Video above: Leslie Lazenby of Imagine That introduces us to the Polaroid 35mm Instant Photography System! In 1983 Polaroid introduced an instant transparency system for still photography. The unexposed 35mm films came with their own processing pack. The films were processed within a dedicated, hand-powered, mechanical-cranked processing machine called an AutoProcessor, into which an exposed ... [Read More]
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Polaroid 100 Automatic Land Camera CrashCourse
Film Photography Podcast (FPP) host Michael Raso offers a "crash course" on using the Polaroid Land Camera (models 100, 101, 102, 103, 135, 220, 225, 230, 240, 250, 320, 330, 335, 340, 350, 355, 360, 430, 420, 440, 450 and 455) ... [Read More]
How To Convert Your Polaroid 80 to a 120 Film Camera
The Polaroid 80 and its successor 80A and 80B were released in the late 50s as the budget Polaroid camera. They had the same glass lens, but used a smaller film stock, didn’t have a rangefinder, and had only 2 shutter speeds. Since not many of them were sold, film sales were never what they were even for the larger roll film cameras, so Polaroid discontinued film for the 80s in 1979. Nowadays, ... [Read More]
Pack-Tastic! Print Your Slides to Polaroid Pack Film!
Pack-Tastic! The Polaroid and Vivitar Instant Slide Printers Guest blog by Nicholas Rapak Whenever people talk about printing slides, there are always only two methods talked about: Scanning and printing, or optical printing to Ilfochrome (a.k.a Cibachrome). With Cibachrome being discontinued, many have lamented the loss of a purely optical method of printing slides. However, there is ... [Read More]
Developing Large Format Film at Home!
In my brief time here at the Film Photography Project, it's become apparent that FPP listeners, on top of having boatloads of G.A.S. (gear acquisition syndrome), are eager to get out there and try new things. At the top of that list of new things to do is getting into the darkroom and/or developing film at home. Though I could write all day about how quick and easy these processes are to do, let's ... [Read More]
How To Clean and Store Negs!
Recently Film Photography Podcast listener Martin send us an e-mail asking about his negs. He asked: "After that lengthy introduction I was wondering if the FPP team could offer me some advice on how to clean my negatives / transparencies. After storing my negs in my damp house for too long a few have gotten a little mucky / moldy, and I want to fix this before it too late! I was taught in ... [Read More]