Show notes
VERY SPECIAL EPISODE recapping Jeff’s absurd acquisition of a Hasselblad XPan, and more importantly, his trip to England and Wales to meet all four hosts of the Sunny 16 Podcast!
- In our last episode, Chris Chu talked Jeff out of getting a Hasselblad XPan, so how did he end up impulsively buying one on his first day in London?
- A magical trip to Camera City, the very same place where Jeff found his sacred Alpa 11si ten years ago.. and what should be on the shelf but an XPan?
- And now, the circuit of the Sunnies…
- Drinks with Ade at the Camera Museum in London
- A side trip to the Photographer’s Gallery and their incredible film wall
- Darkroom work with Rachel at her studio at Northern Lights in Liverpool
- Touring Anglesey and Portmeirion, Wales with Clare
- Browsing vintage cameras with Graeme at the Cameras London stall at Portobello Road
- An underdiscussed aspect of the XPan: the standard 45mm f/4 lens is incredible!
- In other news… where’s all the film? And why’s the film we have so expensive?
- Gabe has set up an on-deck circle of underused cameras…
- …and has been snapping up photography books
- Thought experiment: if the boys had to cut their collections down to only ten cameras, which would they choose?
- Next episode, we tackle the prodigious mailbag!