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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 !!!
Full Sun / 10:30am / 66 degrees / OneStep Close Up / Darkness knob 75% to dark / Exposed to light, then put in a box to develop
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.
My initial thoughts on PX100 FF are on Blur Dot Blog (Written before I took this photo)
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.
...
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
Classic Polaroid 600 Film instant camera. This is a Made in the United Kingdom model.
It's available in my camera shop at CC Design Studios www.ccstudio2380.com
Thanks, Chris
8-5-21
driving down the 10 East Freeway leaving LA. a short trip, but glad we were able to go and visit the my sister, the kids, and my mom who's in town from Mexico right now
Materials: Onestep 2 Polaroid, 2in x 2in Piece of glass, digital photography, Camera RAW, Adobe Photoshop.
Process: I took the image on a Onestep 2 polaroid camera and cut the image open to preform an emulsion lift. Which I then placed on glass and waited for it to dry. I took a photo with the emulsion lift on glass and proceeded to add a fine black border to the image to frame in the white background.
Ideas: Portraying the “perfect” image of a family by photographing a well behaved child.
In 1978 Polaroid introduced sonar automatic focusing to its plastic "Pronto!" box camera, and flagship SX-70 folding SLR. The gold dish above the lens emits an inaudible sound wave that bounces back to the camera once it hits the subject, and immediately focuses the lens to the accurate distance. You could precisely-focus on blank walls and even on subjects in the dark with this camera... wish my Nikon could do that. The technology at the time was quirky, yet state-of-the-art, and was later used in the top-end 600-series cameras, the SLR-680/690, Impulse AF, and Spectra cameras.
Unfortunately, this particular camera worked erratically enough to earn the nickname "Bi-Polaroid", before it ultimately got itself stuck thinking it was in mid-cycle. I've since returned it... I never have good luck with SX-70 cameras on eBay.
Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film
Took my weekly trip to pick up comics, and show this looking South past the store. I then dropped the photo in my bag with my books. The cold weather caused the film to discolor like that, usually I keep it close to my body to prevent that.
Polaroid Corp. founded by Edwin H. Land
has produced instant cameras since 1948.
With the onslaught of Digital photography,
the production was stopped in 2007.
Collection
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 the "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 "Sears Special" version. The Sears Special was a effectively an SX-70 Sonar branded for sale at "Sears" stores (a chain of retail stores in the USA). It differed from standard models in its color scheme, which featured a mix of both black and chrome look panels and brown leatherette.
The Sears Special was originally covered in a cheap "porvair" vinyl leatherette. This was removed and the camera was reskinned with genuine brown cowhide.
Just a rearrangement of the collection
and from the left to the right beginning from the top we have
Polaroid 403 mini portrait,EE44,Color pack II, color pack 100, the swinger model 20
SX-70 model 3, two SX-70 Sonar OneStep, two SX-70 model 2, Two SX-70, No 2 Brownie Model "B" (1904), AGFA Box 50, Joycam,
Model 500 (grey), Model 1000 with acme-lite flash, Automatic 420, Automatic 101 with flashgun 268, "The 800", Model 80B "Highlander". Brownie "chiquita", Baby Brownie Special.
Novatel 80´s mobile phone, transworld reel to reel 60´s, Bell&howell Directors Series Projector model 465, Keystone Projector K-91, Bell & howell projector model 253, Viewmasters Models Two “C” Bakelite, two “E”bakelite,“G”sawyers,“G”GAF, “L” Classic Model, Polaroid Impulse AF, Spectra system, OneStep 600 Express, 8mm movie reel Fantasia, Bikoh Slide Projector (60´s).
NOT FOR SALE
Alongside the 'prosumer' range of folding SLRs, Polaroid released a large number of plastic bodied, non-folding consumer cameras that used the SX-70 integral film. There were several lines that varied in the type and amount of features they offered, but fall into three distinct categories differentiated by the method of focusing:
Fixed focus - Generally known (in the US) as OneStep models
Zone-focused - Generally known (in the US) as Pronto! models; e.g. Pronto RF
Sonar Autofocus - Labelled as both Pronto! and OneStep models, but usually with an AF or Sonar moniker.
All these models use the SX-70 integral film, meaning the camera is powered by a battery built into the film pack. Many of these models were able to use certain accessories designed for the folding SLR line of SX-70 cameras, such as flashbars, electronic flashes and tripod mounts.
The Land Camera 1000 is a foreign-markets version of the original Onestep model, meaning it has a fixed focus plastic lens. The model 1000 or original OneStep models are distinguished among the range in that they were made available with 2 different coloured shutter buttons - either green or red; there is some debate among collectors as to which was more common. A matching electronic flash was also released for the Onestep/1000 model, known as the Q-Light. It fits onto any SX-70 non-folding camera model, but was cosmetically matched to the original models. Features common to the series of OneStep non-folding, fixed-focus SX70-series integral film cameras are:
1 element plastic lens with fixed aperture (103mm, f14.6)
4ft minimum focus distance.
Exposure compensation dial around electric eye.
Taken From camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Polaroid_Onestep