Elliotw2 posted:

Speaking of cold weather, I've not shot my 210 any since I got the film because it's been sub-30F. I know the film says it doesn't work well under 40f, but can I compensate for that by letting it sit even longer, or should I throw it somewhere warm until it develops?

MrBlandAverage posted:

Behind the scenes - Chamonix at full extension:

8th-snype posted:

dukeku posted:

Musket posted:

Polaroid 330 gets here on friday. Time to take some deadpan landscapes at 80cents a frame.

8th-snype posted:

Nice Street shot.

Putrid Grin posted:

I just ordered a pack of Project Impossible "Instant" Film.
Morbidly curious if it is as lovely as it seems.

Putrid Grin posted:

I'll turn into a slightly effeminate hipster with poor speaking skills?

Fair enough.

Yeah, I hear that the film is not as much poo poo as it used to be, but its still poo poo. The IP PR team is amazing to be able to sell it in quantities it does.

But I am still curious enough to have this film inflicted upon me, at great monetary cost and loss of my street creed.

Huggable Bear King posted:

Yeah I just picked up this old 600 land camera at a thrift store for $4 because....well it was $4. I think it comes out to be something like $3 a shot with impossible project film. I ordered a pack of it just to dick around with this camera a little and see if it works. There are a shitton of cheap vintage polaroid cameras out there that would be useless without the impossible project so I can't really knock them.

try it with a lime posted:

I thought the first two pictures I got out of my pack were neat, and then the battery died which was enough to convince me never to buy any more.

Frobbe posted:

Bought a polaroid 104 camera today for the mad price of $13. It's sorta grimey but in OK condition otherwise, though I'll have to clean the battery compartment and modify it to use 2x AA or a cr123. Any other function tests or issues I should be aware of?

Huggable Bear King posted:

really? that's good to know thanks. I got my film today, the camera works - even the flash! Black and white develops in a few minutes and looks pretty sharp.

Putrid Grin posted:

I have a Polaroid One step talking camera I got for 5 bucks on craigslist.
And it seems that my grand project impossible experiment is a failure, because it looks like the flash on my camera is burned out, and this beast seems to want to use flash for everything.

Will have to take it out in the sun or something and see how that works out.

I did like that I could see on the horribly underexposed photos.

Frobbe posted:

Did a complete cleaning of the camera, and it's really drat pretty for such an ugly camera. i ran a light all around the bellows and there weren't any light coming in, though i'll repeat it once it gets dark.

must've belonged to a smoker though, the clear plastic went from brown to completely clear after some windex.

i taped a CR123 cell to the original battery holders and slotted it in, and the camera shutters perfectly and adjusts as it should!

so the only question i've got now, other than trying at least one pack of the B&W film, should i get glossy or silk?

Frobbe posted:

Oddly enough, Silk is cheaper than glossy! (by like 20 euro cent) but i'll get the glossy instead

Putrid Grin posted:

So it looks like I need to hold that button on my camera down, in order to fire the flash.
Thanks for the heads up, this saved my pack of film from certain doom.

So despite what people might have gotten across from my posts, I was a big opponent of the Project Impossible. Its expensive, nowhere near "instant", and has major issues with the emulsion.

Now after fooling around with a pack, I loving love it.
I feel like a big part of my infatuation is the camera. I like the squareish format, it lets me shoot closer than any of the large instax cameras or the polaroid folders, and the flash is extremely soft and complementary to the skin. The exposure seems to be always spot on, which is more of a gamble with the instax.

The film itself has pretty nice tones, especially when it comes to skin. But I cannot for the life of me get a shot that doesn't come out brown. Brown tint is apparently caused by light hitting the film after it gets spit out of the camera, but I shoot it straight into a box that I close, so I don't know what else I could do to avoid that.

Also I had one photo get detached from the white "frame", which leads me to believe that their manufacturing process might not be as robust as they might want us to think it is.

Anyways, it is definitely something that I would be really interested in shooting, once they lower the price a bit and figure out how to make the color film ... color, instead of brown.

And time will tell how stable the emulsion is. I know that previous versions had some trouble with photos fading away with time.

Spedman posted:

While that printer is not super cheap (on discount at amazon now for $180), it seems like a WAY better solution than that idiotic iPhone enlarger thing Impossible got millions of dollars to make from kickstarter.

Ark posted:

Whitezombi, I've got a couple Polaroid 600 cartridges if you still want 'em.

Ark posted:

My Instax 210 arrived today, can't wait to take this big ugly bastard out and make some art.

Geektox posted:

Did you get the printer thing? How are you liking it?

basch posted:

^nice shots, that installation looks really cool!

I'm thinking of buying a secondhand Instax 210 because the price it's being offered at seems too good to be true. Of course, I would like to know if it actually is too good to be true... so aside from taking a couple test shots is there anything I should watch out for?

Like suspicious noises etc.?

Putrid Grin posted:

Cool shots.

It's been my goal to drive down Rt. 66 and take some photos, but the logistics of it are daunting. Need more vacation time and money.

How do you like the 75mm? I have been hunting for one for a while for my Mamiya system to get something that covers the whole FP film area, but the prices are a bit silly at the moment.

Putrid Grin posted:

Don't have a screen. My style of shooting doesn't lend itself to it that often, but it sure would be useful for portraits at minimum focus distance.

Putrid Grin posted:

Whitezombi your big shot setup looks very interesting. If I wasn't all about portability right now I would be picking your brain about it because the results you are getting are sweet as hell.

Shellman posted:

Thanks for the tips, but didn't wind up buying it unfortunately--he knew nothing about the camera other than in his mind it was "worth something"--he'd picked it up cheap somewhere and wanted to make money. Didn't want to let me open it up and check the rollers because "the polaroid film in there is worth something" so I just said gently caress it. Guess I'll keep my eyes open for another to turn up.

Geektox posted:

I got one the them instax printers after whitezombi recommended it. It's tricky to get the exposure right, what was totally fine on my phone screen ends up being way overblown on the picture.


untitled by Geektox, on Flickr

untitled by Geektox, on Flickr

It's definitely fun to use though.

Geektox posted:

Moto X

Geektox posted:

scan033.jpg by Geektox, on Flickr

scan034.jpg by Geektox, on Flickr

pootiebigwang posted:

Just got a Polaroid 100 back for my Hassy and I noticed the back already had some Polaroid Polacolor ER in it that is who knows how old. What exposure adjustments should I make when using it? It says iso 80 on the package and I have no idea as to how it was stored. Also what film should I get for it? Are the Fuji FP-100c and FP-3000b pretty much my only options?