Re: Polaroid 600

Hi Andy,
Any idea of the film speed or exposure times for the Polaroid 600 or Time
Zero films? I have 600 and SX-70 cameras and the film packs will easily fit
in the paintcan cameras.
Thanks,
Jim K

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Schmitt" <aschmitt@warwick.net>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Polaroid 500

> Why not go with the "600" series....The films cheap (both on sale & EBay)
,
> larger and the camera/processing units are real cheap used (yard
> sales/EBay).
> Hacking them takes a bit of care but one you figure it out you can use one
> for a "back". Find one w/o flash...it's easier to open up/use.
> OR
> mount the film pack in the P/H camera, expose it, put pack in Camera (in
the
> darkroom). It will shoot out the first piece of film automatically,
thinking
> it's the cover piece...works well. You can process SX-70 in it as well but
> not easily in reverse - 600 in an SX-70 body because of the 3 fins on the
> bottom if the cartridge.
> hope this helps a bit...have fun!!
> andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com
> [mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com]On Behalf Of Matti J
> Koskinen
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Polaroid 500
>
>
> Hi all
>
> It's been a pleasure to watch this list for a while now. As the subject
> says, I have such a film and would like to know if it's worth something
> without the Joycam? My first look of it revealed nothing how to use it,
> so I'm planning to visit a local shop to buy a Joycam and hack it a bit,
> but if someone has any ideas or posesses a Joycam. I'd be very happy to
> get some information how to use this "glue and tape" system to use this
> film. Nowadays my darkroom is so small, it's quite difficult to develop
> anything there, but Polaroid (though it's expensive) looks like handy
> alternative.
>
> Now it's white also in this part of the world and exposure times have
> come to some reasonable values.
>
> Matti from Finland (U know Santa eh..)
>
> -matti
> mjkoskin@sci.fi
>
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Received on Wed Jan 3 19:35:26 2001