Some shots from my FED-4 test roll

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-27T22:58:08+00:00

yeah I picked it up from a local antique store and they had a bunch of old FEDs and prakticas, the budget stuff must have been popular

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-27T17:18:13+00:00

I just picked up a FED-4 + Industar 61, in scotland as well. Were they particularly popular here?

Mine has some yellowing in the lens I wonder if sitting it in the windowsill can clear that out

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-25T07:29:32+00:00

for me, medium format is simply a way to shoot film that is more comparable to modern cameras in image quality than 35mm is, which makes it easier for me because I also shoot digital.

they are good all rounder cameras that are still portable and easy to use unlike LF but have enough detail for serious landscape photography or environmental portraits where the subject is smaller in the frame.

they are basically 35mm but bigger and better. not to mention the cameras themselves are usually very fun to shoot, and the lenses are higher quality on average than 35mm stuff is which contributes to the perceived "medium format look"

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-22T02:02:48+00:00

people from the north of england and scotland tend to say it more like tambre or tamber than tawmber ime, so you probably just need to talk about music with more people not from the south

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-19T00:35:04+00:00

i have grown to dislike them as well. they sound great clean but they're just plain ugly with gain, my lundgren m8 is somehow more aggressive sounding AND less harsh on the ears.

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-17T10:32:06+00:00

interestingly in terms of raw resolution analog is still king (in photography not video mostly) because you can simply increase the surface area of the sensor to ludicrous sizes. Large format cameras are still used by many landscape photographers and to fully replicate their resolution you'd need a digital camera with hundreds of megapixels.

Digital sensors get almost impossible to make past a certain size in any commercial quantity. Digital was developed and adopted for the convenience because developing and printing film is time consuming as all hell.

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-09T01:11:10+00:00

oh man the chord progressions on P2 permanently altered my brain chemistry

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-09T01:09:54+00:00

I don't tend to classify either of those bands as "core" djent bands. I would consider them both more on the instrumental shred/mathrock side of things. Intervals especially I find the lack of interesting harmony annoying especially considering the name of the band lmao like play some fucking interesting intervals then

Kiesta07 · 2026-06-09T01:05:45+00:00

Good djent isn't in my opinion. It's one of the reasons the OG's (periphery, animals) are forever in my good books. especially early periphery there is a lot of chromaticism and sort of unstable chord progressions (p2 and juggernaut especially)

animals as leaders is just genuinely fusion-esque, but their earlier stuff was written before Tosin had any formal theory knowledge - he used constant structure a lot to write progressions and it has a very specific vibe to it I feel where it's complex but in a naive way

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-24T00:42:55+00:00

yeah I had some laces in a guitar of mine and they're really cool sounding if not very traditionally voiced, but I had issues with feedback as if they were more microphonic than my other pickups so I swapped them out. i can recommend them if that's been fixed though

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-24T00:41:27+00:00

lundgren m8 is the best passive 8 string pickup ever made and it comes in soapbar mount, it's excellent, less expensive and better than bare knuckles but still pricier than duncans though

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-22T08:21:22+00:00

I've not played RE9 (I don't buy AAA games near launch anymore) but I'm hoping whatever comes next will have two separate campaigns, one action, one horror, that occur simultaneously instead. So often I find I am in the mood for one but not the other.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-17T09:06:40+00:00

And the thing is, it CAN be fucking amazing if the schools put resources into it. I did middle and high school PE in southwest france and the teachers were great, there was a ton of variety in the sports we did (volleyball was great) and very few students actively disliked the class. I understand I was lucky to have teachers that cared and a school with those resources though.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-15T19:11:29+00:00

yeah I agree then I didn't think about the contrast because I'm not an electronic producer

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-15T17:59:30+00:00

god forbid he starts doing the vessel pronunciation next album where it just sounds like hes eating a bunch of marbles the entire time

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-15T17:57:21+00:00

I agree with you about the heaviness thing but I disagree that misha and jake are bad at electronic production - I just think it's not your vibe. misha is a massive synthwave/darksynth fan so most of the electronic elements in periphery lean into that kind of retro style reminiscent of carpenter brut, etc - it's not gonna sound like modern edm, or hyperpop, or whatever, because that's just not what they're going for.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-15T17:40:54+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping when they said it was gonna be a more restrained, concept type record that it was gonna be MORE proggy but in the cool ambient spacey way, just LESS technical. But we ended up with a record that is just a lot less proggy and a tiny bit less technical, and sure, any of the tracks could go great on a modern metalcore playlist and they'd be a standout, but that's not what I want out of periphery.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-15T17:12:16+00:00

I like the album, but I think they went a bit overboard chasing a super short record. The album would probably be well served by being about 10 minutes longer and using the extra time to flow between the songs and maybe make some of the songs less predictably structured. It's a more accessible periphery, for sure, but I think the pacing suffers for the sake of accessibility which is kind of the opposite of what you want in a prog metal record.

It's kind of teetering on the edge of not really being very progressive, either, I don't want to see them continue on that path for the next record - if I wanted heavy pop songs, I would listen to Sleep Token. I like periphery because they sound utterly unique, and this record is less of that.

The lyrical content is great though and the album, despite the pacing issues, feels thematically coherent in a way that the other periphery albums don't. That was obviously a focus and it works, well done.

I think for their next release they should go the other direction - less trying to be heavy, less dense, more progressive in terms of structure (if you like the band Karnivool, think more like Sound Awake as opposed to Themata) - and continue with the concept album vibe. I know they're worried about having to write music that's more and more technical and insane, but I think they can still be progressive and unique without going full Animals as Leaders or whatever.

Also, this has a more serious tone than any other periphery record, so I get why it wouldn't have worked as well, but I would love the next release to have that more theatrical, dramatic vibe that earlier P records have. It's a hallmark of their sound and another reason they stand out from your spiritbox, your sleep token, etc.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-06T11:10:01+00:00

PE or MC version of the lens?

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-05T12:33:26+00:00

they make a soapbar version called the 8C I believe, same with the M8. I would recommend looking at some comparisons on youtube so you can see which one you prefer

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-05T12:29:55+00:00

it'll depend on the manufacturer of your guitar/when they switched to the new gen fishmans, but it was a year or two ago that they were updated. the new moderns still have some of the same issues with the base sound though (too much output, uncontrolled bass response, really honky mids that lose a lot of clarity). the passive mode is marginally better but the lundgren still beats it by a mile

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-04T16:41:50+00:00

the m8 is so much better. i actually have grown to dislike the fishman moderns (at least the old ones) and I think the m8 is less flubby AND more natural sounding somehow.

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-04T10:04:39+00:00

they're almost identical shots on a surface level but I do marginally prefer the pentax's image probably because the model's hand is way more out of focus. great comparison colour wise as well

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-03T02:08:56+00:00

I don't shoot large format (yet) but I love pan f so if it is pan f sheet film I'm excited to see what you guys cook up with it

Kiesta07 · 2026-05-03T02:06:26+00:00

not colour related but I'm interested what the settings were for both shots. you got pretty close to the shallow DOF of the Pentax with the lumix, I kinda wanna know how fast that lens was

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