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Elyse Horvath holds up a Polaroid Big Shot camera at a storage facility in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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(Wednesday, January 20, 2010) This is one of the many Volkswagen Beetles my dad has restored over the years. He had a lot of fun watching this exposure develop.
This is my Polaroid Land Camera model 95a and all its "accouterments".
What you see is a set of filters (yellow, orange, and a polarizer, the directions are still with the set!), a timer, a set of close up filters with their original case (complete with measuring tape to show you how close you can get), and its meter.
This camera took Polaroid Roll film, and produced wallet-size black and white images. Roll film is long, long gone, even more extinct than more current types of instant film. : )
So, for the last ten years, the $10 yard sale find has been a paper weight, a conversation piece, a cool old camera in my collection.
Then I moved to Portland.
I recently figured if anyone would know what to do with this beauty it would be Zeb (who I actually have not met yet). He emailed me a great idea, simple yet tedious. Take some 4x5 paper (which has an ISO of roughly 6) and expose one piece at a time, and change them in a changing bag, and develop them, and have paper "negatives" I could scan and invert in Photoshop. It would be a bit of a chore, and yet it would get the camera up and running again.
I liked the idea, but wasn't done yet. I knew there had to be a way to use this with a bit more ease. So after some more digging, I found the website I had been looking for.
By the end of the winter I should have a functioning (!) Polaroid Land camera roughly the age of my father. It will use 120 film and produce roughly a 6x10 negative, and I may eventually purchase a brass pinhole on eBay and put that in the lens, make this truly an experimental piece. It weighs less than my Mamiya, and is certainly smaller when its folded up.
Yes, it should be fun. Can't wait to get started! Whether or not he realizes it, Victor has been volunteered to drill the (fatal) hole in the body as he told me he has power tools. The other night at the flickr Christmas party after having the most-excellent book-turned-pinhole stolen (as I knew it would be!) I managed to score a package of five rolls of B+W 120 film. Which was promptly stolen by Bonnie. However, she later generously shared two rolls with me, and one of those rolls will be my sacrificial roll to get this up and running.
It's really a communal event to turn my old bookend into a functioning camera again. Who knew flickr could be so much fun?!
#5 May 19, 2012
Polaroid SX-70 Sears Special
Impossible Project PX70 COOL
Once the soil hit the right temperature we decided to go ahead and plant corn. We used a seeder to get the seed spacing exactly right. Eight rows of corn total
Image © Brian Moore
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Trail from today's short hike in Hacienda Heights. As you can see, it's popular with hikers. It starts in Uptown Whittier/Greenleaf Avenue and ends up in Hacienda Heights. The Temple in the photo is part of Rose Hills Cemetery and on a clear day, you can see Downtown Los Angeles.
Polaroid 220
Expired Fujifilm FP 100c
Rocky Top General Store, located in Harriman, is an authentic working general store that is part retail store, part museum, with a little bit of everything, including free popcorn.
Directions: 316 Ruritan Road (Hwy 29), Harriman, TN Directions: Before entering Harriman on Hwy 27 turn right onto Hwy 29, general store is on the right approximately .2 miles
Mom: Look at that smile on your face, with your godfather. You seem to be enjoying it. And look at how your little arms...you know how babies' arms tighten up when they get all excited? So you look like your were having a good little time with your godfather.
As a child my Mom had an old Polaroid Land camera she would let me play with. This was my first camera experience. When I was 14 she bought me this Yashica GSN Electro 35. This is my way of say Thanks Mom for introducing me to a lifetime passion, Photography
The Ghia parked on Verde Street in Jerome AZ. next to our Toyota.
Photo taken with an old Polaroid Land-Camera Chad's folks gave us. Took a while to figure out how to peel the paper off, figure out how long to let it develop. We wasted lots of film but this shot was worth it.
Globe, AZ. , dog walk with Ruth Ellen.
The adjoining building looks like a big face about to say something.
My Birkenstock Footprints Rockford Boots, purchased in December 2000, finally died. They'd been resoled once but can no longer be fixed. The soles are disintegrating into dust. They fell apart while hiking Sunday. I found these handsome new Birkenstock Hancock hiking boots online Monday and by Wednesday Fed-Ex was delivering them to our Arizona front porch from Germany. Amazing.
During the many festivals that are held in Ottawa annually you can be assured to see your share of camera phones, point and shoot cameras, DSLR's, Micro Four Third cameras etc. However it is unusual to see someone walking around with a working Polaroid Land Camera around their neck, meet Howard.
Howard and his wife were enjoying the Glow Fair festivities and I could not resist engaging him in a conversation. As it happens Howard is professional photographer of some regard, he is based in Ottawa and has been taking photographs since the 1970's. Howard explained that he had to modify the batteries on the Polaroid in order to use readily available batteries, he buys his Polaroid film in bulk along with his other film supplies from the U.S. as it is more cost effective.
I checked out Howard's website www.howardsandler.com and his Howard Sandler flickr feed, some very impressive images are to be found.
Thank you Howard, it was a pleasure meeting you, I'm sure our paths will cross in the future.
This is photo #174 in my second strangers series.
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One of my contributions for World Toy Camera Day. Shot with a Polaroid Big Shot using Fujifilm FP-100c and a MagiCube flash.
Greenbelt, downtown Torrance, Ca.
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