Tag: Polaroid
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The finest Polaroid photograph I’ve ever seen came from a photo booth
The finest Polaroid photograph I’ve ever seen came from a photo booth. On this spring day in 1985, the year my friends John and Jim and I all graduated high school, we were out being silly together and came upon photo booths at a mall. One was a traditional four-photo-strip booth, but the other promised…
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Goodbye Fujifilm FP-100C
The last instant pack film is dead. Fujifilm has discontinued FP-100C, a color film. I’m sure this is old news to some of you, as Fujifilm announced this at the end of February. Prices immediately jumped on remaining inventory. I bought three packs before prices shot into the stratosphere. I’ve shot Polaroid packfilm cameras off…
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Captured: Through the viewfinder
When I wrote about my Polaroid SX-70 last year, I criticized its viewfinder for the very narrow angle at which it allowed a subject to be fully viewed. But when your eye finds that angle, it is amply rewarded. The view is large and bright. Monday’s post about the cameras from my collection that I photographed with my Nikon…
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Goodbye Fujifilm FP-3000B
We are in the post-film shakeout era, a time when the world’s film manufacturers figure out what films will continue to be made now that most people shoot digital. I argue that this era kicked off in 2009 when Kodak canned its seminal Kodachrome color slide film. Kodak has been the leader in film discontinuation,…
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Captured: Instant parking lot
I’ve bought and shot with a lot of old cameras this year. I used to always look for new subjects to shoot with each camera, but at some point this year I started running out of ideas. So I’ve been returning to familiar places, sometimes shooting the same old things but just as often noticing…
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I like cameras
My parents were sure I was headed toward a career in engineering because I liked figuring out how things worked. I could hardly keep my fingers off anything with buttons or knobs. I messed up a few things as a kid by pushing buttons and turning knobs. My great grandmother had a very old TV,…