Ach, der Schmerz! Aïe, la douleur! Jeff’s insanely rare, perpetually coveted, and newly repaired half-frame Alpa 10s has been lost by UPS. As you listen to the latest episode of our Smash Hit Podcast™, globally acclaimed yet eschewing of praise, spare a thought or a prayer for the grieving cohost!

yes, the Alpa 10s half-cookie is MIA at UPS - should we be putting AirTags in our important packages?

Gabe is obsessed with which film cameras were used by legendary photographers to take legendary shots - are you?

Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo and came home with a slew of darkroom equipment

Jeff got great results from Atlanta Film Co. with Kodak Vision 3, but is it worth the extra cost, time and effort?

the Osiris F1 is a fun ’n’ freaky (’n’ patent-infringing?) film-processing robot

we urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan Moses

Gabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffe

meanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap!

we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens cloth

Jeff snapped up Langdon Clay Cars: New York City, 1974-1976 book shot with a Leica CL and Kodachrome 25 - yet everyone on Instagram thinks the pics are AI slop!

Gabe found Jeff Bridges’ elusive and highly prized Pictures Vol. 1 at Goodwill for six bucks!

who sent Gabe a 110 camera? do tell!

happy birthday to our friend Vance DeGeneres - check out his incredible New Orleans New Wave band The Cold!

Los Angelenos! look into imstilldeveloping.com and the LA Camera Expo - Gabe will be there!

and finally, we stick a pinky toe into the Prodigious Mailbag™