I Dream of Cameras #37 This Is the Day of the XPanding Man

 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!