More thread hijacking...
Years ago I did some fiddling with single sheet 4x5 polaroid. I was
trying to make a do-it-yourself polaroid back on a pinhole camera. I
never got it working - but didn't persist.
I did discover that one can take a polaroid sheet, expose it in the
standard single sheet back, pull the sheet out without engaging the
rollers, and "process" the film by rolling something smooth rigid and
round over the chemical pod.
This bursts the pod and processes the film. No need for a somewhat
expensive back - the film is expensive enough!
If one could make up a latch and darkslide stop they would have a workable
DIY polaroid back.
Gord
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Guillermo wrote:
> I don't mean to hijack the thread but, talking about Polaroid, there are at
> eBay quite a few number of Graphic Polaroid adapters that take Polaroid pack
> film, I believe this is the less expensive 600 type of film (665 for
> instance is the positive+negative film). They don't go for a lot of money
> and IMO can easily be used in a pinhole set up, you know, screwed to wooden
> box, taped to a cardboard box, etc.
>
> Just thought to let you people know, for the benefit os those that, like me,
> didn't know this things existed.
>
> Guillermo
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pinhole-Discussion mailing list
> Pinhole-Discussion@pinhole.com
> unsubscribe or change your account at
> http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/
>
---------------------------------------------------------
Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
---------------------------------------------------------
Received on Tue Aug 28 01:50:36 2001
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon 13 Dec 2004 - 23:33:24 PST