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"Busch Instant Pressman"
This gorgeous camera is a Busch Pressman Model C. Originally designed to take photos on 2x3" sheet film, this camera could also be used with 6x9 roll film adapters to shoot 120 format film.
2x3" sheet film is awkard to use, and I didn't have a 120 film adapter, so I decided to go for something a little different, and adapted it to take Fuji Instax Mini!
The resulting camera allows you to take instant photos on a professional 1950's Press camera! The camera features a Wollensak 101mm f4.5 "Raptar" lens mounted in a Rapax shutter, with a max shutter speed of 1/400th of a second and a minimum of 1 second. Minimum aperture is 32 with a max of f4.5. The "B and T" modes on the shutter are dissabled, and instead the camera utilizes a "preview" button that holds the shutter open, meaning "B and T" settings are not needed. To make a long exposure at night, simply press the lever to open the shutter plades, and push it back again to close them. All shutter speeds, right down to 1 second are perfect.
One of my biggest builds yet, I have done the following to the camera:
- opened and cleaned rangefinder
- opened and cleaned rangefinder magnifier
- opened and cleaned viewfinder
- removed lens and shutter, flocked insides and reassembled
- removed the original film holding assembly
- fashioned a spacer using an original 2"x3" film holder, light proofed and painted the spacer
- modified a Lomography Diana F+ instant back to fit the spacer
- attached spacer and back to the camera
- re-calibrated infinity stop so the camera focuses correctly
- re-calibrated the rangefinder
- added cold shoe mount for clip on accessories
- gave the camera a thorough cleaning (whoever previously owned it had not used it in a LONG time, it was literally caked with brown dust)
BIMBADGEN ESTATE @ HUNTER VALLEY
IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT
PX70 COLOR SHADE
SX70 FOLDING WHITE/TAN MODEL
SUNNY DAY
Camera: Polaroid Land 1000
Film: PX70 Push by Impossible
This was my first picture ever taken with an instant-film camera. I still remember that noise, that smell, that nostalgic feeling it gave me. My girlfriend thinks its nothing, but this is my most beautiful picture of her!
In one day, our Thanksgiving Day yesterday, most leaves changed from green to reds and golds. I have never seen such an abrupt change before. On Saturday I had to look hard to find trees with any colour near the building where I was teaching about shooting fall colours. Now they are all around it. Nature is amazing.
(There was no frost or other obvious trigger - except perhaps the full moon light????)
I don't really need a wireless hard drive, but this one can automatically copy files from a memory card. You can easily make a backup of your files on the way back from a photo session. Strange that other companies doesn't include this option in their external drives.
Re-usable Instant noodle cup from Suck UK.
A present from my good friend Guy @www.flourishcreative.co.uk.
A friend gave me a box with a few Polaroid slide films and a Power Processor.
The processor had some rusty rollers and stuck bearings but after some cleaning and a bit of grease it works well.
The films expired in May 1991.
I shot a roll of Polagraph 400 at 50 ISO (one stop per decade) in my T90 and set developing time to 3 instead of the specified 2 minutes.
The results are better than expected. The film seems to be lower contrast and actually yields some halftones.
As with all expired instant 35mm films the black layer sticks to the positive (slide) instead of the egative and has to removed manually.
It can be trubbed off under running water but that and the squeegeeing produces some scratches in the delicate emulsion.
If anyone knows a better way to remove the black layer please let me know.
Canon T90, FD 50mm F/1.4
Polaroid Polagraph 35mm Black and White Slide Film. High Contrast. HC135-12 ISO400, EXP MAY 1991
Shot and processed May 6, 2023
remember when the only qualification one needed to become friends was to be within 3 yards of each other?
June 27, 2011
178/365
No modifications, no deletions..raw, instant and a surprise in every shot..Fujifilm Instax Mini 10
"I dug you, beg your pardon
I took a photograph of you
in the herbaceous border
It broke the heart of men
and flowers and girls and trees
Another rainy day,
we're trapped inside with a train set
Chocolate on the boil,
steamy windows when we met
You've got the attic window
looking out on the cathedral
And on a Sunday evening
bells ring out in the dusk
Another day in June,
we'll pick eleven for football
We're playing for our lives
the referee gives us fuck all
I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines
Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds"
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun...
--John Lennon (who plausibly had never visited the top of the Louisiana Capitol).
first shot with my new Spectra SE. taken in soho after purchasing expired Image film from the Impossible Project space.
SpectraSE-01-01
hanging on, holding on to cables inside my mind
cut loose and crashing in, serenade, the volume raise
breaking glass heads and hands
I can't go on living
catching up, I was gone all day yesterday at a birthday party
this is my Polaroid collection. 2 of them are me, one is Greer, and 2 are my bunny
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87/1000
When there is acqua alta and it rains in Venice, tourists buy plastic bags to use as makeshift wellies and wade in the water and plastic raincoats. Umbrellas are good too.
I have these sticks of instant espresso for picnics and when I just want one cup and not a whole pot of coffee.
323/365 days in colour
20/31 July brown