“Pablo Larraín, the film’s Chilean director, felt [Jackie] Kennedy’s love of beauty was so integral to her character that he requested [Natalie] Portman utter ‘I love beauty’ at some point during the shooting of every scene.” This is absurd, but not as absurd as Episode № 67 of I Dream of Cameras, “Your Extra Time and Your Kiss,” in which we discuss cameras called Beauty and Kiss and Super. Tune in for all the mayhem!
* Jeff made yet another math error! 64 is 2 to the fifth
* Gabe presents… Cameras in Focus, 1956:
* Canon VT
* Pentacon FB / Contax FB
* Mamiyaflex Automat BII
* Beauty 35 Super(“I love beauty”)
* Beier Precisa IIA
* Bolta Photavit 36
* Duplex Super 120
* Flexora III
* Kodak Signet 40
* original Leica MP
* Jeff snagged a Canon EOS New Kiss Panorama (a.k.a. Rebel G, a.k.a. Rebel 500N) for $14.50 and gave it to his brother Steven
* After much equivocation, and after handling the lens at B&H, he concluded he does not need the extravagantly-priced 30mm for the Hasselblad XPan
* Gabe did an all-film photo shoot with Claire Hinkley during the recent L.A. monsoon
* Also shot Kylie Silkman and her sister Danica with the stunning Helios-44 lens
* Jason Schneider's books on camera collecting are amazing
* Perplexity.ai is a useful tool for camera comparisons
* We will try to chat with y’all on Discord - check the #idoc-podcast channel under Sunny 16
* Don Goldberg at DAG helped Gabe fix the broken strap guard on his Leica M6 TTL
* And finally, a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™!
