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I picked up my first Craigslist purchase on Sunday. It's green beast called a Polaroid OneStep Express Instant 600.
It seems to work OK. I now need to figure out the exposure control.
SX-70 Sonar OneStep
polaroid 600 film (without ND filter!)
expired 04-2003
Rexford, NY
a collaboration with bunny sass
SX-70 Sonar Onestep, Poraloid 600 @ Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
This year, the whole area was a little warmer than as usual in spring.
(Actually, recently, it is very cold, thought...)
Because of this warm climate, the bloom of cherry blossoms were a little earlier. I am usually able to see beautiful cherry blossoms when I go back to my hometown during the first week of May, called "Golden week", but this year, unfortunately, I was unable to see them. My hometown has the highest number of cherry blossoms and is really well-known as the notable site of them, so I was really expecting to take photos of them. Eventually, with amazing cherry blossoms, this castle get way more beautiful than this photo. Next year, I will take this place again for sure !!!
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SX-70 Sonar Onestep Black (refurbished) ::: Fade To Black
Photoshop: Removed white edges and converted to b&w.
Location: Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
SX70 OneStep with Impossible PX70 Cool film
Another shot from my visit to the V&A with Lesley on Friday. Love this film. It's also my answer to Challenge #19 from the 52by52 Group.
Choose your favourite poem and try to represent a line of it visually.
— Marcus Bleasdale
Though not strictly a poem, its what came to mind when I saw these.
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."
-- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
the very first picture of me was a polaroid, shot with the same onestep i've been using for the last year, when i was six hours old in my mum's arms. an omen prophetic, perhaps?
the first two to three years of my life were captured with that onestep as well--sleeping, bathing, me with my mum or dad, summer pictures, winter pictures...all that loveliness.
the camera wouldn't get use again for another quarter-century. in that interim, virtually any photo of me my parents took was taken with a 35mm SLR; and while i do have an affinity for 35mm as well, instant photography continues to fascinate me. image transfers, emulsion lifts, sx-70 manipulations...all made possible by polaroid film and, ultimately, dr. edwin land.
for a while i've been fearing that i came into the world of instant photography too late. a year before i started getting into it seriously, sx-70 and time zero film, which my onestep (and the other varieties of sx-70 cameras) took, went bye-bye. but then the sx-70 blend film was commissioned by polanoid and unsaleable, not to mention 600 and 779 film were still around, so there was a light at the end of the viewfinder. ;) then last month came the body blow: ALL polaroid's instant film was to say goodbye.
i'm a very stubborn woman sometimes. i don't want to say goodbye to instant film forever. did traditional painting die when photography or photoshop and painter were invented? have 35mm, 120/220, and (to a point) 110 photography died thanks to digital? NO. so why should those of us who shoot instant film have to give that up because of digital? i don't want to give up using my onestep or spectra.
before there was digital, there was polaroid. let's keep instant film alive. save polaroid.
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spectra + 990 film.
(savepolaroid.com has permission to use this photo and my story.)
Fixed my Polaroid OneStep with Impossible Projects help. This is the first shot with the new rollers. Wicked result.
I found a Polaroid OneStep camera at the thrift store that still had film in it so I took a photo of the shelf with the cameras before I bought it.
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• Polaroid SX70 1000 (OneStep Rainbow) Instant Camera x 1 EA
• Polatronic 1 Flash x 1EA
• Original Polaroid Case x 1 EA
• BONUS!! UNOPENED Supercolor Time-Zero SX-70 Film x 1 EA
• The camera introduced in United Kingdom on early year 1977.
• One of the SX-70 Non Folding Series model of Polaroid cameras.
• Both camera and Polatronic 1 flash was fully tested together with actual film and found NO TROUBLE.
• Flash, shutter and internal motor works PERFECTLY!
• All mechanism outside the camera and Polatronic 1 flash still be able to move normally.
• Cosmetic condition acceptable in term of its age.
• No fungus or scratch on the camera's lens.
• Dust free and very clean condition.
• No tear or damage on the case and zip but have some oil stain which might still able to wash it out.
• The Supercolor Time-Zero SX-70 film already expired since 07/83 which is 29 years ago!!!
• But this is a very rare and last remaining film that you might hard to find in this world nowdays.
• Using PX 70 Color Shade or PX 100 Silver Shade film type from Impossible Project which still available in market.
• Also able to use PX 680 and PX 600 films also but need to add an ND filter on top of the film cartridge before able to use it which can be purchase from eBay or Impossible Project website.
• Still able to use old Polaroid film Type SX-70, Time-Zero, 708, 778, SX-70 Blend, Artistic TZ and Fade to Black which discontinued already.
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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.
Rachael laying in the sun shot with Polaroid Sonar OneStep Pronto Land Camera using The Impossible Projects Cyanograph SX-70 film
I did a review about the Polaroid Originals OneStep 2. Check out the full camera review here: 🎬 youtu.be/-B-JTcqzQeo
Infiniti G37 S Convertible, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Polaroid.
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Full Sun / 10:30am / 66 degrees / OneStep Close Up / Darkness knob 75% to dark / Exposed to light, then put in a box to develop
My initial thoughts on PX100 FF are on Blur Dot Blog (Written before I took this photo)
Polaroid SX70 OneStep with Impossible PX70 Cool Film.
Fabulous weather in Bristol on Friday. This was my first proper visit to the city and boy she she didn't disappoint.
Beautiful tulips in the back garden. Shot with Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Sonar OneStep and PX-70 Impossible Film.
SX-70 Sonar Onestep, Poraloid 600 @ Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
I used to skateboard so much when I was young. Maybe, more than 15 years. I still like this hard-core sport and sometime, I feel like skateboarding. That's why I spontaneously response to the rumble of skateboarding whenever I hear it. He is such a nice skateboarder. He is trying to do front-side kick flip 180.
Vassilis Makris portrait
(taken by Evita Machaira, POLAROID SX-70 LAND CAMERA SONAR OneStep, Polaroid 779 instant film + ND filter )
[posted for the "Save Polaroid" Flickr group]
"In this age of digital images, when almost all photographs come into physical existence some time after the “click”, I felt the need to fight back – and so I returned to my Polaroid SX-70.
This wonderfully ugly noisy machine will allow no one to change anything after the “click”!
Instead, a few minutes later (“instant” photography, you see) the photograph you have taken appears before your eyes – and is usually fit only for the rubbish bin.
(And that’s what made me so stubborn.)
The only way to “win” with this camera is to love it. To adore it, even.
That’s when you begin to notice the colours it gives you, colours you’ve never seen before, colours that no PC could ever create.
Because, the simple truth is, Polaroids have feelings.
For so many years now, the SX-70 has been generously sharing its emotions like no other camera.
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I believe the demise of Polaroid photography was an essential stage in my development as a photographer, obliging me to use digital cameras."
Vasilis Makris, 28th July 2008