Re: SX 70

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From: "Joao Ribeiro" <jribeiro@greco.com.br>

> My SX 70 just broke, the film is not coming out.
> I know there are people here that use SX 70 for pinholes, so maybe some
> one knows how to fix it. I don't have anyone here in Brazil that is able
> to do that, so I'll have to manage to do it myself.
> Thanks in advance for any clues,

Joao,
I think you could use the SX-70 repair book Ed Rommey sells:
http://www.edromney.com/
check this site also:
http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~holder/SX70.html
it has very good info on SX-70, including a section on disassembly.

In case you are not aware, you could use Time Zero SX-70 Film in any Polaroid camera that takes 600 film, check this article:
http://www.polaroidwork.com/articles/article4.jsp
A friend of mine that is heavily involved in SX-70 manipulations, use to go through 3 or 4 SX-70 cameras each year, now that SX-70 are becoming too expensive (and scarce in some areas), he buys OneStep cameras instead.
SX-70 have better optics than OneStep cameras, but if your aim is to do emulsion manipulation, optics quality should not matter. Anyway, that is an alternative if your SX-70 can't be revived.

Guillermo
Received on Tue Aug 7 21:12:29 2001