Analogue #4 - Polaroid land camera 1000

YES! A new week, a new analogue camera blog post!

This one is a really popular one I guess. It’s a really beautiful  camera. In the past few years, camera’s from polaroid became absurdly popular again!  Its my polaroid land camera 1000!! I had bought this one at the flea market in Vreeland. It was only 10 euros!

 

Polaroid used to make instant cameras that you could fold in. (Got one of those too, I will write about that one next week). After producing a series of folding cameras, polaroid started producing large numbers of plastic bodies, non-folding cameras. This cameras used the SX-70 integral film. Which looked like this:

 

 

These where cassettes for 10-15 exposures. They’re still sold online. But watch out! Most of the film sold online is expired, which isn’t a problem if it’s not TO OLD. In 2009, polaroid stopped making films. So your film could be way to old to use, and you would pay way to much for it too! Expired polaroid film can give your pictured a great vintage look though! I would recommend buying film until 2007, everything before that would be to risky. In 2010 there was a company that started producing new film for your polaroid. It was called “the impossible project”. Their film is very different so be sure you want to buy their film if you found it! Here is a video telling something about using film from the impossible project:

 

 

Now, If you want to buy film for polaroid you can find it on Ebay everywhere! even some photography shops still have them!

Last, a little something about the flash. If you want to take pictures in the dark, you would need a flash. You would have to buy a flash bar which is kinda expensive… (13,50 euros)  I’ve got only one, and I can use one flash bar only 5 times, so be careful!

They look funny though:

 

 

If you want to buy this super duper cool camera, there is only one way you can check if its working, and that is using an old film cassette. You put it in the camera and see if it will turn on. There is no other way to check unfortunately.

 

 

And again, as always, the official commercial of the polaroid land 1000 camera! Haha so funny!

 

 

 

Have a nice day! Tomorrow a new post on THE CHAIR!