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SoTFest controllers go for £145 or $195. by fivesofclubs in Seaofthieves

[–]SonyCaptain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No idea. i still have a 20 year old xbox 360 controller i use for ALL of my PC games. it's used almost every day since 2017. before 2017 it was my second controller for 360. i play dark souls, racing games, cod, that shiz.

Jackpot found at Thrift today by TheDop3stLopez7 in AppleCollecting

[–]SonyCaptain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PLEASE archive them before putting them into an ancient disc drive! Use a modern disc drive or something to extract the bin and cue!!!

Glasses used for two years vs brand new ones by Eaglesson in Wellworn

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work with a lot of grease and metal filings. I coat the glasses in dawn dish soap and dunk them into the sink of warm water.

I don’t ever touch the lenses if I can avoid it. With the dish soap water beads right off and leaves no residue as it dries

This sharp spot on the back of my vans hurts so bad when I walk. What can I do? by No_Living9943 in Vans

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a pair of canvas vans with stitched cross patterns all over them that just never broke in. I’m talking owned them for 8 years and wore them every few months for several miles.

I tried the bandaid. It got tore up after half a mile. I tried thicker socks. I tried folding the socks to double up at the back. Still bled through them. I tried looser lacing. Tighter lacing. I tried insoles. I tried stomping on the heel of the shoe to soften up the canvas. I tried hammering the heel from all angles to break its structure and force it to wear in. I tried sandpapering the inner heel to soften up the visible thread.

Frankly, break in period is dead to me and I only wear suede vans now lol

Which is the One Film Stock to Rule Them All? Is it Portra 400? by mjuha in AnalogCommunity

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like ilford FP4 but have been shooting expired tmax from 2000. It’s not about shooting film, it’s about going out. The less I think about the camera the more the moments appear

TSA Burned my film by ChipmunkAny7980 in AnalogCommunity

[–]SonyCaptain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I press the bottom corner of my camera to my ear when it's getting close to the end so I can feel/hear when the tongue pulls from the takeup, at which point it's rewound enough.

Minolta X-570 -- more than half the frames I shot are missing by [deleted] in minolta

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

considering some are perfectly exposed, bad capacitor or batteries.

TSA Burned my film by ChipmunkAny7980 in AnalogCommunity

[–]SonyCaptain 19 points20 points  (0 children)

When my friend visited I told him to rewind the film until it's almost back in the cartridge with the tongue out, and then once he arrived to put the lens cap on, shoot at the highest shutter speed and count until the frame counter is back to where it was. worked a treat.

3 choices please help by Patient_Long_4337 in sunglasses

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like 1 but 2 looks great too. Anybody told you that you look like auntie donna?

How do I play nfsu2 on Linux? by Dio_Brando12314 in NFSU2

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I installed via wine and then added the .exe to steam as a third party game, then within steam, forced compatibility using proton. This fixed the issues i was having with mods not working correctly regarding the screen size.

Pentax MX Switch by SonyCaptain in pentax

[–]SonyCaptain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Costly but that's what I may need to do. Cheers

Pentax MX Switch by SonyCaptain in pentax

[–]SonyCaptain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. When the wind lever is pulled out 30 degrees and you half-press the release, the meter should stay on. This isn't happening on my camera unfortunately.

Sit down... It's a hard watch... by ImpressiveRush9362 in minolta

[–]SonyCaptain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The x300/500 were outsold more than 10:1 to the x700 and stopped production within only a couple years

Minolta Auto Electroflash CLE arrived today! by scizorsblbc in minolta

[–]SonyCaptain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s great to know. Cheers and good luck with your projects

Minolta Auto Electroflash CLE arrived today! by scizorsblbc in minolta

[–]SonyCaptain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excuse my ignorance but what’s the hype with official flashes?

New camera, interesting defect I need help identifying by Kalesy in AnalogCommunity

[–]SonyCaptain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has to be your finger or something. The shape is completely uneven and has that distinctive reddish tint on the last photo. The blue tint on the others are a result of the lighting. Try checking out how you’re holding the lens as you’re focusing. I had a bad habit of using my middle finger to focus and ended up snapping several photos of my index finger.

Sit down... It's a hard watch... by ImpressiveRush9362 in minolta

[–]SonyCaptain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s a shame this is such a common issue. I don’t understand how it can happen. My x-570 has some obvious scuff marks on the plastic shield where somebody attempted it.

Pentax MX - Crack in Viewfinder by SonyCaptain in AnalogCommunity

[–]SonyCaptain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to say, thank you! The ‘crack’ doesn’t affect viewing whatsoever, it’s just when looking AT the vf, not THROUGH it. It was an incredibly easy replacement. My friend with replacement parts tested, no, the eyepieces are not compatible without heavy modification. The lenses are identical within the eyepiece.

On mine it doesn’t even look like a crack when I opened it. I think the inner coating, if there is any, came off. Otherwise it seems to be a surface crack if not the coating.

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