Episode № 92 finds the boys in Sunset Strip rock clubs and sun-baked Czech vineyards, sampling exotic cinema film and strange European cameras, taking in celebrity gallery shows and nibbling koláče. What happened to those two humble kids from the oak groves of Riverdale and the pine forests of Atlanta — and who is Mike Sopko? Tune in to IDOC’s latest and find out — they’ve only got eight more to go! question: were we crisper and more cogent in earlier episodes? does this guy have a point?? buy a...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 92
Once again I Dream of Cameras spans the globe, with Jeff in Prague and Gabe in Los Angeles, and not even a nine-hour time difference can slow us down! In fact, one might say we are utterly devoid of camera viscosity, or “camerosity” for short. In this supersized episode… Jeff unknowingly chatted up Danny Clinch about his Leica Q2 at the Trombone Shorty Soho Session , and the acclaimed photographer was faintly dismissive for the next two months Jeff’s in Prague, where the camera shops ( FotoŠkoda...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 91
This episode starts out great, then gets better and better. It’s informative and witty, talking about the real joys of film. There are distinctive gear reviews, as Jeff raves about his new Pentax MX, possibly triggering the IDOC effect on eBay. And of course, there’s plenty of vapid gladhanding, as Gabe hits one LA camera show after another. Plenty to hear here, so tune in! well looky here! Bad Review Guy updated his bad review on iTunes! guess he's still listening! as for the rest of you, leave...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 90
Jeff’s back from the Caribbean island of St. Barth’s with a report on his new favorite beach camera, while out in the West, Gabe’s renewed camera collection continues to burgeon... as does the enmity of one listener each time Jeff mentions the Pentax 17. Find out why in the latest un-dour, un-flaccid episode of I Dream of Cameras , because provocation is our forte! Gabe shot his Kiev 60 and the Bronica ETR-Si and is eyeing: black Leicaflex SL 35mm f4 Schneider lens for Leicaflex and Mamiya Unive...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 89
Gabe spills the tea — about the cameras he’s hunting for as he rapidly rebuilds his collection — while Jeff spills the coffee. That’s it. He spills it. Then recounts a whirlwind European trip featuring a phantasmagoria of phenomenal photographica. New York, London, Paris, dry-dock — everybody talk about pop IDOC! Jeff bought a camera bag! okay, he found a used Ona Union Street at B&H , but whaaaaat???? … then he went to London … got an odd little book at The Photographer's Gallery on Analog ...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 88
A long-awaited catch-up in which Gabe reviews the events of the past month. The biggest news: he bought a half-frame camera! WHAT IS UP WITH THIS DUDE? Tune in for the rollicking debrief! how’s Gabe doing? well, he: took some trips to the Palisades house with Brandon found the remains of many cameras, including Rolleiflexes was interviewed by National Geographic reporter Gideon Mendel , who documents such things and has returned to shooting! with the Rolleiflex 3.5E , Nikon FE , Leica M6 … ...bu...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 87
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 8:11 a.m. PST. Text from Gabe Sachs: “Well, all I can say is… I bet I have culled my camera collection faster than anyone else in history.” In this episode, Gabe recounts his experience during the Palisades Fire, which destroyed over a hundred Rolleiflex TLRs. Tune in for all the details.
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 86
I Dream of Cameras kicks off the new year with another blockbuster XL episode! Jeff chillingly limns the hundred-degree delta between Jamaica and Iceland, and how the Fuji GA645 and Hasselblad XPan fared in each. Gabe exhumes some old warhorses from the back of the camera cabinet. And they top it all off with some STRONG OPINIONS about a new film-camera book. Tune in for all the fireworks! a scant 13 days after returning from a beach vacation in Jamaica, Jeff jetted off to Iceland for New Year’s...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 85
Episode № 84 is a special rush-released super-sized Christmas / Hanukkah episode — unwrap it and enjoy! Gabe’s been shooting with the Polaroid Big Swinger , Rolleiflex 2.8E2 , Nikon F2 , Leica M4 … he had a lab mishap! they made it right, but it still shakes your confidence Polaroid peel-apart camera rollers vs. blades Gabe went to Alcove Café with Rafael Hernandez and Dave Tada , members of the elite Fuji X100VI club, and now he's lusting for one submitted for your approval: the mighty Fujifilm...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 84
I Dream of Cameras storms into the fifth year of its five-year mission with new life and new civilization! Gabe went on a photo tear through New York City. Jeff cut an astounding deal on new gear at the Chelsea flea market. And there are imminent trips to Jamaica, Iceland and downtown LA. Will your enterprising interlocutors boldly go where no XPan has gone before? Pluck our latest pod and find out! welcome to IDOC Year Five! Gabe recounts his visit to B&H Photo in New York with rockstar str...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 83
“Four more years! Four more years!” Could you have ever imagined, when these two miscreants launched I Dream of Cameras on 11/20/20, that four years later the show would be an unstoppable juggernaut and the toast of seven continents? Neither could we! In this epic-sode, Gabe dons a dopey hat and Jeff a dopey visage to reflect upon IDOC’s journey from to zygote to Smash Hit. There’s a quiz! A truce! A song! A rundown of panoramic aspect ratios! Tune in for all the persiflage and badinage, which i...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 82
Like “Man in Black” Johnny Cash, Gabe Sachs is never seen without his signature ebon apparel. So what could coax him into donning a white dress shirt? And while we’re asking questions: who’s shooting 220 film, what’s a Zunow, and can Jeff actually perform Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” on command? Find out in the latest obsidian-dark episode of I Dream of Cameras! Gabe was plied with birthday gifts! a camera-print shirt from a Paris boutique Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography a Polaroid...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 81
Our blockbuster eightieth episode includes talk of wedding shoots and model shoots, German Rolleis and Swiss Alpas, plastic Pentaxes and Pano Portrait Snobs. Tune in for all the badinage! Eighty episodes — even the hosts can’t remember the highlights! So which three episodes would you recommend to the uninitiated? Gabe went to a Cameras & Coffee meetup at the Culver Steps … …where he drooled over an Olympus OM-4Ti and a Mamiyaflex He also brought five cameras to a shoot with Claire Hinkley :...
Oct 13, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 80
Gabe Sachs, 25 years after Freaks and Geeks , is the Astrid Kirchherr of American comedy; Jeff Greenstein, 25 hours after Paris Fashion Week, is the Derek Zoolander of European modeling. Tune in for their rollicking adventures! Jeff’s just back from a wild trip to Paris! Including: P did a runway gig for Balmain for Fashion Week… while Jeff modeled for renowned photographer Leslie Kee of Super magazine… suffered hand-check travails at Orly Airport … and browsed overpriced gear at Euro-Photo our ...
Sep 29, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 79
Hear the crushing steel, feel the steering wheel! Gabe lingers in NYC for more photographic and culinary adventures, while Jeff sees his reflection in the luminescent dash of his newly beloved Alpa 10s. But what will happen when he gently caresses its warm leatherette? Tune in and find out! presenting… our bad-review mug! however, you gotta listen to the episode to find out where to get it, ‘cause it’s not on our merch page Gabe recounts further New York exploits with Sissi Lu , Chris Chu and Ch...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 78
It’s Talking Heads: 77 as the boys convene in New York City for a pilgrimage to B&H Photo , where they ambush veteran camera guru Michael Armato at the used counter for what proves to to be a truly phenomenal interview. Then it’s off to Fotografiska for the long-promised visit to the Vivian Maier and Bruce Gilden shows. Who will emerge victorious when Jeff confronts his photographic nemesis? Tune in and find out!...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 77
Hurricane Debby brings a downpour of camera gear! Gabe’s out with his Leica III and Mamiya C330, while Jeff samples some digital Leicas. Gabe chats with Toronto photographer Jessica Devic, and Jeff recounts his acquisition of a rare Alpa 10s from a seller in Alaska. Tune in for all the fish stories! It’s raining cameras! So much to report… Gabe figured out how to adjust his Leica III rangefinder and he’s acquired a Metz 45 CT-1 flash, the Bruce Gilden Special and he’s been shooting his Mamiya C3...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 76
One of the Best Photography Podcasts To Listen To In 2024 (per Amateur Photographer magazine) returns to bask in some praise for a change! In this blockbuster XL episode, we run down our travels in Europe and Canada, recap recent celebrity photo shoots, exult over exotic gear acquisitions, and dive to the bottom of our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™! Tune in to see what the fuss is about! THE BIGGEST NEWS: our smash hit podcast earned global acclaim , as Amateur Photographer named us one of...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 75
Two glasses of white wine reduces Jeff to drunkenly raving about travel cameras, airport hand-check injustices and (predictably) his usual cast of bêtes noires. Meanwhile, stone-cold-sober Gabe offers sharp, reasoned takes on the new Pentax 17 and the cameras of 1955. Tune in to Episode № 74 (not 75) for all the mayhem! Jeff recorded this episode from Rome after imbibing two glasses of cheap white wine , which is why he keeps calling it Episode 75 Why the two cameras Jeff picked for his extended...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 74
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.” — Max Reger, German composer (1873–1916), responding to a savage review Jeff’s in Lisbon at the start of a month-long European trip; Gabe’s in LA developing his own film for the first time in years. But what’s obsessing them the most? Their first rotten review! Tune in for all the merriment and NO PRAISE! Jeff’s choice of cameras and film for a month-long European trip: the Hasselblad...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 73
A transformational live-on-locational supersensational IDOCstravaganza! First we go to a Los Angeles Photography Club Cameras and Coffee meetup in Koreatown to talk to folks about their cameras and dogs. Then we SPAN THE GLOBE to interview Jo Geier, proprietor of Mint and Rare , a phenomenal camera shop in Vienna, Austria. You won’t want to miss this one, so TOON IN!
May 22, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 72
Consulting Producer Tucker Sachs, the real brains behind I Dream of Cameras, has long lurked in the shadows with a bone and a chew toy, but in this episode he finally steps into the light. Also discussed: photo books, photo contests, photo walks and photo acquisitions, along with every syllable of your deathless prose from the Prodigious Mailbag™. It’s a doggie-dog world! Daido Moriyama ’s ’71 NY is an incredible photo book shot on an Olympus Pen W Gabe had a blast at the latest Beers and Camera...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 71
He wouldn’t…. Now that the long-raging and ill-advisedly-ignited Vivian Maier debate has finally died down, Jeff wouldn’t throw gasoline on those embers by expressing a Strong Opinion about some recent Viv-related news, would he? Well, you’ll just have to tune in to find out. Also discussed: the boys swap cities, Gabe in New York and Jeff in Los Angeles; recent shooting adventures with a slew of cameras both old and new; and the proper way to express your love of our smash hit podcast: through l...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 70
Paulina Porizkova joins the boys to offer her unique perspective on the art and business of fashion photography. How’d she get into it? What’s the most important thing a photographer should know about working with models? Why does Paulina call Irving Penn “Mr. Penn”? Does the fact that Jeff has a spreadsheet of when he last changed the batteries in his cameras render him more attractive? All this and much, much more in our sexy Episode № 69 — nice! how Paulina got into modeling at age 15, how sh...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 69
It’s an xlent xlerated xtralarge xtravaganza as Gabe and Jeff hack and slash their way to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™, which features a slew of emails penned by celebrities under the pseudonym “Alan Peres.” Also discussed: cameras of ’55, cameras of ’24, Dune 2 , SB2, SL3, FP4, HP5, Number Six and Zippora Seven ! Tune in as we run the numbers! Cameras in Focus 1955: Olympus Wide Rolleiflex 2.8D the Nikon SP was in development (which prompts a reprise of Jeff’s astonishing SP acquisitio...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 68
“Pablo Larraín, the film’s Chilean director, felt [Jackie] Kennedy’s love of beauty was so integral to her character that he requested [Natalie] Portman utter ‘I love beauty’ at some point during the shooting of every scene.” This is absurd, but not as absurd as Episode № 67 of I Dream of Cameras, “Your Extra Time and Your Kiss,” in which we discuss cameras called Beauty and Kiss and Super. Tune in for all the mayhem! Jeff made yet another math error! 64 is 2 to the fifth Gabe presents… Cameras ...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 67
It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more! Jeff made yet another major math error! 64 is 2 cubed Sorry, but Parenting Hell is not a smash hit podcast Gabe presents The Year in Focus 1957: Nikon SP Ilford Sportsman H...
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 66
You want more and you want it fast? Tune in to Episode № 65 of I Dream of Cameras, “Rebel Rebel,” in which Gabe and Jeff wax rhapsodic about the trash-table treasure Canon EOS Rebel 2000. How did this grubby chunk of plastic capture the hearts of two men devoted to the cult of Leica? Pluck this pod and find out! Also, we call out great cameras NOT from the big-name brands, recount recent shooting adventures, and take a shallow dip into the deep and prodigious mailbag! Jeff made a major math erro...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 65
The big news in Episode № 64 of I Dream of Cameras is the release of Harman Phoenix, a brand-new experimental color film from the company we insist on calling Ilford ‘cause they didn’t give us free stuff. Also covered: notable cameras of 1959; fun with Lomochrome Turquoise; Gabe’s recent five-camera all-film photo shoot; the growing cult of the Minolta P’s; last-minute holiday gift ideas; and tons of blowback in the Prodigious Mailbag! Cameras of 1959: Leica M1 Minolta SR-1 Tele-Rolleiflex debut...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 64
It’s our third anniversary episode, featuring celebrations galore and talk of cameras past, present and future. Plus the return of our Prodigious Mailbag™, featuring NO PRAISE! Tune in for all the merriment! Cameras of 1960: Nikkorex 35 Nikon S3M the original Canonflex Pentax Spotmatic shown at Photokina Rolleiflex 2.8F Rolleiflex Rollei Magic Zeiss Contarex Special Yashica 35M Leica R5 Gabe and Jeff got great birthday gifts! the original Kodak Instamatic Kodak Retina IIIC Lego Rolleiflex Leica ...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 63
