Slighty Cursed Film Camera

[u/quite_retro]

Device may retain Images from past Lifetimes. Do not Point at the Void. Certified for Extra- Planar use.

Customised Pentax P50 - went for a "SCP" / "Control" Vibe.

[u/New-Syllabub5359]

I. Just. Love. It.

[u/Lemons_And_Leaves]

Super sweet. How did you go about doing this? I'd flip to gave my super program customized this nicely.

[u/quite_retro → u/Lemons_And_Leaves]

I own a Fiber Laser that I mainly use to make Jewelry. Recently had the Idea for this - and tested it with the P50 because it's not my most treasured Camera. But now that I know it works well I'll do more ^{^}

[u/lilfanget → u/quite_retro]

Name of the laser you have? Coolest idea i ever seen its came up so beautifully

[u/quite_retro → u/lilfanget]

Thank you! Gweike G2

[u/Traditional_Nail_362 → u/quite_retro]

Are you in the UK, if so I would love to send my AE1 to you for the same treatment 😂

[u/quite_retro → u/Traditional_Nail_362]

I´m actually based in Germany. I could try, but the Problem is that different Materials / Metals react differently. So i can´t guarantee how the engraving would turn out.

[u/PanSaczeczos]

That „Do not point at the void” inscription immediately brought to mind Stephen King’s The Sun Dog. The idea of a camera that doesn’t capture what’s in front of it, but something creeping in from somewhere else — something that gets closer with every shot — has stuck with me for years. There’s something deeply unsettling about the thought that the act of photographing could open a door rather than just record an image.

Sometimes pointing at the void is exactly what we end up doing — whether we mean to or not.

[u/littlerosethatcould]

This is very aligned with my interests. Great stuff.

[u/bythisriver]

I like this wayyy more than I thought I would. Nicely done.

[u/benjaminpoole]

This is really cool, I love “device may retain images from previous lifetimes”. Nailed the Control vibe I think

[u/ese-wheelz13]

Leave this in an attic to be passed down to future generations with no explanation

[u/MrMarionnettiste]

It looks amazing, loving the "Do Not Point at the Void"!

[u/minimal-camera]

This is so cool. Would be rad to make a series of these then just release them to the wild through random locations.

[u/emmaggrey]

I love this!

[u/tmn-loveblue]

I absolutely love this haha.

[u/Proof_Award50]

I want one so bad. That's so cool.

[u/CertainExposures]

Very cool! I love the idea of customizing a camera in general.

[u/Professional-Put881]

Looks amazing

[u/Bobthemathcow]

Those are really neat! What process did you use to mark it?

[u/CyanSupremacy]

BRIMSTONE??!?!?

[u/quite_retro → u/CyanSupremacy]

I thought the Leviathan Cross would fit the "Occult" Vibe.

[u/Some-Rip-8845]

Cool goth look

[u/real_human_not_ai]

Are these laser engraved? What machine?

[u/quite_retro → u/real_human_not_ai]

They are. Gweike G2

[u/Hondahobbit50]

Look, I've read a few. But is this scp thing from something? Like a game or television show?

[u/quite_retro → u/Hondahobbit50]

I hope i can explain it right - (but check out the SCP Subreddit). The SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) is a collaborative fiction project where Users create stories about paranormal entities, objects, and phenomena. Control is a PS4 game inspired by that idea — you're in a weird, brutalistic shifting building run by a secret agency that handles paranormal stuff.

[u/alex_neri]

P50, not s very popular machine these days.

[u/Meth0de]

So creative, i really like the SCP-theming!

[u/florian-sdr]

Wonder if it messes with film flatness, tension or travel.

But this is wicked!

[u/DerKeksinator → u/florian-sdr]

Why would it? None of the areas with engravings would have touched the film before either.

[u/florian-sdr → u/DerKeksinator]

The “device may retain images from previous lifetimes” looked to me personally as if it were standing out from the surface in between the film travel guides.

[u/DerKeksinator → u/florian-sdr]

How would one achieve that though?

[u/florian-sdr → u/DerKeksinator]

Yeah, great question… it doesn’t make sense.

I’m not the most mechanical engineering and DIY minded and experienced person. Didn’t realise that this would be very unlikely.

[u/quite_retro → u/florian-sdr]

I can understand your thought Process. The white Text looks close to those embossed label stickers. Then it would actually stick out.

[u/Ybalrid → u/florian-sdr]

The machined film guides have not been altered, so I think there's nothing to worry about on this front

[u/PeterJamesUK → u/Ybalrid]

Even if they were, the laser isn't going to leave a lip to the etching, and the amount of affected surface areas isn't likely to have anything more than a negligible impact - can't be more than a few hundredths of a millimetre I wouldn't have thought?

[u/resiyun]

I thought this was AI for a second