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May 19, 2026Episode 1031 hr 7 min

Episode 103 • Watch and Learn

The big news is, Jeff is now able to pull blurry, postage-stamp-sized images off his 2001 Casio WQV-10 watch camera, but there’s so much more! Gabe has a slew of new camera gear; there’s a raft of queries in the Prodigious Mailbag™; and we even throw a few compliments at our most hated rivals. Join us for the tick-tock!Gabe has a few new acquisitions, far more than the “thirtyish” to which he swore he’d limit his collection:a sweet little Ricoh 500 with trigger-wind on the bottoma Kiev 60 with monster 180mm lensand a dud Contax 167MT with a killer Zeiss 35-70 zoomour Trusty Dusty Camera Repair Guy™ tuned up Gabe’s Rolleiflex 2.8F white face and he can’t wait to shoot with itdiscussed: finding the right resources on the internet for your camera needs - which are your favorites?Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo again - hey, why not set up your own camera fair?has the XPan spoiled Jeff for all other cameras? he brought no backup on his recent European trip!but what if it dies? Jeff says he’d buy a cheapie in Paris at Aux Vieux Format!please convince Jeff he doesn’t need a Leicaflex SL2 50 Jahre, even though our T.D.C.R.G. says it’s more refinedthere’s a Petri Color 35 Custom on eBay - go get it!Jeff’s ultimate Casio WQV-10 triumph came courtesy of American hero Roger Braunstein - will WQV prices spike on eBay? watch the IDOC Effect in action!is the “I’m Back” digital sensor for 35mm cameras absurd? they had a $44,000 goal on Kickstarter and raised a million! all I want is the image, Shrevie, do you agree?Gabe implores you to print your stuff and share your workand finally, we empty our Prodigious Mailbag™

April 27, 2026Episode 1021 hr 4 min

Episode 102 • The 20mm Anže Kopitar

“Gonna be your man in motion, all I need’s this pair of wheels...” The IDOC men are indeed in motion, with impending trips to exotic ports of call. Also discussed: the Film Forever meetup in Brooklyn, the conclusion of the watch camera saga, many things Rollei, and a great Slovenian hockey player!IDOC be trippin’! Gabe’s going to London in June, Jeff to Paris and Italy this weekendOur trusty dusty camera repair guy is gently nursing Gabe's Rolleiflex 2.8F, and has rejuvenated his cherished Leica M6Jeff is celebrating both the 49th birthday of his Alpa and the three-year anniversary of his absurd purchase of XPan TwoRest in pano to Raghu Rai, noted XPan photographerGabe has been shooting his Rolleiflex 2.8c and a Ricoh 500G from Brandon SteadmanHe's also curious about Rollei flash units, so chime in!Jeff finally succeeded in pulling photos off his 2001 Casio WQV-10 watch camera — it's surprisingly like shooting with the MinoxHe also rhapsodizes about Portra 400 a.k.a. Ektacolor ProGabe demands you attend Film Forever at the end of May at Bogart House in Brooklyn — all our friends will be there, but probably not Jeff, so you gotta go!Hey, Where Are The Legendary Photographers?The Prodigious Mailbag™ features more devoted listeners singing our theme song à la Debbie GibsonFinally, congratulations to Anže Kopitar on concluding a brilliant 20-year career with the Los Angeles Kings

April 9, 2026Episode 1011 hr 6 min

Episode 101 • Today Is Her Birthday, They're Smoking Cigars

It’s P’s birthday, but she’s working, leaving Jeff languishing at home with nothing but his vapid glad-hand for company. Perfect time to summon up Gabe on the ol’ Zoom-o-Matic and pump out an episode! In this one, we speak of acquisitions both big (huge honkin’ Pentax zoom) and small (stealthy Casio wristcam). Also discussed: being mocked for your puny glass by a bird photographer with a 600mm, many upcoming LA photo meetups, and a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™!Gabe snapped up a big-ass Pentax 6x7 zoom lensand had his beloved Leica M6 CLA’d by our trusty-dusty camera repair guyshout-out to the Film Fridge app — it’s better than a spreadsheet!Jeff speaks of his millennial obsession with the Casio WQV-3 watch camera, how he used it to surreptitiously photograph Will & Grace guest stars, and his late frustration with a recently acquired top-of-the-line WQV-10also, he’s just returned from photographing sandhill cranes and prairie chickens in Kearney, Nebraska with the XPan, which was apparently the wrong camera to bring, because other large-lensed photographers mocked himWilber, Nebraska is the Czech Capital of the US!Dave Grohl laments option paralysis, something we camera collectors know all too wellthere are plenty of upcoming photo meetups in LA — check out LA Film Camera and Analog ConJo Geier of Mint and Rare is torturing us all on Instagramever heard of the Ricoh 500RF?we rifle through an exceptionally Prodigious Mailbag™and speaking of watches and photography, check out the crowdfunded wristwatch light meter from Increment Labs LTD

March 15, 2026Episode 1001 hr 5 min

Episode 100 • Only in My Dreams

Three months without a new episode — you thought there’d be No More Rhyme? That Gabe and Jeff might go on shootin’ and chattin’ Without You? Ha! Out Of The Blue comes IDOC № 100, in which these two Electric Youth Shake Your Love to a Foolish Beat and get Lost In Your Eyes. They’re Staying Together! Anything Is Possible!

December 18, 2025Episode 991 hr 8 min

Episode 99 • Weird ’flex but ok

Leicaflex, Contarex, Rolleiflex, Magicflex, Omegaflex! Olivia Dean and Debbie Gibson! Seth Rogen’s gone pano and the Swiss Army’s gone XXL! It’s IDOC’s jam-packiest episode yet, ’cause unless Debbie sings our theme song, it could be the Olympus Pen-ultimate! Tune in for all the mayhem!Birthday madness! Gabe got Jeff a Leicaflex SL at B&H Photo, whatta guy!The SL’s PX625 battery presents some challengesChad GPT misled Jeff regarding the 50mm Summicron-R - turns out it takes a Series VI filter with a retaining ringthe new camera prompted the customary orgy of book-ordering; however, only Jeff wants a Leicaflex book signed by author Theo Kisselbachplease note: chromogenic Ilford XP2 Super scans much better than HP5 or Tri-X!Gabe visited with Sissi Lu, who has a new podcast and showed off her Kodak Charmeraalso, her googly-eyed lens cloth charm is back in stock at sissilu.comGabe went on a sudden mad hunt for a Contarex Bullseye and a 50mm lens…and got a lens board for his Beseler 67C enlarger, thanks to Steve Pinter from pintercreative.com - honorable mention to Gabriel Butenskycheck out the “24 things from the Leica archive” reels on Leica’s InstagramGabe met up with our pal Chris Smirnoff, who deluged him with photo books: Yul Brynner, Comedians, Salgado, a Sears photo catalog…the two also chatted up Instagram shooters Connie and Stewartin search of brighter focusing screens for his Rolleiflex TLRs, Gabe got some from Magicflex Camera and they’re incredibleMichael Herring (colorblindfish on IG) sent Gabe a gorgeous camera strap from Couch Guitar Strapshey, the LA Camera Expo is bigger than ever! Gabe took a hard look at an Omegaflex and backed awayJeff attended the Olivia Dean Soho Session and this time did NOT interact with Danny ClinchP is on the cover of Numero Magazine, one of Gabe’s favoritesSeth Rogen is a Widelux and XPan aficionado - let’s get him on the show!speaking of which: whither Debbie Gibson…?it’s holiday gift time, check our merch page!P got Jeff a Swiss Champ XXL Swiss Army Knife for his birthday because she’s wonderfuland finally, we dip a few toes into our Prodigious Mailbag™ 

November 16, 2025Episode 981 hr 14 min

Episode 98 • Five Years, That's All We’ve Got

How did these two mumbling malcontents pump out pods for five years and ninety-eight nattering episodes? In this one, the boys barely discuss that at all! Instead Jeff recaps his trip to London, to the shop where he bought both his Alpa and XPan, and Gabe recounts his acquisition of a legendary lens owned by an even-more-legendary photographer. A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest — tune in!November 20 marks IDOC’s fifth anniversary, and the 21st marks Jeff’s birthday!Jeff briefly recounts his trip to London, including a stop at Camera City, the shop where he got both his first Alpa and his first XPanGabe’s birthday bonanza included a Lab-Box and a Negative Supply scanning rig……he found a Beseler 67SC enlarger on FB Marketplace……and went to (basically) Spahn Ranch in the Hollywood Hills to secure a 80mm f4 Rodenstock Rodagon enlarger lens… which, it turns out, used to belong to Herb Ritts!our continuing adventures with the maddeningly inconsistent Chad GPT: it misled Jeff about the fate of the final penny, and lied to Gabe about a mysterious TLR which turned out to be a rare Rolleiflex 2.8F white facewhat do the boys think of the soon-come Widelux XX?sad news: Freestyle Photo is closing their brick-and-mortar location should Jeff buy an O.G. Alpa-Reflex on the ‘bay to complete his collection?once again, we improbably empty the Prodigious Mailbag™and now you must run to the L.A. Camera Expo in Burbank ‘cause it’s happening at this very moment!

October 15, 2025Episode 971 hr 17 min

Episode 97 • La De Da, La De Da

More like L.A. De Da, because both hosts are together in the City of Angels: scoring sibling Olympi at a camera show, talking “new” Kodak film stocks with tasty typography, and shooting the works with a half-frame Swiss, a square-frame German and an American GOOSE. Tune in - it'll change your wife!this episode is dedicated to the memory of the great photographer Diane Keatonour second bad review has utterly vanished!Jeff’s results with the half-cookie Alpa 10s were delightful...shooting with the Polaroid GOOSE was a total kick...and the square-frame Zeiss Ikon Taxona - two-thirds of a cookie! - is a fun alternative to the elusive Mamiya Sketchat the wondrous L.A. Camera Expo, Gabe snapped up an Olympus 35RC, while Jeff went for big brother 35SPn, a rarer version of the 35SP with better typographyChad GPT misled us again! he made Jeff buy a Kilfitt Makro-Kilar in Exakta mount, insisting it was AlpaKodacolor returns - or does it? once again, all we care about is good typography!how embarrassing: Jeff’s nemesis has entered the world of fashionwe had a blast at the Bike Shed complex in DTLA’s Arts Districtwe actually empty the Prodigious Mailbag™ for a changeand finally, we urge you continue imploring Debbie Gibson to perform our theme song for the 100th episode

September 19, 2025Episode 961 hr 20 min

Episode 96 • Here’s What We've Been Up To

Is it enough for these two “middle-aged men” to merely share “what they’ve been up to”? One peevish iTunes reviewer doesn’t think so! But for the rest of you, tune in to this XL episode to hear the felicitous end of Jeff’s half-frame Alpa saga, news of Gabe’s bag-quisitions and camera meetups, a screed about how the new tariffs are crippling our hobby, a impassioned defense of free speech, and so much more!rejoice, for Jeff’s half-a-cookie Alpa 10s finally arrived! not only that, after he emailed the CEO of UPS, he got a personal response and an apology!Gabe loves his supersnazz Bleu de Chauffe camera tote, yet couldn’t resist snapping up Jeff’s cheap Strand Bookstore messenger bag as wellGabe (along with Rafael Hernandez) went to the Susan Meiselas event at the Aero Theatre……and crashed the LA Camera Exchange meetup from imstilldeveloping.com and Fridge Filmthe new hot camera is the Nikonos V — clearly the IDOC effect in action!Jeff has been kitting out his new Polaroid GOOSE……but finds a 50mm lens a bit too tele-ish on the Alpa 10s, since a half-frame focal length × 1.44222 = full-frame, so he put in an offer on a 40mm Kilfitt Makro-Kilarguess what? we got another bad review!Gabe hung out with friend-of-show Chris Smirnoff and also Robert Capron, who played Rowley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and went to a screening of Anvil: The Story of Anvil with the mighty Fred Courythe end of “de minimis” is a catastrophe if you buy stuff from abroad; check this eBay page for all the grim details - and thanks to tariffs, Ausgeknipst no longer ships to the USthe boys take a graceful swan dive into quite the Prodigious Mailbag™the folks at AOK Camera Repair win the coveted IDOC endorsementGabe’s pictures feature in a Judd Apatow article in the latest Vanity Fairand Camera Maintenance & Repair by Thomas Tomosy is super-expensive, so grab the PDF from the Internet Archive or from here

September 2, 2025Episode 951 hr 10 min

Episode 95 • Swiss Miss

Ach, der Schmerz! Aïe, la douleur! Jeff’s insanely rare, perpetually coveted, and newly repaired half-frame Alpa 10s has been lost by UPS. As you listen to the latest episode of our Smash Hit Podcast™, globally acclaimed yet eschewing of praise, spare a thought or a prayer for the grieving cohost!yes, the Alpa 10s half-cookie is MIA at UPS - should we be putting AirTags in our important packages?Gabe is obsessed with which film cameras were used by legendary photographers to take legendary shots - are you?Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo and came home with a slew of darkroom equipmentJeff got great results from Atlanta Film Co. with Kodak Vision 3, but is it worth the extra cost, time and effort?the Osiris F1 is a fun ’n’ freaky (’n’ patent-infringing?) film-processing robotwe urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan MosesGabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffemeanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap!we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens clothJeff snapped up Langdon Clay Cars: New York City, 1974-1976 book shot with a Leica CL and Kodachrome 25 - yet everyone on Instagram thinks the pics are AI slop!Gabe found Jeff Bridges’ elusive and highly prized Pictures Vol. 1 at Goodwill for six bucks!who sent Gabe a 110 camera? do tell!happy birthday to our friend Vance DeGeneres - check out his incredible New Orleans New Wave band The Cold!Los Angelenos! look into imstilldeveloping.com and the LA Camera Expo - Gabe will be there!and finally, we stick a pinky toe into the Prodigious Mailbag™

August 14, 2025Episode 941 hr 20 min

Episode 94 • All Floral Wallpaper and Joy

Jeff’s been engaged for over a month, and is suffused with bonhomie and goodwill, while the normally sanguine Gabe is ENRAGED! At eBay sellers who say “make an offer,” but don’t actually want one; at overpriced camera straps and thumb drives — he’s seething! Next, the boys note some stereotypically male behavior from “Chad” GPT, discuss the financial state of our beloved Kodak, examine the controversy over Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, and take a swan dive into an exceptionally Prodigious Mailbag. Finally: will Debbie Gibson record a vocal version of our theme song for the upcoming (and final?) 100th episode, or is that Only In My Dreams? Shake Your Love and find out!Gabe traveled to Lake Muskoka north of Toronto and shot no filmJeff asked ChatGPT to compare the Closter Princess Junior with the Galileo Condor II, and it claimed they were bikes! We now dub the app “Chad GPT,” because he’s a man who'll never say “I Don't Know”!is Kodak in trouble? Calm down!we discuss the emergent controversy over the authorship of Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, as recounted in the new documentary The Stringer - for example, even AP admits the negative was not shot with Ut's preferred Leica M2, but a cheap Pentax, and our trusty dusty camera repair guy confirms thisGabe rails at eBay sellers who say “make offer” but don't want an offeralso, when is the asking price too high? for straps, thumb drives, Alpa strap lugs...?Jeff openly derides absurd packfilm pricesGabe rhapsodizes about OC Camera in Laguna Hillswe both love Sissi Lu's recent photo shoot with her momour trusty dusty camera repair guy replaced the focusing screen in Gabe’s Rolleiflex 2.8E, and the results are gloriousthe Prodigious Mailbag™ includes an unexpected eyewitness update on Jeff's Alpa 10s half-cookieGabe will be at the LA Camera Expo this Sunday, August 17thour designer (and award-winning photographer) Keith Greenstein is back on Instagramcheck out The Darkroom Rumour, The Darkroom’s amazing new streaming site for photo documentariesand let's get Debbie Gibson to record a vocal version of our theme song with composer Fred Coury for the 100th episode!