After my post lamenting the discontinuted Polaroid Time-Zero film, Susanna pointed me to a page of Polaroid’s website that gives suggestions about how to mod your SX-70 camera so it can accept 600 film. The modifications are pretty simple, but for all you visual people, I thought it might be helpful to see what they are talking about. Here is how to mod your Polaroid SX-70 to accept regular 600 Polaroid film:
My father-in-law gave me this great old folding Polaroid camera a couple weeks ago. After doing some research on the camera I was disappointed to learn that the film was recently discontinued. It looks like the “Time-Zero” film is only available on Ebay. If anyone has some other good resources for getting some film, let me know.
Ebay is a great place to shop for the Polaroid SX-70. Here’s what is on Ebay right now:
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Being relatively new to shooting with polaroid 55 film, I didn’t take into account the cold teperature when I was shooting with my pinhole camera last weekend. I waited the usual 25 seconds before pulling apart the print from the negative. The print looked really good, and I assumed the negative would be normal. But when I scanned in the negatives, I was surprised to see alot of solarization. Apparently you need to add development time when you are shooting in cold teperatures. Actually, I was quite pleased with the solarization, and will probably do this again in the future just to get this solarization effect.
The Polaroid 95a Land camera was manufactured from 1954-1957. It is a beautiful camera, and it is a shame that they don’t make film for it anymore. When my friend gave me this camera, I knew I had to modify it somehow to make it usable. I came close to modifying it so I could use it with my Polaroid 545 back, but I couldn’t bring myself to hack off the back of this camera. So, I decided to convert the Polaroid 95a to accept medium format 120 film. A quick measurement showed that I should be able to get a 6×10 image on 120 film. Here are the instructions for how to modify a Polaroid 95a to a usable 6×10 medium format camera. Oh, and I fabricated most of the new camera assembly out of Legos.
I gave you a teaser about the Polaroid 545 pinhole camera I have been building in my post about how to make a homemade shutter. Well, my camera is finished, and here are a couple of its features and how I built them…
I picked up a Polaroid camera for $1 at a garage sale thinking I could add a pinhole and have a pinholaroid. I didn’t find any good online tutorials, and feeling confident after building my digital pinhole camera, I decided to figure it out as I went. Keep reading to learn how to turn a cheap Polaroid camera into a cheap polaroid pinhole camera…
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