Polaroid Instax conversion - Work in progress

A brief update:

I got a very cheap Polaroid 160 for the conversion (the viewfinder is broken, but it can be repaired easily). Not the best but It mainly needed a camera body. If the conversion goes well maybe I switch the lensboard to something better.

What I did so far is

- disassembling the Polaroid

- a bit of metalwork on the body

- smoothing the inside of the Instax-back

- cutting plywood to get a frame as connection to the polaroid body

 

I problem that occured is that the viewfinder of the polaroid-body blocks the ejection of the pictures. Its definitely easier to use a Polaroid 95 or 110 which hasn´t the big bulky viewfinder housing. Maybe I simply turn the Instax-back so it ejects to the bottom but this means that I have to rebuild the battery-compartment which wont fit anymore. Furthermore the pictures will have the broad white part on the top :/ Not my favorite....

I dont have much time at the moment anyway.... so I have time to think about that ;)

Done