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Polaroid photos taken with Polaroid Onestep Camera. Film is the PX100 Monochrome film from the Impossible Film Project
First few photos failed (although still look cool), After some tweaking the setting (darkwheel), cleaning the camera and refining the light shielding technique they started to get better and better
This is an absolutely wonderful short film taking a look at the original Polaroid SX-70 color camera. This classic 1972 advertising sample was made for Polaroid Corporation by the office of Charles & Ray Eames, and produced by Glen Fleck & David Olney for whom this film has been beautifully restored at Devious Design Studio in vibrant HD video and sound.
This video is being posted not for commercial use, but for educational purposes pertaining to both the history of mid-century Advertising and Photography.
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Polaroid was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. Polaroid gained commercial success with the introduction of the first practical system of in-camera instant photography on February 21, 1947.
Called the Land Camera, Polaroid originally manufactured sixty units, fifty-seven of which were put up for sale at Boston's Jordan Marsh department store for Christmas 1948. Polaroid marketers incorrectly guessed that the camera and film would remain in stock long enough to manufacture a second run based on customer demand. All fifty-seven cameras and associated fim were sold out within the first day.
Edwin Land considered his leadership towards the development of integral instant color photography - the SX-70 film and camera - to be his crowning achievement. The SX-70 was a sales success and was embraced by photographers such as Ansel Adams.
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SX-70 DESIGN FEATURES
The SX-70 included many sophisticated design elements. A collapsible SLR required a complex light path, with many mirrors (including one Fresnel reflector) of unusual, aspheric shapes and at odd angles. Many mechanical parts were precision plastic moldings. The body was glass-filled polysulfone, a very rigid plastic which could be plated with genuine copper-nickel-chromium. This plating looks and feels so much like solid metal that some users believed the camera was constructed entirely of top-grade stainless steel. Models 2 & 3 would switch to the less-expensive and more-easily cracked ABS in either Ebony or Ivory color. The film pack contained a flat, 6-volt "PolaPulse" battery to power the camera electronics, drive motor and flash. The original flash system, a disposable "Flash Bar" of 10 bulbs from General Electric, used logic circuits to detect and fire the next unused flash.
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MODELS
The original SX-70 was a high-end consumer market camera, with a folding body finished in brushed chrome and genuine leather panels. It could utilize a whole array of accessories, such as a close-up lens (1:1 @ 5 inches), electrical remote shutter release, tripod mount and an Ever-Ready carrying case that hung from the neck and unfolded in concert with the camera. Most of the same technology was later sold in rigid plastic fixed-focus versions, Pronto, Presto and OneStep. In its heyday, the OneStep's simplicity, bargain price and use of the same instant film made it the #1 selling camera in the USA.
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FILM HISTORY
Polaroid SX-70 film was introduced to the market in 1972, and was a market success despite some problems with the batteries on early film packs. The original SX-70 film was improved upon in the mid 1970's and was replaced entirely in 1980 by the further advanced "SX-70 Time-Zero Supercolor" product, in which the layers in the film pack were altered to allow a much faster development time (hence the "time zero"). It also had richer, brighter colors than the original 1972 product. There were also professional market varieties of the SX-70 film including 778 (Time Zero equivalent) and the similar 708, Time Zero film without a battery, intended for use in applications such as the "Face Place" photo booth and professional or laboratory film-backs, where a battery is not needed. Time Zero was the film manufactured up until 2005, though overseas-market and some last run film packs were marked only as SX-70.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Devious Design Studio.
Riley shot with Polaroid Sonar OneStep Pronto Land Camera using The Impossible Projects Cyanograph SX-70 film. I used an electronic flash for this shot.
Unfortunately the camera store in town is closing, however they sold the old cameras they had over their doorway to me for $7 each. I walked away with 9 cameras and a new camera collection. :)
It's the rainbow everyone is after, but in black with a Special Edition Blue Button but it is all the rainbow plastic goodness you remember from the original OneStep.
The full review drops in July!
Sony a6000 + SMC Pentax-M 1:2 50mm
My first shot no pun intended, at 600 speed and shooting box onestep camera and shooting 600 film and i released after my shot the tim was 640 speed and i over exposed but i like the washed look and the small burst of color
My seventh and eighth packs of polaroids with the OneStep+ were the Stranger Things special edition with thematic frames. I started shooting them in late spring 2020 and throughout the summer. These are some of my favorites.
Taken with Polaroid OneStep+ analog camera. Polaroid Originals I-Type instant color film, Stranger Things edition, slightly expired.
Polaroid SX70 OneStep with PX70 Push film (Batch11/2010)
L/D wheel = Neutral. Heated for 1 minute with a hair dryer then placed on a radiator for a further 10-15 mins.
11-2-21
taking a selfie inside a photo booth, which are pretty much designed for selfies. i love old school, actual chemical photo booths. this one currently has color chemicals, which is VERY rare these days
Broken Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Sonar OneStep -
Here is my SX-70 Sonar that I broke during Roidweek. I found a beautiful replacement so now I can look back at this train wreak camera and start thinking of what sort of mods I can do to it. At least my flash didn't break.
The SX-70 is a folding single lens reflex Land Camera first produced by the Polaroid Corporation in 1972. It was the first instant SLR in history, and the first camera to use Polaroid's new integral print film, which developed automatically without the need for intervention from the photographer.
The SX-70 has a folding body design, a 4-element 116mm f/8 glass lens, and an automatic exposure system. The camera allows manual focus as close as 10.4 inches (26.4cm), and has a shutter speed range from 1/175s to more than 10 seconds. This makes the camera incredibly versatile, and it can be used in pretty much any situation, from portraits to long exposure photographs.
This type of SX-70 is a "SONAR Onestep". Quite literally it is one of the best model of SX-70 cameras available.
The main feature of this amazing model is its AUTOMATIC FOCUSING system. When the shutter button is pressed halfway, a series of ultrasonic chirps is emitted from an electrostatic transducer located under a gold plate above the lens. These chirps travel to the subject and bounce back to the camera’s receiver, alerting the camera to the subject’s distance, and the lens is turned via a motor to focus accordingly.
Don't think for a second that this automatic focusing is gimmicky! Simply put, its one of the most accurate automatic focusing systems ever made, and will outperform most new digital SLRs. It can focus from infinity down to 26cm in under 1 second!
Of course, you can over-ride the auto-focus and focus manually with the touch of a button if you want to.
The SONAR SX-70 models also features a tripod socket as well as a neck strap, to make the camera more portable to carry around. Most standard SX-70 models did not have these features.
This particular model is the rare "BC Series" version. The BC Series was the name designated to cameras specially branded for sale at USA K-Mart stores. Although we do not think of K-Mart as a very serious brand these days, back in the 70's K-Mart was actually quite heavily involved with photography, selling many lenses, cameras and flashes under the brand name "Focal". It differed from standard models in its color scheme, which featured a mix of both black and chrome look panels and a unique, grippy pebbled rubber leatherette.
Sadly though the original rubber leatherette does not usually stand the test of time, and most BC Series coverings crumble away in your hands. The original leather on this camera was crumbling away, so I replaced the original covering with genuine pebbled black cowhide leather, to give it the luxurious finish it deserves while maintaining the originality of the color scheme.
House
OneStep 2
Film: Impossible Duochrome Blue 600
Location: London
23 April 2018 (Production Date 10/17)
Montriond
OneStep 2
Film: Polaroid Originals I-Type
Location: Montriond
15 August 2018 (Production Date 02/18)
We were at the grape harvesting. Shot with Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Sonar OneStep and PX 70 (batch 12/11) Impossible Film.
Failure #02
OneStep 2
Film: Impossible Duochrome Blue 600
Location: London
23 April 2018 (Production Date 10/17)
left side: me in 1982 or '83, taken by one of my parents. i'm holding up two fingers, which, initially, led me to assume that i was two at the time; but on the back of the photograph, my mum wrote "3" underneath my name. anyway, i'm a little blonde kidlet in that one. :)
right side: me, now (2007). the hair's a bit darker, i'm a bit older, and i'm wearing glasses.
either way, i'm posing with the same camera--a polaroid onestep land camera, first manufactured in the late 1970s. my parents have had it for longer than i've been alive. recently, i got some sx-70 blend film for it, so i can have a little fun. whee!
edit (feb. 12, 2008): i suppose with polaroid discontinuing all their film, this "then and now" takes on a whole new meaning...a very bittersweet one, at that. *nods*
32/365, I love that I was able to capture the light in the windows.
Polaroid OneStep 600 camera
PX680 Color Protection