Hi there members,

I'm back with a new tutorial to help you take better photos of your walkmans. This time I focused on how to manage lighting with difficult rugged metal body walkmans.

I used a very nice AIWA silver HS-PL50, which is very similar to the HS-PX505 but without Dolby C. I think this walkman was released only in asian markets. It's very very rare to find.

So you can go from this excessive contrast shot:

 to this one, made with the same camera (an iphone) and without professional equipment at all:

Check it at www.walkman-archive.com -> tutorials.

Yes, externally the PL50/505 does appear to be like a lower end version of the PX50/505. However internally it is completely different from the PX50 and shares the same amplification circuitry as the PL30/303. Is yours fully restored? These can be a nightmare to restore due to the many large surface mount capacitors used in the PCB design leaking inside.

I have two in black and a green one coming shortly.

thanx

Interesting, Plop.

Yes, mine works fully and sounds great ;-)

Wow, you have a green one coming? Please post photos to show us, that one is truly rare!

Excellent tutorial! Thanks!

Mayfly

Thanks mayfly.

Plop, did you received your green PL50 already? please show us ;-)