I Dream of Cameras #26 Sexy MF

The rundown:

 

What the heck is a Pentax MF? A Perkeo? An AE-1? Okay, the last one’s no mystery, but HOP ON your podspeeder for a freewheeling episode featuring plenty of clapbacks from listeners, a bona fide in-person visit from a Sunny 16er, and the disposition of several long-nourished camera dreams.

• A bumper crop of listener mail
• Dream Team sweatshirts are now available
• A recap of our visit with John-Michael Mendizza, including a trip to Cam Photo in Burbank…
• …where Jeff bought a long-coveted Canon AE-1
• Our pilgrimage to Monte's Camera in Whittier, a veritable camera museum, where we learned about the mighty Voigtländer Perkeo
• The Electro Spotmatic is beyond repair, so bring on the strange and wonderful half-frame Pentax MF
• XPan fever has passed
• Panatomic-X auction — 20 rolls for $405! We're 20 years into the film-camera renaissance — is the supply of everything tightening?