Anybody still useing Polaroid and Film for fun?

[bhursey]

Just wondering if any one still uses Polaroid cameras for fun and artistic reasons. I have 3 modified land cameras and a SX-70 I use for mainly artistic architecture and other pictures.. Normally when I go out and take pictures for fun in old cities. I carry 3 cameras. My Canon 20d, My Film Nikon FM2n, and my Polaroid Land Camera 340.. Film is expensive so I also carry my digital so I only take the pictures I really really like with film.





My Polaroids I have taken last year...
Polaroids - a set on Flickr

[Sime]

Just Instax here, but it's great fun!...

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by Sime

Just Instax here, but it's great fun!...

I sell the stuff, and I've used it a few times on a lark, but its not something I'd actually buy into.

The problem with Polaroid is that the only place to get it anymore is from The Impossible Project, which means shipping from the Netherlands.

[Sime]

should have seen the reaction when I whipped out my 210 in the pit a few weeks back... (at Public Enemy) ....all the other togs were like 'you're going to shoot what with that!' and after I snapped some happy crowd shots, they ALL wanted one... uh huh!...

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

I sell the stuff, and I've used it a few times on a lark, but its not something I'd actually buy into.

The problem with Polaroid is that the only place to get it anymore is from The Impossible Project, which means shipping from the Netherlands.

They have a US store now and Photjojo sells it now also.. PX 100, PX 600, and PX 70 Color Shade Film However only my sx-70 takes thier film. My other 3 land cameras take 100 type film and can use fujifilm FP series film. I have only used FP-100C so far. Its about 10-15$ per 10 exposures.. I need to order a big batch of it from B and H. I am very hesitant of getting impossible project film its 22+$ I still have 2 exposures of expired time zero film in my sx70.. Lets just say i think really really hard before taking a picture... It is the last film of its kind.. My 100 series cameras I use much more because the pictures are better and cheaper.

BTW if any one wants to know how to mod the land cameras to take AAA's see my posts on the steps..

Polaroid Land Camera 340 – AAA Battery Modification – Brian Hursey Photography

Polaroid Land Camera 420 – AAA Battery Modification – Brian Hursey Photography

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by Sime

should have seen the reaction when I whipped out my 210 in the pit a few weeks back... (at Public Enemy) ....all the other togs were like 'you're going to shoot what with that!' and after I snapped some happy crowd shots, they ALL wanted one... uh huh!...

I went to take pictures of the architecture in the square in Gainsville GA.. They had a car show there that I did not know about. I was sitting in the street waiting for everyone to get out of the way to take a pic of a really cool truck. I had both my Polaroid 340 and my Nikon fm2n around my neck... Theses photographers for the news paper covered in a ton of fancy gear took a double take when they saw me. HAHA.. It was funny.. I had a couple people ask me about the camera..

I showed the dude who owned this car the picture he said he had a BW Polaroid of it from the 60s that looked like the pic.. I said you want this one? He was like nah you keep it but thanks for bringing back memories.

[ravncat]

Great to know, I've an sx70 landcam, but it seems to have an exposure issue and the camera body needs some new skin

[LoveDSLR]

I haven't used my Polaroid Back, Polaroid slide printer, SX70 and Spectra for a long time.

[Jim Bryant]

The last time I shot a Polaroid was back in 1965. I believe the camera was called "The Swinger".
I took some pictures of women at our pool so that they could send the photos to their husbands, who were in the Army stationed overseas in Vietnam. My father, who was an Army photographer chewed me out. I have shot a Polaroid since.

[vomviersen]

I took a class in the winter 2006 quarter at DePaul University called "Artistic Issues in Instant Image Photography." The class isn't offered any longer (obviously) but the description was still online:

The aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, historical, and technical issues that animate contemporary photography will be explored through the use of Polaroid pictures created by class members using their own Polaroid cameras. Photographic ideas will be presented, discussed, and addressed in classroom critiques of the images created. Personal artistic visions will be explored, encouraged and revealed. Students will learn a language for discussing these pictures and develop the necessary personal and intellectual distance from their own artistic creations in order to critically analyze them.

I used a late '90s Polaroid OneStep CloseUp which we had originally purchased to take pictures for insurance purposes for my class assignments. I still have it, and one pack of 600 film that has been in the fridge since then, and expired in March 2007. I wonder if it will still work?

I have two of the assignments up in my Flickr sets:
Oscar - Doors (WARNING: this is kind of rough to look at if you have or had a pet going through cancer surgery or radiation treatments) This was the portrait assignment. I used my only willing subject - my dog Oscar. This project had the last photos of him as we lost him in March 2006.
AI333: This was the urban or rural landscape assignment.