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!