the years since, Olympus has created some of the best lenses and cameras the Japanese photo industry ever produced.  In the time doing this show, we've mentioned a variety of Olympus cameras here and there, but we had never dedicated an entire episode to them, until now.

Tune in to Episode 63 where Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike are joined by returning callers A.J. Gentile, Howard Sandler, Mark Faulkner, Matt Murray, Patrick Casey, Patrick Rapps, Robert Coates, Tim Peters, and first time callers Josh Barker, Stephen Strangway, and Tony Plescia discuss their favorite Olympus models, some tips and tricks to using them, and a little bit of history.

The episode barely gets started before we go down the academia route and debate what the plural form of "Olympus" is, but then we get to other questions such as why half frame was so popular in Japan, when did Olympus become a point and shoot company, and what are some tips and tricks to get an Olympus OM-2 or OM-4 cheaply at a thrift shop.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

We will return with Episode 64 which will be dedicated to Rollei.  We will discuss all of the early Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex and Rolleicord TLRs, plus their later SLRs, point and shoots, and maybe even an interchangeable lens rangefinder, digital camera or two.  We will record on a special night, on Thursday, January 25th at 7pm Central Standard Time, 8pm Eastern Standard Time.  We look forward to hearing from you!

In This Episode

• What Is the Plurality of Olympus? / Was Olympus Famous for Their Lenses First?
• Olympus's Early History / Zuiko Lenses Made for Other People / Zuiko Leica Thread Mount 40mm f/2.8
• Olympus Pen and Trip 35 / The Pen Re-Started Half Frame Popularity in the 1960s
• Why Was Half Frame 35mm So Popular in Japan? / Maitani Designed to Pen to Be Inexpensive Yet Still Capable of Great Photos
• Half Frame Was Single Frame Before the Pen / What Is Everyone's Favorite Pen? / Olympus Pen EE and D Series
• Zuiko Lenses and The Letter Code Indicates How Many Elements / The Original OM-1 Was Called the M-1
• Olympus FTL Was the First Full Frame Olympus SLR / No One Knows Who Made the FTL
• Anthony Loves the Pen F and FT / The Pen F SLR is a Marvel of Miniaturization
• Olympus Ace, Ace-E, and Tower 19 Rangefinders / Anthony's Olympus SP and EC Fixed Lens Rangefinders
• All the Olympus Fixed Lens Rangefinders / The Olympus 35 LC is the Same as the 35 SP but Without the Advanced Electronics
• Anthony Also Loves the Olympus XA4 / Maitani Created The Olympus XA / Reverse Retrofocus Lenses
• Olympus OM-Series / OM-SLRS Shutter Speed Selector is Around the Lens Mount to Help Shrink the Camera
• Maitani Signature Cameras / OM-2 and 4 Shutters Will Lock Up if Batteries are Dead / How to Test Them
• When Did Olympus Become a Point and Shoot Company?
• Olympus Stylus and mju Cameras / Olympus LT-1 / Olympus O-Product / Goofy Special Edition Cameras
• Olympus iS-Series SLRs / SP-330 Bridge Camera
• Olympus Jumped into Micro 4/3rds for the Consumer Market / Olympus OM-D E M1X and other OM-D Mirrorlesses
• Olympus Really Likes to Recycle Model Numbers and Names / Olympus Pen Digitals / 4:3 vs 3:2 Ratios
• Mike's Update on His Contax N1 from the Last Episode
• Theo Loves the Olympus XZ-1 Digicam
• Lightning Round: If You Could Only Keep One Olympus Camera, What Would it Be?

Links

The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm.

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group, Instagram page, or Discord server.

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Matt Murray - Matt Loves Cameras - https://mattlovescameras.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In the spirit of the earliest episodes of this show, as the last days of 2023 were winding down, the Camerosity gang found themselves with nothing to do on a Friday night and thought, "Hey! Lets do a Live show!"  

Podbean, the service that hosts and distributes this show has a feature called Live Streams in which you can create a live podcast, where it goes out as you record.  Everything is done on the fly, no editing, just people talking about whatever.  We thought this might be a fun experiment to get the four of us together one last time in 2023 and see what a live Camerosity show might be like...

Unfortunately, we couldn't make it work.  Apparently, Podbean has some requirements for more than one person to be able to talk during a live stream, and while it probably wouldn't have been too difficult to figure out, we just decided to go back to Zoom and record a quick episode as we usually do, except we'd keep the "live" spirit and do little to no editing.

Episode 62 was not planned, we went into it with no idea of what we'd talk about, or for how long.  We stuck to our guns and left in all the pauses, uuummmmsss, and all the talking over each other heard in live recordings.  There are no guests, no show notes, no Instagram roll calls of all the cameras we talk about, just roughly two hours of raw audio of us chatting.  As I type this, I haven't even listened to the whole show myself, so I guess I should apologize now...

We will be back with regular episodes in January and as always, we want to hear from you!  The topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by our listeners!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

We will record Episode 63 on Monday, January 8, 2024 at 7pm Central Standard Time, 8pm Eastern Standard Time, and 12 Noon on Jan 9th in Australian Eastern Daylight Time.  Our topic of discussion will more than likely be Olympus cameras, so get out your OM-series SLRs and Olympus Sixes and stay tuned!

Links

The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm.

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group, Discord, or Instagram pages.

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

It took us a couple of tries. but the Camerosity crew finally managed to put together an episode dedicated to the best selling, widely used, and most accessible type of camera ever, the point and shoot.

The great thing about the point and shoot segment, is that apart from being easy enough to literally "point and shoot", there was a lot of flexibility in design, features, ergonomics, and usability, with many camera makers free to do something different from established norms, adding things like solar panels, dedicated panoramic modes, and even speech capability to otherwise mundane cameras.

In Episode 61, Paul, Theo, and Mike chatted with Andrew Smith. Matt Murray, Tim Peters, Kyle Lu, AJ Gentile, and first time caller Rafael Espinosa to share with us their favorite point and shoot models, how they like to use them, and their own tips and tricks to getting the most from these cameras.

Addressing the biggest debate right at the top of the show, we discuss what exactly is a point a shoot.  Not everyone agrees where this era exactly begins and ends as something as simple as the 1888 Kodak could technically be considered a point and shoot as you literally press the button and Kodak does the rest, but we decide to cap it to simple auto exposure models from the 1960s and on.

We talk about replacing rotted light seals, battery compatibility, which models are more likely to fail than others, underwater point and shoots, disposable point and shoots, and some premium point and shoots.  Will this episode give you GAS like some of our others?  I guess that depends on what style of photography you prefer, but you'll never know for sure if you don't listen in!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

This will be our last episode of 2023 as the guys and I will take a short break before coming back in January.  We may have something special planned for the week after Christmas, but as always, we need to flesh out ideas and make sure that if we do record something it is worth listening to, but even if we don't manage to get something out, we will be sure to return in January with Episode 62.  As always, stay tuned and keep a look out for the show announcement!

In This Episode

• We define what a Point and Shoot is / Theo suggests it might be a box camera
• Kodak made simple cameras to sell more film / Point and Shoots are perfect for the zoo
• Andrew’s first was a Ricoh TF500 / Canon QL17 GIII
• Old P&S cameras often need foam replacement
• Yashica Electros are also a good option / Olympus XA
• The Mamiya 7 is the best camera in the world, even as a P&S
• The Fuji GA645 is a true medium format P&S
• Fuji has a DX type coding for medium format films
• Matt Loves Cameras loves the Contax T3, his has only one tooth!
• Canon SureShot/Autoshot P&S are a great range of cameras / Canon A1 / Aqua Snappy 6 / Prima / Nikon Action Touch
• Matt’s Fuji Natura has a fast lens but only with fast film
• The Canon SureShot Series Are All Great
• Fuji TW-3 / Solar Powered Canon del Sol / Nikon Lite Touch Zoom 140
• Autofocus technology was important for zoom lens advancement
• Mike Raves About the Olympus IS Range / Canon MC Inspired by the Olympus XA
• Paul loves the Samsung AF Slim / Samsung made the Rollei Prego
• Konica Hexar / Konica Genba Kantoku Rugged Cameras
• Everyone likes the Nikon L35AF / The Kodak Ektar 35 is surprisingly good / GOKO Macromax is Fantastic for Macro Photography
• Paul finds an Agfa Optima Flash / Tim’s first compact was a Konica MR70, But Enjoys the Olympus Pen S
• Tim also believes the Nikon EM SLR is a P&S / Backlight button on a camera is a great feature
• Theo has been using the Pentax PC35AF / Mike played the Minolta Talker/AFS-V / Minolta Vista/Ps is a Panoramic Compact
• Premium Nikon P&S are the 35Ti and 28Ti / Premium Compacts are Starting to Fail / Kyle has found repairers in China that can fix them
• Pentax Espio Range are Great Value / Olympus mju / Ricoh FF series / Chinon Auto 3001 / Kodak VR35 K12 and K14
• Disposables have always been popular / The Cat Camera is a weird camera / Mamiya U and U AF / Hand Sam
• mikeeckman.com is 9 years old!

Links

The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm.

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Matt Murray - Matt Loves Cameras - https://mattlovescameras.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

As we begin episodes numbered in the sixties, the Camerosity crew decided we haven't heard enough from our listeners, so rather than devote Episode 60 to one specific brand, style, or region of cameras, we decided to put out the call for a Listener's Choice episode!

Messages were plastered all over social media, Facebook, our new Discord server asking you all to join us, share with us what you've been shooting lately, any recent GAS you've picked up or are thinking of picking up, ask any questions of the hosts or other guests, whatever you wanted.

And boy, did you all respond!  With a total of 18 participants on this show, Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike were joined by returning callers Patrick Rapps, Andrew Smith, Mario and Julienne Piper, Greg McCreash, Marcy Merrill, Marc Gordon, Kyle Liu, and first time callers, AJ Gentile, Bill Chou, Bill Vitiello, Joseph Schallmo, Sam Kellett, and Tim Peters!

We went around the room and asked each caller what they've been up to, and if you were to have asked me and the other hosts what types of cameras would be discussed, none of us would have predicted the number of early 20th century box cameras, large Graflex SLRs, military cameras, and other oddball stuff that camera geeks like us love!  Of course, there was plenty of love for Rolleis, the Nikon S2, the Minolta X-700, Argus C3, Voigtländer Bessa, Yashica 44 and many more.  In addition to camera GAS, Julienne Piper shares with us her method for making 122 size roll film out of computer paper, shooting dry plates, making your own bellows, how Mike once used a garbage bag to keep light out of a camera, and much, MUCH more!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, the Camerosity Discord server, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For the next episode of the show, we would like to focus on a subset of cameras that get mentioned often, but we rarely spend more than a short passing moment on them, compact point and shoots.  For many, point and shoot cameras represent the cheapest and simplest entry into film photography, but therein lies their strengths.  With a good number of point and shoots featuring a high quality lens, a point and shoot offers a level of convenience and spontaneity that larger, more feature rich cameras can't match.  If you've ever tried capturing a fleeting moment of a child playing with a puppy using a falling plate camera or an early roll film camera you'll know that perhaps that Nikon L35AF is just what the doctor ordered!  We will record Episode 61 on Monday, December 11th so be sure to look out for the show announcement 2-3 days before then!

In This Episode

• Patrick Rapps has Panoramic GAS and Figured Out How to Repair a No. 1 Panoram-Kodak
• Everyone Has a Panoram-Kodak / 105 Roll Film Compared to 120
• Marcy Bought a Novelty Yashica MF-1 in Japan and Then Ruined An Entire Roll of Film
• Anthony Only Found the Super Expensive Camera Stores in Japan / Mamiya U Repair / Bill Rogers
• Andrew Smith is Trying Not to Buy New Stuff / Chinese Light Lens Labs ELCAN 50/2 Collapsible Lens
• Ricoh 500 and Bottom Trigger Cameras / Leicavit / Canon VT Rangefinders / Riken Lenses
• Mario Piper Gets a Beautiful Spotmatic SP / Spotmatic ES and ESII / Nikon EL2
• No 3A ANSCO Postcard Camera /  Julienne Makes Her Own 122 Size Photographic Paper / Kodak Bullseye Falling Plate Camera / Empire State No. 2 Studio Camera
• Printer Paper is Not Light Tight / Shooting Cameras in Garbage Bags / Making Your Own Bellows
• Bill Loves the Bronica ETRC / Bronicas Are Very Sensitive to Degraded Foam Light Seals / Bronica S2
• More Love for the Chinese ELCAM Lens
• Tim Shows Off His Kodak No.2 Bullseye Special / Folmer & Schwing Home Portrait Graflex
• Other Companies Made Zeiss Lenses in the Early 20th Century / Nikon S2 / UsedPhotoPro in Indianapolis / Nikon F with Selenium Meter
• Bill Vitiello Loves Every TLR / What is the Difference Between a Rolleiflex and Rolleicord? / Rolleiflex T
• The Camerosity Podcast Saves Lives! / Minolta X-700 / Argus C3 with Sandmar 35mm Lens
• Adapting DKL Mount Lenses / Most DKL Adapters Suck / A Brief History of the Deckel Mount
• Wet Plate Collodion Process / AJ's Nagaoka 5x7 Field Camera / Where to Get 2x3 Sheet Film
• Voigtländer Bessa I / Ilford's Special Order Film / Leica IIIF
• Shooting Dry Plates / Some Guy Built a Camera Into His Van / Making Positives from Negatives
• Yashica 44 / 127 Film / Adapting to 35mm
• Rerapan and Shanghai 127 Film / Cutting Bulk 46mm Film to 127 / Imperial 127 Delta
• Paul Loves his Polaroid Snap Touch Instant Camera / Paul Sends Greg a Box o' Stuff
• Greg McCreash Loves Military Cameras / Combat Graflex / The US Military Often Used Bronica Cameras
• Mike's Recent GAS / National Graflex / Yashica YF

Links

The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/PZVN2VBJvm.

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Mario and Julienne Piper - https://www.instagram.com/genxphotogpod/

Marcy Merrill - https://junkstorecameras.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

A couple episodes ago, the gang discussed cameras of the Soviet Union to give some attention to lesser known Soviet cameras, and the histories behind them, so for episode 59, we devoted the entire show to the East German camera industries, primarily those around the Dresden area.

There were perhaps more companies making cameras in this area than anywhere else in the world, so making a single episode that could cover them all would be impossible, but we certainly tried.  In the end, we discussed the fascinating histories of Ihagee and how Dutchman Johan Steenbergen split up the assets of his company into two to protect it from the Germans, how two Jewish businessmen formed KW in the early 20th century to become one of Germany's most successful camera makers, and how an eventual American entrepreneur took over the company and created the world's first modern 35mm SLR.

We devote some time to the Carl Zeiss Jena Werras, the Praktina, the battery driven Prakti, East German TLRs, and because we can't control ourselves, we even crossed international borders and discussed Japanese cameras with Exakta lens mounts.

It was a crazy episode that started out with some technical difficulties resulting in Paul losing power, Anthony's keyboard dying, and Theo needing to find a new job, but we persisted and delivered what I think is a fascinating, albeit abbreviated look at one of the most elaborate camera histories out there.

This episode also marks the official debut of the Camerosity Discord server, which is where Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike are ready and waiting to share in all of our tomfoolery, GAS, and a place for you to share what you've been shooting lately.  Be sure to check it out!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

Our next episode will be number 60, and I am extremely excited to invite a special guest who I've been yearning to speak to for years.  My desire to speak to this person goes back even farther than the start of this show, and they are someone I REALLY think you will all enjoy talking to.  I can't say their name yet, but I can say they are one of the most well known Camera Collectors, and that before they became Popular, in their early career, they were very Modern.  So stay tuned for the recording of Episode 60 on Monday, November 27th!

In This Episode

• Dresden Was a Central Manufacturing Hub for All German Industry, Including Cameras / The Feb 1945 Bombing of Dresden
• Carl Zeiss Jena Werras / Differences Between the Various Werras
• KW Praktiflex and the M40 Lens Mount / Paul Loves Biotars of Every Size and Lens Mount
• Kamera-Werkstätten Has a Very Sad But Interesting History
• KW Patent-Etui / KW Pilot Reflex / The Story of Paul Guthe and Benno Thorsch
• The KW Praktina Was the First Modem Professional SLR / The Nikon F Was Influenced by the Praktina
• Praktina Spring Wound and Electric Motor Drives / 50 Foot Film Back / Angled Shutter Releases
• Why Were There So Many Different Camera Designs Coming Out of Dresden / Germans Didn't Like to Copy Themselves
• Ihagee and Johan Steenbergern's Story / Ihagee Was Split Into Two Halves So the Germans Couldn't Own it All
• East German TLRs / Weltaflex / Peerflekta / Mentorette
• Anthony Once Found East German Linen Photo Paper
• The East German Government Encouraged Photography for Propaganda
• Pentacon Six SLR with CZJ Biometar Lens
• Johan Steenbergen Was Successful in Getting the Rights to Ihagee Back, and Produced the Exakta Real in 1966
• Vest Pocket Exaktas and the Night Exakta / Every Different Exakta Used a Different Lens Mount
• Nippon Kogaku and Canon Both Made a Single Lens in Exakta Mount / Firstflex 35 SLR
• Why Did Tokyo Kogaku Use the Exakta Mount on Topcon SLRs? / Mimosa II
• Ihagee Exas / System Exa Rheinmetall
• Everyone Loves the Looks of the Exakta / 12 Second Exposures and Razor Blades
• Jimmy Stewart and the Exakta in Rear Window / Kilfitt Fern-Kilar 400mm f/5.6 Lens
• What is the Proper Spelling of Exakta? / Exacta Cameras
• Topcon RE 300 and Japanese Made Exaktas / Exakta Twin TL / Pentacon Prakti Sounds
• Camerosity is Now on Discord! / Listener Question About Good Books Covering the German Camera Industry

Links

The Camerosity Podcast is now on Discord!  Join Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our very own Discord Server.  Share your GAS and photography with other listeners in the Lounge or in our dedicated forums.  If you have questions for myself or the other guys, we have an “Ask the Hosts” section as well where you can get your question answered on a future show!  Check it out!  https://discord.gg/u7DvZEz6

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We've done a lot of deep dives into specific camera brands here on the Camerosity Podcast, but one brand I've been the most excited to do was Yashica.  Some of my earliest acquisitions of film cameras right when I first started collecting were Yashicas, from the wonderful Yashica Electro 35 to the Yashica-Mat TLR, to the Yashica TL-Super, there was probably a time when nearly 20% of my collection was a Yashica.

More than that, if you were to break down the entire Japanese camera industry into A, B, and C-List manufacturers with Nikon and Canon at the top, and the hordes of "one and done" Japanese makers from the 1950s in the C-List, Yashica seems to be one company that exists somewhere between A and B.

So for this podcast, I really wanted to bring out the big guns and invite not one, but two people who love Yashica more than I do.  The first guest is someone who I've interviewed before on my "One Hour Photo" series, is Paul Sokk.  Hailing from about 90 minutes away from Theo, Paul is THE authority on Yashica TLRs, fixed lens Yashicas, and early Yashica SLRs.  He also has a huge amount of info on Nicca, Leotax, and Canon rangefinders too making his site a very worthwhile read for many collectors.

In addition is Chris Whelan who has frequently collaborated with Paul, providing him with information and photographs that Paul has used on his site.  Chris has bought, owned, and sold a huge number of rare Yashicas, even to people you probably know.  Mike personally owns a few cameras that Chris has previously sold to other people, completing some form of Camerosity/Yashica Cycle of Life.

In this episode, we focus on the early days of Yashima, their TLRs, early SLRs, the company's acquisition of Nicca and Nicca rangefinders, and touch upon some of Yashica's great fixed lens rangefinders, plus some of their stranger cameras like the Sequelle and Samurai.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

We don't yet know what we will be doing for our next show, but we are definitely mulling on some topics suggested to us from other listeners, plus the many different areas in which we interact with you on social medial.  Whatever we decide to do, I am sure it will be interesting and a lot of fun, so be sure to join us on Monday, November 13th for the recording of Episode 59!

In This Episode

• Paul Sokk and His Blogs, yashicatlr.com and leica-copies-japan.com / Chris Introduces yashicasailorboy.com
• We work out Anthony and Chris / Theo and Paul live close to each other
• Chris has sold to Kurt / Paul found the same camera when looking it up
• The Yashicaflex S and A3 found their way to Mike / Kurt wanted his collection to go to people that would appreciate them / Minolta Super A to Theo
• Chris’s first camera was a Yashica Electro TL X and a Nikonos II
• He went to Canon F1 but returned to Yashica because of Paul’s site / Chris turned Paul onto the Pentamatic
• Theo has been using the Electro TL X recently and the Yashinon 50 f/2 is one of his favourite lenses
• The Yashica FFT was the last M42 mount camera
• Anthony has a Contax S2 and ST with more Yashica lenses than Zeiss lenses
• Tomioka was responsible for the high quality Yashica glass
• Chris loves the Yashicamat EM / Mike Loves the Yashica D
• Yashica provided military goods to making cameras / Pigeonflex then Yashimaflex Was Next
• The Yashicamat Was One of the Best Selling TLRs
• Yashica was trying to sell volume by having the right quality for the right price
• Was 1956 when Yashica started to sell in US and Europe?
• In 1957 Yashima started to also make other cameras other than TLRs, first the Yashica 8 movie camera
• Yashima's First 35mm camera Was the Yashica-35 in 1958
• Brian Wants a TLR / Yashica 124G are as modern a TLR you will find / Kyle collects Contax SLRs
• Nicca was a Canon service company / Paul and Theo will fight over a Snider 35 / Niccas Were Sold by Sears as Towers
• Niccas are well built, so were the Leotax / Nicca introduced some innovations but Only Made Rangefinders
• Nippon Kogaku made the Rigid Body 5cm f/3.5 Nikkor-QC Exclusively for Nicca
• Yashica bought Nicca before they went bankrupt / Yashica Pentamatic / Auto frame counters can be problematic
• Who made lenses for the Yashica SLRs? / Yashica's First M42 Camera was the Penta J / J is for Jaguar / Yashica J-3
• TL Series when started with TTL metering / Fixed Lens Rangefinder Yashicas / Yashica Lynx / Yashica Minister
• Unique Yashica Cameras / Yashica Rapide / Yashica Sequelle / Yashica Samurai
• Yashica Electro 35 was hugely popular in the USA, and they have fantastic lenses
• The Contax/Yashica C/Y mount cameras and the Point and Shoots will be covered in a future episode

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

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One Hour Photo 2 - Paul Sokk: https://mikeeckman.com/2019/05/one-hour-photo-2-paul-sokk/

Paul Sokk - http://yashicatlr.com/ and http://leica-copies-japan.com/

Chris Whelan - https://yashicasailorboy.com/ and https://www.ccstudio2380.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Looking back at past episodes of the show, there are a few memorable ones, not necessarily for anything myself or the other hosts contributed, but rather from some of our esteemed guests.  Of those esteemed guests, one that consistently piles on great information and awesome anecdotes about our hobby is Robert Shanebrook.  A former employee of Eastman Kodak who while working there did everything from build cameras that went to the moon, to helping create some of the company's best film emulsions ever made, even some like TMax which are still being made today.

With an incredible wealth of knowledge about Kodak's past and present, Robert still has his fingers on the pulse of the company and the industry and can often give insightful comments on where the industry is headed, so any time Robert agrees to join us, you know you're in for a ton of great information!

Joining him on this show is returning guest Mina Saleeb and first time caller Jesse Wisdom.  Of course, joining Robert, Mina, and Jesse are the four horsemen of the world's first and only open source film photography podcast, Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike!

In this episode, Robert shares his insights into Kodak's recent announcement of their intent to keep making film for as long as there is demand, and what exactly that means for the film community.  Robert reminisces on his days torture testing film and all of the great lengths Eastman Kodak went to making sure only the best film made it to your cameras, he talks about regional films, and a few more memorable film emulsions like Verichrome III and Supra.

In addition, Jesse shares his passion for instant film photography and we learn of some history behind Polaroid's lawsuit against Kodak in the 1980s, and how if it weren't for Kodak, Polaroid might have never existed.

Mike brings up his Kodak Aero-Ektar surveillance lens, and two recent pickups, a LOMO LC-Wide and W-Nikkor 2.5cm f/4 rangefinder lens.  Anthony shares his experience going to a recent KEH film event in Atlanta and how there is a clear disconnect between younger film enthusiasts and the older generation.  Jesse takes a stand and says that we need to connect the two groups of people as each can benefit from talking to another, but young people don't go on Facebook and old farts don't go on Discord.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are devoting the entire show to Yashica.  From the earliest Yashica TLRs to Nicca rangefinders to screw mount Yashica SLRs to the final Contax/Kyocera/Yashica SLRs, we plan on covering the entire output of this once great Japanese camera maker.  To help us traverse Yashica's long history, we will be joined by not one, but two Yashica experts who are certain to share with us a great deal of Yashica history and GAS!  If you've ever had any questions about your Yashica Electro or Samurai, this is the episode you won't want to miss, so be sure to join us on Monday, October 30th for the recording of Episode 58!

In This Episode

• The Ultimate Debate: Tim Tam Biscuits vs Mint Slices (aka Girl Scout Thin Mints)
• Kodak's Statement That They'll Stay in the Film Business As Long As There's Demand
• Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer Has Increased Interest in Film / 65mm Kodak Double XX Film
• How Kodak Scaled Down Their Production While Keeping Quality High
• Kodak Built in Different Tolerances for Consumer and Professional Films / Kodak Torture Tested Film
• Does Film Need to be as Consistent Today As It Used To Be?
• You Can Make a Lot of Stuff and Throw Away What's Bad, Or You Can Just Make Only Good Stuff
• Did Kodak Ever Resell or Give Away Their Film That Failed Quality Checks?
• Is Expired Film Stored at a Consistent Temp More Stable than Film Stored in Varying Temperatures?
• 120 Degrees Seems to be the Breaking Point for Film / Humidity is More Detrimental than Temperatures Are
• Were There Differences in the Same Film Produced in Different Markets? / Tropical Film and Cameras / Kodak ProImage 100
• The HBO Series Euphoria Was Shot on Ektachrome / Why Aren't There More Ektachrome Films?
• Differences in E2, E3, E4, and E6 Processes / Chemical vs Light Reversal
• How Similar are 1990s Pro Film to Today's Portra? / Iridium Doping Gets Rid of Reciprocity
• There Was Supposed to Be a Film Before Portra / Vericolor III
• When Portra Came Out Kodak Couldn't Sell Their Vericolor III Anymore So It Had to be Destroyed
• What Happened to Kodak Professional Supra Film?
• Instant Film / At Kodak the People Working on Instant Film Were in Silos
• Kodak Initially Helped Make Polaroid Film / Edwin Land Would Have Failed Without Kodak's Help
• Kodak Made the Negative for Polaroid Type 55 Peel Apart Film
• How Kodak Would Work With Fuji / Advanced Photo System
• Kodak Had an Earlier Attempt to Make a New 35mm Film in 1979
• Aero Ektar Military Lenses / Lenses with Thorium / Don't Lick Radioactive Lenses
• Ice Station Zebra / 30 Mile Long Rolls of Film in Satellites
• Dental X-Ray Film / Minilabs in Dentist Offices / Yashica Dental-Eye
• Anthony Goes to KEH and Sees a Bunch of Youtube Influencers with Very Expensive Cameras / Film Discord Servers
• Younger People are Enthusiastic About Film and Older People Are Enthusiastic, But the Two Groups Aren't Talking to Each Other
• Shooting Expired Film Means Something Different Depending on Who You Ask
• Mike Has a Cat Camera In a Can Made in Japan by Holga (WTF?!) / Film Photography Echo Chambers
• Mina Bought a KMZ Horizont After the Soviet Episode / Mike Gets a LOMO LC-Wide / W-Nikkor 2.5cm f/4 Rangefinder Lens
• Robert Shanebrook's "Making Kodak Film" Book is Back In Print, So Order Now if You Want One

Links

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Keppler’s Vault 56: Kodak 35mm Film Prototype - https://mikeeckman.com/2020/02/kepplers-vault-56-kodak-35mm-prototype/

Robert Shanebrook - http://www.makingkodakfilm.com/

Mina Saleeb - https://www.instagram.com/crookandflail

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Very few episodes of the Camerosity Podcast are recorded without mentioning at least one Soviet camera, or something about the Soviet photo industry.  When deciding what we should discuss in future episodes, it was quite a surprise to the gang and I when we realized we had never devoted an entire episode to the subject, so for Episode 56, we put out the call for all our Soviet comrades, poured a large glass of водка, and loaded some film into our favorite Советские Фотоаппараты.

Joining us on our tour of camera factories in Moscow, Kyiv, Leningrad, and Minsk are esteemed Soviet camera collector and blogger, Vladislav Kern and all around Soviet enthusiast Mark Beadle.  In addition to Vlad and Mark, regular callers Mark Faulkner, Ray Nason, and Ira Cohen came along for the ride as well.

As we often do, Episode 56 starts off with some history and a quick summary of Soviet factories and how their photo industry differed from those in Germany, Japan, and elsewhere.  A whole lot of Soviet GAS was discussed including recommendations for first Soviet cameras for someone whose never shot one, Mike raves repeatedly about Soviet triplets, Paul shares with us his incredibly rare Soviet Leica Summicron lens, and Anthony gets into a discussion about the Soviet motion picture industry.

In this episode we talk about Smenas, the half frame Chaika and Agat, the panoramic Horizont, medium format Iskra, the Leningrad and Droug rangefinders, Soviet fakes, swirly bokeh, and a whole host of other Soviet GAS.

Later in the show we get into a round of Soviet Mythbusters in which Mike asks Vlad several commonly cited "facts" about Soviet cameras, and whether they are true.  Find out if orphaned children really built FED rangefinders, whether cameras with English logos are built with a higher quality, or whether or not you really need to wind your Soviet camera before changing shutter speeds.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are coming back to a favorite topic of the show, which is film stocks and film developing.  We will be welcoming back Robert Shanebrook from Eastman Kodak to talk about all the different types of film from history and past, and hopefully get some insight into what might come in the future.  These film emulsion episodes are always fascinating, so be sure to join us on Monday, October 16th for the recording of Episode 57!

In This Episode

• Differences Between Soviet and Other Country's Camera Industries / Soviet Factories
• Camera Production Was a Cover for Military Manufacturing / Very Little Official Information About Camera Production Was Kept / Photography Was Encouraged to Aide in Soviet Propaganda
• What Soviet Camera Would a Photography Student Buy? / Smena 8 and 8M
• Home Developing and Recycling Everything / Camera Repair Manuals Were Common
• Pre-Soviet Cameras / Export Cameras Were Controlled by TOE aka the KGB
• Soviet Cameras were Distributed All Over the World as Kalimar, Global, and Many Others
• In the UK, Soviet Cameras Were Pretty Common and Seen as Good First Cameras
• A Zenit SLR Could Be Bought For Less Than a Third of a Nikon or Canon
• Soviet SLRs Came in M39, M42, Pentax K, Nikon F, and a Few Proprietary Mounts / KMZ Start
• Soviet Cameras Built for Export Were Generally of Higher Quality / Latin vs Cyrillic Lettering
• Ray's Distributor Used to Bring Him Kiev 60 and 88s for Ten Bucks Each
• After the Soviet Union Collapsed, the Arsenal Factory Attempted to Privatize and Compete on the World Market / Kiev USA
• Arax and Hartblei Also Refurbished Kiev Cameras Making them Better than New with Upgraded Features
• The Soviet Motion Picture Industry / Stalin Had to Approve Every Script That was Submitted for a Motion Picture
• French and Japanese Equipment Was Used to Make Movies
• The FED and Zorki Weren't the Only Soviet Leica Copies / VOOMP II Pioneer and Foto Apparat Geodeziya
• KMZ Started Producing Leica Copies After the War and For a Very Short Time, So Did Arsenal
• Did Orphaned Children Really Assemble FED Cameras? / American Children Worked in Coal Mines
• Are Other Eastern Bloc Cameras Made in Czechoslovakia and Hungary Part of Soviet Camera Collecting? / MOM Mometta III
• The Soviet Union Helped China Start their Camera Industry / Chinese Copies of Smenas and Zenits
• GOMZ Sport SLR / The Soviet Camera Industry Pioneered More Things Than They Often Get Credit For
• Arsenal Kiev Rangefinders Were Built Using Actual Zeiss Contax Parts and Machinery
• Paul Has Never Ever Shot a Soviet Camera / Mike Recommends the Smena 8 for Paul / Agat 18K
• Mike Thinks Soviet Cloth Shutters Hold Up Better than Other Cloth Curtains
• Soviet GAS / Lubitels / Kiev 17 and 19 / Kiev 10 and 15 / Kiev 30 Submini
• LOMO LC-A / Chaika and FED Micro Half Frame Cameras
• Panoramic Cameras / KMZ Horizont / KMZ FT-2 / Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev
• Soviet Mythbusters:
  • Some Soviet Cameras Use Animal Fat Lubricant
  • KMZ Cameras Built for Export are of Higher Quality
  • Lenses with Serial Numbers Beginning with 00 Were Made for VIPs
  • Whole Warehouses of New Soviet Lenses Are Still Being Discovered
  • Don't Change Shutter Speeds Until After Cocking the Shutter / KMZ Narciss
• Soviet Fakes / Paul Has a Summicron 50mm f/3.5 Leica Lens / British Reid Soviet Fake
• KMZ Droug Has a Rangefinder Coupling Wheel
• Is it Difficult for Vlad to Get So Many Soviet Cameras Living in the United States
• TSVVS Prototypes / Mike Raves About Vlad's Collection and Rambles Off a Bunch of Soviet Cameras We Didn't Talk About
• Where Do You Get Soviet Cameras Repaired?

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

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Vlad Kern - http://ussrphoto.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/ussrphoto/

Mark Beadle - https://www.instagram.com/Mark_Beadle90/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In the first episode of Season 3 of the Camerosity Podcast, the guys and I opened up the call-in lines for the first time since late July and asked everyone who has travelled lately, what their ideal travel cameras are.  When deciding to take some cameras on a trip, what makes the cut or doesn't, and why.  In addition to travelling with cameras, what are your tips for getting through airport security, is it worth getting your film hand checked, or should you separate your film from your cameras into separate luggage.

Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike are returning callers Mark Faulkner, Patrick Rapps, John Roberts, Howard Sandler, and first time callers Maxwell Whitaker, Mina Saleeb, and Kevin Knipp who all help us answer those questions.

In addition to our travel tips, we also stray into the world of mirror lenses and other strange lenses of the 20th century like the Voigtländer Zoomar, KMZ Rubin-1, and the Minolta Rokkor-X 40-80mm f/2.8 "Gear Box Lens".  As we often do, much praise is heaped upon Voigtländer and the Bessamatic SLR and Cosina Bessa Rangefinders, we share our opinions of Minox submini cameras, the Carl Zeiss Jena Werra, AGFA Karat 36, plus many, many others.

Later, hear Anthony admit that he's struggling with the decision of whether he needs to rebuy another Leica M3, whether or not people mix digital and film on vacations, and how many times Paul has bought the same camera more than once.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are going red, for Red October.  That's right, the Camerosity Podcast is going to discuss the Soviet Photo Industry.  What are the best cameras to pick up for someone new to the hobby, which ones to avoid, and what are some under the radar models.  So for those of you looking to expand on your Soviet GAS, be sure to join us on Monday, October 2nd for the recording of Episode 56!

In This Episode

• How Do You Decide Which Cameras Will Go With You on a Trip / Theo and Anthony Are Going to Asia
• Bringing At Least One Digital Camera on a Trip / Panasonic Lumix LX Series
• John Roberts Took a Canon F1 and Nikon Z5 and Used the Same Lenses Using an Adapter / Mike Loves the Z5
• Mina Took a Nikon F-801 with Two AF Lenses
• Inspecting Film Through Airport Security / Put Film in Clear Bags, Be Polite, and Make the Inspection as Easy as Possible
• Some Airports Have a No Hand Check Policy / If You Are Eligible for TSA Pre-Check, Do It / ISO 800 Film And Up / CT Scanners
• Film Shield Bags Are Lined with Lead / Paul Once Lost an Entire Pelican Case of Film in Airport Security
• Anthony Is Going to Japan / Voigtänder Perkeo II / Olympus XA4 / Minox 35
• Howard Brings Cheap Cameras On Trips / Rollei 35 B / Mike Gets Stressed Out If He Brings Too Many Cameras
• Paul Travels Specifically for Photography and Food / His Wife Traveled with an RB67 One Year
• If Your Cameras Are Stolen While Travelling, A Tip Is To Also Lose Your Passport So You'll Stop Thinking About the Cameras
• Getting Film Stolen is Worse Than Cameras Stolen / Travel With Your Cameras and Film Separately
• Good Compact Digitals for Travel / Ricoh GR / Panasonic Lumix LX100
• Olympus Pen F Digital and Film Cameras / Half Frame vs APS-C
• Micro 4/3 Cameras Are Quite Good / Olympus OM-D EM1X / Olympus Pen Digitals
• Maxwell's Ideal Travel Camera is a Minox B He Bought from Paul / Getting and Developing Minox Film
• Slitting Film / 3D Printing Slitters / Using a TLR to Slit Film
• Anthony is Going to Attempt to Barter His Way to a Good Camera in Japan By Selling Argus C3s
• Theo and Anthony Love the Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35 / Mike Not So Much / Voigtländer Vito III
• Carl Zeiss Jena Werra Series / The Werra is the Only Carl Zeiss Jena Camera
• Leaf Shutters That Go Faster than 1/500 / Kodak Tourist and Chevron / Minolta V2, V3, and Others
• Rudi Made Anthony Take a Bunch of 110 Cameras and 110 Film from Him / Minolta and Pentax 110 SLRs
• Mike Didn't Like the Canon 110ED / Anthony Loved his Minox 110 and the Vitoret 110
• Voigtländer Was Owned by Zeiss, Then Rollei, then Licensed to Cosina for the Bessa Rangefinders
• Voigländer Vitessa, Vito C, Bessamatic, Ultramatic / Voigtländer Zoomar Lenses
• Russian MTO 500 and 1000mm Mirror Lenses / Maksutov Invented the Catadioptric Lenses for Telescopes
• Soviet Rubin-1 Is Not a Copy of the Zoomar But is Similar / The Zoomar Originally Came on the KMZ Zenit 6
• Mike Attempts to Explain How a Mirror Lens Works / Mirror Lenses Are Almost Always Found in Mint Condition
• Nikon and Minolta Mirror Lenses / The Rokkor 250mm f/5.6 Mirror Lens is Very Good
• Minolta Rokkor-X 40-80mm f/2.8 Gearbox Lens
• Show Suggestions for Season 3 / Yashica / TLRs / Subminis
• Viscawide 16mm Swing Lens Camera / Large Format / Robert Shanebrook / Another Euro Episode
• Leicaflex SL Mirror Locks Just like the Nikon F
• How Many Cameras Have You Bought More Than Once?
• Anthony Is Starting to Miss His Leica M3 / Voigtländer Cosina Made Bessas / Contax RTS II and RTS III
• The Earlier AGFA Karat is the Rangefinder for People Who Don't Like Rangefinders
• We Have Lots Planned for Season 3, Stay Tuned!

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Chuck Rubin Photographics - https://www.facebook.com/p/Chuck-Rubin-Photographics-100054624692201/

Mina Saleeb - https://www.instagram.com/crookandflail

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We're back....sorta!

For the month of August, the Camerosity Gang has been on vacation, traveling all over the United States Southwest and Northern Dairylands, battling Florida storms and insect borne illnesses, and handling the stress of a new job and shopping for a new home.

In a moment of spontaneous availability, the guys and I jumped on a Zoom call, hit record and just started talking.  If you've ever wanted to know what it would be like to be in a room (virtual or real) with Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike, this episode is what it's like, just four guys sitting around talking about whatever comes to mind.  In the spirit of Cocaine and Waffles, we put no effort into this, had no agenda, and just started talking.

As promised at the end of Episode 53, we will return soon with Season 3, featuring (slightly) more organized and thought out episodes.  We have a ton of great ideas for topics coming up, so please keep a look out for our next show announcement soon.  If you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We will record our next episode on Monday, September 18th at 7pm Central Daylight Time.  Stay tuned!

This Week's Episode

• Paul and Black Paint Leicas / Anthony is shooting the Voigtländer Perkeo, Robot Royal, and Mercury II
• Florida Storms / Disruptions to Business / Shooting in a Hurricane / Waffle House Index / Florida Man
• Konica Genba Kantoku and Other Industrial Cameras
• Minolta Weathermatic / Canon Aqua Snappy AS6 / Sureshot A1 / Nikon Nikonos
• Mike is shooting with the Rollei 35 RF with TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 / Konica Hexar AF
• Nikon 35Ti and Other Compacts Which are in Danger of Electronics Failure
• Theo’s Tale of Leica R Woe and What He Did to Solve it
• Theo is Also Shooting a Voigtlander Vitessa L with Ultron lens and Keks 2 Meter and Kodak 2238
• Anthony’s Vitessa is from the Original Importer / Voigtländer Prominent
• Theo is Also Shooting the Zeiss Ikoflex, Voigtländer Superb and the Zeiss Super Ikonta C
• Taking Panoramas with a Nikkor PC Shift Lens
• Paul is Overloaded With Cameras But Still Buys Leicas / 650 Boxes of Cameras
• Cameras with Sequential Serial Numbers
• Digicams Are Great for Kids to Learn Photography
• Theo is the Adapter King of Australia
• Lots of Voigtländer Brillants and Kodak Vest Pockets Have Been Found
• Rolleiflex with Duct Taped Polaroid Back / Leica Accessories Made in Japan
• Paul Did the Americana Festival and Met Patrick Rapps / Ray Nasson visited Mike
• Theo Bought a Canon FTb from Peter Kitchingman Without Knowing
• Anthony talks about John Minnicks and the Aero Liberator
• Anthony had his Canon IV Sb Repaired and Loves It
• He also Had Robot Royal, Mamiya 645 Lens and Tower 22 Repaired
• We Keep the Repairers Busy / Robot Royal / Anthony is Feeding Ticks

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

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Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We've covered a lot of gear on this podcast before.  Some cameras are ones that flew under the radar that deserved some recognition as something worth checking out, others were less common models in which a bit more effort (and cost) were required to add to a collection, but then there's a level of camera in which no amount of money or effort will result in one coming your way.  These are the Unobtanium cameras, models which are so expensive, or so hard to find, that even the most experienced of collectors don't have them.

Joining Anthony, Theo, Paul, and Mike on this episode dedicated to the hardest cameras to find are some people who have found some of the hardest cameras to find, Ira Cohen, Ray Nason, Robert Rotoloni, Patrick Rapps, Rudi Berden, and James Thorpe.  Each of these guys has at least one camera that for most people would quality as unobtanium.  How they came across each model varies, but nevertheless, represent some of the coolest and hardest to find cameras ever made.

As we did in the last episode, we start off this one with a question, asking our guests to define what exactly qualifies as unobtanium.  As you might expert, rarity and cost are definitely prerequisites, but what about functionality or provenance?  Does a camera that's very difficult to find in working order or a camera formerly owned by the Beatles still qualify as unobtanium.  In addition to rare cameras, lenses and accessories can qualify too, so we get into some extras that are really hard to find as well.

If you were to break down types of unobtanium cameras, one that would be the hardest of the hardest to find would be prototypes, so in this episode we spend time talking about some of the coolest prototypes including two interchangeable lens rangefinders made by Minolta and Konica, but also Robert Rotoloni goes DEEP into the rabbit hole of prototype Nikon rangefinder cameras and lenses.  If you thought the Nikon SP was the most advanced 35mm rangefinder the company ever made, think again as there were two others.

The rest of the episode is all over the place, discussing rare cameras by Ilford, Argus, Wica, Premier Instrument Corp, and LeCoultre.  We are quite certain that we missed some other rare and otherwise difficult to find cameras, but as always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

As we did last year, we're taking the entire month of August off to relax, soak in some sun, and maybe even catch up on shooting all of the cool cameras we've all picked up in the past year so we will not be back with Episode 54 until September.  The guys and I will still be active on the Camerosity Facebook page, so keep in touch with us there, and once we have an idea of when we'll record the next episode, and what possible topics we might discuss, we'll be sure to let you know!

This Week's Episode

• How Do You Define "Unobtanium" / Rarity, Expensive, or Something Else? / Unobtanium Lenses
• Cameras Not Known to Be Very Reliable: Kodak Ektra, Hasselblad XPan, Graflex 3A
• Rudi Berden Reviews the Kodak Ektra / Leaving Notes in the Film Compartment
• Cameras that Have Provenance or Were Owned by Someone Famous
• Mike is Collecting Cameras Owned by Other Collectors
• Before the Internet, Finding Rare Cameras Was Extremely Difficult / Paul Finds a Leica Luxus
• Walter Dorwin Teague No. 1A Gift Camera
• Cameras that Have Cross Appeal to Different Collectors, The Price Goes Up Dramatically / Mickey Mouse Cameras
• Paul Handled 80 Boxes with 640 Cameras in Them in One Day / Graflex Combat Graphic
• Kodak Bantam Special in Original Box / Versions with Supermatic and Compur Shutters / Using the Bantam Special
• Nippon Kogaku Almost Made a TLR, Two Prototypes Were Known to Exist
• Other Companies Made Cameras with Nikkor Lenses / Aires Flex TLR / Sawyer's Mark IV / Mamiya Six
• Minolta Sky Prototype / Konica FR Rangefinder Prototype
• Andrew Lloyd MPP Press Camera / Robot Royal 18 Half Frame Camera
• It is Very Difficult to Assign Value to Extremely Rare Cameras
• Konica IIIM with Half-Frame Mask / Unobtanium Accessories / Getting a Pax 35 To Work is Not Easy
• Patrick's Strange Okaya Lord 5D / Rudi Reviews the Super Kodak Six-20
• Digital Unobtanium / Epson R-D1 Digital Rangefinder
• Ira Cohen's Most Wanted Camera / Mike Helps Ira Buy a One of a Kind Camera / Lausar 127
• James Thorpe's Unobtanium is a Zecaflex Folding TLR / Welta Superfekta / Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex TLR
• The LeCoultre Compass is a Very Unobtanium Camera...Except for Ira
• Bob's Nikon Rarities - Follow Along The Rotoloni Report 4: Nikon Rangefinder Prototypes
  • 50mm f/1.8 Nikkor RF Lenses / 35mm f/1.4 RF Lens / Nikkor-O 50mm f/1.0
  • Nikon Screw Mount RFs / Nikon SPX / Nikon SP2 / The Original Nikon Rangefinder
• Paul and Mike Are Cornering the Market on Lens Hoods and Lens Adapters
• Ilford Witness / The Melcon II Looks like a Nikon Rangefinder / Wica Rangefinder
• Mike's Recent Unobtanium GAS / Military Kardon / Argus K
• Unobtanium Accessories / Some Unobtanium is More Difficult to Find in Other Countries
• Cameras That Are Opposite of Unobtamium
  • Argus Brick / Kodak Vest Pocket / Voigtländer Brilliant / Pentax K1000 / Canon AE-1 / Big Royal View Trashcam / Yashica Electro 35
• Anthony Shoots a Pentax Takumar 18mm f/11 Pancake Lens / Theo Won't Buy a Contax T2
• Paul and the Americana Folk Music Gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Americana Folk Music Gathering - https://americanafolkgathering.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Venturing back into the early days of the Camerosity Podcast, the topic of panoramic cameras came up often on the show, so often that we jokingly referred to ourselves as the widest film photography podcast out there.  As we often do, the gang got distracted in later episodes by various other formats, brands, and special guests, but we thought it was time to revisit our love of all things panoramic and take a ride to Panorama City.  No, not that Panorama City in southern California, but the land of Hasselblad XPans, Fuji G617s, Horizonts, and Noblexes.

Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on our wide journey was a motley crew of panoramic enthusiasts, fans, and just passers by.  Returning guests, all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, Dean Blumberg, Ray Nason, Skip Williams, Richard Driver, Andrew Smith, and Mark Faulkner.  Also, first time callers Patrick Rapps, Rudi Berden, and Paul's ex-Fuji rep, Bob Grzesiak were in attendance.

Not content with only talking to people who like to use existing panoramic cameras, also joining us from Silvergrain Classics is Marwan El Mozayen who most people in the film community know as helping to bring back a new version of the Widelux F8 swing lens panoramic camera.  With the support of Hollywood A-lister and renowned Widelux fan, Jeff Bridges and his wife Susan, Marwan shares the back story of how he became involved in resurrecting this panoramic classic.  Marwan isn't just some PR guy helping to spread word about his company's project however, as he has extensive knowledge of other panoramic cameras like the Noblex, Soviet Horizonts and many others.

We started the show off with what we thought would be a pretty straightforward question, but the topic of what exactly defines an image or camera as panoramic elicited a pretty interesting discussion, relating panoramic still photography to that of cinematography and that angle of view should be considered in addition to physical size.

Differences between wide angle panoramic cameras like the Hasselblad XPan and swing lens cameras like the Panoram-Kodak were discussed, along with cropped panoramic, 3D printed masks, how to use a perspective control lens to shoot panoramic digitals, and even some panoramic developing and scanning hacks that make like easier for the hobbyist.  With Marwan on the show bringing back the Widelux, we did a lighting round asking every participant what other cameras you would like to see someone make an attempt at bringing back (who wants to guess what Theo's was?).

[label type="warning"]Silvergrain Classics Discount Code: [/label]During the show, Marwan El Mozayen mentioned that listeners of this show get a discount when ordering a copy of issue #19 of their magazine, which features a ton of information about the upcoming re-release of the Widelux.  To receive this discount, use code: WLX10 when ordering.

Like all other episodes of the Camerosity Podcast, we were excited to go down the panoramic rabbit hole but had no idea of how deep it would be.  We ventured into some discussions that I could have never imagined, sharing the love and passion for this subset of  photography with a fascinating and very experienced panel of callers.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

Our next episode of the Camerosity Podcast will be all about "unobtanium cameras", those cameras you never thought you'd get a chance to see, let alone use.  Maybe it's a rare one of a kind prototype, or a common, but REALLY expensive camera that is beyond your budget.  If you can't find or afford it, come on the show and join us for Episode 53, which will be recorded on Monday, July 24th!

This next episode will be our Season 2 finale before the gang goes on vacation.  As we did last year, we're taking the entire month of August off to relax, soak in some sun, and maybe even catch up on shooting all of the cool cameras we've all picked up in the past year.  We will return in September!

This Week's Episode

• What Do We Mean When We Say “Panoramic”? / Widescreen in Cinematography
• Banquet Cameras in the 1900s / Banquet vs Kodak Cirkut Cameras
• Aspect Ratio as a Starting Point for Panorama / Aspect Ratio vs Field of View as a Way of Defining Panorama
• Is the Fuji G617 Panoramic or Wide View?
• Can a Cropped Image be Panoramic? / Cropping Before and After Taking the Image / The Hasselblad XPan and the Noblex 135 S
• What Makes the Widelux Special? / The Mechanics and Simplicity of a Swing Lens Camera
• The Original Kodak Panoram / Kodak 3A Using 122 and 616 film in Old Folders for Wider Aspect Ratios
• Zeiss Super Ikonta 616 and Zeiss Cocarette / 3A Graflex
• Camera Hack and 3D Printed Adapters for Older Film Types
• Silvergrain Classics and the Project to Resurrect the Widelux F8
• The KMZ Horizont Was the First “Modern” Swing Lens Camera
• The Shift from Medium Format to 35mm Swing Lens Cameras Under the Widelux Brand
• Jeff and Susan Bridges and their Love of the Widelux
• How to Visualize Shooting with a Widelux / Looking to Cinematography Instead of Still Photography for Panoramic Compositional Ideas
• Depth of Field in Panorama / Using Contact Lenses to Modify Swing Lens Properties
• The Best and Worst About the Noblex / Every Released Noblex was Really a “Mostly” Working Prototype
• The Mechanics of Reproducing the Widelux / Swing Lens Camera Repair
• Horizont 202 The Affordable Swing Lens Alternative
• Pulling Back the Curtain on the Hasselblad XPan’s Reliability Issues
• Skip’s Mamiya Pro S 220 Back with a Mercury 3D Printed Film Gate Adapter
• Dean’s Bronica ETRS Kludge / Skip’s Cameradactyl Homunculus 69
• Turning to 3D Printing for Wide Aspect Ratio Adapters
• The Virtues of the Fuji G617 / The G617 goes to the North Pole
• Paul’s Sony A7 RII with a Nikkor Perspective Control Lens for Digital Panoramas
• Rudi’s Zone Image Pinhole 617 / Patrick’s Sinhao Wide Aspect Hack
• Back to Silvergrain Classic and Details on the Release of the New Widelux
• Lightning round: Pick One Camera you Want to see Brought Back!
  • Minolta XM Motor / Hasselblad XPan / Plaubel 67 / Fuji GW690 / A Miranda That Works / Mamiya 7 / Fuji GX617 / Nikon FM3a / Panon 120 swing-lens / Kodak Medalist / Mamiya 6
• Theo’s Panora Wide Pic / Minolta P's and Masked 35mm Point and Shoots / Viscawide 16
• Lightroom and Photoshop for Panoramic Merging / Flatbed Panoramic Scanning Hacks
• Panoramic Chromes and AGX Imaging for Pro Level E6 Developing and Scanning

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Silvergrain Classics Widelux Revivial - https://silvergrainclassics.com/en/2023/07/the-widelux-revival-project/

Andrew Smith – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXrAlbnU3gvdRrJ5gAR4mw

Mark Faulkner – https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Hot off our 50th episode, the Camerosity Podcast goes back to the roots of our name, exploring the rich history of Eastman Kodak, one of the most influential companies in the photographic world.  You can't talk about the history of Kodak without George Eastman and what better way to explore that history than with Todd Gustavson, curator of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY.

Todd has been on the show before, but in this the 51th episode, he gets center stage, talking of his role at the Eastman Museum, the origins of George Eastman and how his company got started.  In this episode, you'll learn about George Eastman making dry plates in his mother's kitchen, his motivation for making the original 1888 Kodak, where the name "Kodak" comes from, early 20th century Kodaks, prewar, postwar, and everything in between.

Also joining us on the show is the only person in the US I would trust with Kodak Retina repair, Paul Barden.  Back in 2022, long time Retina guru Chris Sherlock hung up his lens spanners and retired from Retina repair.  Not willing to leave a void in quality Retina service, Chris passed on his knowledge to Paul, who lives on the west coast of the United States.  This not only means that there is still a quality option for Retina repair, but for those of you in the US, shipping rates are much cheaper than to New Zealand!  Listen to this episode as Paul talks about his work repairing Retinas, what some of his favorite models are, and what models he does and doesn't repair.

In addition to Todd and Paul's massive amount of Kodak knowledge, we go deep into some of the best Kodak cameras ever made, the Kodaks Ektra, Medalist, Monitor, and Regent get discussed here.  We talk about Walter Dorwin Teague, Dr. August Nagel, and Hubert Nerwin.  Mike shares what his all time favorite Retina is to shoot, Anthony discusses his nomination for a medium format Retina, Todd and Mike talk about Joe Mihayli and his contributions to Kodak's legacy.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

Our next episode of the Camerosity Podcast will be our widest ever, as the gang discusses panorama photography and panoramic cameras.  If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to shoot a Hasselblad XPan, Soviet Horizont, Noblex, or a Widelux camera, this is the episode for you!  Episode 52 will be recorded on Friday, June 30th.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• What is the George Eastman Museum and Why Should Anyone Go There?
• Largest Collection of Nitrate Film / Over 10,000 Cameras / Not Just Kodak Is on Display / One of Louis Daguerre's Original Cameras
• Paul Once Got Liquored Up in the George Eastman Museum / The Museum Has an Impressive Music Room
• George Eastman's Early Years / Eastman Dry Plate Company / Eastman's First Film Wasn't Actually Film
• The 1888 Kodak / Origins of the Kodak Name / Variations of the Original Box Kodaks
• George Eastman Pioneered Dental Care and Donated a Ton of Money to Local Schools
• What Caused Kodak to Move Away from Simple Box Cameras to More Complex Folding and Other Camera Designs?
• Early Color Film Was a Two Color Film / Kodachrome Was a 6 Layer Black and White Film with Color Filters
• Super Kodak Six-20 / How Many Were Made?
• Kodak's Priority Was to Manufacture World Wide / Kodak Canada and UK
• Kodak Film Was One of the Most Complicated Consumer Products Ever Made
• Was It a Coincidence that Kodak Started Producing Much More Advanced Cameras Right After Eastman Died?
• Kodak 50th Anniversary Brownie Camera Was Given Away to Children for Free
• Why Did Kodak Hire Dr. August Nagel to Make Cameras For Them?
• The Original 35mm Type 135 Cassette is Slightly Different Than the Ones Today
• Introducing Paul Barden Who Studied Under Chris Sherlock to Repair Retinas
• Paul Does Not Repair the Retina Reflexes or All the Models Chris Repaired
• Disabling Dead Meters on the Later Retinas Actually Improves their Usability As There's Less Parts to Move
• Which Retinas are the Most Dependable Shooters After Receiving a CLA?
• Mike is Working on a Review of the Retina IIIC /  Mike's Favorite Retina to Use is the Retina IB
• Not Having a Rangefinder is Not Always a Bad Thing / The Retina Accessory Lenses Aren't Very Easy to Use
• Besides the Retinas, What Other Great Kodak Cameras Were Made After the War?
• Kodak Signet 35 / Kodak Ektra / The Ektra's Focal Plane Shutter Was Like No Other
• Anthony Loves the Kodak Medalist / The Kodak Chevron is Not a Replacement for the Medalist
• How Much Influence with Walter Dorwin Teague Have on Kodak?
• Kodak Was Always a Film First Company / The Profit Margins Making Film Was 10x Higher Than Making Cameras
• Kodak Tourist and Monitor Folding Cameras / Series III Pocket Folding Kodak
• The Problem with Nearly All Folding Kodaks Are the Bellows, They All Leak Light
• Kodak Retina Bellows Usually Do Hold Up To Time and Rarely Leak Light
• The Kodak Duo Six-20 Is Like a Medium Format Retina / Kodak Regent
• Mike Summarizes Other Great Kodaks to Shoot / Kodak Signet 35
• Kodak Dated Their Lenses and Cameras Using a Code Inspired by the CAMEROSITY Podcast! / UK Lenses Used CUMBERLAND
• What Was Kodak's Motivation With Instamatics and Disc Film? / Kodak Disc Film Was Better Than People Gave it Credit For
• Hubert Nerwin, Designer of the Zeiss-Ikon Contax II and III Designed the Kodak Instamatic Type 126 Cassette
• A Kodak Designer That Doesn't Get Talked Much About is Joeseph Mihayli / Mihayli Designed the Super Kodak Six-20, Ektra, Medalist, and Much More
• What Are Some Good Kodak Reference Books Out There? / Robert Shanebrook, Brian Coe, and Douglas Collins's Books
• Kodak's Major Developments in New Apparatus / Kodak Prototypes of the 1930s / Kodak's Crazy System TLR
• Kodak Super 35 and Kodak Technar Prototypes are in the Eastman Collection
• Anthony Was Heavily Inspired by The Art of Fixing the Shadow
• Paul Barden Can Repair Your Kodak Retinas (Excluding the Retina Reflexes)
• Always RTFM Before Shooting a Retina / Also Always Check the Exposure Counter

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

George Eastman Museum - https://www.eastman.org/

Todd Gustavson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkDCZrTKQaI

Paul Barden's Retina Repair - https://kodakretina.exposure.co/the-story-of-the-kodak-retina-camera and https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbarden/

Episode 8: Making Kodak Film with Robert Shanebrook

Episode 25: Steve Sasson and the First Digital Camera

Keppler's Vault 42: George Eastman

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In this the 50th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, the gang and I look back at the past two years of open source film photography nonsense.  A podcast created late one night on a whim has turned into one of the most popular of its kind.

This is a screenshot from the recording of the very first Cocaine and Waffles Podcast recorded on May 12, 2021.

Coming out of podcast retirement (somewhat) is original host, and former creator of the Classic Lenses Podcast, Johnny Sisson.  Dusting off his headset and microphone, Johnny updates us on what happened to his former co-hosts and reflects on what his favorite episodes were.  One of which involves Mr. Bob Rotoloni who conveniently joins us on this episode along with returning guests Rob Jamieson and podcast host himself, Andre Domingues.

On a show featuring both Bob and Johnny, we are treated to a great deal more stories about Nikon and Polaroid, along with discussion about a strange product that brought both brands together.  It wouldn't be a Camerosity Podcast episode without the discussion foraying into other topics such as the Bronica S2 and adapting Bronica lenses, Hasselblads, Diptychs, and Andre's very favorable review of the half frame Kodak H35 which we touched upon in the last episode.

In the spirit of an anniversary episode that reflects back on our origins, be sure to stay through the closing music for a look back into the very first moments of this show...Episode 0!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don’t feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don’t consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you’d like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are inviting back Todd Gustavson from the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York to share with us stories about Eastman Kodak, the company's history, some of the best Kodak models to look out for, more about the museum, and lots more.  If you've only ever thought of Kodak as a film company who also made cameras...well, you'd be right...but they're so much more than that.  Be sure to look out for our next show announcement.  Episode 51 will be recorded on Monday, June 12th.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• Johnny Reminisces About His Favorite Classic Lenses Podcast Episodes
• What Happened to the CLP? / Perry Ge Has Gone Radio Silent
• Mike's Favorite Camerosity Episodes / Instagram is Our Visual Aide / We Will Never Release the Zoom Video
• Paul's First Impressions of the Podcast When He First Came On / The Four Hosts Talk Every Day
• How Bob Rotoloni Got Started Collecting Nikon /  Bob's First Two Books and First Trip to Japan in 1987
• Japanese Collectors are Reluctant of Western Collectors / Differences Between German and Japanese Companies
• Three Historians for Nikon, Canon, and Leica Were All Americans (Robert, Peter Dechert, and Jim Lager)
• Bob Had to Pay Japanese Students to Translate Old Japanese Articles to Learn More About Nikon
• Joe Ehrenreich Was a Typhoon / Canon Never Had a Joe Ehrenreich
• Nikon's 25th Anniversary Nikon F2A / Was There Ever a Nikon Historical Society Commemorative Camera?
• Nikon Rangefinder Serial Numbers / What is the significance of 609 and 906 Serial Numbers?
• How Long Have Johnny and Robert Been Going to Central Camera
• Johnny Has a Back Log of 4 Years Worth of Film to Develop / Johnny Still Shoots Polaroid Pack Film
• Johnny's Parents Both Worked at Polaroid so He Grew Up with Polaroid
• Johnny Tries to Shoot Half Used Packs of Polaroid Film When He Finds it / Polaroid 107 Film
• Polaroid Created a Lot of Waste / Dr. Edwin Land Was the Steve Jobs of His Era
• Polaroid Was a Lifestyle Brand, Similar to Apple Today
• Which Polaroid Films Last Longer Than Others? / Polaroid Snot
• Polaroid Backs for Nikon SLRs / Asanuma Backs Came with Nikkor-EL Enlarging Lens Inside
• Johnny's Dad Used to Take Photo Finish Pictures at the Indy 500 / He Also Took Photos at Fermi Lab
• Polaroid Revolutionized Photography in Ways Many People Today Don't Realize / It Was a Game Changer
• Polaroid 20x24 / Polaroid Macro 5 Close-Up Camera
• Rob Asks Bob About Nikon's Military Role During World War II / Yamato Battleship Rangefinder and Periscopes
• Japan Didn't Have RADAR, They Relied on Nippon Kogaku's Superior Optics to See at Night
• Nippon Kogaku Almost Disappeared After the War / Revere Was the Company's First Customer and Bought Tons of 8mm Cine Lenses
•  "Nikon and the Sponsorship of Japan's Optical Industry by the Imperial Japanese Navy" by Dr. Jeffrey Alexander / "Nikon in America 1947 - 1952" by Wes Loder
• Andre Shows Off His Nikon Zfc / Nikon is Catering to the Retro Aesthetic and There's Nothing Wrong with That! / There is a Zfc Collector's Group
• Adapting Bronica Nikkor Lenses / Bronica S2 / Why Did Nikon Make Lenses for Bronica?
• Rob's Hasselblad 500CM with 100mm f/3.5 / Andrew Shoots Kodak Ektachrome in Lomography Sprocket Rocket
• Theo is Shooting More 4x5 and His Super Ikonta 6x9 / Anthony's Half-Frame GAS / Olympus Pen D2
• Anthony Still Loves His Fuji G617 / Mike Loves Photographing His Fingertips Using Panoramic Cameras
• Rob is a Huge Fan of Diptychs when Shooting Half Frame
• Andre Heaps Praise on the Kodak H35 Half Frame Camera / Johnny's Tips For Shooting 72 Frames in a Half Frame Camera
• Paul is Knee Deep in Hasselblads Lately / Mike is Shooting a Certo Dollina III and a Fujica ST801
• Johnny Seeks Opinions on the Graflex XL Superwide / The Lens Mount Is Brittle
• Next Episode We Talk About Kodak with Todd Gustavson from the George Eastman House
• Cocaine and Waffles: Episode 0

Links

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Nikon and the Sponsorship of Japan's Optical Industry - https://mikeeckman.com/2019/01/nikon-and-the-sponsorship-of-japans-optical-industry-by-the-imperial-japanese-navy-1917-1945/

Classic Lenses Podcast Episode 51 - http://www.classiclensespodcast.com/e/51-the-mike-bob-show/

Johnny Sisson - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissonphotography/ and https://centralcamera.com/

Andre Domingues - https://www.instagram.com/andre.on.film and https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/3mf4p-5fc4e/Negative-Positives-Film-Photography-Podcast

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

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In the history of the 20th century photo industry, there have been countless cameras made by countless companies from countless countries.  Of all those cameras, one subset of film photography seems to appeal to a larger number than most, the 35mm half-frame camera.  Originally the only size for still photography on 35mm film, single frame fell out of favor after World War II, but saw a huge resurgence in the 1960s with half-frame models being released by nearly every company who made cameras.

In this, the 49th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, Anthony, Theo, Paul, and Mike welcome first time and returning callers, Ray Nason, Brian Howard, Phil C., Keir Frei, Maxwell Whitaker, Richard Diver, Roger Coats, and Sean Mahan to share with us their favorite half-frame models.

Mike can't help himself and gives a brief (for him) history of half-frame and why it was originally called 'single frame', we ponder what exactly qualifies as half-frame, should 4.5cm x 6cm medium format or 24mm x 24mm square format cameras count?

A huge amount of time is spent on the Olympus Pen series and a huge number of 35mm half-frame models by Ricoh, Konica, Yashica, Ansco, Minolta, Pentacon, Canon, Taron, Petri, and others.

As is the case with many episodes, we get off topic a bit and venture into square frame 35mm with the likes of the Berning Robot, Zeiss-Ikon Tenax, and Bolta Photavit cameras.  Of course we come back, only to get off topic again talking about Rapid and Karat film cassettes.  We start on a slippery slope of what Gen Z looks for in photography today and briefly touch upon why anyone would want to shoot the new Kodak H35 and similar cameras.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

It is hard to believe, but the next episode of the Camerosity Podcast will be our 50th!  Way back in 2021, there was this crazy idea to create a Podcast in the style of an AM/FM Radio Talk Show in which listeners could call in during a live recording and ask questions or talk about whatever they wanted.  The first two episodes of this show were done with little more than an hour's notice and between those two episodes, spawned 47 more episodes, eventually making us not only the number one open source film photography podcast, but one of the fastest growing podcasts of any format.

We are trying to put something special together for our 50th episode, but haven't yet settled on the details, or even when we will record yet.  I can tell you it will definitely be in early June, but when I know, you'll know.  Hope to see you then!

This Week's Episode

• Anthony reminisces about cheap AGAT 18s / A brief history lesson on the origins of half-frame all the way back to Thomas Edison
• Anthony takes us back even further to the Lumière brothers and the Cinématographe
• Olympus 18 / Pen revived the half-frame market in Japan in the 1960s / Half-frame is technically Single Frame
• Medium format cameras, like 6x9 vs 6.45 are not considered half-frame
• The Univex Mercury camera has a rotary shutter and very sharp lenses / Olympus Pen F also has a rotary shutter
• Cynthia A. Repinski wrote a good book, The Univex Story / Mercury II
• Theo brings in the Ansco Memo, which uses cartridges you can make yourself
• Maxwell shoots his AGAT 18K a lot with enlarged prints / Canon Demi / AGFA Memo
• Berning Robot and Zeiss-Ikon Tenax II are square format, are they considered half-frame?
• Theo considers is 35mm full frame is half-frame compared to XPan format / Bolta Photavit
• Half-frame was hated by photo finishers and tended to have a whole year pictures on one roll / Ilford created a double length film
• Theo shows the AGFA Optima Parat / Mike has the AGFA Parat I
• Understanding all the Olympus Pen models / Olympus Pen F / Pen FT / Pen FV
• Double wind on a half-frame camera is strange / The Pen FT has a bespoke metering number system / EV Couplings are terrible
• The Olympus Pen EE and EE-S /  Pen D series with faster f/1.9 and 1.7 lenses
• Olympus Pen-W is well sought out, Olympus Pen-S is a great small mechanical half-frame
• Ricoh Auto-Half / Ricoh Drive / Italian Ducati / Konica IIIM
• Other Half Frame Cameras by Nikon, Pentax, and Polaroid
• The Pentacon Penti is a fashion accessory camera
• Kodak Single Use camera can give you a Rapid Cassette replacement
• Why was half-frame so popular in Japan? / Photography for Everyone is a good book on the rise of photography popularity in Japan
• How Japan became a powerhouse in photography industry
• The Yashica Samurai / Yashica Rapide / Yashica Sequelle / Taron Chic / Canon Dial 35 /  Ricoh Caddy
• Sean’s AGAT 18 with a Nikkor 8mm lens attached
• Adapted lenses for the Pen F / Mike Loves the BeLOMO Chaika 3
• Keir does not have a half-frame, but may soon! / The Fed Mikron is a copy of the Konica EYE
• Mamiya made a half frame with the Myrapid
• Half-Frame cameras which have two different taking lenses / Canon Multi-Tele / Fuji TW-3 / Konica Recorder
• The Lomo LC-A Wide can switch between formats
• The Kodak H35 and it’s clone / Why do Gen Z like half-frame?
• Can you modify a camera to be half-frame?
• Original Olympus Pen made by third party and was very popular
• The podcast descended in chaos with a debate on what half-frame means

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Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In this, the 48th episode of the world's most popular podcast, Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike shift their attention to one of the oldest camera makers in the world and one that had produced some of the most innovative, interesting, and high quality cameras ever made...except no one wanted to talk about them!

Okay, that's not exactly accurate as three people did show up.  Returning callers Raymond Nason, Mark Faulkner, and Brian Howard answered the call and came to chat with us about their favorite Konica cameras.

Kicking off the discussion was Mike who gave a short history of Japan's oldest camera maker with early models such as the Cherry Hand Camera and the Rokuoh-Sha Pearlette.  We quickly moved onto the sexy Pearl folding cameras and the early Konica 35mm rangefinders.  Ray brought with the very rare Konica F, the company's first attempt at a 35mm SLR, and then we bounced around between the Koni-Omega Rapid models, the Auto-Reflex series, we spent some time chatting about the Konica Eye half-frame camera, and eventually some of the company's more memorable point and shoots.

In addition to 96 minutes worth of Konica love, Theo, Mike, and Brian learned all about the American craze for elaborate senior photos, Mike explained the difference between automatic parallax and automatic field correction, Paul shares with us his least favorite 1990s premium camera, Mike complained (again) about the Konica AiBorg, his least favorite camera ever made, we explore a huge range of strange cameras designed by F.A. Porsche, and Ray gives an update on the 4th and final Yarovsky camera auction, which we discussed previously in Episode 44.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we've decided to go half...half-frame that is.  If you ever thought that 24mm x 36mm images are too large, and found that 18mm x 24mm was the ideal size for your negatives, Episode 49 is the one for you!  Join us as we will no doubt cover many wonderful half-frame shooters like the Olympus Pen F, Canon Dial 35, the Yashica Samurai, and the Konica Auto-Reflex....wait, we talked about that already!  Be sure to look out for our next show announcement.  Episode 49 will be recorded on Monday, May 15th.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• Paul is Headed to Another Auction and Isn't Going to Buy Anything...SUUUURRREEE!!!!
• A Short Early History of Konica / Rokuoh-Sha Pearlette / Contessa-Nettel Picolette / Zeiss-Ikon Cocarette
• Konica Got Into 35mm With a Bunch of Scale Focus and Rangefinder Models / Konica I
• Konishiroku Snappy is a 17.5 mm "Hit Style" Camera / Konica Konilette Shoots Non-Perforated 35mm Film
• Anthony Tells A Story About Karl Havens Dropping His Konishiroku Pearl II / Theo Loves the Pearl II
• Mark Shares his 1938 Semi Pearl, the Predecessor to the Pearl / Semi is Japanese for 4.5x6
• Konishiroku Pearl IV (SEXY ALERT!)
• Konica II and Konica III / Variants of the Konica III, the IIIA, and IIIM / Konica's First Half-Frame 35mm Camera
• Konica's First SLR was the Konica F from 1960 / Wards am551 (Konica Auto S2) / Konica FS
• Auto Parallax and Auto Field Correction in a Rangefinder
• Koni-Omega Rapid Cameras / The Konica F Has a Moving Film Pressure Plate
• The Koni-Omegas Were Horrible for Frame Spacing / The Koni-Omega TLRs Were Even Stranger
• What the Heck is Senior Photography? / Studios That Specialize in Nothing But Senior Photography
• Anthony's Favorite Konica is the Auto-Reflex / Shooting Full and Half Frame On the Same Roll is Super Cool / Dedicated Half Frame Lenses for the Auto-Reflex
• The Konica Eye is a Nice Half-Frame Camera with an Interesting Logo
• Konica Autoreflex T-Series Have TTL Metering and Shutter Priority AE / Autoreflex T3 Was the Last Good Body
• Konica's First SLR Lens Mount was the F-Mount, the Konica AR-mount came out in 1966 / Konica FT-1 Wasn't Very Good
• Konica C35 AF Was the First Point and Shoot with AF / Paul Had One of the First Konica Hexar AF Cameras in the US
• When Konica and Minolta Merged, Who Bought Who? / The Merger Was the Only Reason Both Companies Survived
• Mike's Number One Least Favorite Camera He's Ever Shot is the Konica AiBorg
• Samsung ECX-1 / Rollei QZ35W and T /  Olympus O-Product / Minolta Prod 20s / Olympus Écru
• Paul's Least Favorite Premium 90s Camera Was the Nikon 35Ti
• Konica Hexanon Lenses Are Great / Konica 40mm f/1.8 Lens / Mike Loves 40mm Lenses
• Konica's Colored Point and Shoots / Konica Tomato and Pop Series / Konica Recorder
• Konica Even Made APS Cameras / Konica Revio CL with Selfie Mirror
• Konica Genba Kantoku Rugged Cameras / Fuji HD Job Site Cameras
• Ray Bought Cameras from the 4th Yarovsky Auction We Talked About in Episode 44 / More of the Same

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Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Of all the accessories available for cameras, perhaps camera straps are the thing that people have the strongest feelings about.  A camera strap is something that most cameras come with, whether it's one with the company's logo on it, or a leather one attached to an ever ready case, straps are almost as synonymous with photography as cameras are.

Yet, I don't think in the history of photography podcasts, anyone dared devote an episode one...that is until now.  If there was any doubt that this is the nerdiest film photography podcast ever, wait until you hear our camera strap episode!

To be fair, we don't spend the entire time talking about straps, we also discuss the cameras that have them attached.  To have a camera with a strap already attached suggests it is ready at a moment's notice to go out and shoot.  And if you have a camera at the ready, it must be one you like quite a bit, so for a good portion of this episode, the hosts talk about our favorite cameras which always have a strap attached, ready to go.

Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike are returning callers Alex Dietrich, Bill Smith, Bob St. Cyr, Mark Faulkner, Miles Libak, and Patrick Casey and first time caller, all the way from Ireland, Brian Mac Domhnaill.

Along with our favorite cameras and favorite straps, we talk about cheap vs expensive lens adapters, Mike brings up a new camera he's testing with a 15mm f/8 lens, Alex Dietrich shares his black painted Nicca III L and much, much more!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are devoting an entire episode to Konica, makers of such fine cameras as the half frame/full frame Konica Auto-Reflex, the Koni Rapid Omega, and the thumb film advance Konica III rangefinder.  Be sure to look out for our next show announcement.  Episode 48 will be recorded on Monday, May 1st.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• Paul has two picks for cameras he always has at the ready / Fuji GS645 and Plaubel 69W Proshift
• Patrick's go-to cameras are the Leica M4 and the Minox 35 GL
• Theo's "zoo" camera is the Nikon L35AF, a reliable point-and-shoot to keep loaded and ready to go
• Brian surprises everyone with the Chinon Auto 3001 / Chinon Bellami
• Mike sees your Pentax MX and raises you the Pentax LX
• Miles surprises us with his choice of the Leica MA kitted out with a vintage 1930s Summar lens / L39 to M-mount and M42-K-mount adapters
• Theo's more committed choice for a go-to camera / Leica M2 with a Hyperion strap
• OK, Boomer: Mike and Paul wax poetic about hippie straps / branded straps from the 1980s
• Alex goes strap shopping in Hong Kong
• The original Minox chain is also a measuring tool for macro photography
• Anthony raves about his Contax ST with the always-attached red Hyperion strap
• Bob goes large format for his choice of a Gibellini GP810Ti, a stunning field camera with a big leather strap for a handle
• Beware the metal rope straps...
• Mark's current go-to camera is the Bessa R2A with the Skopar 35mm lens
• A digression about the Secure Strap with braided stainless steel straps that help prevent cut-and-run theft
• Mike blows up the discussion with the Zeiss Hologon, a 15mm fixed lens viewfinder camera that costs as much as some used cars
• Bob talks about the demands of finding a strap to tame the Mamiya C330, a beast of a TLR
• Alex almost one-ups Mike's Hologon with a custom paint Nicca III L / Strong Opinions about repainting cameras
• The problems with tripod socket wrist straps
• The weirdness and beauty of the Ansco Anscomark M and its removable strap lugs
• The Mamiya 7 and the odd cameras that have both strap lugs on one edge / LOMO Voskhod / Agat 18K
• Digital Episode errata and corrections / Wait, what? Nobody brought up the Nikon FM2 or FM3?!

Show Notes

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Bill Smith - https://funwithcameras.blogspot.com/

Alex Dietrich - https://www.instagram.com/awdietrich/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

It has taken us 46 episodes of seemingly non stop film camera discussion to finally devote an entire episode to the cameras that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many photographers thought were a fad.  That's right folks, Camerosity has gone digital!  Before anyone protests and demands their Camerosity Season Pass™ membership be refunded, enough time has passed since those early film-less cameras that the early digital cameras are now vintage themselves.

In episode 46 of the Camerosity Podcast, the guys and I go all digital.  With us are callers Andrew Smith, Atabak Taghizadeh, Brian Howard, Greg McCreash, Mark Faulkner, Michael Gossett, Phil Clark, and Stephen Grasso.

Anthony and Brian start things off with one of the earliest true digital cameras, the Apple QuickTake.  This 0.3 megapixel monster was first released in 1994 and came in two distinct designs, one created by Kodak and the other by Fuji.  Moving onto the Sony Mavica and it's 3.5" floppy disc storage, the rest of the gang has some familiarity of these cameras, and Anthony reminisces about his large collection of floppies.

We continue to traverse the late 90s and early 2000s, going around the room recalling our first digital cameras that really made us realize that cameras which write in 1s and 0s were here to stay.  Mike discusses the differences between CCD and CMOS sensors, we dabble into digital IR photography and a couple Sony models which make disabling the visible light filter extremely simple.  Mark prefers a more difficult way though, by opening up his Panasonic Lumixes and permanently removing the filter.

We cover digital mirrorless, and which mounts we all love adapting film lenses to, why some people didn't like EVFs compared to optical viewfinders, Mike heaps praise on the Nikon Z5, and we dabble into some of the more strange digital camera designs like the Pixii and Lytro.

This was a loaded episode with a ton of information, so whether or not you're interested in older digital cameras, or are interested to know what a (Zoom) room full of a dozen collectors shoot when we don't feel like dealing with analog emulsion, you definitely do not want to miss this episode!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we plan on going back to the analog realm, but now that the digital Pandora's Box has been opened, will we forever be changed?  The theme of our next episode is "cameras with a strap" meaning those which are permanently in shooting configuration, ready to fire off some exposures at a moment's notice.  What are your favorite cameras of all time, and which are the ones that someone will have to pry from your cold dead fingers, on the day you reach your expiration date!  Be sure to look out for our next show announcement.  Episode 47 will be recorded on Monday, April 17th.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• All hosts shoot digital, arguments on better medium are silly
• Anthony’s intro into digital, the Apple QuickTake / Brian’s Apple QuickTake 150, 100 and 200
• Anthony has lots of floppies / Mark and Theo both have Sony Mavica Cameras
• People don’t wipe card on old digicams, even birthing and wedding photos
• Mike shoots the Nikon E2Ns with a car lighter power cord
• Batteries are hard to find for pro grade equipment / Also hard to find for Leica D-Lux 2
• Greg has a Sony MVC-5000 with an AC to DC adapter
• Theo shoots a Minolta RD-175 / Press Compact Flash Cards from the middle to avoid bent pins
• Difficult to get images from early digital cameras onto computers now / Early DSLRs had no latitude
• Innovation in form of Nikon Coolpix 995 / Early CCD vs CMOS sensors
• Sony DSC-505 was Anthony’s first significant digital
• Canon Powershot S2 was Mike’s first significant digital / Canon Powershot S45 and Nikon D300 were Theo’s first significant digitals
• Nikon D3 was Paul’s first significant digital
• APS-C is based on the named after the APS format / People love to adapt Pen-F lenses to Micro 4/3
• Micro 4/3 was a ground breaking innovation / Pentax Q has insane 5.5x crop factor
• Some mirrorless cameras are hard to find with lenses / DSLRs vs Mirrorless
• Fuji has a super loyal customer base / The Panasonic Lumix LX3 is a great pocket camera
• Adjusting to electronic viewfinders / Mike has a Nikon Z for vintage lenses and stacks a Sony to Nikon adapter
• Pixii Camera as a Leica competitor
• Sony has had a huge head start on the others / Sony manufactured sensors for most of the brands
• Infrared Red conversions on digital cameras / Using a magnet on a Sony CyberShot DSC-F828 to shoot IR / Military buys lots of IR cameras
• Pentax K1 and K10 / Sigma Merrill and Quattro / Stephen loves his Leica Q2 Monochrome
• Is the “film look” really a thing?
• Epson RD1 / Leica M8 was Leica’s first digital rangefinder camera
• Digital bridge cameras - Theo’s prediction of next big thing / The Digicam craze
• Mike gets excited because he can USB charge his Z5 / AI Integrated Photography might be the future
• Ricoh GRIII / Mike’s ultimate hybrid camera / Lytro Cameras

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

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Andrew Smith – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXrAlbnU3gvdRrJ5gAR4mw

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

On Episode 45 of the Camerosity Podcast, the guys and I return to a brand specific discussion for everyone's favorite bellows-TLR, 6cm x 4.5cm medium format SLR, 35mm leaf shutter SLR, f/1.5 lens rangefinder, half frame pistol camera making company, Mamiya!  If that seems like a wild range of cameras, you're right!  As makers of pretty much every style of camera conceived, Mamiya has done it all!

Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike on this episode is Bill Rogers from mamiyarepair.com who has a literally grocery store size storage room full of spare Mamiya parts acquired from the company before they went bankrupt.  Bill has experience with and can repair nearly every Mamiya camera ever made, even the compact 35mm point and shoot Mamiya U.

In addition to Bill's expertise, we also welcome current Mamiya employee Ray Nason.  Ray has many decades of experience working with Mamiya cameras, selling them for many years to professional photographers and consumers alike.  Together, both Bill and Ray offer a 1-2 punch of Massive Mamiya Madness!

Along for the ride are returning callers, Robert Rotoloni, Mark Faulkner, Nick Marshall, Cheyenne Morrison, Andrew Smith, Bob St. Cyr, Ira Cohen, Marcy Merrill, and Larry Effler, and first time callers Brian Howard, Mike Ahmadi, and Steven Lederman.

With a total of 20 participants, the most we've ever had on an episode of the podcast, we cover a HUGE array of subjects, including some history of the brand, the state of the Japanese optics industry immediately after the war, the origins of the Mamiya-Sekor name, trivia on a rare Canon lens made in the Exakta mount for Mamiya, and how Mamiya was able to use Nikon's bunny ears for the meter coupling on the lenses for the M645 cameras.  Ira shows off his half frame Mamiya Pistol camera, Marcy brings with her a very strange accessory made for the Mamiya U, and Steven Lederman shows off a totally bizarre stereo camera made with Mamiya lenses.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we are finally entering the digital era, with an entire discussion on film-less cameras.  Point and shoot digicams, DSLRs, digital mirrorless, vintage digital, and digital backs are all topics we may or may not get to!  If you'd like to learn more about the history of digital photography, or why Gen Z is so smitten with Japanese digicams, be sure to look out for the next show!  Episode 46 will be recorded on Monday, April 3rd.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• Introducing Bill Rogers from mamiyarepair.com
• The History of Mamiya / First Japanese Camera Maker After WWII / Made in Occupied Japan Cameras
• Mamiya Sixes Can Be Found with Fuji, Nikkor, and Zuiko Lenses / Nikon Almost Made a TLR
• The Mamiya Six Had a Movable Film Plane and a Strange Film Pressure Plate
• In 1948 Mamiya Released Both the First Mamiyaflex and Mamiya 35mm Camera / Early Mamiyaflex and Mamiya C-Series TLRs
• Anthony Knew a Guy Who Used the Mamiya C to Shoot Crime Scenes and Dead Bodies
• Mamiya C TLRs Were Popular with Wedding Photographers
• Ray Nason Works for Mamiya and has a Couple Photos of Mamiya Prototypes
• The Koni-Omegaflex and Gowlandflex Were Two Other TLRs with Interchangeable Lenses and Shutters
• Mamiya Super 23 Press Cameras / Mamiya 645 Prisms Almost Always Have Separation
• Why Do Prisms Have Separation? / Everyone Wants Waist Level Finders Today
• The Mamiya 7 Has the Best Optics of Any Camera Mike Ahmadi and Theo Have Ever Owned
• Weak Points of the Mamiya 7 / Magnetic Interlocks
• The RB67 is a Tank / The RBs Will Be Repairable for a Long Time
• Using Graflock Backs for the RB67 and the Super 23 Press Camera
• Mamiyas's 35mm Cameras / Mamiya Magazine Has a Completely Removable Film Back / Adox 300
• Mamiya Sketch Was Japan's First and Only 24mm x 24mm Rangefinder Camera / Mamiya Myrapid
• Mamiya Prismat Leaf Shutter SLRs / Argus SLR / Nikkorex / Tower SLRs / Ricoh Singlex
• Mamiya's Other SLRs / Mamiya Auto XTL / Mamiya ZE-X
• Mamiya 16mm Cameras / Tower 10B / Rank Mamiya
• Canon Once Made a Lens with the Exakta Mount for the Mamiya Prismat / Ira Has a Mamiya Pistol Camera
• The Meter Coupling "Bunny Ears" on Mamiya 645 Lenses Was a Shared Patent by Nikon
• Insider Information: The Next Edition of McKeown's Camera Collector's Guide is Coming Any Day Now!
• You Can Use 120 Film in the Mamiya M645 Camera With the 220 Back
• Mamiya 500DTL and 1000DTL SLRs had Dual and Spot Metering
• Where Does the Name "Sekor" Come From in Mamiya-Sekor Lenses?
• Mamiya Was Game for Almost Everything / Mamiya Super Deluxe 1.7
• The Early Japanese Camera Industry Was Built Around Cooperation / Mamiya Had a Lot of Similarities to Konica
• Henry Froelich Was Responsible for Helping Konica Get Imported to the US
• Bill Rogers Can No Longer Repair the Mamiya 645AF or the Mamiya ZD Digital Camera
• Ilford Jazz CDs, Minolta Disco Records, and Mamiya Nudie T-Shirts and Fuzzy Bear Stickers
• Mamiya U Manual Focus and Auto Focus Compact 35mm Cameras / Bill Still Has Parts for Those
• Marcy Merrill Has the Coolest Accessory for the Mamiya U
• Mamiya's Demise Started Around 1983 / They Stopped Making 35mm Cameras
• What Would it Take to Make an All New 35mm or Medium Format Camera?
• The Biggest Obstacle to Someone Making a New Camera is So Many Old Cameras Still Work
• Steven Lederman's Weird 3D World Stereo Camera / Hybrid Stereo Mamiya C-Series TLR
• The Recent Cincinnati Ohio Camera Auction was Very Well Attended and Paul Wasn't There
• Nick Marshall Loves Shooting Instax Film on the RB67 and Super 23 / Marcy Promotes a Camera Show in Kent, WA
• An Update About Anthony's Voigtländer Superb He Bought from Australia

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Peter Dechert's SLR book, “Canon: Single Lens Reflex Cameras 1959-1991”

Bill Rogers - mamiyarepair.com - https://mamiyarepair.com/

Ray Nason - https://www.facebook.com/RayNasonMacGroup/

Cheyenne Morrison – https://www.instagram.com/bigshotphotos/

Mark Faulkner – https://thegashaus.com/

Marcy Merrill - Junk Store Cameras - https://junkstorecameras.com/

Closing Credits Audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBC553yteo

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

After a stream of back to back to back episodes covering specific brands of cameras and talking to a huge number of listeners, the guys and I decided we would take a short break from our "open source" concept to catch up on the things we all have been doing.

We thought it would be a nice change to have a smaller, more intimate discussion and invite someone we all thoroughly enjoy talking to and wanted to catch up with.

After a painstaking "Hunger Games" style of elimination rounds, the guys and I picked none other than Dan Tamarkin as our special guest host this week.  As he always does, Dan brings with him a lifetime of knowledge of Leica and camera retail experience.

With that experience, we decided it would be fun to talk about some recent auctions, including a rather infamous one that recently closed in Northern Ohio which Paul and I participated in, and a large number of our listeners did as well.  We've heard some of the stories from that auction and have a few of our own, so we talk about that, along with Tamarkin Auctions, and everything that goes into making one run smoothly, and what might make them run "not smoothly".

In addition to auctions, Anthony thought it would be fun to announce in the presence of a well-known Leica dealer that he sold every single Leica he owns, and traded it for a viewfinder camera.  What kind of viewfinder camera is equal to a perfectly working Leica M3 and a IIIf you ask?  Listen to the show.

In addition, Mike's not dead, Robot Theo is pining for his job, Human Theo bought some stuff from Paul, Paul is bringing out the bling with his golden cameras, and Mike is shooting one of those Japanese "Hit" style miniature cameras.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next Episode, we will re-open the call-in lines and talk about Mamiya and their very diverse line up of roll film TLR and SLRs, along with their many different iterations of 35mm cameras.  Episode 45 will be recorded on Monday, March 20th.  We hope to see you there!

This Week's Episode

• Besides Leica, What is Dan's Favorite Camera to Shoot? / Fuji GS645 / Zeiss-Ikon ZM Rangefinder
• Fuji GF670 Folders / Plaubel Makina 67 and 67W
• Anthony Sells All His Leicas To Buy a Fuji G617 / Theo Sells Anthony A Voigtländer Superb and it Gets Lost / Anthony Hates the Gainesville USPS
• How Do You Properly Frame for a Panoramic Photo? / Anthony Sees Things in Panavision
• Noblex 135 S / Mamiya 7 with Pano Adapter
• What Percentage of Tamarkin Camera is Film vs Digital?
• Leica M8 and M9s Come in and Go Straight to Leica / Faulty Digital Sensors
• Mike Really Wants to Try a Leica M5 / Front Hanging Shutter Speed Dial / Canon EF
• Behind the Scenes at Tamarkin Auctions / Live Auctions vs Online Auctions
• Confusion About A Recent Large Camera Auction in Ohio / Bid Multipliers
• Shipping Items from Online Auctions / Pickup of Items at the Ohio Auction
• Dan and Paul's Stories About the Voncabbage Collection / The Most Amazing Collection
• What Other High Profile Auctions Are Out There?
• Buying Cameras from Estate Auctions / The Thrill of the Hunt / Mike Buys a Very Poorly Listed Olympus Six
• Mike's Thoughts on Using Common Sense / Reputation is Important / Stuff Begets Stuff
• The Girl in Facebook Who Inherited A Storage Locker Full of Cameras From Her Boss
• Theo Buys a Contessa 35 and ANSCO Memo from Paul and Gets a Free T-Shirt
• Theo is Shooting a Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta Repaired by Jess / Ricoh Auto-Half / Rollei 35 / Nikon FE
• Anthony is Shooting a Minox LX / Akarelle Loaded with Tech Pan / Nikon F with Nikkor 105/2.5 Lens
• Mike Sells an Olympus Pen F to Someone Who Was On the Last Episode
• Mike is Shooting a Sears (Ricoh) TLS with the SR "Atomic" Logo / Praktica VLC 3 / Olympus 35 SP / Toko Tone
• Paul is Shooting His Gold Summilux on Anthony's M3 / Paul Loves Gold Cameras
• Stay Tuned for Mamiya Discussion Next Time / Check us out on Instagram

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Dan Tamarkin – http://www.tamarkin.com/ and https://www.tamarkinauctions.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

In a first for the Camerosity Podcast, we finally dive into the wonderful world of Graflex press cameras and other 4x5 cameras.  If you thought Camerosity only meant 35mm, medium format roll film, and subminis, this is the episode that will shake up everything you know about us!

For episode 43, we had a packed house (although there was one significant omission).  Joining the gang on this show was first time caller, and owner of Graflex Parts, Graham Burnett, along with Andy Pham, Daniel Belmes, Eric J, Greg McCreash, Howard Sandler, Jess Hobbs, Marcy Merrill, Mario Piper and his wife Julianne Piper, Mark Faulkner, Nick Marshall, Patrick Casey, and Robert Rotoloni.

Together, topics ranging far and wide from the history of Folmer & Schwing, the company who made the first Graphic cameras, to differences between all the models, where to start if you've never shot a Graflex before, development tips, and all sorts of information that people who love these cameras want you to know.  In addition to discussions about Graflex press cameras, we also get into a few other 4x5 cameras like the Busch Pressman and Burke & James versions.  Greg McCreash is back to talk about his massive Combat Graflex, and we even touch upon some of the 35mm Graflex cameras.

If you've ever wanted to know something about these wonderful cameras, this is the episode you'll want to hear!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

The guys and I have had a great time talking about Graflex, Argus, Contax, and Pentax, and for our next episode, we are going to divert a bit from our regular format and just discuss what we've been working on lately and some topics we'd like to share with you all, so there won't be any option to dial in for the next episode.  Maybe we'll still have a special guest for you, maybe not!  You'll just need to stay tuned for that one.

We will resume our normal call in for episode 45 though, which we will record on Monday, March 20th.  We don't yet know what we'll talk about then, but be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• How Paul Ended Up with a Closet Full of Graflex / The Baffling Array of Variations
• Anthony Takes the Leap Into Press Cameras with His Graflex Super Graphic
• Differences Between the Speed vs Crown Graphic
• Graham Burnett of graflexparts.com Dives Deep into the Graflex Lineage
• What Does Graflex Parts Do for the Graflex Community?
• Folmer & Schwing and the Bicycle Graphic
• The Complicated Rise of the Single Lens Reflex Graflex
• The Many Sizes of Film for Graflex / The Evolution of Graflex Film Backs
• Eric J and his F&S / Bicycle Camera Bicycle Touring with Graflex
• Andy Pham and Concert Photography with his AutoGraflex 5x7 SLR
• Luis Mendez and Graflex Street Portraits in NYC
• Keeping Pre-war Graflex Cameras Up and Running
• Howard and his Graflex Monorail Graphic View Camera
• Julianne Piper, Shooting Paper Negatives in an Array of Graflex Cameras
• The LomoGraflock vs Polaroid backs
• Advantages of Crown vs Speed Graphic as a First Graflex
• Demystifying Graflex Lens Options
• Using Projector and Brass Lenses with Graflex
• Graflex at War / The Post-war Decline of Graflex
• Other Press Cameras / Busch Pressman / Burke & James Press Cameras
• Nick Marshall and His Series D 3x4 / Shooting Speed Graphic with Instax
• Developing 4x5 at Home
• Jess Hobbs and Adventures with 4x5 with Her Intrepid / 4x5 Film Options
• Daniel B and Shooting a Graflex Super D / Enlarging Graflex as 11x14 Large Format
• Greg McCreash and the Combat Graflex
• Mario Asks is Graflex is Making a Resurgence? / What is the Appeal of Shooting Large Format?
• Eric Mathy on the Appeal of Large Format to the Tinkerer and the Artist
• Mike Eckman and the Graflex Graphic 35 Jet

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Graham Burnett, Graflex Parts - https://www.graflexparts.com/

Jess Hobbs - https://www.youtube.com/c/JessHobbs

Erik Mathy, All Through a Lens - https://allthroughalens.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

No one has recently challenged the Camerosity Podcast as the "Nerdiest Film Photography Podcast" but that won't stop us from further proving that point by taking a trip to the USA!

No, not that USA, this time I am talking about the United States of Argus!  For Episode 42 we invite two special guests, both members of the Argus Collector's Group, Phillip Sterritt and Mike Reitsma.  Phil and Mike both have an otherworldly level of knowledge about Argus and their cameras, their history, rare versions, and what the best Arguses are to use.

Although we spend a great deal of time on Argus, in this episode, we venture into a huge number of other American cameras worth checking out, like ANSCO, Perfex, Clarus, Universal, Falcon, Detrola, Ciro-Flex, Graflex, Wollensak, Winpro, and many others!

Joining us on this episode are collectors and first time callers Eric Risse, Pat Casey, and retired US Navy Photographer Greg McCreash who at the very end of the show busts out one of the most amazing American Cameras ever made, but I don't want to spoil it for you, so you'll just have to listen to the episode (or read the show notes).  In addition to Eric, Pat, and Greg are returning guests Dan Hausman, and Robert Rotoloni.

On the episode we cover a ton of history, what is an extinction meter and how does it work, our recommendations on which American cameras you should try if you've never shot an American camera before, and Theo discovers a rare Australian Argus in his collection that he didn't even know he had!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you!  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 43 on Monday, February 20th and we will talk to John Minnick about his custom built Graflexes, along with an entire Graflex and 4x5 discussion.  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• Many Advanced American Cameras of the 40s and Early 50s Were Because You Couldn't Get Stuff from Germany / ANSCO Automatic Reflex 3.5
• Charles Verschoor and How Argus Originally Made Radios / IRC and Detrola Used Bakelite in Radios Worked Well in Cameras
• The Argus A Series / Argus B Has a German Lens and Possibly French Lens / How to Differentiate Between Argus A Cameras
• How Do Extinction Meters Work? / Mike's Favorite A-Series is the Argus A2F with the Focusing Helix
• $25 Was the Price Point for Several New American Cameras in the late 1930s
• The Argus C-Series / Argus C  / The Ontora Double Exposure Device
• Anthony's First Impressions of the Argus C3 / Enna Werk Sandmar Lenses / Changing Lenses on the Argus C3
• The "Argus Grip" / Repositioning the Cocking Lever / Argus C3 Match-Matic is the Harry Potter Camera / How the Match-Matic Meter Worked
• What are the Rarest Argus C-Series / Argus C with F/S Switch / Argus Prototype / Metric Scale Arguses / Minca Arguses
• Theo Has a Rare Australian Made Argus Seventy-Five And He Didn't Know It / Argus C4 Black Bodies
• Argus Was a Pretty Cool Company to Work For / Argus Eyes Newsletter
• Where did the Name Argus Come From? / Mythological Character with Many Eyes
• What Was the Successor to the Argus C3, the Argus C4 or the Argus C33? / Argus 21 Markfinder
• The Mythical White and Gold Argus A / Mike Reitsma 3D Printed One From Scratch
• If You Want to Try an Argus, but Not the C3, What is a Good Camera to Try? / Argus C44 and C44R
• Argoflex TLR / Rare Argoflex II with Auto Film Stop
• Wollensak Lenses Are Consistently Good to Great / Wollensak Stereo Revere Camera
• Universal Mercury Lenses / The Universal Mercury Is a Lot of Fun to Shoot
• Mike Also Like the Clarus MS-35 / The Clarus Shutter is Very Reliable / The Wescon Clarus Variant
• The Best Perfex is Not the Speed Candid! / Who Made Perfex Lenses?
• Argus was Acquired by Sylvania and then Mansfield / Argus Golden Shield
• Spartus and the Chicago Cluster / Devry QRS Camera
• Vokar and Vokar II / Vokar A and B / Wirgin Variants / Zenith Winpro 35
• Argus SLRs / The Argus SLR / Argus Cosina and Petri Variants
• Ciro Cee-ay 35 Was Originally a Perfex then Became a Graflex
• Herbert & Huesgon Tourist Multiple Had a Zeiss Lens and Shot 750 18x24mm Exposures
• Mike Loves the ANSCO and AGFA Memo Cameras
• American Cameras We Didn't Talk About / Polaroid SX-70 / Bolsey B-Series and Jubilee / Falcon / Aircraft Gun Cameras / Kardon
• The Combat Graflex Is Amazing! / Hubert Nerwin Designed the Combat Graflex
• Next Episode We Talk About Graflex and Have John Minnick Joining Us!
• Glass Brass and Chrome by Karlton C. Lahue and Joseph A. Bailey
• The Worst American Camera is the Traid Fotron / We Don't Talk about the Fotochrome Either

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Argus Collector's Group - https://www.arguscg.org/

Phillip Sterritt - http://argusinfo.net/

Mike Reitsma (Argus Museum) - https://argusmuseum.wordpress.com/events/

Dan Hausman - https://historiccamera.com/club/occs/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Please Read: As of August 2023, Brandon Monroe has disappeared from social media and no longer responds to emails or DMs.  He seems to have abandoned his Contax repair business, so the Camerosity Podcast can longer endorse his services.  I am leaving this episode available to listen to as it covers a tremendous amount of good material about the Zeiss-Ikon Contax, however.

You know what they say, 'An apple a day, keeps the doctor away...' so for those of you with broken Contaxes, you better get rid of all your apples as the doctor is here!

Okay, so maybe he hasn't quite gotten his PhD yet, but in this, the 41st episode of the Camerosity Podcast, we are happy to introduce you to Brandon Monroe, an aviation mechanics student who just so happens to really love the Zeiss-Ikon Contax rangefinders so much that he wanted to learn how to repair them himself.  Brandon reached out to other well known technicians who repair Contaxes like Henry Scherer and Mark Hansen and learned what he could from them.  For everything else, he rolled up his sleeves and got to work.  Tearing down several broken Contax rangefinders, and at least one that had been previously CLAd to see what was done, Brandon has recently become successful at full CLAs of both pre and postwar Contax IIs and IIIs.  Brandon has repaired several cameras for Paul and a few others, and according to Paul, the cameras are like new.

Listen in as Brandon tells his story of how he got started and why he fell in love with Contax rangefinders.  He discusses differences between the pre and postwar shutters, what the shutters are made of, how the rangefinders work and how they're adjusted, who makes our favorite Contax lens adapters, using Contax lenses on Nikon rangefinders, plus a huge number of other things.  Mike can't help himself and goes into the history of the camera somewhat, explaining how the Contax I came to be, and what differences are between it and the later cameras.

Joining us on this episode are returning guests Aidan Dean, Alex Dietrich, and first time callers Steve Wilcox and from all the way in Belgium, Eric Kaas Sluis, a self professed Contax addict who has one of the largest collections of working Contaxes and lenses in the world.

In addition to repair of the Contax, we talk about what makes them special, who made the original Zeiss-Ikon Contax in 1926 (Hint: His name rhymes with 'Bagel'), postwar Jena Contaxes, and why you should consider a Kiev if you cannot afford a Contax.  Amazingly, the guys somehow manage to stay on topic for most of the show, but a small amount of time is spent on a few other cameras that we just can't stop talking about.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are influenced by you.  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We usually record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 42 on Monday, February 6th and we will talk American cameras like Argus, Clarus, Perfex, and many other brands you may or may not have heard of!  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• Introducing Brandon Monroe / Brandon Needs to Pressure Test His Nikonos
• Pentax Errata / The Pentax MX Does Have a Depth of Field Preview Lever and Some K1000s Do Have a Self Timer
• Of All Cameras to Fix, Why Did Brandon Want to Learn to Repair the Contax? / Brandon Talked to Henry Scherer and Mark Hansen For Help
• The Tension Screw For the Shutter Is Often Used to Over Tension the Shutter / If You Over Tension, It's Kaput
• A (Very) Brief Intro Into How the Contax Shutter Works / Where Brandon Gets Replacement Ribbons From
• The History of the Contax / The Contax I Was Released in 1932 and Had Many Revisions
• The Contax II and III Came Out in 1936, The Difference is In the Meter
• Differences Between Pre and Postwar Contaxes / The Mount is the Same, but Not All Pre-War Lenses Work on Post-War Bodies
• The Construction of the Contax Rangefinders / Brandon Also Loves the Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35 / Adjusting the Contax Rangefinder
• Brandon Makes a Mask to Block off Fractures in Contax Rangefinders
• Paul is Brandon's Number 1 Customer / What Are Zeiss Bumps?
• Finding Contaxes in Europe Isn't Very Hard, But Getting Them Repaired Is / Eric Doesn't Like the Contax I
• How is Brandon Going to Handle the Immense Demand for People Wanting Their Contax Repaired?
• Does Brandon Intend to Train Others to Repair Contaxes? / Do Not Try to Use a Prewar Contax Without Servicing It
• What is it About the Contax That Makes Them Special?
• You Cannot Compare a CLA'd Contax to a non-CLA'd Contax, They Are So Much Better
• Zeiss Was a World Class Optics Company When They Made the First Contax, Leitz Made Microscopes
• Zeiss Cameras Were Always Solid, Even the Last Icarex SLRs / Some Early Zeiss Lenses Were Outsourced to American and British Firms
• The Very First Zeiss-Ikon Contax Was Made in 1926, What Was It, and Who Designed It?
• Anthony and Eric Both Prefer the Sonnar 50mm f/2 over the f/1.5
• Eric and Paul Recommend the Zeiss Amedeo Adapter / Can you Adapt Nikon Lenses to Contax and Vice Versa?
• The Contax Claw / There's a Correct Way to Press the Shutter Release on a Contax
• Mike Defends the Kiev, They Are Not Contax Copies, They Are a Continuation / Early Kievs Can Be Very Good
• Jena Contaxes Were Made After the War By Former Contax Technicians With Nothing to Do
• Brandon's Tips for Identifying a Kiev with a German Shutter / If You Can't Afford a Contax, There's No Shame in Buying a Kiev
• There Are Many Ukrainian and Other Former Soviet Sellers Who Are Very Reputable, You Should Not Hesitate to Buy from Them
• Brandon Loves the Contessa 35 So Much It Killed His Internet Connection
• Lightning Round: What Other Unrepairable Camera Do You Wish Could Get Repaired?
• Paul - Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex TLR, Mike - Kodak Ektra, Eric - Leicaflex SL2, Alex - Olympus Stylus Epic, Brandon - Contax I, Theo - Petris, Anthony - Folding Kodak Bellows / Kodak Monitor Six-20
• The Contax I Has a Unique Shutter from Any Other Contax / Different Ribbons / The Rangefinder is Coupled by a Cord
• Thank You to Brandon For Learning to Do This / We Need More Young People to Learn to Repair Cameras

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Brandon Monroe - https://www.facebook.com/mixedemulsionsbybrandon

Eric Kaas Sluis - https://www.flickr.com/photos/129242869@N03/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

When recording Episode 38, we ended the discussion at the end of the M42 era and picked up with the K-mounts in Episode 40.  Although you never heard us touch upon the K-mounts in Episode 38, we actually did start talking about them, but decided to scrap that part as it was making the episode too long.

Originally, I had thought I could edit the unused K-mount audio into the next episode, but it turned out that we had enough to fill a whole episode, so the K-mount audio was not needed.  

It is clear you all REALLY like Pentax, so not wanting to deprive everyone of more of what they want, here is that unused K-mount discussion from Episode 38 from the cutting room floor.  We really only touch upon two topics, some of which we covered again in Episode 40, but if you need just a little more with your morning cup of coffee, here it is, unedited for your listening pleasure!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 41 on Monday, January 16th and we will have a special guest who is fast becoming the go to repair source for the Zeiss-Ikon Contax rangefinder!  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We're starting off the new year with a continuation of the Pentax discussion we started in Episode 38.  Pentax Part Deux picks up with the K-Mount SLRs produced by Asahi in the 1970s and we go through the auto focus cameras, covering Pentax point and shoots, and even the Pentax 67 and 110 cameras to round out many of the most popular models from that era.  If you are fans of the Pentax MX, LX, ME Super, 110 Auto, or even the PC35AF, this is the episode you won't want to miss!

Joining us on this episode are returning callers Mark Faulkner, Robert Rotoloni, Andrew Smith, Larry Effler, and Mario Piper, and first time callers Marcy Merrill from junkstorecameras.com, Ed Gabe, and Nate Ostroushko.

In addition to gobs of Pentax love, we cover Ricoh/Pentax's recent announcement of their intent to reintroduce film cameras, fantasizing about what we'd like to see in a new camera, and what to avoid from previous Kickstarter projects like the Reflex and Ihagee Elbaflex prototypes.  We answer the tough questions regarding M42 vs K-mount lenses, cover what seems to be everyone's favorite digicam, plus Mike gets to visit a previous guest and hold a historically significant replica.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and are interested in having an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 41 on Monday, January 16th and we will have a special guest who is fast becoming the go to repair source for the Zeiss-Ikon Contax rangefinder!  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• The First Pentax K-Mount Cameras were the KX, K2, and KM, the Pentax K1000 Came Later
• The K1000s Were Very Tough and Used as Crime Lab Cameras / The Hong Kong K1000s Use More Plastic
• Everyone Loves the Pentax MX / Seriously, Go Buy a Pentax MX / The MX is like the Olympus OM-1
• Pentax ME Super had Auto Exposure and Manual Control but Used Buttons / The Pentax MG and MV Were Horrible
• College Bookstores offered the K1000 as a Student Camera into the 2000s / The ME Super Was Featured in Stranger Things
• Is There Any Improvement Between the M42 Takumars and K-Mount SMC Takumars?
• Can you Use M42 Lenses on K-Mount Cameras?
• If You Already Have the 50mm f/2 SMC Pentax Lens, Is It Worth Upgrading?
• Was the Pentax 67 Seen as a Pro Camera? / The Pentax 67 Is Even Louder than the Bronica S2
• Marcy Merrill has the OG Camera Review Blog
• Soviet K-Mount SLRs / Almaz 103 / Later Zenits
• Did Asahi Intend for the K-Mount to Be So Universally Supported?
• The Pentax Auto 110 and 110 Super / Are the Pentax 110s the Best 110 Camera? / Canon 110ED
• Pentax LX vs the Nikon F3 / The Pentax LX is Very Good But Unreliable Today
• What About the Later MZ Pentaxes? / Mike Is 0 for 2 in Auto Focus Pentax SLRs
• Pentax Point and Shoots, Espio 140V and 150V / Theo and Mike Both Love the Pentax PC35AF
• Marcy Sells Mike a National Geographic Binocular Camera
• Pentax/Ricoh's Announcement of Making New Film Cameras / The Shutter is the Key
• How Much Money Will People Really Pay for a New SLR? / Ihagee Elbaflex SLR Kickstarter
• Mike's Idea for a New Film and Digital SLR / Reflex Interchangeable Mount Kickstarter SLR
• Fuji is An Example of a Film Company That Isn't Investing in New Film Products / Fuji Instax is For Teenagers
• New Years New GAS: FED 3 / Viscawide-16 ST-D / Keks EM-01 Light Meter / Lumix LX-3 / Ricoh RDC-7 / Brumberger 35 (Neoca S2)
• Everyone Loves the Panasonic Lumix LX-3 / Marcy's New Year Resolution is to Organize Her Collection and Build Shelves / IKEA Billy Shelves
• Mike Visits Daniel Koons and Got to Hold Steve Sasson's First Digital Camera Replica
• Paul Gets a 1940s Wollensak Lens Made for E.Leitz New York / Anthony Revisits the Canon VT Deluxe / KW Pilot
• Anthony is Going to Get a Leica IIIf / Our Next Guest Repairs Contax Rangefinders

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Marcy Merrill - https://www.junkstorecameras.com/

Mario Piper - https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/gen-x-photography/id1494585131

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Another year is in the books!  There have been 23 episodes of the Camerosity Podcast this year, and as we close out 2022, the guys and I thought it would be fun to play some trivia.  The first ever Camerosity Trivia Challenge pits the hosts against our listeners in a 25 question (actually 24) multiple choice challenge.  Follow along with us to determine who is the most knowledgeable of our listeners and hosts!  Mike created the questions, but Anthony, Paul and Theo had no unfair advantage as they didn't know the questions beforehand.  For those of you listening at home, I read out all of the questions and possible answers, so each of you can see how you would have done!

Joining us on this episode are returning callers Mark Faulker, Andrew Smith, Aiden Dean, and David Ortega, and first time caller, Atabak Taghizadeh.  Atabak is not only a long time listener of the show, but is also our first Iranian caller, expanding the reach of the podcast to a whole new country!

In addition to trivia, I make note of a Pentax rangefinder lens that we missed from the previous episode, we discuss shooting cameras in extreme cold, and our tips and tricks for traveling with cameras.  We all share our three most memorable cameras we shot from 2022, Theo shares some pickups from the Sydney Camera Show and Atabak shares with us a truly one of a kind custom panoramic Minolta XE-7 SLR that is totally wild and is sure to evoke a huge amount of GAS in everyone who listens!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  We would love to hear from more listeners, especially those who are new to shooting film or collecting cameras.  Please don't feel like you have to be an expert on a specific type of camera, or have the level of knowledge on par with other people on the show.  We LOVE people who are new to shooting and would love to have an episode dedicated to people new to the hobby, so please don't consider your knowledge level to be a prerequisite for joining!

The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 40 on Monday, January 2nd.  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• Camerosity Podcast vs Classic Camera Revival: Who is the Nerdiest? / Let Mike Gutterman Know!
• Asahi Did Make a Pentax LTM M39 Rangefinder Lens, the Pentax-L 43mm f/1.9 Special
• 3 Cameras that Stood Out: Anthony - Olympus XA4, Topcon RE Super, Voigtländer Bessa II Rangefinder
• Mark - Corfield Periflex, Fujica Compact Deluxe, Nikon F2
• David - Canon SD20 and Barn Find Black Nikon SP
• Aiden - Four Graflex XLs, Olympus XA, Leica M6 / Paul's Tips for Cleaning the XA Door
• Paul - Nikon S2, Fuji G617, Plaubel 69W / Different Kinds of Plaubels
• Theo - Mamiya 7, Voigtländer Superb, Nikon Coolpix 995
• Using Nikon Coolpix 990 Series Cameras with Telescopes / Reading Old Flash Sticks
• Paul Loans a Nikon/Fujix E2Ns DSLR to Mike and He's Blown Away By It
• ++ CAMEROSITY TRIVIA CHALLENGE ++
• Mike's Tips for Traveling with Cameras is To Not Bring Twelve / Three is the Perfect Number
• Mike F**ks Up Developing 4 Rolls of Film Using Bad HC-110 / Shooting in the Cold
• Civilian vs Military Kardons / Military Kardons Still Worked at -67 Degrees
• The Kodak Signet 35 Was Designed for Military Use
• Theo Goes to the Sydney Camera Show and Picks Up an Ensign Commando
• Schneider Tele-Xenar 180mm f/5.5 M42 Lens / Canon Photura / Ricoh FF-3 / Robot II / AGFA Isomat
• Mike Got GAS From a Previous Episode and Got an Olympus IS-2 / Aiden Picks Up a Leica Ig
• Atabak's Strange and Wonderful Panoramic Minolta XE-7 / The Lens is From a Fuji GS645 Camera / Comparisons to Hasselblad XPan
• A Call Out to Beginners to the Film World, Jon Us! / Thank You All for an Amazing 2022, See You Next Year!

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

When it comes to camera brands that we hear listeners of this show want to hear about, Pentax seems to come up more often than any other brand.  As the world's number one open source film photography podcast, the guys and I are never ones to deprive the world of what you want to hear, so for episode 38 we devote almost the entire time to everyone's favorite makers of quick return SLRs, Asahi Pentax!

Joining us on this episode are returning callers, Robert Rotoloni, Hong Joon Lee, Miles Libak, and Mario Paper, and also first time caller, Dave Roberts.  From the earliest Asahiflexes all the way to the Ricoh Digital Pentaxes...  Okay, we never actually made it that far, as it turns out there is far more Pentax talk we could fit into a single episode, so we had to stop at the end of the M42 era.  But for the hour plus we talk about Pentax, there is quite a large amount of Takumar and Pentax love!

Listen to this episode to learn about one of the coolest Pentax prototypes ever made, where did the Pentax name come from, and what the element layouts of many early Takumar lenses.

Although there is a great deal of Pentax info in this episode, we get off track at the very beginning episode talking about 127 cameras, including some of our recent 127 camera pickups and what our favorite recent shooters have been.  No worries though, we eventually pull ourselves out of the 127 rabbit hole and get back on topic.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 39 on Monday, December 19th.  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• Curing COVID-19 With Lens Fungus and Radioactive Takumars / Miles Picks Up a Late Double Stroke Leica M3
• Who is Shooting 127 on 127 Day? / Mario Loves the Toa Koki Gelto DIII / KW Pilot TLR / KW Pilot Six / KW Patent Etui / KW Praktina
• Can You Bulk Roll 127 Film? / Bulk 46mm Portrait Film / Zeiss-Ikon Kolibri / Vest Pocket Exakta
• Was 127 A German Film? / Kodak Created the first Vest Pocket Kodak in 1912 / 127 Eventually Became the Format for Cheap Cameras
• Pentax Never Made a Rangefinder Camera, They Started with SLRs / Asahi's Early History / They Were Primarily a Lens Maker
• Some Takane Mine Six Cameras Have Asahi Lenses / Saburo Matsumoto Created the first Asahiflex
• Quick Return vs Instant Return Mirrors / Asahiflex M37 Lenses
• Takumar 58mm f/2.4 Lens, Is It a Heliar?
• ** College Football Intermission **
• Gerjan van Oosten's Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide / Other f/2 and f/2.2 Takumars
• Auto Takumars vs Super Takumars / Early Yashinon M42 Lenses are Very Similar to Takumar M42s
• The Birth of the Pentax / Asahi Had to License the name Pentax from Zeiss-Ikon
• Mike's Favorite Pentax is the Pentax K / Only the AP, S, and K Pentaxes Came in Brown Leather Cases
• Photo Books Are Hard to Find Today / The Cost of Printing is Sky High
• Differences in the Pentax S and H Models / The Spotmatics Do Not Have a Spot Meter
• \m/ The Pentax Metalica! \m/ / Coming Up with a Bayonet Mount in the M42 Era
• The Spotmatics are the Honda Accord of Cameras / You Bought a Pentax to Get the Lenses
• Anthony Loves the Pentax ES II / More Pentaxes Are Engraved with Social Security and ID Numbers Than Any Other Camera
• How Good Was the Build Quality of the Spotmatics? / Plastic vs Metal Gears
• 1963 Pentax Prices Compared to Everyone Else / Journalists Used Nikon, Sports Photographers Used Canon, and Artists Used Pentaxes
• Mike Get's Paul in Trouble and Convinces Him to Buy a Nikon S2 at 8:25am / He Then Buys a Contax IIa From the Same Seller
• Hong Doesn't Like the Contax IIa / Christopher May Gifts a Black Canon FTb and a Miranda Auto Sensorex EE to Mike
• Theo Gets a Mamiya 43mm Lens, Viewfinder, and Polarizing Filters / Mario Gets a Steky
• Use 16mm Microfilm to Bulk Load Films for 16mm Cameras

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Episode 12: The Pentax Episode - https://mikeeckman.com/2021/11/episode-12-the-pentax-episode/

Mario Piper – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gen-x-photography/id1494585131

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Whenever you think of the world's greatest open source film photography podcast, of course everyone thinks of Camerosity, but when they think of Camerosity, the second thing everyone thinks of is the World Cup!

While this exciting socc...I mean football championship is going on, what better time than for the gang and I to record our third European Time Zone friendly episode!  As we have the previous two times, we pack up our mobile recording studio and hit the road to visit our friends in the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and other areas of the world where everyone is crazy for FIFA!

Theo makes a special appearance direct from Al Janoub Stadium where his beloved Australian team takes on the evil French team.  Joining Anthony, Paul, Theo and I are returning guests Alan Duncan, Wannes Scheipers, and John Michael Mendizza.  In the first time caller category, we have none other than Mr. Kosmo Foto himself, Stephen Dowling, from Turin, Italy, Frederico Quaglino, Peter from Essex, and from Canada, Mike Litwin!

In this episode we talk about flash photography, the state of color film and the film industry as a whole, Anthony's challenges shooting the NASA Artemis moon rocket, and a whole lot of other GAS sure to inspire many future purchases (fun fact, as I type this, I have already fallen victim to GAS from this very episode, listen to episode 38 to find out which camera I bought!)

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

If you want to join us for our next episode, we will record Episode 38 on Monday, December 5th.  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement!

This Week's Episode

• John-Michael Wants 35mm Flash Recommendations / Paul's Recommendations is Nikon 8008S w/ SB-24 Flash
• Minolta Maxxum 9 and 9xi have 1/300 Flash Sync / Using Digital to Test for Film Flash Photography
• Introducing Stephen Dowling and Kosmo Foto
• High Speed Sync and How It Works / Why Do Focal Plane Shutter Cameras Usually Have Such Slow Flash Sync?
• Hasselblad and Mamiya Medium Format SLRs Had Leaf Shutters Which Benefitted Flash / Lenses with Shutters in Them
• The Olympus Pen F Flash Syncs at Any Speed
• The Minolta Dynax/Maxxum/alpha 7 and Aperture Ring Failures / Minolta's SLR Control Cards
• Manufacturers Who Build a Camera Have No Idea How Long They'll Still Be Working
• Stephen Dowling is Selling Used Cameras Now / Praktica IV F
• Olympus Super Zoom IS-Series / Continuous vs Stepped Auto Focus / Chinon Genesis and Canon Futura
• The Olympus Trip 35 is Very Popular / Metal vs Plastic Button Trips / Date Codes
• Soviet Cameras that Punch Above Their Wright: Agat 18K / Smena 8 / Smena Symbol / Chaika II and 3
• Using Braun Paxette M39 Lenses on M39 Zenit SLRs / Flipping Front Elements
• Olympus FTL M42 G.Zuiko f/1.4 Lens / Olympus Ace Rangefinder
• Kosmo Agent Shadow Has Been a Steady Seller / Anthony Was a Beta Tester for It / Stephen Personally Mails Every Roll
• Anthony Bungles the Artemis Launch with Agent Shadow / Simon's Biggest Bungle / More About Artemis
• Shooting Rockets with Sound and Light Triggers
• The Future of Kosmo Foto and Other New Film Emulsions /  Are People Shooting Less Color Due to Prices?
• Fredrico Hopes that Ferrania Can Save Color Film / Will Film Still Be Made 100 Years From Now?
• Mike Makes an Idiocracy Joke But No One Gets It / What's Going On With ORWO and Adox?
• Recent GAS: Peter Gets a Mamiya C300 / Alan Gets an Amazing Sentex "Pseudo Camcorder" / Voigtländer Superb Alert!
• Canon Sure Shot XL / Leica M4P / Minox LX - The Highest Featured Last Minox / Ensign Selfix 8-20 Special
• Paul Gets an Aero-Ektar 178mm f/2.5 Lens / Welta Belmira / Stephen Makes a Margaret Thatcher Joke But Mike Doesn't Get It
• Zeiss-Ikon Taxona / Super Ikonta 531

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Keppler's Vault 97: Rocket Photography - https://mikeeckman.com/2021/07/kepplers-vault-97-rocket-photography/

Stephen Dowling - https://kosmofoto.com/

Alan Duncan – https://austerityphoto.co.uk/

John-Michael Mendizza – https://www.jmm-photos.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/jmmendizza/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

For the second episode in a row, we take a deep dive into a singular brand of cameras, and as you can pretty much already guess, Episode 36 is all about Minolta!  The guys and I visit the Minolta Disco with returning callers, Alex Luyckx, Bill Smith, Howard Sandler, Mark Faulkner, Mario Piper, Robert Rotoloni, Wannes Scheipers, and first time caller, Mig Cero.

The Minolta Disco is a strange place where we cover history of the company, our favorite models, common problems and what to look for when buying certain Minoltas, the Minolta and Leica connection, and what Minolta Auto focus SLRs you should consider if you like physical knobs.  Minolta is one of the longest lived and prolific Japanese camera makers, so we had a huge number of things to talk about.

Not content to stick with just one single topic, Mike reveals a strange habit he does in the dark when loading film, Paul covers everyone's favorite Topcon SLRs, along with a short review of the focal plane shutter Topcon IC-1 Auto, Robert gives us some history on why so many Japanese camera makers preferred 24mm x 32mm images, and a little bit of history on Japanese distributors in the United States.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

For our next episode, we will hit the road and record our third European episode, recording at a time that is more friendly for our fans in Europe.  For our friends in the UK, a lot has changed since the last time we talked, they lost their queen and have had three different Prime Ministers, so who knows what kind of mood they'll be in.

We are not 100% sure on the exact time we will record Episode 37, but it will probably be Tuesday, November 22nd.  Be sure to stay tuned for the official announcement.

This Week's Episode

• Mike's Strange Habit of Closing His Eyes While in a Darkroom / Alex Purposely Waits to Look at His Digital Photos After Taking Them
• We Start Talking About Minolta with a Topcon Super D and RE3 / Difference between the Super D and Super DM
• Topcon RE lenses vs Topcon UV Lenses / Leaf Shutter Topcons / Topcon IC-1 Auto
• Topcor Cult Lenses, 58mm f/1.4 and f/1.8 lenses / 135mm and 200mm Telephotos
• Not All Exakta Lenses Will Work on the Topcon RE Super / The Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 50/2 Hits the Mirror
• What Other Cameras Came with Topcor Lenses? / Horseman and Leotax Did!
• Tokyo Kogaku and Nippon Kogaku Both Had Very Similar Origins / Topcon Suffered from Poor Distribution in the US
• Other Companies Who Were Killed By Distribution Like Miranda and Aires
• Nikon Got Lucky With Ehrenreich / Canon Struggled With Distribution / Minolta Distributed Themselves
• Minolta's Early History Nichi Doku and Molta Eventually Became Chiyoda Kogaku
• The Original Minolta was Based Off the Plaubel Makina / Minoltaflex and Minolta Autocord
• When Did Minolta Become a Meaningful Force Outside of Japan? / Minolta Was Successful with Post Exchanges
• Minolta's Screw Mount Rangefinders / 24 x 32 Exposures / Japanese Film Was Very Expensive and Often Used for X-Rays
• Was the US Government Responsible for the Disappearance of 24 x 32?
• What is Everyone's Favorite Minolta? / Minolta Super A (Anthony and Mike) / Minolta SRT-101 and 102 (Mario) / Minolta XD-11 (Bill Smith) / Minolta XM (Wayne) / Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II (Mig) / Minolta 110 Zoom SLR (Theo) / Molta Minolta Vest Camera (Mark) / Minolta Dynax 9 (Alex)
• Full Bodied Japanese Fixed Lens Rangefinders Are Some of the Best Values Out There
• Alex Loves the Minolta Maxxums 7 and 9
• Minolta SLRs with Physical Knobs / Minolta 600si Classic and 650si Date / Make Your Own Handgrip with Sugru
• Minolta Got Sued a Lot / Minolta Auto-Wide
• The Minolta and Leica Collaboration Started with the CL / The Minolta XE-7 Has Nothing From Leitz In It / Leica R3
• Minolta XD-11 and Leica R4 / Leica R-Series Lenses are REALLY Expensive
• Robert Likes Minolta Subminis / The Konan Was the Predecessor to the Minolta 16
• MINOLTA DISCO!!!!
• Other Minoltas / Minolta Freedom Zoom 105i / Minolta Vectis S-1 / Minolta X-700 / Minolta SR-3 / Minolta Uniomat III
• Did Konica and Minolta Ever Make a Serious Camera Together?

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Alex Luyckx – http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerasandpictures

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

For the past two episodes, we stocked up the discussion ahead of time with guests to talk about what we wanted to talk about.  For this episode, we didn't invite anyone and ended up with more guests than any other episode we've done so far!

His ears must be ringing after his name came up near the end of Episode 34, but Dan Tamarkin from Tamarkin Camera stopped by to talk about the Leica 72 in the upcoming Tamarkin Auctions.  Along with Dan is a star studded cast of returning callers Robert Rotoloni, Adam Paul, Ira Cohen, Andrew Smith, Bill Smith, Sherry Christensen, Larry Effler, Howard Sandler, Stephen Grasso, Michael Gossett, and Miles Libak.

We spend a great deal of time on one of the group's favorite camera brands, Voigtländer.  Anthony starts us off with some company history, a short list of the company's most notable models, a discussion on our favorite Voigtländer models, how to repair the plunger on the Vitessa, and some interesting information on the first camera with an in body electronic flash.

Although we go deep into Voigtländer, this episode is loaded with a wide range of other topics such as light meters, Sunny 16, and EV scales. Dan Tamarkin shares wisdom on how to repair lenses using a toaster oven, and what he calls his "Catch and Release" program.  Mike shares a story of one of his best ever estate sale pick ups, and his tips on getting cameras from estate sales.  And in a follow up to his last appearance, Adam Paul shares his progress on making his own APS "Advantix" film.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

So stay tuned, and if you'd like to ask us a question or give us some topics to discuss, look for our show announcement for Episode 36, which we will record on Monday, November 7th!

This Week's Episode

• Dan Tamarkin Shows Up and Talks Leica 72 at the Tamarkin Auction / Tamarkin Estimates are on the Low Side
• The Leica 72 Came Before the Nikon S3M / Dan Teaches Photography to His Customers at Tamarkin Camera
• Sherry Buys a Nikon EM at a Thrift Shop and It Promptly Breaks
• Michael Gossett Buys a Spare Canon T90 / Mike Had Bad Luck with the T90 / Dealers Hated the T90
• Why Do So Many 1980s Cameras That Used AA and AAA Batteries Have Corroded Battery Compartments? / Use a Dremel to Clean Battery Corrosion
• Mike Raves About the Canon EF Again / Cameras With Terrible Battery Doors
• Michael Gossett wants a Voigtländer Bessamatic / Paul Has One with a Pre-Separated Septon
• How Much Does Lens Separation Impact Photos? / Fix Lens Separation with a Toaster Oven!
• Voigtländer History / Roll Film Voigtländers - Bessa and Bessa 66, Perkeo II / All The Vitos
• Voigtländer Vito III and Prominent Strange Focusing / Everyone Loves the Bessamatics / Voigtländer is Acquired by Zeiss
• Zeiss-Ikon Voigtländer Vitessa 1000 SR / Voigtländer Bessaflex Prototype Became the Zeiss-Ikon Icarex / Voigtländer VSL SLRs
• The Rollei Samsung Connection / Cosina Voigtländers / Bessa L with No Viewfinder
• Anthony's Top 3 Voigtländers - The Small Bergheil, Perkeo II, and Prominent /  Ira Loves the Bessa 66
• What About the Vitessa? / Can You Fix the Problem Where the Vitessa Plunger Doesn't Work Correctly?
• Mike Hates the EV Coupling on the Vitessa / What Was the Purpose of EV Couplings on 1950s Cameras?
• Paul Only Hates Sunny 16 For Slide Film / Sherry Shoots "Dark as Crap f/2" / Light Meters Are Calibrated to 18% Gray
• Voigtländer Vitrona Was the First Camera with Electronic Flash / The Vitessa Case with Built In Flash
• Mike's Big Nikon S2 Estate Sale Score / Mike's Tips for Finding Cameras at Estate Sales / What Do EP Markings Mean?
• Andrew's TTArtisans Leica-M Mount 28mm Summaron Copy / Avenon 21mm f/2.8 LTM Lens / Andrew's Strange Canon 7
• Adam Paul is Experimenting With Making APS Film / Adam's Follow-up to His 2018 Review of 110 Cameras
• Theo Buys a Sony Mavica Floppy Disk Camera / Mike Picks Up a Durst Automatica
• Bill Smith Buys an Olympus OM-4 Ti / Larry Buys a Mamiya 23 (But He Didn't Mean To)
• Theo Buys a Mamiya Power Winder / Howard Buys Both a Miranda DR and a Topcon RE Super
• Does Dan Tamarkin Ever Get GAS? / Dan's Catch and Release Program / Paul Catches an Alpa Reflex 6D and Releases It

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Chris Sherlock's Repair Video on the Vitessa T - https://youtu.be/2roEZtwfi3g (For fixing the plunger, you do not need to remove the top plate.)

Dan Tamarkin - http://www.tamarkin.com/ and https://www.tamarkinauctions.com/

Adam Paul’s Mega 110 Camera Review - http://quirkyguywithacamera.blogspot.com/2018/04/small-format-size-big-format-results.html

Sherry Christensen – https://embracethegrain.com/

Analog Insights - How to Pronounce German Camera Names - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_iBmUC_Xc

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We're back!  It's been three weeks since our last episode, so that just gave us an extra week's worth of time to think of questions to ask our two special guests!  Returning is Jess Ibarra from Viva La Film in New South Wales, Australia who is Theo's source for CLAs and always offers her insights into the general repair of cameras.

Joining Jess is Ryan Jones, owner of Pro Camera in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Ryan was a repair technician at Pro Camera for six years before the opportunity to take over the shop was presented to him, which he accepted.  As owner, Ryan has a unique way of accepting new work.  Unlike other shops, he does not accept new work all the time, but rather does it in waves.  This business model works extremely well for him in terms of managing expectations for his customers and also helping to prevent burn out from non stop work.

Although we have talked about camera repair on other episodes of the podcast, this one has heavy focus on the future.  How did both Ryan and Jess learn how to repair cameras, what are the methods being used today by the current crop of repair people, and what is being done to attract new people to repairing cameras?

Joining them this week is returning guest Alex Dietrich and first time caller Steve Rosenbach who ask for tips on repairing their own cameras and what everyone's thoughts are on a certain Nicca camera.  Of course, there's a lot of other random GAS and topics related to collecting, shooting, and shade tree percussive maintenance.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

So stay tuned, and if you'd like to ask us a question or give us some topics to discuss, look for our show announcement for Episode 35, which we will record on Monday, October 24th!

This Week's Episode

• Introducing Ryan Jones and Pro Camera / Jess Repairs While Podcasting / Steve Buys a Minolta SR-1
• Mike Wants to Fix His Arsenal Salyut Soviet SLR / Jess Has a Soviet Camera Mentor Named Alex
• If you Want to Shoot A Soviet 6x6, Get a Kiev 6C or 60 They're More Reliable than the Salyut
• Paul Has a Broken Yashicaflex and Nikon S / Can you Fix Hazy Nikon Rangefinder Windows?
• If You Want to Collect Nikon Rangefinders, Get a Nikon SP, If You Want to Shoot Them, Get a Nikon S2
• Alex Sends his Black Leica and Olympus OM-1 to Ryan
• Replacing Leica Shutter Curtains / Finding Curtain Material is Getting Difficult / 3D Printing to the Rescue / Titanium Curtains
• Is Anthony's Canon EF Worth Repairing? / Anthony's Voigtländer Ultramatic CS Needs Help Too
• Resilvering Mirrors / Canon Pellix and Pellicle Mirrors
• Petri Color Corrected Super Green-O-Matics are The Best Worst Camera / Petri's Achilles Heel Was Their Own Shutters
• Ryan Likes to Repair Similar Cameras in Batches Then Move On
• Training the Next Generation of Young People to Repair Cameras
• Learning from the Cranky Old Guys / How Do You Find a Mentor? / You Have to Be More Anal Than Your Most Anal Client
• As Cameras Age, New Problems Happen That Has Never Happened Before / A CLAd 80 Year Old Camera Is Still 80 Years Old
• Ryan Repairs Cameras in Waves Every 6 Weeks / Managing Expectations
• In Most SLRs the Shutter Release Doesn't Fire the Shutter, It Releases the Mirror and the Mirror Fires the Shutter
• Percussive Maintenance and Shadetree Repairs Will Only Work Temporarily
• What Tools Should You Buy To Start Repairing Cameras / Richard Haw's Website and Learn Camera Repair
• Yashica YF and Nicca III-L Cameras / How Repairable Are Certain Cameras?
• What is the Next Camera You Send for Repair / Canon IV Sb / Nikkor 105 f/2.5 / Voigtländer Superb and Vitessa / Leica M3 with Dual Range Summicron / Ihagee Exakta / Canon VT Deluxe / Minolta XE7 and XE5
• Ryan's Franken-Leica - Leica M3 Chassis, M5 Back Door, Late M3 Top Plate, No Self Timer or Flash Sync
• Anthony Has Suggestions on Donations to the Show / Tamarkin Camera's Auction / Rate My Rollei 35

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Learn Camera Repair - https://learncamerarepair.com/

Richard Haw's Nikon Repair Site - https://richardhaw.com/

Ryan Jones - https://www.procamera.us/ and https://www.rj-repairs.com/home

Jess Ibarra - https://www.vivalafilm.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

After stroking our egos as The Nerdiest Film Photography Podcast, the guys and I double down the nerd level to "Ludicrous Speed" and take a deep dive into expired films and home development tips and tricks.

With us this week are two guys that have a whole history of shooting expired films and home developing, first Adam Paul, owner and proprietor of the Classic Film Shop which has in stock over 30 different types of expired films from easy to find things like expired Kodak Tri-X to obscure nitrate films from the 1940s.  Adam is a big proponent of cold stand development in which black and white developers like HC-110 are developed in "refrigerator cold" temps for long periods of time to help preserve the details of significantly aged films.  His experience both with expired films and home developing is amazing.

Along with him is Alex Luyckx from the blog of the same name and the Classic Camera Revival Podcast.  Alex does some of the best expired film reviews, often developing these films in 3-4 different developers to show the strengths of each.  In addition to shooting obscure films, Alex also sometimes uses obscure developers that can't easily be found anymore.

As if that's not enough, Robert Shanebrook makes a triumphant return to keep us all in line with the facts about these old films.  Robert may not do much home developing anymore, but his knowledge of old Kodak films cannot be matched by anyone.

Joining our three experts are returning callers Mark Faulkner, Howard Sandler, Miles Libak, Andrew Smith, and Alex Dietrich and first time callers Mike Litwin and from the All Through a Lens podcast, Vania Francesca.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

So stay tuned, and if you'd like to ask us a question or give us some topics to discuss, look for our show announcement for Episode 34, which we will record on Sunday, October 9th!

This Week's Episode

• Mike Was Wrong about ECN-2 Development / Removing the Remjet / Cinestill ECN Kits
• Kodak Tech Pan / POTA Developer is a Replacement for Technidol / Agitation Changes Contrast
• Mike is Shooting Tech Pan in a Praktica VLC2, The Successor to the Exakta RTL 1000
• Adam Paul Reopens His Classic Film Etsy Store / Standard Development vs Cold Stand / Bromide Drag
• Legacy Pro L110 is an Excellent Substitute for HC-110 / History of HC-110
• Paul Has the Manual for D-61, E-82, DK-60A and a Whole Bunch of Old Processes / Paul is Not a Hipster!
• Ektapan and CPS/CPL Color Films / Tricks for Developing Old C-22, C-41, and E-4 Film
• Alex Reviews Kodak Plus-X Aerecon II / Adox XT-3 Developer / D-76 Will Always Give a Good Baseline
• H&W Control / High Definition Aerial Film 3404 or 3414 Was Used in Satellites and Came in 30 Mile Lengths
• Adam's Strange Films / 35mm Photographic Paper / Yellow Pink and Green Film
• What is a Safe Expired Film for People to Try / Kodak Plus-X and Pan-X / 35mm is Safer than 120 Because of Backing Paper
• Problems with Roll Film Backing Paper / Challenges of Tape and 220 / East German Films Typically Do Not Survive Well
• The One Stop Overexposure Per Decade Rule is Hogwash / Kodak Ektar 25 Wasn't Very Good
• Early 120 Backing Paper Had a Grinding Process Called Skiving That Changed the Thickness Near the Edges / Other Changes to Backing Paper
• Environmental Safety Concerns Developing Film / Do You Wear Gloves While Developing?
• Ansel Adams Had His Organs Tested for Selenium Poisoning From Film Development
• Lightning Round: What Is Your Favorite Expired Film to Shoot With?
• Vania's Tips For Getting into Expired Film / Shooting Manatees with a Rolleimarin
• Mike Litwin's Yamato Mini-Electro 35 / Cameras That Chew Up Film / KMZ Leningrad / All Miranda SLRs / Kodak 35
• Paul Gets More Contax Stuff / Contax T / Early Contax Bodies are Rear Lens Caps for Contax Lenses
• Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35 / Repairing the Kodak 35 / Theo Buys a Leica D-Lux 3
• Ektachrome E-Dupe Slide Duplicating Film

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Adam Paul's Classic Film Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassicFilmShop

Alex Luyckx - http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/

Robert Shanebrook - http://www.makingkodakfilm.com, [email protected]

Howard Sandler - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsandler

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We're back!  The gang and I are fresh off a mandatory 28 day rehab cleanse from all our GAS afflictions!

To help us get back on the wagon, we only invited one guest to catch up on what we've all been up to since our last episode.  From Fort Dodge, Iowa, Mike Novak returns to discuss what he's been up to, what his favorite Rolleiflex is, and a whole bunch of tips and tricks about in-home developing.

In this episode, Mike shares a bunch of new cameras he's working on reviews for, things Paul is about to put for sale in his shop, and Theo's newest Father's Day pickup.  We spend a great deal of time talking about Mamiya and their zillions of lens mounts they've made for 35mm cameras, an uncommon 24mm x 24mm square format 35mm camera, and different ways to make double exposures.

As always, the topics we discuss are decided by you.  The guys and I rarely know where each episode is going to go until it happens, so if you'd like to join us on a future episode, be sure to look out for our show announcements on our Camerosity Podcast Facebook page, and right here on mikeeckman.com.  We record every other Monday and announcements, along with the Zoom link are typically shared 2-3 days in advance.

So stay tuned, and if you'd like to ask us a question or give us some topics to discuss, look for our show announcement for Episode 33, which we will record on Monday, September 19th!

This Week's Episode

• Theo Goes on the Negative Positives Podcast / The Nerdiest Film Photography Podcast / LOMO LC-A Wide
• Paul Picks up a Praktina FX with Biotar / Miranda G / PX625 Battery Voltage / Wein Cells
• Paul Has a Leica M4-P Coming That He REALLY Needs to Test / Rolleiflex 2.8D
• Rolleiflexes Can Be Difficult to Differentiate Between Models / Mike Should Review more Rolleis / Novak Recommends a First Rolleiflex
• Japanese Rollei Copies Sometimes Improve Things / Fujicaflex Automat TLR / Rolleimagic is the Weirdest Rolleiflex
• Rolleicord Multiple Exposure Project with Pixels and Grain / The Art of Intentional Double Exposures
• Double Exposing on Both Sides of the Film / Cameras Best Suited for Double Exposures / Canon EOS 300 / Ben Felton Does Double Exposures of Portraits
• Novak Loves Pyrocat HD / C41 Developing Has Far Fewer Variables / There's a Ton of Black and White Developers and Processes
• Novak's Tips for Controlling Grain, Contrast, and Detail / Stand Developing / Standard vs Staining Developers
• How Do Lighten the Base Layer or Get Rid of Base Fog? / HC-110 Lasts Forever / New Formula HC-110 vs Old Formula
• C41 Unicolor Kits Are Mike's Favorite / C41 vs ECN-2 Kits / Kodak Vision3 Cinema Film and Removing Remjet
• Developing ECN2 Film in C41 Chemicals Works But the Colors Will Be Off / Seattle Filmworks / Tungsten vs Daylight Balance
• That Cinestill "Glow" is Due to a Missing Anti-Halation Layer
• The Mamiya Sketch is a Really Cool 24x24 Square Format Rangefinder / Mamiya Had More 35mm SLR Mounts Than Anyone
• Mamiya Prismat V-90 (Prismat PH) / Mamiya ZE-X / Crossover Exposure Mode / Dealers Loved Mamiya and Ricoh
• What Are Some Cameras that would be Perfect, Except for One Thing? / Konica III / Voss Diax IIa / Alpa 11e / Nikon N80 / Fuji GS690W / Futura S
• Theo Gets a Leotax Model K and Nikon CoolPix 995 for Father's Day / Leotax vs Nicca
• Mike's Upcoming Reviews for Zenobia 35 / Adox 300 / Magazine Back 35mm Cameras
• Anthony Gets His First Argus C3 / Sandmar Lenses and Argus Viewfinders / Kodak Medalist vs Mamiya 7
• Do Boring Cameras Make Boring Photos? / The More a Camera Appeals to You, The More Fun You'll Have Shooting It
• The Konica Autoreflex TC and the Hexanon 40mm f/1.8 Lens / Some Lenses are Cheaper to Buy Attached to a Body than By Itself
• Teraoka Auto Terra Super / More About the Mamiya Prismat V-90

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Negative Positives Podcast # 391 - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-hi389-14b78501

Mike Novak - https://www.flickr.com/photos/greyscale3/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We have a special episode for you this week as we present Episode 31: The Best Podcast Ever (Part 1).  What topics will Thrifty Theo, Asteroid Anthony, Dyna Mike, and Off-The-Wall Paul discuss?  Who will join us?  How many times will Theo say 'vegemite'?  What new things will appear in Paul's eBay store?  Will Anthony's wife have to fight any more alligators in their driveway?

As this is not only the world's first, but best, and fastest growing film photography podcast, anything is on the table!!!!

The topics are sure to be even more interesting in Part 2, but for that, you'll all have to stay tuned, and be on the look out for the next show announcement!  See you all soon!

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

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Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

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Myself and most of the people listening to this podcast are well aware of what it's like to buy film cameras and photography gear, but less of us know what it's like to sell it.  On this, the 30th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, the gang and I bring on some current and former employees of various camera stores to give us some insight into what it's like on the other side of the counter.

From Gene's Camera in South Bend, Indiana, we have owner Jack St. Pierre and regular guest Jon Gilchrist.  From Alpine Camera in Des Plaines, Illinois, owner Chuck Miller.  From South Florida, former camera store employee of Gold Triangle Department Store is Stephen Grasso, and finally, our own host and former camera store employee and owner, Paul Rybolt share with us stories of how things used to be, and also discuss some of the biggest changes they saw in the industry during their time.

Joining our camera store crew are returning callers, Hong Lee, Mark Faulkner, Andrew Smith, Jess Ibarra, and Michael Gossett, and first time callers Andrew Almendarez and Steven Lederman who bring up other interesting topics like whether buying cameras make for good investments, whether lens fungus is contagious, and where the origins are of Kodak film.

In addition to all of these exciting discussions, we witnessed the first ever "IN SHOW" purchase where Stephen Grasso buys something from Paul's eBay store!  Make sure you listen in and find out what camera it is!

As always the topics and discussions on the Camerosity Podcast are entirely up to you.  While we make an attempt to have a general idea on how to get a show started, the topics almost always veer off into wild and unexpected directions.  If you'd like to ask us a question or wish to hear us discuss your favorite brand of camera or film, consider joining us on our next episode and steer us in that direction!

Be sure to look for our next show announcement coming soon, and we will record Episode 31 on Monday, July 25th!

This Week's Episode

• Introducing Gene's Camera in South Bend, IN and Alpine Camera in Des Plaines, IL
• How Does a Camera Store Survive Today in 2022 Compared to 20-30 Years Ago? / Diversify
• Dwayne's Photo Does Dip and Dunk / Do People Still Service Noritsus?
• What are the Biggest Changes to the Camera Store Industry? / Minilabs Were a Huge Change
• The Loss of Photo Processing Hurt Many Stores / Processing Brings Back Customers Three Times
• Mail Order and No Sales Tax Hurt Stores More than Big Box Retailers / Camera Stores Send Customers to Each Other
• The COVID-19 Pandemic Helped Camera Stores / Business Grew Because of Remote Video and Photography is a Good Social Distancing Activity
• Paul, Chuck, and Jack Reminisce About Camera Stores Long Gone / Altman Camera in Chicago
• Changes in the Age of Camera Store Customers / More Younger People Are Shooting Film Everywhere
• The Prices of Film Probably Won't Come Down / The Less Common Something is the More People Want It
• Are Cameras Good Investments? / Besides Leica, Mike Doesn't Think So, but Paul Disagrees
• Paul Is Selling a Leica M5 on eBay, Someone Should Buy It!
• Do Mike's Reviews Increase the Values of Cameras? / Franka Rolfix II
• Investments Are Questionable, But You Certainly Won't Lose Money on Cameras / They're Not Depreciating Anymore
• Standard Prisms for the Nikon F and F2 Have Great Value Today
• Paul Sells a Leica M5 on the Show / Use a Wein Cell in the Leica M5s, not a Cheap Alkaline Equivalent / Can't Test the Meter Without a Lens
• Michael Gossett Returns to Talk About his ASNCO Speedex He Bought from Paul / The Leica M5 Has a Great Shutter Speed Dial / Canon EF
• Mark Hama is Still Taking on New Work / Andrew Sends His Alpa to Radu
• Should You Keep Lenses With Fungus Away from Other Lenses?
• Theo's Latest Pickups / Franka Rolfix II / Mamiya U / Closter IIa / Mamiya Korvette
• Chuck Has a Huge Kodak Sign / Mike is Looking for a Hanging Kodak Promotional Light
• Someone is Selling a Roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 620 for $155 on eBay / Anthony Shoots IR Film in the Kodak Medalist
• Kodak is Definitely Making Fuji 200 / Kodak Vision3 Cinema Film / 50D is Mike's Favorite / Short Ends of Vision3 at Mono No Aware

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

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Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Mono No Aware - 35mm Film and Short Ends - http://mononoawarefilm.com/film-stock

Jack St. Pierre and Jon Gilchrist - Gene's Camera - https://www.genescamera.com/

Chuck Miller - Alpine Camera - https://www.alpinecamerausa.com/

Mark Faulkner – https://thegashaus.com/

Andrew Smith - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXrAlbnU3gvdRrJ5gAR4mw

Jess Ibarra - Viva La Film - https://www.vivalafilm.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

We're back with another fascinating installment of the world's most popular open source film photography podcast!  For Episode 29, we dig into the vault and bring back a guest from the very first Cocaine and Waffles episode, mister "Sexy" himself, Cheyenne Morrison!

As always, Cheyenne doesn't hold back with his unique blend of colorful commentary on recent pickups like his Nicca III-L, Texer SR, and AGFA Isoly IIIa.  Joining him are returning guests Mark Faulkner, James Allen, and Jess Ibarra and new guest Andrew Smith who discuss with us a number of interesting cameras.  We go deep into the world of early auto focus SLRs, cameras with bottom "trigger" film advances, and shooting very expired film.

As always, many of the topics discussed on the Camerosity Podcast are not planned, and this time we go pretty deep into the world of repairing cameras, and how dire things have become with the number of skilled technicians who are either retiring or dying, leaving no one else to take their place.  Cheyenne makes a very plausible, yet very sad prediction that in 10 years, there will be no one left alive who can CLA a Contax rangefinder.

Yes, we have new talent like Jess Ibarra to share her thoughts on learning camera repair, but there's only so many cameras one person can master, so if you have a camera you'd like to one day get repaired, NOW is the time!

Be sure to mark your calendars for our next episode in which we will talk to a number of current and former camera store employees, who will share their stories of what it's like working in a film camera store now and in the past.  Good camera stores are like camera techs, they are getting harder and harder to find, so it should be an interesting episode hearing these stories.  If you'd like to join and ask some questions, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 30, which will be recorded on Monday, July 11th!

This Week's Episode

• Mike Visits Dan Tamarkin at Tamarkin Camera and then Stops by Central Camera in Chicago
• Paul Sends His Alpa Makro-Switar and Alpa 11e to Radu / Radu Worked for Karl Heitz
• The Contax II and III Aren't Necessarily Better than the Contax I
• Just Because a Camera Has Had a CLA Doesn't Mean It's Perfect
• In 10 Years No One Will Repair Contax Anymore / Very Few People Will Repair Nikonos / 3D Printing O-Rings
• If You Need a CLA, Get It Done NOW! / We Are Losing Technicians Quickly / Radu is The Guy for Alpas, Tessinas, and Berning Robots
• Kilfitt Makro-Kilar and Makro Switar Alpa Lenses
• Komura 35mm f/2.8 Nikon Rangefinder Lens
• Nikon/Contax Digital Adapters / Amedeo Adapters Are the Best, but External Bayonet Nikon Adapters are a LOT Cheaper
• Mike and Cheyenne Both Love the Nicca III-L / Auto Resetting Exposure Counter / Bottom Loading with Leica M3 Style Door
• Sears Sold the Nicca III-L as the Tower 48
• James Gets a Minolta X-600 / Manual Focus with Focus Confirmation Cameras / Mike Novak Is Going to Loan his X-600 To Me
• Nikon Took a Long Time to Embrace Auto Focus / Canon Did it Better / The Nikon 8008 Was the First Good AF Nikon SLR / Paul Hates the N70
• Nikon and Minolta Had Different Model Numbers for Different Markets / Gray Market Cameras / Warranties
• Ricoh and Chinon Auto Focus Bodies and Lenses
• Mike Shoots a Roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 620 Expired in 1948 / Kodak Duo Six-20 / Don't Forget to Replace the Tape!
• AGFA Isoly Was the Basis for the Diana Camera / Texer SR Is a Copy of the Seagull 203 Chinese Camera
• Mike Picks Up a KMZ Droug / Bottom Trigger Wind Cameras / Canon VT Deluxe / Canonet / Ricoh 519M / Super Paxette 35
• Anthony Experiments with 116 and 616 / Zeiss Cocarette and Super Ikontas
• Theo Goes to Another Local Auction / Franka Rolfix II / Closter IIa / Mamiya U
• Anthony and Theo Have Bad Luck with 110 Cameras
• Jess is Working on an Ihagee Exakta Twin TL

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Radu Lesaru - Alpa, Tessina, Robot, and Zeiss Repair - http://www.3rcamera.com/

Andrew Smith - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXrAlbnU3gvdRrJ5gAR4mw

Jess Ibarra - Viva La Film - https://www.vivalafilm.com/

Cheyenne Morrison - https://www.instagram.com/bigshotphotos/

Mark Faulkner – https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

Freshly rescued from our tropical getaway where we started fires with Nikkor lenses, beat away native beasts with Arguses, and swam underwater with our Nikonos, the guys and I have come to the realization that we've spent a lot of time in recent episodes talking about some of the same camera brands.  We thought we would devote our next episode to some of the most underappreciated camera brands.

Of course, this being the Camerosity Podcast, we don't always have control over what we talk about, so while some very underappreciated camera brands do get discussed, we go down several rabbit holes that are just as interesting.  If you want to hear about burglaries and what happens to camera collectors after they die, this is the episode for you!

Joining us on this episode are returning callers, Robert Rotoloni, Ira Cohen, Mark Peterson, Larry Effler, James Allen, David Ortega, Howard Sandler, and Mark Faulkner, and first time callers Joseph Brunjes and Tony Colvin.  As always, the topics we discuss on the show are heavily influenced by our callers and for this episode, a great number of cameras and models are brought up by our callers that a scripted show would likely never cover.

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us next time, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 28, which will be recorded on Monday, June 13th!

This Week's Episode

• Robert Clarifies Why the Nikon F Has a Strange Mirror Lockup / 21mm Lenses
• Yashica f/1.2 Lens with Notched Rear Element / Carl Zeiss Biogon Came First
• Ira Has His Entire Collection Stolen Twice / Built His First Collection with His Father / Anthony Gets His Entire Collection Stolen Too
• Theo Was Burgled Once in London / Store Your Camera Stuff in Diaper Bags / Don't use Fancy Camera Bags when Traveling
• Mike Owes Mark Peterson Some Film, Then Talks About His Basement Again!
• Paul Has an Awesome Darkroom in His Basement
• Ira Shows Off his Wirgin Komet SLR (Predecessor to the Wirgin Edixa) / Alpha and Omega Cameras (First and Last)
• Mike Reviews Ira's Eigenbau Kamera Made in the UK / Biflex / Tessina L Shoots Smaller Images on Regular 35mm
• Bolsey Jubilee Is a Bolsey B2 With German Lens and Shutter and Fancy Top Plate
• Bencini Koroll S and Bencini Comet Cameras are Cool But Strange
• We Don't Talk About Yashica, No, No, Noooo / Yashica Lynx-14 and Ministers are Great / Yashica Electro 35 CC and GL
• Minolta V2 Has a 1/2000 Top Speed / Minolta Used Citizen Shutters to Get Very Fast Shutters / Minolta Uniomat III
• Another Cool Minolta is the Auto Wide / Minolta A-Series Shutters are Installed Backwards
• The Minolta SRT-MC is the Kmart Minolta / 2 Millionth Minolta Maxxum / Maxxum with Crossed X's / Exxon Lawsuit
• Shooting Minolta Cameras with Gloves / Maxxum 7 / Maxxum 650si

• Konica Auto-Reflex and Autorex / The Original Konica F / Konica F-Mount / Konica FS / Koni-Omega Rapid

• Tessina Film / Spring Wound Cameras / Polaroid SLR 680 / Rollei 6008 / Rollei A110
• SLRs with Front and Rear Shutter Releases / Zenit 16
• Rollei 35 vs Minox 35 / Minox GTE / DAG Can CLA Minox 35s
• How to Develop 127 Film / Leicaflex SL2 / Cameras with Weird Locations for Batteries / Ira Hates Asymmetrical Cameras
• Mike Busts Some Paul Myths / Konica L / Paul Makes Deals Even When Mike Was There
• Tony Loves the Mamiya 1000 SLR and the Kowa Six and 66 / Graflex Graphic 35 Jet
• What To Do With Our Collections When We Die

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Joseph Brunjes - https://www.josephbrunjes.com/index

Robert Rotoloni – https://www.facebook.com/Nikon-Historical-Society-193619477350338/

Mark Faulkner – https://thegashaus.com/

Howard Sandler – https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsandler

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 27 Anthony, Paul, Theo and I get our passports ready and board onto a boat for a tropical getaway!  While there, we will be taking a three hour tour to a remote, non-descript island, where us and our friend Gilligan will soak in the sights and take lots of photos in the hope of having some beautiful images when we get back!

Of course, with any trip comes the difficult decision of what gear should we bring?  Is compactness, performance, or ruggedness a deciding factor?  Should you bring in a large format camera to maximize detail on the tropical vistas you aren't likely to see again, or would a compact folder be a better option so that there's less for you to lug around?

Joining us this week is Aiden Dean, back from last episode, who travels with us and brings with him three very interesting selections.  Listen in as everyone talks about their "Tropical Island Cameras" and why we selected them!

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us next time, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 28, which will be recorded on Monday, June 13th!

This Week's Episode

• The Gang Goes on a Three Hour Tour
• The Argus C3 is a Rugged Camera and Effective Blunt Object / Mike Was Coerced to Buy an Argus C3 for $1
• Our Skipper Takes a Mamiya 7 and the 35mm Panoramic Kit
• The Professor Chooses the Olympus Pen F / Pen Lenses Are Great Adapted to Micro 4/3rds / Yoshihisa Maitani Designed the Pen
• Gilligan Is No Dummy and Brings His Nikon F2 To Shoot and Start Fires With!
• Paul Chooses a Nikon F with the FTN Finder / The F2 Has Many Advantages Plus a Much Better Mirror Lock-Up
• Ginger Values a Quality Compact Camera So She Takes the Voigtländer Perkeo II / 13 Exposures Per Roll
• Another Nikon Makes the Cut, the Nikon FM2 is Compact, Reliable, and Performs Well / Nikkor Lenses to Bring / Steve McCurry Shot Afghan Girl with an FM2
• The Kodak Medalist II is Both a Sculpture, a Camera, and Self-Defense Weapon / Differences Between the Medalist I and II
• The Mamiya Universal or Super 23 is the Camera of Choice for Anything Medium Format / Rear Macro Bellows for Closeups
• Gilligan Aims High with the Hasselblad 500 C/M /  The Viewfinder is Like Looking Into a TV / Advantages of Square Format
• Ginger Pulls a Switcheroo from the Nikon F2AS to a Sony a7II Full Frame Mirrorless/ Nikkor 20mm f/4 Lens
• You Can't Be on an Island Without an Underwater Camera So the Skipper Brings the Canon Sureshot A1
• The Nikonos V Ups the Ante for Underwater Cameras / Nikonos Interchangeable Lenses / Nikonos RS SLR
• Gilligan Has the Heaviest Luggage with His Pentax 67 SLR / Asahi Takumar 105mm Lens
• Paul Saves the Best for Last, the Leica M6 / Paul Visits the Wetzlar Factory
• The Final Camera is a DIGICAM! / Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07 / Licensed Schneider, Zeiss, and Leica Lenses
• Theo's Winners and Loses from his Massive Haul from Episode 26 / Super Ikonta / Zeh Goldi / Vitessa L / Superbs / Futura / Lordomat
• Mike is Going to Visit Paul This Weekend / Anthony Ponders Buying a Bessa Rangefinder
• Aiden Doesn't Have Any Questions But He Has a Lot of GAS / Graflex 3x4 and Toyo View Camera

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Aiden Dean - https://www.instagram.com/chefboyar__dean/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 26 we play catch up on a lack of GAS discussion over the past couple of episodes.  Theo, Paul, Anthony, and Mike all have a large number of cameras that they've come across, and not always from the usual sources.  In addition to GAS, we share a story about the Ohio Camera Collector's Society Auction earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio in which bidding got really out of hand and the state of regional camera shows.

Other topics discussed are ways to develop 116/616 film using regular Paterson reels, the best way to store a large camera collection, and Mike's recommendation on a cheap way to shoot wide angle Nikkor rangefinder lenses.

Joining us are returning callers, Robert Rotoloni, Dan Tree, Miles Libak, Jon Gilchrist, Mark Beadle and Wannes Scheipers, and first time callers, Aiden Dean, Alex Dietrich, and all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa, Dean Blumberg who also share in their latest pickups, questions, and general camera collector miscellany.

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us next time, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 27, which will be recorded on Sunday, May 29th!

This Week's Episode

• Paul Proxy Bids at the Ohio Camera Collector's Society Annual Auction
• First Was the Auction Then the Saturday Camera Show / Paul Buys a Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex 35mm TLR and Ihagee Exakta 66
• Paul's Secret Advice to Get Stuff at Camera Shows / Robert Rotoloni Wasted His Time at the Chicago Show Too
• Japanese Sellers Used to Buy Tables at Shows Only to Buy Cameras and Not Sell
• Camera Shows Aren't Being Advertised Correctly / You Can't Get eBay in South Africa, Most Cameras are Already There
• There Needs to Be a Better Way to Promote Camera Shows / Let the Camerosity Podcast Do That For You! / Other Online Auctions Besides eBay
• Mike Buys His Last Camera Ever, a Nikon F2AS / NO ONE IS BUYING DIGICAMS, THEO!!!!
• Paul is Impervious to GAS Until This Week / Nikon SP and Nikon S3 2000 Edition
• Were Black S3 2000s Repainted Chrome Ones? / Some Parts of the S3 2000 Were Outsourced
• Radu Lesaru CLA'd Zeiss-Ikon Contax I
• Theo's Massive Auction Haul
  • Braun Super Paxette
  • Mamiya U Autofocus
  • Minox LX, C, and Yashica Atoron
  • Canon Demi Rapid / AGFA Rapid Cassette Tips / Minolta 24 Rapid
  • Feinwerk-Technik MEC 16 SB
  • Futura 35 RF
  • Zeh Goldi 127
  • A Pair of Leidolf Lordomats
  • Minolta 16 MGS
  • Olympus Pen FT
  • Mike and Anthony Twist Theo's Arm to Buy a Rollei 35
  • Voigtländer Inos II / Two Voigtländer Superb TLRs / Voigtländer Virtus / Voigtländer Vitessa L w/ Ultron
  • Zeiss-Ikon Kolibri / Miles Libak is Shooting Mike's Kolibri
  • Super Ikonta C and Super Ikonta D
• Anthony Shoots Gevaert 616 Film from 1947 / YouTube Hack for Developing 116/616 Using Paterson Tanks
• Zeiss-Ikon Cocarette Luxus
• Nikkor Screw Mount Lenses / The Nikonos II is Usually Found with the 35mm f/2.5 Lens Which is Excellent
• Dan Tree Buys a Rollei 35 S / Everyone Loves the Rollei 35 Except Paul / Underrated Rollei 35 Models / Rollei 35 LED
• Exell Mercury Replacement Batteries / Wayne Fixes His Minolta Hi-Matic / Early AGFA Karats Have the Best Rangefinders
• Lubtiel and Chaika 3 Both in their Original Boxes /  Camera Ephemera / Engraved Social Security Numbers
• Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex Lenses / Ikonta Light Leaks / Leitz Null Series Leica
• What is the Best Way to Store a Large Collection of Cameras?

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Loading 116/616 Film Onto Paterson Reels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9REyP3gLjo

Jon Gilchrist – Packard-Ideal Shutter Company – https://packardshutter.com/ and https://genescamera.com/

Dan Tree – https://www.instagram.com/dantreephoto

Robert Rotoloni – https://www.facebook.com/Nikon-Historical-Society-193619477350338/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 25 we go beyond the world of film and bring to you a whole episode talking about the history of digital cameras.  In order to do that, we called upon a man who can speak to the earliest history of digital photography like no other, Steve Sasson.

In 1975, at the age of only 25 while working for Kodak, Steve created the world's first digital camera.  A crude looking blue and metal box with exposed electronics inside, a lens from a Kodak XL movie camera, and a cassette recorder as it's data storage device, the camera worked, and set the world on a path that leads us to modern smartphones today.

Not to be outdone, Steve is joined by Robert Shanebrook who we have spoken with before as a 35 year employee of Eastman Kodak, Robert worked in the same lab with Steve and shares with us his memories of that time at Kodak and how things progressed from there.

Also, with us is Todd Gustavson, author and curator at the George Eastman Museum, Todd knows Kodak history like no one else, and has access to a whole collection of the earliest digital cameras.

Finally, Daniel Koons is a Kodak collector and early digital camera enthusiast who has meticulously built the world's only replica of Steve's prototype digital camera.  Using high resolution images provided to him by Todd, Daniel was able to recreate the camera with an impressive level of precision and can speak to the inside workings of the camera second only to Steve.

It wouldn't be an open source podcast without some callers, and this time we have returning guests, Mark Faulkner, Mark Peterson, and Jon Gilchrist who ask their own questions and share their own experiences.

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us next time, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 26, which will be recorded on Monday, May 16th!

This Week's Episode

• Steve's Introduction / How He Got Involved / One Man Skunkworks
• The Camera Didn't Work Until it Was Done / No One Knew How to Build It
• It Took 23 Seconds to Store an Image / The Fairchild CCD Was Horrible
• Why Would Anyone Want to Take Photos This Way? / There Was Never Any Paper on the Starship Enterprise
• There Needs to be More Pixels / Kodak Wasn't Ignorant That This Was a Threat to Film
• When Will Digital Be a Viable Form of Photography? / Moore's Law / The Boy Dog Wall
• Portra Was Developed Without Any Constraints from Digital
• What was the Evolution of the Original Concept to First Prototype? / Was a Modem Ever Considered?
• Kodak Never Seriously Considered Still Video Photography (Sony Mavica / Canon Xap Shot)
• Kodak ECAM / Kodak's Patent Wars of the Early 2000s
• Daniel Koons Makes an Exact Replica of Steven's Camera / Please Return to Steve Sasson
• Despite the Potential of Killing Film, Kodak Did More to Advance Digital Photography Than Almost Anybody
• It is Harder Today to Shoot a 20 Year Old Digital Camera Than a 100 Year Old Film Camera
• Kodak Kept Investing in New Film Stocks Into the 2000s Despite the Rise of Digital / After September 2003, Things Started to Change
• Could You Take the Digital Image Off the Prototype and Into a Computer?
• Does the Prototype Still Work? / Does Daniel's Copy Work? / There's a Raspberry Pi in There!
• Todd Gustavson is a Curator at the Eastman Museum / Getting Old Digital Cameras Working / UF RAW
• Digital Camera Collectors / SCSI Cables Are Hard to Find / Underwater Digital Photography
• KingJim DaVinci Thermal Print Camera / Paul and Mark Are Shopping on eBay During This Podcast!
• Paul Gets 10 Boxes of Cameras Today / Daniel's Wish List / The Digicam Craze in Japan
• Kodak Tech Pan / Modern Equivalent to Technidol
• What's Everyone's Favorite Bulk Film? / Don't Limit Yourself to B&W, C41 Processing is Easy Too
• Go See the Collection of Cameras at the George Eastman Museum

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Camerosity Twitter - https://twitter.com/CamerosityPod

Steve Sasson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson

Robert Shanebrook – http://www.makingkodakfilm.com, [email protected]

Daniel Koons (Norman Camera) - https://www.normancamera.com/

Todd Gustavson (George Eastman House) - https://www.eastman.org/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 24 of the Camerosity Podcast, we hit the holiday road and travel to a more European friendly time zone to allow more of our British, German, and Belgium listeners to join us!

Along with Anthony, Theo, Paul, and I, first time callers Calum Tilson, John-Michael Mendizza, and Wayne Scheipers joined returning callers Alan Duncan, Nick Lyle, Mark Faulkner, Bill Smith, Larry Effler, and James Allen to discuss a wide variety of topics from Instax to LOMO to Minolta SRTs.  Camerosity GAS struck John-Michael and he bought a Rollei 35, and Calum gets a ton of great tips on camera repair.

Amazingly, we go this entire episode without once mentioning Nikon, Zeiss, Leica, King Regulas, or panoramic cameras (no wait a minute, we did).

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 25, which will be recorded on Monday, May 2nd!

This Week's Episode

• The Olympus OM-101 is the Worst 35mm SLR Ever Made
• The LOMO SuperSampler is Like an Even Shittier NIMSLO 3D
• The Spinner is a 360 Panoramic Camera / LOMO LCA 120 / Nick's Panoramic Stitching Device / What Beer is Wayne Drinking?
• The FED 5C Isn't Quite as Good as the FED 2 / FED Mikron and FED 50
• Can you Replace or Re-Energize a Selenium Exposure Meter? / Reveni Labs Spot Meter
• Lomography 4x5 Back for Instax Wide Film / Instax Film Has Terrible Latitude
• Reddit Thread for Re-Ionizing Selenium Cells
• NONS Instax SLR / Mamiya Press Polaroid Camera / Why Won't Fuji Release More Capable Instax Cameras?
• Ensign Selfix 820 Special / Chroma 679 Uses Mamiya Lenses and Backs
• Using Laser Measuring Devices for Distance
• DeMaria-Lapierre Telka III / Royer Teleroy / Horseman 970
• Minimata Movie, W. Eugene Smith Shoots a Minolta SRT-101 / Tips on Buying SRT-101s
• Chroma Snapshot Technical Camera
• Canon Sure Shot Ace Has a Waist Level Viewfinder / Olympus XA Series
• Recommended Tools for Repairs: Soldering Mat, Good Precision Screwdrivers, Magnified Headband Loupe, Good Spanner, Rubber Lens Grippy Tool
• Minolta Dynax 7 Needs a 3D Printed Aperture Ring / 3D Printing Replacement Parts
• What Kind of Resources Are There to Learn Repairing Cameras? / Chris Sherlock's YouTube Channel / Learn Camera Repair Website / Ask The Experts While They're Still Alive
• We Made John-Michael Buy a Rollei 35

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

LOMO Spinner - https://shop.lomography.com/us/spinner-360

Selenium Cell Repair - https://ian-partridge.com/cells.html

Re-Ionizing Selenium Cells - https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/comments/rrmxtb/how_to_ionize_a_selenium_meter_cell_recipe/

Alan Duncan - https://austerityphoto.co.uk/

John-Michael Mendizza - https://www.jmm-photos.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/jmmendizza/

Calum Tilson - https://www.instagram.com/calum.tilson/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Nick Lyle - http://homemadecamera.com/

Bill Smith - https://funwithcameras.blogspot.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 23 of the Camerosity Podcast, we finally get a chance to talk to Nafis Azad about his work with large format Polaroids at the 20x24studio in New York.  If you have a hard time picturing what a two foot tall instant photograph looks like, you're not alone.  Listen in on the history of the 20x24 Polaroid, how it works, and other stories.

Not to be outdone, Anthony, Paul, Theo, and Mike, along with returning guests Mark Faulkner, Howard Sandler, Jess Ibarra, James Allen, and Dan Tree talk about everyone's favorite Voigtländers, the strangest looking TLRs, and why Soviet cameras often need service, even when new.  Paul shares us with how knowledge of the f/stop system can help you when ordering a pizza, and Mike shares another PSA recommending everyone insure their cameras!

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 24, which at this time, we haven't yet decided on, so stay tuned!

This Week's Episode

• Nafis Azad and the 20" x 24" Polaroid Camera / 20x24studio in New York
• How Does Large Polaroid Film Work? / Polaroid 44x80 Room Camera
• Elsa Dorfman's Portraits / Who Was Edwin Land?
• How Much 20x24 Film Is Still Left and How is it Stored?
• Chuck Close's Close-Ups / What Lenses are Used?
• Calculating Exposure and Latitude of Large Format Polaroid Film
• Maintaining the 20x24 Cameras / Do They Ever Break? / Storing Old Polaroid Photos
• Voigtländer Vitessa Rangefinders / Voigtländer Zoomar Lenses
• Jess Ibarra Returns Gets More Testing Stuff / Voigtländer Superb
• Sugiyama's Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras / McKeown's Guides / Jason Schneider's Camera Collecting Books
• Coolest Looking TLRs, Voigtländer Superb, ANSCO Automatic Reflex 3.5, Fujicaflex, Flexarets, Welta Perfekta and Superfekta
• Dan Tree Visits the Leica Store in San Francisco and Gets a Water Bottle / The Leica MP / Olympus XA4
• The Pentax S1a has a Secret Shutter Speed / Argus 21 Markfinder / Voigtländer Vito II / Voigtländer BR / Voigtländer Vitomatic
• The Rollei 35 is Worth it / Petri Color 35 / Paul's 8 Point Rollei 35 Rating System
• Ricoh Hi-Color 35 / Ricoh Put Light Seals Everywhere
• Mark Beadle Buys an Arax 88CM / Ukrainian Cameras / How Do People Feel About Russian Cameras Right Now?
• The Plaubel Makina has Strange f/Stops / US Stop System / The f/stop System Helps When Ordering Pizza!
• Mark Faulkner's Quick Update on His 3D Printed Spool Extenders / Chris Paulin is the Camerosity Podcast Superfan
• Were Soviet Cameras Made Rough on Purpose so that they Could Be Fine Tuned Later?
• Film Spacing Problems are not Unique to Soviet Cameras, Rolleiflexes Can Have Them Too
• Buy a Demo Model Because You Can Guarantee It Works
• Anthony's E6 Home Development Adventures / New Kodak Gold 200 in 120 / New Cinestill 400D Film
• How Does Everyone Keep Track of their Camera Collection? / Insure Your Collection!!!

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Nafis Azad - https://www.nafisazad.com/ and https://20x24studio.com/

Dan Tree - https://www.instagram.com/dantreephoto

Jess Ibarra - Viva La Film – https://www.vivalafilm.com/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Mark Beadle - https://www.instagram.com/mark_beadle90/

Howard Sandler – https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsandler

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 22 of the Camerosity Podcast, we welcome special guest Dan Tamarkin of Tamatkin Camera in Chicago, Illinois to regale us with many tales of his life selling Leicas.  Originally started in 1971 by his father Stan, Tamarkin Camera has been one of the most trusted Leica dealers in the country over the past 51 years, so there is little that Dan doesn't know or hasn't seen.

Listen in as Anthony, Paul, Theo and Mike, along with regular guests, Jon Gilchrist, Robert Rotoloni, Mark Faulkner, Nafis Azad, and Mark Peterson join first time callers Andre Domingues and Dan Tree who ask questions and chat about Leica cameras, the company's rich history and much more.  You may have never thought you needed a hot pink Hello Kitty Leica M3 before, but you will after hearing this episode!  Listen in to hear all the other nonsense we discuss!

Every episode, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you’d like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 23, which we will record on a special night, Sunday, April 3rd at 8pm CDT (UTC -5), 9pm EDT (UTC -4).

Audio Warning: Once again, I had problems with my own audio this episode.  All of the other guests are fine, but there was an issue with my levels that I did the best I could to correct.  The good news is, I figured out why this keeps happening so I should be able to prevent it for future episodes.

This Week's Episode

• Introducing Dan Tamarkin / Reminiscing About Camera Shop Owners and Shutterbug Magazine
• Repairing Leicas / Finding People to Do It / When Did Patina Become Desirable? / Lenny Kravitz Leicas
• Customizing Your Cameras / Hello Kitty Leicas / Repainted Kodak Brownie Hawkeyes and Minolta SRTs / Provenance
• Dan's Screw Mount and M-series Recommendations / Crazy Ways People Get Leicas
• Special Edition Commemorative Leicas / Leitz Always Gave People What They Want / Brief Leica History
• Earlier Leicas Could be Retrofitted with Later Features at the Factory
• Why Do Leicas Sometimes Expose Images Through the Sprockets on One Side? / Metal Cassettes vs Modern Cassettes
• Dan Buys Jon's Rare Viewfinder / 35mm Steel Rimmed Summilux Lens and Goggles
• SBOOI 50mm Viewfinders / Auxiliary Viewfinders
• Leica Copies Are Good on a Budget / The Right Camera is the One You Have
• Leicaflex SLRs Are So Smooth / Beware of the Leica R4...But the Leica R6.2 is Awesome
• Don't Shine Flashlights Through Your Lenses / Lens Bubbles are OK
• Nippon Kogaku Screw Mount Lenses Are Really Good
• Left Eye Shooters / Rangefinders are Easier to Focus in Low Light if Your Vision Sucks
• What about Digital Leicas? / Why Leica Doesn't Make More Lenses
• Leica D-Lux Compact Digitals / Everyone Needs a Hot Pink Hello Kitty Holga
• Dan and Paul's Favorite Leica Code Word

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Dan Tamarkin - http://www.tamarkin.com/

Andre Domingues - https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/3mf4p-5fc4e/Negative-Positives-Film-Photography-Podcast

Dan Tree - https://www.instagram.com/dantreephoto

Nafis Azad - https://www.nafisazad.com/ and https://20x24studio.com/

Jon Gilchrist - Packard-Ideal Shutter Company - https://packardshutter.com/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on episode 21 of the Camerosity Podcast you better hide your credit cards and deactivate your eBay accounts as there is a whole lot of GAS coming your way!  Without a special guest, Mike, Theo, Paul, and Anthony were free to discuss all their recent pickups, with everything from Niccas to Noblexes.

Joining us were returning callers Mark Faulkner, Jon Gilchrist, Miles Libak, and first time callers Nafis Azad, James Allen, and David Ortega who share with us their Wideluxes, Gallus Derluxes, Miranda Sensorexes, and Kiev rangefinders.  

In addition to GAS, we cover controversial topics such as whether it's better to advance your film immediately after each shot or before the next one, what the best flatbed scanning software is, and whether or not Paterson or Stainless reels are everyone's favorite.  Of course there's a lot more, including one of the rarest cameras ever talked about on a Camerosity episode, so be sure to listen through to the end to find out what that is!

In two weeks, we will record episode 22 and will welcome special guest, "America's Premier Leica Specialist", Dan Tamarkin from Tamarkin Camera in Chicago, Illinois.  Dan is a huge fan of the show and will be bringing with him a wealth of knowledge about Leica rangefinders and SLRs, so if that's something that you'd be interested in, be sure to join us at 7pm CDT (UTC -5), 8pm EDT (UTC -4) on Monday, March 21st. 

(Note that Daylight Savings Time will start on March 13 in the United States, so the time may be different for you in other parts of the world.)

This Week's Episode

• Show and Tell: Theo's Plaubel Makina IIS
• Anthony Gets an Olympus XA4 and his Crazy eBay Story
• King Regula and the History of King
• Nafis Has a Widelux / Taking Cameras Apart Isn't the Same As Putting Them Back Together
• Using Lasers with Rangefinders / Golf Distance Rangefinders / Watameters / Kodak Field Rangefinder
• Mark's Tower 24 (Asahiflex IIb)
• Noblex 135 S Panoramic Camera in Original Box / John Noble / KW
• Theo's Valentine's Nicca IIIS / Tower 45 (Nicca Type-5)
• The Story of Why Yashica Bought Nicca / Yashica Pentamatic
• Miranda Sensorex and the 8-Element f/1.4 Soligor
• Contaxes and Kievs / Ukrainian Cameras / FED 2
• Frame Spacing on Kiev Rangefinders / Cameras Without Sprockets
• Advancing the Film Right After Each Shot, or Right Before the Next Shot: A Debate
• Vuescan vs Silverfast vs Epson Scan: A Debate
• Paul's New Nikkor Lenses - 200-600 f/9.5, 55 f/1.2, and 35 f/2.8 PC / Intrepid 8x10 / Fuji GS645
• Gallus Derlux / Foth Derby / Jon Bought 63 Boxes of Cameras / Arguses Exaktas and a Great Wall
• Mike Accidentally Buys an Exakta with a Metered Prism and a Biotar and it Works Perfectly
• Developing on Paterson Reels vs Stainless Reels: Yet Another Debate
• 3D Printed Custom Paterson Shafts for Developing 116, 122, and 130 Roll Film
• Fuji Fujicaflex TLR - One of the Prettiest TLRs Ever / What's Coming This Year on mikeeckman.com
• MR9/PX625 Battery Voltage Adapters from 1.5v to 1.35v / CRIS Adapters
• Nafis has one of Six 20x24 Polaroid Cameras in the World / 20x24studio.com

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Nafis Azad - https://www.nafisazad.com/ and https://20x24studio.com/

James Allen - https://www.lomography.com/homes/wv_cactus

Jon Gilchrist - Packard-Ideal Shutter Company - https://packardshutter.com/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/ and https://www.facebook.com/VoltaGNV/

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we've reached the 20th episode of the show!  For something that was started completely on a whim, I am amazed at the support and enthusiasm from all of our listeners!  We are officially the fastest growing open source film photography podcast in the world!!!  Anthony, Paul, Theo and myself all really appreciate the positive feedback from you all, so thank you very much!

On this episode, we cover the process of starting a community darkroom with alternative process photographer, Cindy Steiler, some of our tips and tricks for the home developer, we jump very deep into some really obscure subminiature and our favorite 110 cameras, plus a whole lot of other Camerosity related discussion.  Along with Cindy and the regular hosts, we have returning guests Robert Rotoloni, Dwight Anderson, Larry Effler, Michael Kaplan, Jon Gilchrist, Jess Ibarra, and Bill Smith.  Our first time guests are Christopher Paulin, Nick Marshall, and from the Embrace the Grain Podcast, Sherry Christensen.

Every week, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 21, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, March 7th.

This Week's Episode

• Everyone Joins the Call / Dwight Anderson has a Camerosity Etsy Store
• Cindy Steiler's Community Darkroom in Gainesville
• People Will Always Pour Fixer into the Developer / Donating Supplies and Equipment
• Cyanotypes and Alternative Processes / Printing on Fabric
• How Do You Charge For the Darkroom? / Pay As You Go? / Subscriptions?
• Tips for Developing Film Yourself at Home / YOU CAN DO IT!!!
• Developing Color Film is Not Harder than Black and White / There's Only One Way To Do It
• Does Anyone Use the Kickstarter Lab Box? / 110 and APS Paterson Reels
• Only Have One Thermometer or Five
• If You're a Beginner, Use HC-110 and Don't Look at the Massive Dev Chart
• Paterson vs Stainless Reels
• Anthony Bought a Nikkormat FT3 Because Jess Told Him To / Nikkor 105mm f/2.5
• Mike Shits on the Braun Paxette Then Regrets It
• Paul's Auto-Nikkor 200-600 f/9.5 Monster Lens / Shipping to Australia
• The Subminiature and 110 Camera Part of the Show
  • Yashica Atoron Has a Funny Shutter Sound
• Whoops, Not a Subminiature - Canon AE-1 Squeaks
  • Goerz Minicord
  • Galileo Gami
  • Asanuma Acmel
  • Universal Minute 16
  • Bolsey 8
  • Steky 3A
  • Kodak Trimlite 48
  • Canon 110ED / Kodak K-Batteries
  • Kodak VR K10, K12, and K14 and It's Lithium Battery
  • Voigtländer Vitoret 110
• 110 and 126 Film Doesn't Have a Pressure Plate / Rollei SL26 Instamatic SLR
• Camera Swap Meets and Shows Are Back / What Can People Expect When Going to These Shows?
• Always Look in the Boxes Under the Table at Camera Shows
• Upcoming Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Orlando Shows
• The Canon T80 is Pretty Fantastic / Carl Zeiss Werramatic / Voigtländer Superb TLR

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact us with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Cindy Steiler - https://cindysteiler.com/home.html

Sherry Christensen - https://embracethegrain.com/

Dwight Anderson - http://cameravignette.com/ and https://www.etsy.com/shop/Camerosity

Jon Gilchrist - Packard-Ideal Shutter Company - https://packardshutter.com/

Robert Rotoloni - https://www.facebook.com/Nikon-Historical-Society-193619477350338/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week, we have a very special episode of the Camerosity Podcast.  Anthony, Paul, Theo, and myself sit down with director Dean Ginsburg and producer James Carr of the documentary film, REVIVAL: The Film to Bring Back Film.

Dean and James are both passionate about all things film, the history, shooting, developing, printing, the gear, and after witnessing a similar level of enthusiasm from many others, young and old, all over the world, they started out on a quest to make a documentary film that explores what exactly it is about film photography that has captivated so many people.

Listen in as the filmmakers share their motivation and rationale behind why making this documentary is important to them, and also soliciting stories and motivations from us the Camerosity crew.  Also joining the discussion were Hong Lee and Matt Jones who got to share their personal stories and ask the filmmakers their questions.

This special 1 hour chat is a fascinating glimpse into the behind the scenes of a crowdfunded film project.  Also, check out their Kickstarter page where depending on how much you're willing to back, you might be able to earn an appearance in the film!

Every week, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 20, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, February 21st.

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

REVIVAL: The Film to Bring Back Film Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revivaldocumentary/revival-the-film-to-bring-back-film

Dean Ginsburg - https://www.facebook.com/dean.ginsburg.16

James Carr - https://www.facebook.com/james.carr.9803

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week on Episode 19 of the Camerosity Podcast where we welcome from Sydney, Australia, camera technician, photographer, artist, and owner of Viva la Film, Jess Ibarra.  Jess is self taught and has a background in electrical engineering and is here to answer any of your camera repair or any other film photography questions.

Jess is joined by your regular hosts, Anthony, Theo, Paul, and I, along with returning callers Mario Piper, Howard Sandler, Vladislav Kern, Mark Faulkner, and first time callers Adam Paul, and Jon Gilchrist.  As always, we don't always stay on topic, so while Jess spends a lot of time sharing her knowledge, throughout the show we find ourselves in the weeds talking about Soviet/German Cameras, Japanese Hit Cameras, APS film, and many other things.

Every week, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 21, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, February 21st.

This Week's Episode

• Jess's Introduction / Young People Like Point and Shoots
• How Much Harder is it to Repair an Electronic Shutter SLR vs a Mechanical SLR? / The FM3A is the Pinnacle of 35mm SLRs
• Plastics Become Frail, Solder Develops Whiskers, and Teeth Fall Off
• 3D Printing and CNC Machines May Come to the Rescue / Jess Wants to Build Her Own Camera From Scratch
• The Canon AE-1 Has a Lot of Problems / Many Plastics Have Reached Their End of Life
• Look for Film Chips In Cameras Before Shooting Them
• How Do You Know Where to Start When Opening a Camera?
• Where Do You Source Replacement Parts? / What Do You Charge to Diagnose a Camera?
• The Canon FTb and Nikkormats Are Great
• Vlad Kern's House is Sinking / Why Jess Doesn't Fix Soviet Cameras / The Zorki 4 is Great
• Leaf Shutter SLRs / Drops of Lighter Fluid are Sometimes OK, but WD40 is the Devil!
• Telescope Helicoid Grease is Great for Lubricating Cameras
• The Kowa Komaflex-S is Very Fragile But Worth It
• Everyone's Favorite Lenses, Biotars, Makro-Kilars, Helios, Takumars, Topcor REs, and Vivtars?!
• Mike Loves Soviet Triplets / Smenas and Voskhods / Flipping Helios Front Elements
• Adam's Frankencamera, Kodak 122 Folder with 90mm Wide Angle Lens for 5.5" Panoramic Images
• Expired Films From Gevaert and AGFA / How Do You Know the Timings for Developing Old Films? / Cold Stand Developing
• Making 17.5mm Film for Japanese Hit Type Cameras / 120 Film and Backing Paper Are Different Sizes
• Inspiring Jess's GAS / Camerosity GAS Made Mark Buy a Canon Pellix / Developing Found Film
• Everyone's New Stuff - Debrie Sept French Camera, Gelto III, TSVVS Prototypes, Topcon RE Super, Ricoh 500, AGFA Ambi Silette, Univex AF, Theo's Valentine's Day Camera, Braun Paxette IIM
• The Differences Between Nikkormats, FTN, FT2, FT3, and EL / Silver Oxide Batteries
• Mike Goes Down the APS Rabbit Hole and Blames Jon
• You Can Use the Remnant Strip From Cutting 120 down to 127, in a Hit Camera

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Jess Ibarra - Viva La Film - https://www.vivalafilm.com/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Jon Gilchrist - Packard-Ideal Shutter Company - https://packardshutter.com/

Vladislav Kern - https://www.instagram.com/ussrphoto/

Mario Piper - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gen-x-photography/id1494585131

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week on Episode 18 of the Camerosity Podcast, we welcome collector, historian, and author Peter Kitchingman to the show.  Peter is well known through the collector community because of his knowledge with Canon rangefinders and his book, "Canon M39 Rangefinder Lenses 1939-71 - A Collector's Guide".

Peter has been collecting Canon cameras for nearly 30 years and has documented hundreds of different lenses, accessories and owns one of the largest private collections of Canon rangefinders, including three of the rarest models ever made.

He is joined by your regular hosts, Anthony, Theo, Paul, and I, along with returning callers Robert Rotoloni, Michael Westcott Loder, Mark Faulkner, Mark Peterson, and first time callers Jess Lantz, Dwight Anderson, and David Ortega.  If you only have a passing interest in Canon rangefinders, this is a terrific episode to get your Canon GAS going, and of course we also manage to find ways to talk about other cameras too!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 19, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, February 7th.

This Week's Episode

• Peter's Introduction
• What is a Good First Canon Rangefinder? / Don't Screw LTM Lenses into the Canon J Mount
• Where Did Canon Originally Get It's Optical Glass From?
• Canon Imported Schott Glass from Germany on Trains and Submarines
• Canon's Spinning Prism / Anthony's Thoughts on the Canon IV Sb
• Canon's Spring Loaded Take Up Spool / Canon 50mm f/1.8 Put Canon on the Map
• Are Serenar Lenses Different from Canon Lenses?
• Why Did Canon Use a Sonnar Formula for the 35mm f/1.5?
• Did Canon Accessorize to Help Themselves Be Successful?
• Why are Canon Rangefinders More Popular than Nikon Rangefinders Today?
• Canon Did Well with the Military Post Exchange / EP Canons / Most Common EPs
• Did Canon or Nikon Make any Rare Earth/Thorium/Lanthanum Radioactive Lenses?
• When Did Canon Stop Using Schott Glass?
• Nikkor 50mn f/1.1 and the Canon f/0.95 Dream Lens / Canon 7
• Did Canon Benefit from Out of Work Nippon Kogaku Workers After the War?
• The Japanese Camera Industry in the Mid 1950s Was Like the Wild West
• Taron and Petri Made New Models Every Six Months
• Robert Visits Koichi Sugiyama / Cadillac Sevilles and Super Mario Bros.
• Canon Made a Subminiature Prototype But Never Produced It
• Dwight Anderson Picks Up a Canon 7SZ for $7
• Why Did Canon Have So Many Models?
• Peter Has a Canon II AF and a Canon 1950 / Who Was Skinner?
• Youxin Ye and Pro Camera in the US for All Your Canon Repair Needs
• Why Do Some Cameras Have Metal Curtains? / Crinkled Canon P Shutter / Canon Pellix
• Why Are Rangefinder Lenses Smaller Than SLR Lenses?
• Canon Made an Exakta Mount Lens for Mamiya
• Wide Angle Contax Lenses on Nikon Bodies
• Theo and Peter Talk About Australian Cameras
• Peter Dechert's 3 Rarest Canon Rangefinders / Remembering Dechert
• The Next Generation of Film Camera Users and Collectors / Samoca 35

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

If you would like to order Peter Kitchingman's book, email him at [email protected].

Canon Historical Society - https://www.facebook.com/groups/443468112473918/

Robert Rotoloni - http://www.nikonhistoricalsociety.com/p/rotoloni-book.htm

Wes Loder - http://wesloderandnikon.blogspot.com/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

It's an all new year and an all new episode of the Camerosity Podcast!  We're back at our regular time for some call in camera discussion!

For episode 17, Theo, Paul, Anthony, and I were joined by returning callers Dan Hausman, Hong Lee, Mark Faulkner, Mark Peterson, and Miles Libak where we posed the question, "What are the worst cameras you've ever used that have the best lenses?"  It proved to be a worthwhile discussion as it spawned a lot of strong opinions, and some controversy!  Definitely check it out and maybe next time, you can tell us which cameras you don't like...or something completely different!

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 18, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, January 24th.

This Week's Episode

• Paul's Worst Camera Best Lens - Zenit SLR with M39 Helios
• M39 Flange Distance on SLRs vs Rangefinders / Chinese Great Wall DF-3
• Anthony's Worst Camera Best Lens - Kodak Chevron
• The Kodak Medalist and 1930s Kodak Prototypes
• You Couldn't Get Cameras from Germany After WWII / Peter Kardon's Leica Copy
• Theo's Worst Camera Best Lens - KW Praktiflex with M40 Zeiss Biotar / Adapting M40 Lenses
• Mike's Worst Camera Best Lens - Canon AF35ML / Early Auto Focus Technology / Polaroid Sonar
• Hong's New Contax IIa / Only Two Kinds of Contaxes, Ones That Don't Work and Ones that Have been Repaired
• Mark Hansen Repairs Contaxes in the US
• Dan's Worst Camera Best Lens - Zeiss Contarex Bullseye SLR
• Mike's Gone 127 Crazy / Foth Derby / Zeiss-Ikon Kolibri / Tokyo Kogaku Primo Jr.
• Mark's Worst Camera Best Lens - Rollei XF35/Voigtländer VF135 and the Kodak Medalist
• Yashica 44 is Easy to Adapt to 35mm
• Kowa Komaflexes are Very Fragile / Jon Gilchrist of Packard Shutter Company Can Repair Them
• Cameras You Didn't Like But Others Do / Hasselblads / Rolleiflexes / Canonet Rangefinders / Yashica Lynx-14
• The Minolta Autocord and Ricoh Diacord Have Better Ergonomics than Rolleis
• The Polaroid SX-70 Was Way Better with the Original Polaroid Film
• Polaroid Transfers and Polaroid SX70 Film Hacking / NONS Instax Camera
• Miles Libak Joins and Hates the Canonet / Anthony Is Ho-Hum About the Canonflex
• The One That Got Away - Super Ikonta 616 Camera / Irwin Super Tri-Reflex
• Mark P Bought a Nikonos II / Nikonos Under and Above Water Lenses
• Dan Bought a 153mm Kodak Ektra Telephoto and a 190mm Zeiss Ektra TV Ektanon Lens
• Mark Bought a Peerflekta TLR

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Dan Hausman - http://historiccamera.com/club/occs/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Anthony Rue – https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

We're back with another episode of the Camerosity Podcast, but unlike other episodes, Episode 16 is our first ever European special in which we record at a different time to be more Europe-friendly, to give people in that region a chance to call in.

Joined by first time callers, Alan Duncan, Peggy Marsh, Dominik Samol, George Griffin, and Warner Grandfield, and returning callers Bill Smith, Skip Williams, Malcolm Myers, and Miles Libak, Paul, Theo and I covered a wide range of topics, from the Purma Special, how to roll your own 127 film, the Berning Robot, why pentaprisms degrade, and a whole discussion on shutter speed dial designs.

As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 17, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, January 10th.

This Week's Episode

• cameragocamera is not the same as gocamerago
• Canon Experiments with the Pellix and Canon EX After the Failure of the Canonflex
• Canon EF, Leica M5 and Other Cameras with Large Shutter Speed Dials That Overlap
• Fujicarex II SLR has Back Wheel Focus and Aperture Control
• Olympus OM SLRs and Nikkormat Shutter Speed Rings Around the Lens Mount
• Theo Buys a Topcon RE Super from Warner / Topcor 58mm f/1.4 Lens
• Skip Can't Decide Between the Nikon F, F2, or F3 / We Pick the FM2
• Alan Hates the Canon EF-M / Manual Focus on Auto Focus Bodies / Nikon F70 and N70
• The Canon DL-9000 and Other Trashcam/Scameras
• Mike's Worst Camera of All Time is the Konica AiBORG
• The Noblex 135U / Panolux Attachment
• Domink's Robot IIa with Tele-Finder 30-150mm / Paul Sold Anthony a Robot Royal 36
• Robot Lenses and the Robot Stars
• Other 24mm Square Format Cameras, Zeiss Tenax II, Photavit, and early Altix Cameras
• George Has Been Using his Olympus OM10 for 38 Years / OM10s Are Good for Their Prisms
• Why Do Pentaprisms Degrade? / Why Was Foam Used?
• More Talk About the Olympus OM-10
• Who Has Shot a Purma Special?
• How to Shoot 127 Cameras Today / Film Splicers / Bulk 46mm Film
• Skip Get's "Making Kodak Film" by Robert Shanebrook for Christmas
• Peggy's New Canonet / Canonet 19
• Bill's Black Topcon RE2
• Paul's Favorite Camera Store in Leeds
• What Did Everyone Get for Christmas?

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Peggy Marsh - https://cameragocamera.com/

Alan Duncan - https://austerityphoto.co.uk/

Bill Smith - https://funwithcameras.blogspot.com/

George Griffin - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flaneur-on-the-streets/id1397646661

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

After a week off, Anthony, Theo, Paul, and Mike return with Episode 15 with more open source camera nonsense.  This time we are joined by Nikon collector and historian, Robert Rotoloni, Bill Smith from the Classic Camera Revival Podcast, Miles Lybak, David Goldberg, Howard Sandler, and first time caller, Mark Peterson.

In this episode we discuss everything from press cameras like the Koni Rapid Omega to Nikon Series E lenses, M42 SLR recommendations, Nikonos and other underwater photography, and a story about when National Geographic got rid of all their Nikon Fs and switched to the Olympus OM-1.

Our next episode will be recorded on Monday, December 27th at a different time, with the hope of including some UK and European listeners.  The show will be recorded at 1PM Central Time, 2PM Eastern Time, and 7PM London Time.  If you are across the pond and have wanted to join the show, but didn't want to make up in the middle of the night, here's your chance to jump in and influence the discussion!

This Week's Episode

• Camera Shipping Nightmares / Sometimes Cameras Are Shipped with Too Much Padding
• Nippon Kogaku Made Viewfinders for Leicas and Everyone Else
• Why Do Nikon Lenses Usually Hold Up So Well?
• The Koni-Rapid Omega, Graflex XL, and Mamiya Super 23
• Howard Wants Mike to Review the Koni Omegaflex
• Nikkor Lenses Got Lighter in the 80s / You Can Drop 60s Nikkors on the Floor
• What Was Different About the Series E Nikkor Lenses?
• Joe DiMaggio - Not the Baseball Player
• NYC Camera Stores - Camera Barn, Camera Row, Olden's, Minicam, Garden Camera, Wall St, 47th St, Spiratone, Willoughby's, Ken Hansen, and more
• Howard Loves Burlington Camera in Canada
• What Was Different About Black Nikon S2 Shutters? / Nikon Rangefinder Motor Driven Cameras
• Robert and Paul Remember Rod Stines and Peter Lownds
• Anthony Shoots Manatees with His Nikonos II
• How Did the La Spirotechnique Calypso-Phot Become the Nikonos?
• Nikon Marine Housing for the Nikon Rangefinder / Nikon F4 Underwater / Rolleimarin
• Mark Peterson's New Pentax Spotmatic II / Recommended Asahi Takumar Lenses
• Other Good M42 Mount SLRs (But Not the Zenit 16) / Praktica / Yashica / Fujica / Chinon
• Corfield Interplan / Pontiac Lynx / Nikkor M39 Lenses
• The KW Praktina Inspired Much of the Nikon F / Charles and John Noble / Soviet Gulags / Noblex Panoramic Camera
• When UPI and National Geographic Sold Their Nikon Fs for the Olympus OM-1
• The Nikon F has a 100% Viewfinder and a Mirror that Locks Down Every Single Time / The F2 Mirror Does Not Lock Down
• The Nikon F2 Improved A Lot About the Nikon F / Mike Likes the F2 Shutter Release Better
• Robert and Paul Reminisces About Shooting the Nikon F
• Paul Gives Mark Peterson Dan Arnold's Olympus OM-1
• Santa Uses Kangaroos in Australia
• Episode 16 Will Be Our European Special Recorded Dec 27 at 7pm London Time
• Be Sure to Join the Camerosity Facebook Page, Follow us at Instagram

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Robert Rotoloni - http://www.nikonhistoricalsociety.com/p/rotoloni-book.html

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Camerosity can also be heard on the following services:

Google - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2NhbWVyb3NpdHkvZmVlZC54bWw

Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/camerosity/id1583252688

We're back with episode 14 of the Camerosity Podcast.  This week we threw caution into the wind and recorded a show without any idea of what we were going to talk about and letting fate decide for us.  Apparently, fate wanted to talk about vintage video and stereo cameras!

Joined by our first ever European listener, Malcolm Myers, former Camera Barn manager David Goldberg, former TV/News photographer Larry Effler, and returning listeners Miles Libak and Mark Faulkner, we cover a wide variety of topics.

After this episode, we are switching to an episode every other week, so we will be off next week returning the week after that.  We'd love it if you could join us for Episode 15 which we will record on Monday, December 13th, so look for the join link around that time.

This Week's Episode

• How Paul Got Started Buying and Selling Cameras / Contax T / Foth Derby
• Tips in Shooting Scale/Zone/Estimate Focus / Olympus XA vs XA2 / Olympus Trip 35
• What Was It Like in Camera Stores When The Digital Revolution Started?
• Videographers Saw the Electronic Revolution Before Still Photographers Did
• NTSC vs PAL
• Digital Still Video Cameras / Canon Xap Shot / Sony Mavica
• Digital Title Slides on Ektachrome
• RCA Video Discs / CED / Selectavision / The Analog Video Format on Vinyl Records
• Kodak Retina IIa / Topcon Unirex / UV Mount Lenses / Wink Mirror S / Topcon IC-1
• Stereo Realist / David White Company / Paul Well / Contura Stereo Camera / Sawyer's View-Master Stereo Cameras
• Searching for Stereo Images and Vintage Film on eBay Gets You a Lot of Porn
• Miles Bought a Contax IIIa After Listening to Episode 13
• Many Soviet Contax Mount Lenses are Just as Good as Zeiss Contax Lenses
• Canon VT Deluxe / Bottom Film Advance Cameras / Leicavit / Ricoh 500/519 / Canonet 19
• Mike Gets a Bell & Howell Dial 35 Kit as a Gift From a Site Reader
• Most Clockwork Wind-up Cameras Need Film in Them to Work
• You Can Fire a Magic Cube Flash with a Pencil / Paul's Microflash Story
• Nikon SB-20 Flash Has a Built in Diffuser
• Older Hot Shoe Flashes Might Damage Newer Film and Digital Cameras / Minolta Has a Different Hot Shoe
• Nikon EM Was Marketed as the Camera for Ladies / That Blue Button on the EM
• Nikon FA, FG, and F3 Will Not Meter Until You Reach Exposure 1 / RTFM
• Camera Stores Needed to Make Profits / Selling High Margin Camera Brands like Ricoh, Mamiya, and Chinon
• Refurbished / Gray Market Cameras / Extended Warranties
• Canon VT Deluxe Part II / Canon's Rotating Prism
• Nikkor non-Ai Lenses Converted to Ai / Nikkor 85mm f/1.8
• Join Us in the new Camerosity Facebook Group

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Camerosity can also be heard on the following services:

Google - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2NhbWVyb3NpdHkvZmVlZC54bWw

Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/camerosity/id1583252688

This week's episode of the Camerosity Podcast is one for the ages.  Michael Wescott Loder, Nikon historian and author of "The Nikon Camera in America 1946-1953", joins us to discuss a huge number of topics regarding Nikon's history along with the Zeiss-Ikon Tenax II and a huge number of other cameras that he is interested in.  We go over everything from Nippon Kogaku's role in the post war Japanese camera industry, why they were successful and Canon wasn't, Nikon rangefinder prototypes, and a whole lot of other interesting topics.

But wait there's more...

Also joining in on the discussion is none other than president of the Nikon Historical Society, and fellow author, Robert Rotoloni jumps in to add his thoughts and ask some questions of his own.

I'm not done yet....

Returning from episode 8, author of "Making Kodak Film", Robert Shanebrook surprises us with a visit to participate in the discussion and ask some questions.  Rounding out our guests are Mark Faulkner, Nick Lyle, and Miles Libak!

Next week, we will return with Episode 14, so look out for the Episode announcement this upcoming Sunday, November 28th!

This Week's Episode

• Wes Bought a Nikon S2 to Photograph in Caves / How Wes Got Started Researching Nikon
• Tenax II / Akarette / Akarelle / AGFA Ambi Silette / Lordomat
• Why Was Nikon So Successful?  Why Didn't Canon or Pentax Have the Same Level of Success?
• Why Did Zeiss-Ikon Make the Tenax II? / Which Came First, the Tenax or Robot?
• Hubert Nerwin, Zeiss-Ikon, the West German Camera Industry, and the Kodak Instamatic
• Why Didn't West Germany Have any Focal Plane SLRs like the Contax SLR?
• Zeiss-Ikon Stuttgart Had to Rebuild After the War / East Germany Was Winning For a While
• Nikon Saw the Best Success in the US East and West Coasts, Not the Midwest
• Hubert Nerwin and Operation Paperclip
• Many Camera Companies Went Out of Business Between 1958-1962 / Differences Between Germany and Japan
• Nippon Kogaku Developed the Nikon F at the Same Time as the Nikon SP
• German SLRs Were Hampered by Their Own Reliance on the Compur Leaf Shutter
• Nikon and Canon Had Different Approaches Toward Making Rangefinders
• The Nikon S2 Originally Had Knobs for Wind and Rewind / Only Black Dial S2s Can Be Motorized
• Canon Made 33 Different Rangefinders Between 1945 and 1958
• Why Was the Nikon F So Successful? / Why the Canonflex Failed
• Nikon Model One Bellows
• Did Nippon Kogaku and Eastman Kodak Ever Collaborate On Anything?
• Tuberculosis Almost Killed Medium Format in Japan
• David Douglas Duncan's Role In Nikon's History / Jun Miki
• Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 and f/1.5 Lenses
• Nippon Kogaku Would Service Any Camera or Lens for Any Professional Photographer During the Korean War.
• The Nikon F Was So Successful, It Killed the Nikon Rangefinder / The Nikon SPX and SP2 Was Built But Never Released
• There Were More Canon 7 Rangefinders Made Than All Nikon Rangefinders Combined
• Nippon Kogaku Also Worked on a Medium Format SLR and a 16mm Subminiature, None Were Ever Released
• What Would the Japanese Camera Industry Look Like if Nippon Kogaku Never Existed?
• Japanese Optics Companies Helped Each Other Out
• Can Nikon Survive Today?
• Smartphones Are Killing the Camera Industry
• Color Film is Out of Stock Everywhere (Except for Theo)
• When Nikon Made the Millennium SP and S3 Rangefinders, They Used 80-Year old Retired Guys to Train People How to Make Them
• Robert Rotoloni Did the Foreward in Wes Loder's Book

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please email me at [email protected]

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Wes Loder "The Nikon Camera in America 1946-1953" - https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Camera-America-1946-1953/dp/0786432217

"The Tenax II: Zeiss Ikon's Precision, Fast-action Camera" - https://www.amazon.com/Tenax-II-Precision-Fast-action-Camera/dp/138987821X

Wes's Blog - http://wesloderandnikon.blogspot.com/

Robert Rotoloni - http://www.nikonhistoricalsociety.com/p/rotoloni-book.html

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we have a quad-fecta of returning callers, Mario Piper, Mark Faulkner, Michael Gossett, and Michael Kaplan all joined Anthony, Theo, Paul, and I in a lively discussion that was dominated by everyone's favorite camera, brand Pentax!  Of course, I found a way to mention Miranda again, plus a dig on Petri SLRs, and Anthony previewed a future discussion of developing in Caffenol and Black and White Reversal!

Next week, we are hoping to have a special guest who is a published author of multiple camera related books, so keep an eye out for the show announcement this upcoming Sunday, November 21st around Noon Central Time.

This Week's Episode

• Michael Gossett Returns with his AGFA Speedex We Made Him Buy
• Michael Kaplan Loves the AGFA Ambi Silette and Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35
• Petri SLRs Never Work / Staring at Cameras
• Michael Kaplan's Ephemeral Machine Podcast
• Leica R Lenses / Paul Loves the Leica R4
• Shutter Lag on the Minolta XD11
• Minolta/Leica 16mm Fisheye Lens
• Yellow Takumars / Radioactive Lenses
• Can a Yellowed Lens Replace Needing a Dedicated Yellow Filter?
• 8 Element Takumars / Miranda Also Has an 8-Element 50/1.4
• The Pentax Section
  • The Pentax K1 is the Perfect DSLR for Adapting Pentax K-Mount Lenses
  • Mark loves the Pentax Auto 110
  • Paul's Rare Meterless Pentax SL
  • Mike Loves the Pentax SV and the Pentax K (not the K1000)
  • The Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide by Gerjan van Oosten
  • Five Element Takumar 55mm f/2.2 and 58mm f/2.4 Lenses
  • Pentax ME Super and ME F (not a Pentax, but the Canon T80 is Cool)
  • The Pentax MX - Is It the Best K-Mount Pentax?
  • Theo's Pick is the Pentax Spotmatic SP
  • Everyone's Favorite Pentax Lenses
• Vivitar Lenses 35mm f/2, 70-210mm f/3.5 Zoom, 200mm
• Mike Loves the Nikkor 100-300 f/5.6 Zoom
• Sigma Z 28mm f/2.8 M42 Lens / Joseph Ehrenreich Red Line and Blue Line
• The Lester Dine Macro Lens / Yashica Dental-Eye
• Developing in Caffenol
• Buying Obscure Old Films From a Guy on Etsy
• Black and White Reversal Development / AGFA Scala
• Film Souping

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Radioactive Canomatic Lenses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPl0NUn_Dd0

The Asahi Pentax Ultimate Screw Mount Guide by Gerjan van Oosten - https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Asahi-Pentax-Screw-Mount/dp/907653702X

Etsy Classic Film Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassicFilmShop

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we were once again joined by previous guests Paul Rybolt and Mike Novak and first time caller, Hong Joon Lee who has been following on Facebook and purchased the Contax Sonnar 1.5 I recently sold.  Half way through the show however, we were joined by camera collector extraordinaire, Ira Cohen, whose massive collection of cameras I was able to visit earlier this year.  Ira has the largest collection of rare and unusual cameras I've ever seen and the level of knowledge he has about collecting is unmatched.

This was a fascinating episode that went in completely unpredictable directions with a lot of talk about Miranda and their history, why the Nikon F was so successful, what point is a Leica copy not longer a copy, and much, much more!

As always, if you are interested in participating in our next episode, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, November 14th!

This Week's Episode

• Hong's Sonnar 1.5 and Mike's New Leotax
• Amedeo Contax Lens Adapters / Don't Buy Cheap Lens Adapters
• Paul's Orion Contax to Leica Adapter
• Miranda's Demise of the dx-3
• What are the Good Mirandas? / Miranda Soligor Lenses Punch Above Their Weight
• Miranda's Risque Ads / Mike Gets in Touch with the Niece of the Lady from the Ads
• How Miranda Got Started and Why They Failed
• Mike Loves his Miranda A / Wirgin SLRs are Nice Too
• Montanus / Wirgin TLRs
• When Did SLRs Start to Take Over from Rangefinders?
• Mike's Contax I Will Never Be Serviced
• Ira Cohen Calls In!
• The Nikon F Officially Began the Era of the SLR
• Was it that Obvious that the Nikon F Was Superior to All Other Cameras at the Time?
• Camera Rigidity: Nikon vs Leica
• Why Was Leitz Hesitant to Release an SLR?
• When Is a Leica Copy No Longer a Leica Copy?
• We got Michael Gossett to buy an AGFA Speedex
• Anthony's Zeiss folders CLAd by Jurgen at certo6.com
• Ira's Blue Chair / Hong Works by Central Camera
• Ira's Prototype Box Camera
• Mike Gets a Book on Cameras by Douglas St. Denny from China

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris

Mike Novak - https://www.flickr.com/photos/greyscale3/

Hong Joon Lee - https://www.facebook.com/hongjoon.lee.33

Ira Cohen - Ira has no Internet Presence

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we are joined by two listeners, Michael Gossett and Nick Lyle.  Michael is an experienced digital photographer, but is a novice when it comes to film.  Only having shot automatic 35mm SLRs, Michael asks for recommendations on medium format cameras, and tips how to shoot scale focus, rangefinders, and home developing.  As always, we talk about other things too, so take a listen to our 10th episode and enjoy!

We are taking next week off, but if you are interested in participating in our next episode, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, November 7th!

This Week's Episode

• Developing film for Beginners
• Periscopic Viewfinder in Large Format
• The Retina Reflex Probably isn't the best first camera
• Adapting DKL Lenses to Digital
• Eliminating Variables is the Key to Success
• Developing Your Own Film Isn't for Everyone
• Mike Can't Help Himself and Gets a Contax I and Throws Shade at the Sonnar
• Developing 4x5 film in the Film Holder
• Cheap Folding Medium Format Cameras for Beginners
• Speedexes, Nettars, Bessas, and Perkeos
• Shooting Scale Focus
• Theo's Konica Pearl
• Rotted Kodak (not Retina) Bellows
• Flexaret and Ikoflex Recommendations
• Oh Geez, Panoramics again!
• Mike Rips on the FT-2
• Nick Loves the Graflex Century Graphic
• Large Format Tips and Tricks
• Everyone Has a Kitchen Scale!
• With Hasselblad, You Have to Do Everything Their Way

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Michael Gossett - No Internet Presence

Nick Lyle – https://homemadecamera.podbean.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we are joined by three listeners, Mark Faulkner, Mike Novak, and Skip Williams.  Without a predetermined topic to discussed, we just winged it and managed to talk about everything from the Pentax LX, to the dangers of flying with cameras, to Mark's Big Suitcase o' 16mm Cameras.  Oh, and yes, we did talk about panoramic cameras for the ninth episode in a row!  Our topics were wide ranging this week, so there's certain to be something for everyone!

If you are interested in participating in our next episode, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, October 24th!

This Week's Episode

• Skip's Olympus OM-1 and Pentax LX with the Cool Action Finder
• Episode 8 Was Awesome and you should listen to it!
• Fuji Discontinues More Film :(
• Kodak Disc Film, Minox, and Viewmaster Cameras
• Kodachrome is REALLY hard to develop
• Shooting 16mm Cameras, Mark has a Suitcase of them!
• Kiev Subminiatures and the KMZ Narciss 16mm SLR
• The Mamiya 6 Focuses by Moving the Film Plane
• Dont Fly on Planes with Old Cameras, Also, Don't Ever Fly with Anthony Rue!
• Anthony Loves his Super Ikonta
• The Corfield Periflex with it's Periscope SLR Focus
• Contaxes, Kievs, and No-Name Kievs
• Horizonts and the Viscawide 16
• The Drug Friend and GOMZ Leningrads Hardly Ever Work
• What's Coming Soon on mikeeckman.com
• Everyone's New Gear
• Anthony Visits Clyde Butcher's Darkroom

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Mark Faulkner - https://thegashaus.com/

Mike Novak - https://www.flickr.com/photos/greyscale3

Skip Williams

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week on the Camerosity Podcast, we are joined by film historian, author, and ex-Kodak employee, Robert Shanebrook who gives us 90 straight minutes of pure Kodak history, covering everything from how film is made, his work on Apollo 11 designing cameras for moon photography, what is ESTAR base, whether or not Kodachrome will ever come back and much, much more.  Not to be overshadowed by Robert's visit, we were also joined by two listeners, Mario Piper and Howard Sandler who chimed in with some excellent questions as well.

If you've never listened to a Camerosity Podcast before, THIS is the one to listen to!

If you are interested in participating in our next episode, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, October 17th!

This Week's Episode

• Memorial to Dan Arnold (1959-2021)
• Introducing Robert Shanebrook, Author of "Making Kodak Film"
• Robert's stereo camera used on the Apollo 11 Mission
• What is ESTAR base?
• Differences between cinema and still photography film bases
• Why do some films have a transparent base?
• Why is TMax film purple, and why does it need extra fixer?
• How is static electricity controlled in film on satellites?
• Exposed film is caught from space and taken to Hawaii
• How Kodak Portra was created (Portra > Vericolor III)
• Kodak Panatomic-X is the best black and white film ever!
• Will Kodak ever bring back Kodachrome?
• Robert finds an unused roll of film for the 1888 Kodak camera
• Mario asks how Infrared Film works
• How color film is coated
• "We Stood on the Shoulders of Giants"
• Steve Sasson sat next to Robert while making the first digital camera
• Kodak helped advance digital photography, until it killed them
• How much of Kodak's film business was cinema film?
• Kodak Disc film didn't perform up to what was promised
• Why wasn't APS (Advantix) film larger?
• Mike finds a way to talk about the Kodak Ektra again...
• A short memorial for Ron Mowrey
• Robert inspects every single copy of his book
• Howard "Eckmans" the Petri Color 35

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please email me at [email protected].

The Official Camerosity Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/CamerosityPodcast

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Robert Shanebrook - http://www.makingkodakfilm.com, [email protected]

Mario Piper - Gen X Photography Podcast - https://anchor.fm/mario-piper0

Howard Sandler - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsandler

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Camerosity can also be heard on the following services:

Google - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2NhbWVyb3NpdHkvZmVlZC54bWw

Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/camerosity/id1583252688

After a one week break, the Camerosity Podcast returns with more open source film discussion.  This week we were joined with Canadian photographer and RB67 enthusiast Jess Hobbs, the Camerosity Podcast's number one fan, Michael Kaplan, and finally, returning for his second podcast with us, Cheyenne Morrison.

If you are interested in participating in our next episode, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, October 10th!

This Week's Episode

• Jess and Michael's favorite films
• Does expired 220 film hold up better than expired 120?
• Johnny has no use for bulk loading film
• How to open a 35mm cassette without a tool
• Where will film photography be in 10, 20, or 50 years?
  • Less and less people to repair cameras
  • Film stocks disappearing
  • Will film become boutique manufacturers like vinyl records are today?
  • Making new cameras using old parts
• Nikon FE Press Pan with Mamiya press lenses
• Dora Goodman's cameras
• Has "Eckman" become a verb?
• Mike visits the most amazing camera collection in the world
• Fuji won't make peel apart film again
• Everyone's new gear
  • Michael - Anscomark M and Topcon Super DM
  • Cheyenne - Hedeco Lime clip on meter
  • Jess - Olympus Stylus Epic Deluxe, Topcon RE Super, Leica IIIa, and a Zenit-C.
  • Johnny - Fujifilm GA645 Zi
  • Anthony - Vito BR
  • Mike - Exakta Vest Pocket 127 with Biotar and wide angle f/8 Tessar
  • Theo - Mamiya Myrapid and LOMO LC-A

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please email me at [email protected].

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Jess Hobbs - https://www.youtube.com/c/JessHobbs

Michael Kaplan - http://www.thevelvetsirens.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

Johnny Sisson - https://www.kenrockwell.com

This week we get a special surprise visit from Jeff and Gabe from the I Dream of Cameras Podcast, Nick Lyle from the Home Made Cameras Podcast, and West Texan photographer and Noblex fan, Liz Potter where we talk about everything from small Minox cameras to large format.  Of course panoramic cameras are discussed again, as are the best entry points into 4x5.

We will be off next week, but will return with a new episode the first week of October.  If you'd like to talk to us, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time Sunday, October 3rd!

This Week's Episode

• Everyone loves Minoxes!
• Are Minoxes Really Spy Cameras?
• Black and White Panoramas in a Noblex in West Texas
• The Creator of the Noblex was Once in a Gulag
• Gabe Has a Rolleiflex Collection
• We Talk about Panoramic Cameras Again
• Something Called a Loreo Stereo Camera
• Homemade Stereo Cameras
• Triplet Lenses Are Very Good
• Jeff and Gabe Discuss Getting Rid of Cameras
• Should You Insure Your Camera Collection?
• Cameras Don't Make Good Pictures, Good Cameras Allow You to Make Good Pictures
• If You Can't Find the Perfect Camera, Make Your Own!
• Anthony Gushes Over His Ikonta / Fixing Bellows
• What is a Good Starting Point Into 4x5?
• Roll Film Adapters on 4x5
• The Cameradactyl
• How to Keep Podcasts Short?

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please use the Comments section below or email me at [email protected].

Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/

Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs - https://www.idreamofcameras.com/

Nick Lyle - https://homemadecamera.podbean.com/

Liz Potter - https://www.lizpotterphotography.com/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

This week we finally open up the call-in lines and invite you all to participate in our weekly camera discussion.  Using a Zoom link posted every Sunday, anyone can talk to Mike, Anthony, Theo, Johnny, and whoever else comes on.

Without any warning or planned scripts, Vladislav Kern from USSRphoto and Matt Jones from Thailand join in and share stories about Nikons, Polaroids, and street photography in other countries.

If you'd like to talk to us next week, be sure to keep an eye here for a new link which will be posted around noon Central Time this upcoming Sunday!

This Week's Episode

• Introducing the Open Source plan
• Open Source alternatives to Adobe software / GIMP
• Digitizing vs Scanning: Something no one can agree on
• Vladislav Kern = Nikon Collector?
• Everyone loves the FM2
• Hot Cameras in Thailand
• "Remember the Polaroid Cold Clip, It's Meant to Go Under Your Armpit!"
• Johnny's dad was a Polaroid sales guy
• Film photography stories need to be preserved before everyone who experienced them is gone
• Technology doesn't amaze us anymore
• Army of the Dead bukkakokeh's with the Canon f/0.95 Dream Lens
• Soviet фото magazine
• Don't buy Soviet military cameras now
• Soviet KGB camera museums
• Street photography in foreign countries
• Don't take photos of the Amish
• Recommendations for shooting a Space X Rocket

Show Notes

If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please use the Comments section below.

Vladislav Kern - http://ussrphoto.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/ussrphoto/

Johnny Sisson - https://www.classiclensespodcast.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/sissonphotography/

Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/

Anthony Rue - https://www.instagram.com/kino_pravda/

We welcome Paul Rybolt in this week's episode of the Camerosity podcast and with over 500 current auctions and nearly 2800 positive feedback Paul offers his insights into selling on eBay and one thing you should include in your camera auction listings to boost exposure.

Also returning are Anthony and Theo to offer their insights as well.

Next week, we will open the lines up for people to call in while recording to ask us questions!

Please visit https://www.mikeeckman.com for camera reviews, articles, how-tos, and other podcast information. 

If you have any comments, email me at [email protected] or contact me through my Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/mikeeckmandotcom.

This Week's Episode

• Panorama-mania, Fujis Hassys and Cirkuts!
• Unloving the Hasselblad SWC
• Theo's Australian War Memorial Photos
• Is Flickr Dead?
• NFTs and Photography
• The Excitement of Collecting Prints
• 17 Blade Biotars
• Adapting M40 Lenses
• Paul's Thoughts on eBay
• Mike Finds Another Way to Talk About Arguses
• You Cant Stump the Eckman - Wirgin Edinex (I repeatedly call it an Edixa, WHOOPS!)
• Best Sub $200 Medium Format Cameras
• What About the Pearl River?
• The AGFA Optima Sensor Flash is Super Cool!
• Anthony Relives his Olympus 35 RC
• What Does CAMEROSITY Mean?

The first ever Camerosity Podcast is actually the third, after two proof of concept "Cocaine and Waffles" podcasts recorded this past May.  In future episodes, we will have call-in opportunities for listeners to be able to participate and ask questions and chat with myself and the other hosts.  Stay tuned for future episodes!

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This Week's Episode

• Johnny Sisson's Mantis Cam
• Perry Ge's Fujinon lens mystery
• Anthony's worst eBay seller ever
• Mike's Petri Color 35
• The Keystone Wizard!
• Cameras that are better in person than you realize
• Theo's Mamiya 7 and Anthony's Monster Cam
• Johnny's Rollei/Klasse
• Nicca Cameras