jkap

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ended up acquiring a Polaroid Pathfinder 110a yesterday for a bizarrely low price and am pleased to find that while it absolutely needs a good cleaning (ESPECIALLY the viewfinder and rangefinder assembly, jesus christ you can not see through it at all) the lens appears to be in very good condition, if a little dirty.

it came with a roll of type 47 film which expired in August 1963, giving me a hint about when the camera was last used. i want to shoot with it even though i'm fully aware it's likely been sitting in a florida attic for the last 60 years and is probably not going to work at all. my long term plan is to do the Fairly Standard conversion to let it shoot instax wide, since you can actually buy that.

the cleaning aspects sort of terrify me since i'm not especially confident about the entire disassembly process (IT'S A COMPLICATED BEAST) but i want to be able to use it, and part of that is making it so i can actually see what i'm pointing at. exciting and scary. excited to make it work.


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Oh shit, well I hope you come out the other side of your "film photography phase" with at least half a bank account and a little self respect. Also jeeze you're going INSTANT! That's the hard shit right there.

when i say "bizarrely low price" i mean "cheaper than the film itself would cost, even with the 60-year-past expiration date". if i can get it back to fully working order then that's great but if i can't i am out very little money overall

This is how it starts, first with the inexpensive camera that can be converted to a still produced format. Then you're snorting lines of developer off a strippers belly button. Like I've been there, I went down the REAL vintage "toy camera" in medium format route. I have a set of ACTUAL vintage Dianas (not the Lomography copy) one of which is a mint in box of the most desirable model. I have a classic Holgamods Holga. I have the SX70 film plastic Polaroid. I have the modern Instax cameras in both mini and wide. I've fuckin LIVED THAT LIFE..