u/BlandMoffTarkin — reddlx

Looking for more 50s-influenced albums/songs

Hey all, slowly building a glam cd collection, and I find myself particularly drawn to one subgenre- Neo-50s glam rock 'n' roll. Screaming, wailing saxes, jangling right hand piano, dirty guitars and good ol fashioned rock and roll.

You hear it in the Rocky Horror soundtrack. You hear it on "Bat Out of Hell". You hear it on songs like David Bowie's "Star" and "Suffragette City" or Mott the Hoople's "Golden Age of Rock and Roll" (very apt).

Do you have any other recommendations for similar sounding songs, or even better, albums?

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u/BlandMoffTarkin — 9 days ago

▲ 5 r/AnalogCommunity

Dark corners- mirror issue?

Canon FTB Ql with an all-manual Soligor T-mount lens, no lens hood.

With shutter speeds of 1/250 and faster, this black triangle appears very consistently in the lower left corner. This is unlike a shutter capping issue where the unexposed bit is a vertical line. The third photo was taken at 1/125.

I thought I read once that this triangle is the shadow of the mirror, mistimed with the shutter opening, but now I can't find anything to confirm that online, only suggestions of lens hoods and stray fingers.

u/BlandMoffTarkin — 1 month ago

▲ 8 r/Polaroid

Got tired of looking for a Cool Cam, so I made my own

I cannot tell you exactly what model this is, because it's pieced together from several that I had lying around. Standout features include a tripod mount, a two-LED indicator on the flash hood, faceplates from various donors, and a working camera mechanism inside (a desirable feature for a camera!)

Modified to take i-type film and spray painted in my garage. I could have done better with the paint, but I ran into the problem that I just don't care that much.

Attached a sample photograph for your viewing pleasure.

As always, thanks to u/theinstantcameraguy for the Promethean gift of knowledge; how to tear these things apart, and more importantly, put them back together.

u/BlandMoffTarkin — 3 months ago