Re: Polaroid Pack Film Mechanics?

Looked at the Polaroid site - they sell a number of backs

see http://www.polaroid.ca/html/products/hardware/filmhold/fsFilmhold.html

I'm assuming a 550 back would work.

Yeeeeears ago I fiddled around with making my own Polaroid back. I has a
bunch of 4x5 single sheet polaroid (I forget the number)

I have a back for these, but I was able to figure out how to process the
film without the back. Its very easy

You simply roll a something hard and round (I used a large jam jar) over
the film starting from the chemical pod end - it bursts the pod and
spreads the chemicals onto the film and viola a processed polaroid.

The single sheet films have a paper darkslide with the pod, that fits over
the film. The single sheet back has a latch to hold the film in place
allowing you to pull the darkslide out of the way to take a picture.

When you're done taking you move a lever it disengages the latch and
pushes two rollers together to burst the pod.

A pinhole back could be made to mimic the latch mechanism. - the
processing can be done with a jam jar

Of course once you get pinhole polaroids you'll want to try polaroid
transfers :)

http://www.kathleencarr.com/

Gord

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Guillermo wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtsg@duke.usask.ca>
>
> > Polaroid makes a pinhole camera kit - I wonder if your film would work
> > with it?
>
> Gordon: If I am not mistaken, the Pol-Pin takes 3.25x4.25 packs same as the
> ones the holder 405 uses. The famous pos-neg 665 is one example of those
> kinds of films.
>
> BTW, Michael, what about renting a Pol 550 back for a day and shooting away
> as if there is no tomorrow, until all boxes are gone!!
>
> Guillermo
>
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