Any use for old Polaroid 35mm instant processor?

Snowfire · Jun 27, 2021

I have one of these in my possession. It operates (operated) by turning a crank after the processing cartridge was inserted. I found it useful back in the 1980s for Polachrome and Polablue, but I haven't seen the film for it made in eons. Should I just send it to the landfill, or is there some use or collector's market for it?

BrianShaw · Jun 27, 2021

Those were really cool back in the day. We used one, too, for presentation slides. I can’t imagine a market for one other than someone collecting such archaic stuff. Not too long ago I discarded the instruction book. I kept that for years as it gave me happy memories.

EDIT: I guess i changed my mind and didn’t throw it away, after all… there are 2 copies on my bookshelf!

YoIaMoNwater · Jun 28, 2021

There's was a video a Youtuber made: that got pretty popular. I'm sure there are some film aficionados out there who wants to get their hands on one. Although finding the film itself might be a challenge.

Snowfire · Jun 28, 2021

Ah, I see he ran into the problem that the remjet-like layer does not want to come off when the film is really old--but I did not know just water would do the trick.

Nicholas W · Jun 23, 2022

Snowfire said:
Ah, I see he ran into the problem that the remjet-like layer does not want to come off when the film is really old--but I did not know just water would do the trick.

Do you still have it? They’re not worth a ton but it sounds like you’ve got a manual one which I’ve been meaning to pick up - I have 5 or 6 boxes of polachrome but lack the processor.

Any use for old Polaroid 35mm instant processor?

Snowfire

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YoIaMoNwater

Snowfire

Nicholas W

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