Year End Round Up - 2025. Bringing It All Back Home sums up 2025 with a gear round up: fave lens rentals, best low-budget eBay camera systems, as well as what worked the best overall for 2025. Includes: Konica FS-1, Olympus OM2, Mamiya C3, Canon Pro 300 printer, the joy of shooting 6X6, additional must-have Pentax 6X7 lenses— 6X7 135mm f/4 — as well as the ever popular mirrorless purge through mpb.com. Also, is it time to finally bail on the Leica M mount system (before it's too late)?

Peter Lindbergh - Unlocking a Perfect Portrait 

Bringing It All Back Home returns with an episode all about exploring a perfect portrait: Peter Lindbergh's classic 1994 b&w shot of Kate Moss.

Topics: Lindbergh's style, technique, cameras, film, lenses. The mystery behind the shoot, the beauty of Kodak Tri-X, and why the 105mm 2.4 is not the only gem in the Pentax 6X7 lineup.

LINKS:

https://www.phillips.com/detail/peter-lindbergh/UK040123/9

https://dutchaperture.com/2016/11/15/peter-lindberg-a-different-vision-on-fashion-photography/

https://photogpedia.com/peter-lindbergh-the-man-who-changed-the-face-of-fashion-photography/#Photographic_Style

Canon Pro-300 - A Pivotal Next Step?

Bringing It All Back Home returns with a follow-up episode on home printing—featuring a pre-owned Canon Pro-300 from eBay. Explored: Returning and getting a refund on a damaged Pro-310, buying the previous Canon Pro model (used) from eBay, the differences between the 300 and 310. Also, can home printing lead to a life changing experience? Topics: Nations Lab Photo, Bayphoto Lab, Moab Entrada Bright Rag paper.

Links:

https://youtu.be/XC-VudX9HJQ?si=fTwmPuCR064CrYGH

Hahnemühle Highway . Bringing It All Back Home returns with an episode on home printing. From darkroom prints with a Beseler 23CII to the latest Canon dye and pigment ink printers, this episode explore the Pros & Cons of making the big splurge. Topics include: Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-310 Professional 13" Wireless Inkjet Photo Printer. the entry level 200s, as well as the top of the line 1100. Also: Office Space, Nick Carver, the legendary Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Nations Lab, White Wall Photo Lab. Links:

NIck Carver: https://youtu.be/p0o_SCuStvw?si=UCYQ0Fhib8EmlAZ6

Compare:

https://youtu.be/qLh7Fu3LH3c?si=nqUzEzI3ZpYFslM1

Back To Hexanon. Bringing It All Back Home returns to the theme of the budget 28mm — this exploring the neglected world of Konica's legendary Hexanon lenses. Discussed on this episde: the compact 4th version of the Hexanon AR 28mm 3.5 lens. Also: Hexanon 40mm 1.8, Hexanon 50mm 1.7. Links:

http://www.konicafiles.com/3-hexanon-ar-lenses/-wide-angle-lenses/ 

https://buhla.de/Foto/Konica/Objektive/e28_35.html

Analog Combo - Leica CL, Industar 50, Eastman Double X, HC-110 Dilution H.

Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant, No. 233 — Lytkarino. LZOS -1953 era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytkarino_Optical_Glass_Plant

Double X:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bringing-it-all-back-home/id1471887835?i=1000522462861

Panorama On Film: I Finally Get It. Today's new episode is all about discovering how to convert a Pentax 6X7 into a Hasselblad Xpan-like panorama camera. It's all inspired by Kyle McDougal's most recent YouTube videos. Topics: I Dream Of Cameras, 65:24, panorama conversion kits, American Cinematic Society, Portra 160, Pentax 6X7 45mm.

Kyle McDougal's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJgRPNVLmgw&list=LL&index=2 xpan

https://youtu.be/_mlxHMxrFDQ?si=gcHBiiO6RjZn-p3J 6X7

ASC:

https://youtu.be/uRg_qjXMZjE?si=KlK0JvV-uJQzsBY4

This month I published a revised version of a writing project that began in 1995. In today's Bringing It All Back Home podcast —I'll explore its origins, its themes of mortality & escape, as well the perspective that decades of distance can provide.

My book (on amazon): https://a.co/d/arU0P35

(Another historical work by Simon Sebag Montefiore:)

https://a.co/d/bMxT3s1

Bringing It All Back Home returns with an episode dedicated to the photography of Jim Marshall. Inspired by the new collection— The Grateful Dead By Jim Marshall— this episode takes a dive into Jim Marshall's career, his obsession with cars, guns, Leicas & cocaine, as well as his still somewhat neglected legacy.

The book:

https://a.co/d/06XjqdU⁠

The Jim Marshall documentary:

https://tubitv.com/movies/651994/show-me-the-picture

Bringing It All Back Home returns with an episode all about the Olympus OM-2 and Zuiko 28mm 3.5, as well as the classic Zuiko 50mm 1.4. In this episode: Pros & Cons of the OM-2, what to look out for; the excellent results at f8 from the cheapest of Zuiko 28mm lenses; being surprised by the outstanding performance of the OM-2s metering.

Links:

https://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/olympusom1n2/om2/index.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn80js1GX2E

https://rangefinderforum.com/threads/the-downsized-slr-revolution-of-the-‘70s-and-‘80s.4815178/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrZEH2vONM&list=LL&index=9&t=462s