I’m considering a refurbished SX70 and might opt for 600 film conversion. Which company would you go with? Brooklynfilmcamera looks to have the longer warranty. I see an option for the 600 conversion with retrospekt but not brooklynfilmcamera, though an email request might be all that is needed. Any experience with either company regarding their refurbished SX70? I’ve purchased from retrospekt but only cassettes. No refurbished electronics.
Get an Instax Wide printer for a digital camera.
Good points. The original SX-70 cameras are about as cool of a 20th century device as there is, way cooler than a B-29 or color television. My latest round of frustration with the Dutch modern film was catalyzed by my finding a treasure trove of old flashbars. How much more fun can you get than a SX-70 with flashbulbs?? The crackle and smells of melting blue plastic coatings, Yummy!Heresy! Right film, wrong method, to be clear. Seems like it ought to be possible to adapt Instax Square to fit a Polaroid camera, and the film speed would be well within adjustment for a 600 capable camera. Your images would be mirrored, since Instax exposes through the rear of the print.
If you can make an adapter to put Instax Square packs in a Kodak instant camera (and you can), it should be possible to put either Square or Mini in an SX-70.
I wonder if Kodak's instant was a joint venture, or if Fuji bought some of Kodak's IP, from the Kodak instant program.I have a Kodamatic 950 that cost me all of $25. Everything works except the shutter...Also got a 960 that was similar in cost, gears fell apart. These are like Instax before there was Instax -- and if I can get one with everything working, I have a contact on Reddit who makes adapters for Instax Square. Much better lens (even the fixed focus ones) than today's Instax cameras...
Kodak developed the technology, incorporating everything necessary to avoid patent litigation from Polaroid.I wonder if Kodak's instant was a joint venture, or if Fuji bought some of Kodak's IP, from the Kodak instant program.
I’m considering a refurbished SX70 and might opt for 600 film conversion. Which company would you go with? Brooklynfilmcamera looks to have the longer warranty. I see an option for the 600 conversion with retrospekt but not brooklynfilmcamera, though an email request might be all that is needed. Any experience with either company regarding their refurbished SX70? I’ve purchased from retrospekt but only cassettes. No refurbished electronics.
I think that the settlement from Kodak was all that kept Polaroid afloat at the end. Mind boggling. Polaroid threatened to sue Fuji over the square format of Instax. Crazy. You would know better than I, but I believe Polaroid bought all the film and chemistry from Kodak. Polaroid did amazing work, but Land was a monopolistic sort. Land is second only to Edison in terms of the sheer number of patents in his name.Kodak developed the technology, incorporating everything necessary to avoid patent litigation from Polaroid.
Polaroid sued anyways, and the trial judge came to a decision against Kodak that fundamentally increased the protection offered by US patents to something that had never been known previously in US patent law.
The decision was probably a major factor in the eventual bankruptcy of Kodak.
In the meantime, Fuji developed Instax technology that essentially encroached in the same way on the Polaroid patent, but Polaroid didn't sue them.
Edwin Land rejected a settlement of the Kodak litigation that had been worked out by the respective lawyers, and which was consistent with the then current situation in US patent law. By that time, there was a fair amount of animus felt by him against Kodak - ironic really given that he had had to rely on Kodak to supply and manufacture significant amounts of Polaroid materials over the years.
Polaroid of course also subsequently went bankrupt, and Fuji just kept working on the same technology that Kodak got sued for.
I’m considering a refurbished SX70 and might opt for 600 film conversion. Which company would you go with? Brooklynfilmcamera looks to have the longer warranty. I see an option for the 600 conversion with retrospekt but not brooklynfilmcamera, though an email request might be all that is needed. Any experience with either company regarding their refurbished SX70? I’ve purchased from retrospekt but only cassettes. No refurbished electronics.
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