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Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Banished to Okinawa for treating Graeme Jago badly last week, Perry retaliates with a list of demands about how this week’s show is conducted. The tight editorial constraints see Johnny and Simon resort to a plethora of listeners emails as well as talk about rat photography, don’t put that Aero Ektar too close to me, changing the recording slot to allow for whiskey, and Ooftah is the word.
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EPISODE 88 LINKS & REFERENCES
The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast
Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast
The Large Format Photography Podcast
120NOT120MM
Friends of the Chicago River: Mammals and Birds
Chicago: America’s Rat Capital
USA Today: Is your city one of the rattiest in the U.S.?
Rat BBQ
City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation: Rats in Chicago
23 adorable photos that will change the way you think about rats
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport
The Destruction of Meigs Field
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary: “The Magic Hedge”
The Mississippi Flyway
Chicago Bird Collision Monitors: Migratory Bird Rescue and Protection
Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It?
PentaxForums Lens Review Database: Film Era Pentax K-Mount Lenses
Emulsive: Shooting the Kodak Aero Ektar
Emulsive: Building a naked Aero Ektar Speed Graphic
Scott Graham - 37 Different Camera Shutter Sounds
EPISODE 88 PLAYLIST
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
Leon Redbone - My Walkin Stick
Pentatonix - Bohemian Rhapsody
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
EPISODE 88 TAGS
#PentaxK #AeroEktar #BabySpeedBraphic #ChicagoWildlife #analogmike #CLP88
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Simon Forster
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Perry Ge
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Johnny Sisson
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Karl Havens
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Octoblues Royalty Free Music by Kevin Macleod
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Chicago's very own fine bitter Swedish liquor
Jeppson's Malört, Tastes like a Chicago rat den when the snow thaws in June
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Graeme Jago of the Sunny16 Podcast joins the guys to read some Haiku and pick a winner for the Konica lens giveaway. True to form, Mr. Jago can’t resist causing a bit of chaos and picks a fight with Perry about street photography. Perry has a proper rant, then proceeds with counting Haiku syllables like a card shark in Vegas. Graeme also brings a bag of interesting lenses to discuss. Johnny does his best to avoid the Haiku fiasco altogether and Simon does his best to keep this hairy monster of a podcast on track. Spoiler alert: someone wins a lens!
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GRAEME JAGO
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EPISODE 87 LINKS & REFERENCES
Olympus OM Lenses
Zuiko 21mm f2.0 & 21mm f3.5
Nikon F-301 / N2020
X-Fujinon 50 mm f1.6 DM EBC Lens
Haiku Generator
EPISODE 87 PLAYLIST
"Haiku D'Etat" by Mike Aaron & Eddie
"Title Fight" by Western Haikus
"Not About You" by Haiku Hands
EPISODE 86 TAGS
#Haiku #GreameJago #Konica40mm #Zuiko #Sunny16 #StreetPhotography #aloha_bigmike
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Johnny Sisson
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Karl Havens
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Chicago's very own fine bitter Swedish liquor
Jeppson's Malört, Tastes like Trump’s sweaty spray tan at an impeachment hearing
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Deep statements such about whether a camera makes a noise or the photographer as well as, what is "whilst"? Other topics include Contax/Kiev lens adapters, adapter stacking, loud and quite shutters, Pentax 105mm f/2.4 medium Format lens, Agfa Ambi Silette and a couple of Karl Havens anecdotes. Miss you Karl!
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EPISODE 86 LINKS & REFERENCES
Ambi Silette review by Mike Eckman
Pentax 6X7 review at Japancamerahunter.com
The Robot I Camera at Cameraquest.com
Zeiss Ikon review at 35mmc.com
Agfa Ambi Silette to Leica M Adapter
Amadeo Adapters Ebay Shop
Surströmming Official in English
EPISODE 86 PLAYLIST
"Guns Don't Kill People" by Goldie Lookin Chain
“Fresh” by Kool & The Gang
"A Shot of Malört" by Robbie Ellis
“The Malört Song (A Waltz for Old Jeppson”) by Archie Powell and The Exports
EPISODE 86 TAGS
#TruckerTorpedo #AmbiSilette #Pentax6X7 #ZeissIkon #WLF #AmadeoAdapter #YeenonAdapter #RobotCamera #Malort #Surströmming
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Karl Havens
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Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Well the title says it all, except it does not get close! So much to talk about this week as Johnny breaks a camera, Perry is exposed as an eBay noob, and Simon attempts to load a simple load camera, live on the podcast -- what could go wrong? Also in the show, Simon is caught saying something nice about using a rangefinder, we have sympathy for for Lucas Frazee's tragic lens with a great body, and Graeme Jago from the Sunny 16 Podcast is a bad person.
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EPISODE 85 LINKS & REFERENCES
Ken Rockwell: The Flashlight Test
Jeff Bridges: Wide-Lux at 1/15th sec.
Plain Wrap: Green Light, Red Light
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Karl Havens
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#CLP85 #KungFuHaze #PanoJag #LuxAsphOoftah #cheaplenschallenge #MinoltaMRokkorQF #Rollei35AF #JeffBridges #WideLux #KungFu #RedLightGreenLight #FlashLightTest #KenRockwell
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
This week we catch up with listeners letters and we announce how listeners will get the chance to win Perry’s #cheaplenschallenge Konica 40mm f/1.8. Plus, weird Topcons, perspective (yes again) and how this discussion affects Hamish Gill’s sanity, and oh, we’re briefly joined by a Super Special Guest.
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Super Special Guest
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EPISODE 84 LINKS & REFERENCES
5cm f1.5 Tokyo Optical Co. Simlar
21mm f4 Cosina Voigtlander Color-Skopar
25mm f4 Cosina Voigtlander Snapshot Skopar
No more rhymes, i mean it! Anybody Want A Peanut?
Jeppson's Malort Unaired Commercial
Different Countries Try Malort
Bill Swerski's Super Fans: Thanksgiving
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Karl Havens
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#CLP84 #Haiku #21mmColorSkopar #25mmSnapshotSkopar #Sunny16Podacst #Malort #PGHG #SuperFans #CoachDitka #SerengetiDennehy #SoxBearsHawksBulls #cheaplenschallenge
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
We mentioned that Mike Novak was in Chicago town last week, and this week we find out what he got up to on his visit with friends and our own Johnny Sisson. Yes, that means lots of talk about “real” pizza, some stuff they call pizza and sell to tourists, dipped sandwiches and why a McDonalds does a roaring trade in ketchup sachets. In between culinary exploits, we learn more about the miniature wonder of the Rollei 35 and why scale/zone focussing does not make a camera useless, as well as comfort zones and Wirgins.
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MIKE NOVAK
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EPISODE 82 LINKS & REFERENCES
Chicago Portage National Historic Site
Perspective Control in Images - Focal Length or Distance?
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Karl Havens
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#CLP83 #ScaleFocus #FixedLensClassics #Novakian #Rollei35S #ChicagoStyle #beefsausagecombolightdip
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Is the effectiveness of a camera's winding lever enough to justify keeping it, even though Simon can't take a decent picture with the camera for toffee? Is there a Novak in town? Can a plastic Soviet camera be somebody's soul creature? Clearly the answer is yes, but why...?
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EPISODE 82 LINKS & REFERENCES
Micro Contrast and the ZEISS ‘Pop’ – by Lloyd Chambers
Leitz Leica Elmar 3,5cm f3.5
Leica 50mm Summilux f1.4 ASPH
LEICA 50mm f/2.8 ELMAR-M (1994-2007)
Canon Camera Museum: The Golden Age of Built-In Rangefinder Cameras
New Leica Manual by Morgan and Lester
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Karl Havens
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#CLP82 #Horizon #LeicaM2 #Novakian
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
We’ve seen much of Edward Noble’s excellent work in the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook Group, so we asked him to join us for a chat about bokeh panoramas, Infrared, mono and false colour, and his prototype Zeiss lens. Plus, for those that like the less technical side of things, Johnny asks if bokeh panoramas are actually photographs…
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EDWARD NOBLE
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Kolarivision Infrared Conversions
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Karl Havens
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#CLP81 #EdNoble #BokehPanorama #Infrared
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Perry returns, but Simon disappears! Due to some technical difficulties at the Classic Lenses Podcast UK home office, we lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on unsupervised. Perry shares tales of astrophotography and lobster rolls from his holiday in The Maritimes, and gets starry-eyed over his new Topcor 3.5cm lens. Johnny discusses finer points of the Canon IVSB, and pays tribute to his teacher and mentor, Barbara Crane. Bit of a rocky one here without Captain Forster at the helm, but the boys manage to make it through the shoals of episode 80.
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BARBARA CRANE
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Stephen Daiter Gallery
Chinadaily.com.cn
WTTW Chicago
EPISODE 80 LINKS & REFERENCES
Canon IVSB User Manual
CLP #23: Nikkor 105/2.5 discussion
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Karl Havens
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#CLP80 #WheresSimon #HeresPerry #Topcor35mm #Lowa15mm #CanonIVSB #TravelPhotography #BarbaraCrane
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Perry is still hitting the road to New Brunswick in Canada, so we've asked Eric Sluis to take time out from shooting all sorts of weird activities that go on outside his front door at Mons in Belgium, to take up the hot seat. Having postponed "The Nigel Cliff Question" from last week as it was simply too colossal for the time we had, Eric, Johnny, and Simon tackled the question, "Can a cheap lens compete with an expensive one?" Of course the answer is, "It depends" but extraordinarily, that phrase was not used. Find out our answers, assuming we understood the question...
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Eric Kaas Sluis
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EPISODE 79 LINKS & REFERENCES
Vintage Film Shooters on Facebook
CLP 22: Eric Kaas Sluis's Desert Island Lenses
CLP 44: Eric Kaas Sluis talks LTM Lenses
Topcon Club
LTM Topcor Lens
Grainy Dayz Podcast
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Karl Havens
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#CLP79 #BestLenses #Topcor #FujiGL690 #ContaxRF #VintageFilmShooters