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Southwold, Suffolk, UK
Polaroid 250 Land Camera
Fuji FP100C Instant Film
Set for slight under exposure
Swanage, Dorset, UK
Polaroid 100 Automatic Land Camera
Polacolor 108 Instant Film
Expired September 1999
Polaroid Week Fall 2017
Day 6 Shot #2
Fujifilm Instax Wide 300
For this last photo of Polaroid Week I wanted to remind you of summer!
On Form Sculpture Exhibition
Asthall Manor, Gloucestershire, UK
Polaroid 250 Automatic Land Camera
Fuji FP-3000B Instant Pack Film
Positive Scan
Citroen 2cv
c.1960 Bodywork on 1983 chassis and running gear
Bridport, Dorset, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX70 Instant Film
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX70 Black and White Instant Film
Interior detail from the old kitchen at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, UK.
Calke Abbey is not an abbey by the way, it is a “stately home”. It was given over to the National Trust in 1985 on the condition that it was preserved in it’s then current stated of dilapidation and not restored.
Polaroid 100 Automatic Land Camera
Fuji FP3000B Instant Black and White Film
Negative Scan
Polaroid Week 2017!! Day 6 Shot #1
Another view of the beautiful building of the "Poste Italiane" in Forlì, Italy.
Fuji Instax Wide 300.
After an overnight stay in Cape May we drove back through Wildwood and the wonderful vintage motels and signs it has to offer. Ignoring the "Do we have to stop again" cries from the back of the car, we pulled over and I snapped this fabulous frontage of the Caribbean Motel with my huge Fujifilm Instax 210 instant camera
Wildwood is just great to visit this time of year. Most of the motels are yet to open and there's no parking problems. Not sure how many of the motels light their signs up in the evening though.
This is the Polaroid "Big Shot" camera. It is a rigid-bodied Polaroid Land Camera produced from 1971 to 1973.
The Big Shot is probably one of the most unusual cameras Polaroid ever produced. The elongated body of the camera is made entirely out of plastic and the camera itself is capable of taking close-up pictures from 3 feet away. The focus on the Big Sot is fixed and required the photographer to move back and forth until the image came into focus, this has been referred to as the "Big Shot Shuffle".
Despite its odd appearance, the Big Shot's features are pretty much standard for a Polaroid 100-series pack film camera of that era. It features a darken/lighten ring, a flashcube socket, as well as a development timer on the rear cover of the camera. The camera required not batteries to operate the flash; instead, the flash used "MagiCubes".
Today the ability to take close-up photos is almost taken for granted as nearly all digital cameras today (even smart phone cameras) have some sort of built-in close up or portrait function. In the 1970s there were few cameras capable of taking close-up shots besides a professional level camera for a photo studio, or and SLR with separate (and very expensive) close-up lenses. The nifty aspect about this camera is that it made close-up photography inexpensive and accessible to most people at the time for about $20.00 USD. However, because the Big Shot was only capable of taking close-up portraits, and due to its odd and unwieldy design, it is largely regarded by most collectors as a novelty/curiosity. The Big Shot was even a favourite of Andy Warhol, who used the camera's close-up ability to make portraits of celebrities.
A downloadable PDF of the manual for the Polaroid Big Shot can be found at: