Bringing It All Back Home

Season 3 Episode 23 - The Magic of 1.2

Hello & welcome back to another episode of Bringing It All Back Home. Today's podcast is all about the irrational but heartfelt love for the latest take on an ultra fast 50mm prime: the modern version on the sliver of depth of field magic known as f/1.2 - in this case the Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM. An astounding, jaw-dropping, overachiever of a lens - with an equally breathtaking list price. Tune in to see if this piece of glass might be a contender for your next rental!

Topics: Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM, X-rite ColorChecker, Lensrentals.com. Ilford Perceptiol

Season 3 Episode 22 - Trying Out Something New Today's new episode explores a variety of topics, mostly centered on trying new stuff: Using Lensrental.com promotions to test out the Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM lens, as well as the Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical. Trying out a new developer - Ilford's extra fine grain powder developer Perceptol. Using the 40mm Summicron-C on the M4 instead of the CL. Craving a return to the classic and clean 50mm framelines of the M4. Purchasing an $18 Nikon N75. And wrapping up with a sudden craze for 10 stop ND filters, including two brands not tried before: Urth as well as Green.L filters.

https://www.filmbodies.com/cameras/camera-reviews/nikon-n75-review.html

Season 3 Episode 21 - The Greatest Lens I’ve Ever Purchased? How a random link to a NIKKOR - The Thousand and One Nights website led me to discover one of the greatest lenses I've ever purchased. Optics: Absolutely Great. Fun factor: incredible. Value? Tune in & learn more about this astonishing bargain kit lens - the AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G. It will do more than happily surprise you - it might even blow you away.

https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/information/story/0063/

Mentioned on this podcast: Haruo Sato, Nikon F100, Nikon F4, TMAX 400, AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G, 300mm NIkkor F4 ED., Fuji Discovery 3000 Zoom, Olympus IS-3.

Season 3 Episode 20 - LIVE CHAT with Brian Bishop

Season 3 Episode 19 - Analog Combo: CONTAX Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F/1.7 Lens w/ the CONTAX ST

Another analog combo - this time featuring the legendary glass that is c/y mount Carl Zeiss. Luckily today’s episode is not only about lens performance that will blow your mind - but it comes at a quite reasonable price. Yes, today will be all about the often maligned AEJ version of the Zeiss lineup, as well as their somewhat neglected SLRs from the 80s & 90s. Will this under $200 50mm Planar live up to the c/y lenses of renown? Are there any original 1975 era RTS cameras that still fully function? Is the viewfinder on the CONTAX ST a joy to behold? Tune in, turn on - grab a cup of tea - and listen in.

Topics: Contax c/y lenses, Contax RTS, Contax 167 MT, Contax ST, CONTAX Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F/1.7  AEJ, MMJ, Rodinal stand development, 50mm primes, Kodak TMAX, Acros 100.

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1487249

https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Contax_RTS 

https://cameragx.com/2020/04/04/contax-st-and-vario-sonnar-28-85-worth-the-hype/ 

Season 3 Episode 18 - Analog Combo: Leica M4, Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 II

Today's Memorial Day weekend episode is all about walking around with a classic rangefinder camera, a vintage-style modern lens, a 1960s Gossen light meter, — and getting lots of requests for photos from far too many drunken shoobies. Tune in, check out the gear, and decide if this kit is right for you - or possibly way too costly to hit the desired fun factor.

Topics: Leica M4, Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 II, Gossen Luna Pro SBC, Ilford Pan F, Philly Shoobies, Margate City Greenhouse beach bar.

Season 3 Episode 17 -  The Last Resort & Why I Bought A Hammerhead

Today’s episode explores the inspiration & challenge of Martin Parr’s The Last Resort  - his brilliant collection of 6X7 photographs highlighting 1980s vacationers on a rundown New Brighton Beach. Shot with a Plaubel Makina rangefinder, daylight flash, highly saturated color film - and an impeccable use of Magnum-style composition - his enduring work poses both technical & artistic questions: How did he possibly pull off these perfect photos?

Also on board: birding/surfing pics, the elusive search for a long lens that one could actually afford, renting the Nikkor 200-500mm.

Topics: Martin Parr, The Last Resort, Hammerhead flash, SunPak, Metz, Nikkor 200-500, Lensrentals.com, Magnum, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Atlantic City

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/martin-parr-the-last-resort/

Season 3 Episode 16 - A Decade of Home Developing 

Is D76 truly the Yacht Rock of film developers? Will using Rodinal 100+1 stand development turn you into a lazy genius? Did this podcast actually compare Ilford ID-11 to Michael McDonald’s background vocals? Aw, Mama - Has It Really Been Ten Years? Tune into today’s newest Bringing It All Back Home episode celebrating black and white film home developing. Tips, tricks, mistakes that could have been avoided - and only a minor diversion into bulk loading. Topics discussed: Kodak D76, Ilford ID-11, Rodinal Stand Development, Kodak HC-110, Ilford DDX, Epson V550, Plustek, Darkroom Dave.

Interested in seeing what you might need to get started? Check out this wish list:

⁠https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/wishlist.jsp#/7CA3309B51/charles-film-wish-list⁠

Darkroom Dave

https://www.darkroomdave.com⁠

Season 3 Episode 15 - Andrew Wyeth’s Home Places

"You can be in a place for years and years and not see something, and then when it dawns, all sorts of nuggets of richness start popping all over the place. You've gotten below the obvious." —Andrew Wyeth

Today’s new episode of Bringing It All Back Home is all about revisiting the life, work, & obsessions of Andrew Wyeth — exploring what it meant to finally visit his home town of Chadd’s Ford, as well as the historic Kuerner Farm. What does it mean to be deeply rooted in place? Can we discover the magic lurking in everyday realism? And did it really take me 10 years to finally drive out to Chadd’s Ford and see the landscape for myself? Tune in, turn on, and check out the poetry & vision that was the work of Andrew Wyeth.

Michael Palin documentary on Wyeth:

 https://youtu.be/D5PrpI9y8W0

Explored on this episode: Andrew Wyeth, Michael Palin, N.C. Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Helga Testorf, Chadd’s Ford Township, Brandywine Museum Of Art. Andrew Wyeth HOME PLACES exhibition February 4-July 13, 2023,

Season 3 Episode 14 - Anatomy of a Film Photoshoot

Three legendary portrait lenses - a bunch of different film stocks - and one hour to work with a terrific model in a great South Jersey location: come back onboard to the Bringing It All Back podcast and find out how it all went! Which lenses? Asahi Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 6×7 105mm F/2.4 | Nikon AI NIKKOR 105mm F/2.5 | Mamiya Macro K/L 140mm F/4.5 M/L-A 

Changing 120 medium format rolls mid shoot? Using a handheld meter & fluctuating (depending on the camera) between ISO 320 & ISO 50? 

Doing an entire shoot completely analog with nothing but manual focus lenses? Did it all work out? Or was it a disaster? Tune in, turn on, and check it out.

https://lens-db.com/mamiya-macro-k-l-140mm-f45-m-l-a/

https://lens-db.com/nikon-ai-nikkor-105mm-f25-1977/

https://lens-db.com/asahi-super-multi-coated-takumar-6x7-105mm-f24-1971/