There's been a lot of ridiculous iPhone-and-film-photography-related Kickstarters lately, and this week we attempt - attempt being the key word - to round them up and summarise our feelings on them without screaming too loudly or murdering each other. As you might expect, some of us manage to have a more balanced approach to this subject than others.

Music is appropriately provided to us by Bastions (remember those guys? They provided the music waaaaay back in the very first episode of the podcast), and it's the first track from their latest EP, Bedfellows: The Bastard Son. You can get a copy of the full EP at bastions.bandcamp.com, and we highly recommend you do so. Hell, if Tony had his way, this is all we'd ever use as intro music.

We'd also like to point out that we FINALLY have email addresses. Any general questions can be directed to [email protected], but you can contact any of the hosts of the podcast by replacing "info" with their name - i.e. [email protected].

And, of course, you can always get in touch with us and read our latest articles and thoughts over at www.pdexposures.com!

Okay, okay. We know. It's been a long time coming. But finally, you get to hear our opinions on the work that was submitted to us after the first intermission episode "aired" last spring. Also, we reveal our personal experiences from taking on the challenge ourselves. (Spoiler: some of us did better than others.)

As ever, the music for this intermission was provided to us by friend (and fellow Leicaphile) Ki Choquette. His page at kichoquette.bandcamp.com has all sorts of beautiful drone-based music available for purchase, and it makes for an amazing soundtrack to a long darkroom session. We highly recommend you grab some for yourself ready for the long winter printing sessions - they'll be here before you know it.

To see the photos we refer to in this intermission, point your nearest internet browser towards the annoyingly long URL of http://www.flickr.com/groups/pdexposures/discuss/72157633003900937 and bask in the skill of our listeners. And for everything else related to film photography, head to pdexposures.com!

You can blame Dan Domme for this one: if it wasn't for him producing a brilliant little zine of his own, we might not have ever considered having a zine review episode. Of course, his zine (Quality Jones) gets covered, along with a whole bunch of others - good AND bad - and some spirited discussion of what actually constitutes a zine (and also whether fifteen dollars is really too much for a zine).

Frankly, as much as we love zines, Tony'll be glad if we never do another episode about zines again - but only because he's been typing and reading the word zine so much in preparation for this episode that it's stopped making any sense to him any more. Zine. Zine. Ziiiiiiiiiiine.

The music is another track from Ryan White's fantastic album Cry Wolf, and it's entitled Salvation. Go buy his album at www.ryanwhitemusic.com, and please remember that all the information on the zines mentioned in this episode can be found at www.pdexposures.com!

If there is one gap in our knowledge here at Pdexposures, it's large format. None of us have used anything bigger than 120 enough to sit and talk about it without sounding like an idiot, so we had to enlist someone with much more experience that all of us combined, and who else could we turn to other than Shawn Hoke?

For those of you who don't know Shawn… well, to be honest, shame on you. He's a fantastic medium and large format photographer who takes some truly stunning photos. His large format shots of New York at night easily surpass almost every example of that cliché you've ever seen - so much so, in fact, that they actually escape the cliché. Go check out his website at www.shawnhoke.com and be prepared to be amazed.

The music was provided to us by another good friend of Pdexposures, Sam Sanchez. Sam's a young film photographer from the Philippines, and the track's called "Suroy Opening Theme" by his AVR Ensemble. If you have any music you'd like to let us feature on the show - or if you'd like to get in touch with us for any reason - please head over to www.pdexposures.com and drop us a line!

Here at Pdexposures we are of the belief (well, one of us is, anyway) that the best kind of party is a Communist Party, so we're making a second vodka-soaked visit to the Cold War era to discuss the ins and outs of the rangefinders of the Soviet Union.

While we've already covered the Kiev line and the history of the Soviet camera industry pretty thoroughly back in part 1, this time round we get a rundown of more or less every Leica mount rangefinder they Soviets produced, from the original Fed all the way through to the relatively obscure Leningrad. You couldn't even find this much information in the entirety of Das Kapital, and that thing is HUGE.

Fittingly - considering this is a return to a previous topic - we return to one of our first bands for the music: Crocus. It's a song called A Spiritual Polemic from their split EP with Lavotchkin. Do both bands - and your neighbours - a favour and track down their EP and play it loud every single day.

And, of course, don't forget to visit pdexposures.com for more film-based goodness!

This time round on the Pdexposures podcast, the team tackles how to not only stay inspired with your photography and keep shooting, but also how to then shape, curate and present the results of your frenetic film-burning.

Join us as we discuss our personal projects, how Simon teams up with other men to pay young women to be with him, and why we make GoDaddy cry on a weekly basis.

Our intro was provided to us by the first responder to our call for music submissions - Patrick Clarke! We've been fans and friends of Patrick for a while, and while he doesn't have a music website or portfolio (shame on him), you should definitely go look at his photographic blog over at http://lightsquared.tumblr.com/. He's very, very good.

If you've got any comments on this show - or even better, some music to submit to us for inclusion into the podcast - please get in touch with us at pdexposures.com!

This week on the Pdexposures podcast, the usual team relays stories of thrifting gold and car boot misery, things to look for and things to avoid like the plague, and gives the Leica X Vario a bonus mention. Out of place on a film photography podcast? Of course, but it's sufficiently ridiculous that Tony just had to bring it up.

A special note is that this - unusually for us - was recorded at a time period where it was daylight for everyone, so it has a beautiful backing track of birds singing transatlantically to bring extra joy to your film-filled day. Huzzah!

Music was provided to us for this episode by Brixn Mortar, the new hip-hop crossover project from one of Tony's school friends from many moons ago. Go give them a nod at https://soundcloud.com/brixnmorta if you like their sound.

Intermission time again! For all those who weren't able to visit the land of fish being thrown for the Pdexposures Comes to Seattle meetup in late May, we have a present for you. Nate was able to take his handheld recorder and microphone along to the meetup to get some interviews with a few of those who showed up to partake in the fun! All in all about 22 people came into the group at one point or another, with the group slowly being whittled down until there were just 5 of us left at a whiskey and sushi bar in Capitol Hill. It was a great time and thank you to everyone who came out; we're sorry not all of you were featured! Any grievances with us over this matter can be taken up with our HR department. Until next time!

Our music this time around comes from Ryan White and his debut solo album "Cry Wolf", which is available via iTunes or on CD at his website, www.ryanwhitemusic.com

Thanks for listening, and - as always - check out www.pdexposures.com for more information, camera reviews, and film articles!

This time on Pdexposures we deal with Nate's favorite topic: Instant film. We cover pretty much every major possibility with regards to shooting instant film, but spend a lot of the episode debating the benefits of the two main films currently available: Impossible Project's integral films and Fuji's Instax. It's not all based around that binary opposition however - we also have some book recommendations, a bit of Polahistory, and a strange, bizarre (and completely unfounded) revelation regarding Nate.

For the second episode in a row, our music comes from Ryan White, and is the title track from his album, Cry Wolf. His website is http://www.ryanwhitemusic.com - go check him out.

I'm sure most of our listeners will already be familiar with the world of instant film, but to see what we've been doing with it, go check the show notes over at www.pdexposures.com and leave us some comments!

Look out! Intermission 3 is here, and it's bringing you a whole new challenge. Just like the sports challenge from the first intermission (which we haven't forgotten about - Nate just hasn't developed his film yet!), this brings with it no prize but a bit of internet fame and the pleasure of engaging in a fun game.

This time round it is a Cheap Camera Challenge; you have exactly twenty Pounds, Dollars, Euros or equivalent (200 Krona, 2000 Yen, 200 HK Dollars, 250 Pesos - We can't list them all but you get the idea) to find and buy a camera (with lens if it's an SLR/rangefinder), a roll of film and to get it developed.

Important points:

- Your budget is inflexible. Going over is going bust.

- The exception is printing; the development cost in the budget is JUST the developing. If you don't have a scanner and need prints or lab scans, you can extend your budget to accommodate that extra expense.

- You only use what you buy. No using filters, lenses, flashes or other accessories you already own.  This also applies to cameras you already own. You must purchase something new to you.

- You can only buy local - meaning face-to-face purchases only. Pretend it's 1990 and eBay doesn't exist. Get out there and walk the streets until you find something.

- If you can only find a multipack of film, that's what you've got to budget for. No buying a three-pack, dividing the cost by three and only declaring the per-roll cost. You might be able to fool us but Jesus IS watching.

- Although we're not going to fail you if you buy a plastic 90's compact, we will judge you. Aim higher, people.

- You have until the end of June to buy a camera, and until July the 15th to get your roll developed.

Throughout this challenge there'll be a topic on the Pdexposures Flickr group for discussion and sharing of our experiences and results, and at some point after the 15th, those with the best stories to tell will have the opportunity to write a guest post on Pdexposures.tv to share them with the world!

The music, as is the general way with intermissions, is provided to us by Pdexposures listener Ki Choquette. His beautiful drone-based music can be found at http://kichoquette.bandcamp.com, and is available both on cassette and pay-what-you-want MP3 download. Go give him some money so he can finally buy that MP he's dreaming of.

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to get in touch with us at www.pdexposures.com or via Twitter - Tony can be reached at @coldkennels, Nate is @NMatosPDX, and Simon is also known as @lenire.

Now get hunting!