How did these two mumbling malcontents pump out pods for five years and ninety-eight nattering episodes? In this one, the boys barely discuss that at all! Instead Jeff recaps his trip to London, to the shop where he bought both his Alpa and XPan, and Gabe recounts his acquisition of a legendary lens owned by an even-more-legendary photographer. A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest — tune in!

November 20 marks IDOC’s fifth anniversary, and the 21st marks Jeff’s birthday!

Jeff briefly recounts his trip to London, including a stop at Camera City, the shop where he got both his first Alpa and his first XPan

Gabe’s birthday bonanza included a Lab-Box and a Negative Supply scanning rig…

…he found a Beseler 67SC enlarger on FB Marketplace…

…and went to (basically) Spahn Ranch in the Hollywood Hills to secure a 80mm f4 Rodenstock Rodagon enlarger lens… which, it turns out, used to belong to Herb Ritts!

our continuing adventures with the maddeningly inconsistent Chad GPT: it misled Jeff about the fate of the final penny, and lied to Gabe about a mysterious TLR which turned out to be a rare Rolleiflex 2.8F white face

what do the boys think of the soon-come Widelux XX?

sad news: Freestyle Photo is closing their brick-and-mortar location

should Jeff buy an O.G. Alpa-Reflex on the ‘bay to complete his collection?

once again, we improbably empty the Prodigious Mailbag™

and now you must run to the L.A. Camera Expo in Burbank ‘cause it’s happening at this very moment!

More like L.A. De Da, because both hosts are together in the City of Angels: scoring sibling Olympi at a camera show, talking “new” Kodak film stocks with tasty typography, and shooting the works with a half-frame Swiss, a square-frame German and an American GOOSE. Tune in - it'll change your wife!

this episode is dedicated to the memory of the great photographer Diane Keaton

our second bad review has utterly vanished!

Jeff’s results with the half-cookie Alpa 10s were delightful...

shooting with the Polaroid GOOSE was a total kick...

and the square-frame Zeiss Ikon Taxona - two-thirds of a cookie! - is a fun alternative to the elusive Mamiya Sketch

at the wondrous L.A. Camera Expo, Gabe snapped up an Olympus 35RC, while Jeff went for big brother 35SPn, a rarer version of the 35SP with better typography

Chad GPT misled us again! he made Jeff buy a Kilfitt Makro-Kilar in Exakta mount, insisting it was Alpa

Kodacolor returns - or does it? once again, all we care about is good typography!

how embarrassing: Jeff’s nemesis has entered the world of fashion

we had a blast at the Bike Shed complex in DTLA’s Arts District

we actually empty the Prodigious Mailbag™ for a change

and finally, we urge you continue imploring Debbie Gibson to perform our theme song for the 100th episode

Is it enough for these two “middle-aged men” to merely share “what they’ve been up to”? One peevish iTunes reviewer doesn’t think so! But for the rest of you, tune in to this XL episode to hear the felicitous end of Jeff’s half-frame Alpa saga, news of Gabe’s bag-quisitions and camera meetups, a screed about how the new tariffs are crippling our hobby, a impassioned defense of free speech, and so much more!

rejoice, for Jeff’s half-a-cookie Alpa 10s finally arrived! not only that, after he emailed the CEO of UPS, he got a personal response and an apology!

Gabe loves his supersnazz Bleu de Chauffe camera tote, yet couldn’t resist snapping up Jeff’s cheap Strand Bookstore messenger bag as well

Gabe (along with Rafael Hernandez) went to the Susan Meiselas event at the Aero Theatre…

…and crashed the LA Camera Exchange meetup from imstilldeveloping.com and Fridge Film

the new hot camera is the Nikonos V — clearly the IDOC effect in action!

Jeff has been kitting out his new Polaroid GOOSE…

…but finds a 50mm lens a bit too tele-ish on the Alpa 10s, since a half-frame focal length × 1.44222 = full-frame, so he put in an offer on a 40mm Kilfitt Makro-Kilar

guess what? we got another bad review!

Gabe hung out with friend-of-show Chris Smirnoff and also Robert Capron, who played Rowley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and went to a screening of Anvil: The Story of Anvil with the mighty Fred Coury

the end of “de minimis” is a catastrophe if you buy stuff from abroad; check this eBay page for all the grim details - and thanks to tariffs, Ausgeknipst no longer ships to the US

the boys take a graceful swan dive into quite the Prodigious Mailbag™

the folks at AOK Camera Repair win the coveted IDOC endorsement

Gabe’s pictures feature in a Judd Apatow article in the latest Vanity Fair

and Camera Maintenance & Repair by Thomas Tomosy is super-expensive, so grab the PDF from the Internet Archive or from here