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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Ultra Low ISO Club Podcast

Viewfinder Vikings Podcast

The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast

Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast

Sunny 16 Podcast

The Large Format Photography Podcast

Mike Epstein

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.?

City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation: Rats in Chicago

23 adorable photos that will change the way you think about rats

Snowy Owls in Chicago

Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary: “The Magic Hedge”

The Mississippi Flyway

Pentax K Mount

PentaxForums Lens Review Database: Film Era Pentax K-Mount Lenses

Emulsive: Shooting the Kodak Aero Ektar

Scott Graham - 37 Different Camera Shutter Sounds

EPISODE 88 PLAYLIST

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads

Leon Redbone - My Walkin Stick

Pavement - Box Elder

Czesław Mozil - Pentax Song

Pentatonix - Bohemian Rhapsody

RATT - Round And Round

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

EPISODE 88 TAGS

#PentaxK #AeroEktar #BabySpeedBraphic #ChicagoWildlife #analogmike #CLP88

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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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EPISODE 87 LINKS & REFERENCES

Tair-11a 135mm f2.8

Olympus OM Lenses

Nikon F-301 / N2020

Haiku Generator

"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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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

Yeenon Ebay Shop

Agfa Ambi Silette to Leica M Adapter

Surströmming Official

Surströmming Official in English

Dog Tries Surströmming

Jeppson’s Malort Official

EPISODE 86 PLAYLIST

"Guns Don't Kill People" by Goldie Lookin Chain

"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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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

Rollei 35 RF

Minolta M-Rokkor-QF 40mm f2

Ken Rockwell: The Flashlight Test

Jeff Bridges on the Wide-Lux

It’s only a model…

Kung Fu

Plain Wrap: Green Light, Red Light

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#CLP85 #KungFuHaze #PanoJag #LuxAsphOoftah #cheaplenschallenge #MinoltaMRokkorQF #Rollei35AF #JeffBridges #WideLux #KungFu #RedLightGreenLight #FlashLightTest #KenRockwell

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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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

Serengeti "Dennehy"

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#CLP84 #Haiku #21mmColorSkopar #25mmSnapshotSkopar #Sunny16Podacst #Malort #PGHG #SuperFans #CoachDitka #SerengetiDennehy #SoxBearsHawksBulls #cheaplenschallenge

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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EPISODE 82 LINKS & REFERENCES

Al’s Beef

Al & Joe’s Deli

Dino’s Pizza & Pasta

Gene & Jude’s

Lou Malnati’s

Kodak Bantam Special

Rollei 2.8e

Rollei 35s

Rollei 35se

Heinz Waaske

Wirgin Cameras

Edixa Reflex

Chicago Portage National Historic Site

Perspective Control in Images - Focal Length or Distance?

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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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The Horizon 202

Micro Contrast and the ZEISS ‘Pop’ – by Lloyd Chambers

Leitz Leica Elmar 3,5cm f3.5

LEICA 50mm f/2.8 ELMAR-M (1994-2007)

Canon Camera Museum: The Golden Age of Built-In Rangefinder Cameras

The Dutch Tilt

Why do we take photographs?

New Leica Manual by Morgan and Lester

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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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EPISODE 81 LINKS & REFERENCES

Kolarivision Infrared Conversions

IR Hotspot Lens Ratings

David Hockney Photography

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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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EPISODE 80 LINKS & REFERENCES

Series Filters

Laowa 15mm f2

Canon IVSB User Manual

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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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EPISODE 79 LINKS & REFERENCES

Vintage Film Shooters on Facebook

CLP 22: Eric Kaas Sluis's Desert Island Lenses

CLP 59: Budget Lenses

Topcon Club

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