A Polaroid 100. It takes the Fuji film. I have one.
I amicably disagree that the film resolution masks the effects of the non-overhauled camera with it's clouded lens. The first thing I did when I got mine was a disassembly and cleanup, along with the battery case work. The Fuji film and the Polaroid 100 together is capable of astounding sharpness. It depends on whether you want to play with your new camera or give it the work-over and have something great. I gave mine the treatment, and it's great. Nice camera, dude.
Yep, cheap 'n' cheerful 3.25x4.25" FP100c works in it. You've got a 100 or a 250...I think the earliest 250s didn't say "250" on the front flip cover, just like the 100s. Easy enough to tell...the viewfinder for a 100 will have separate rangefinder and viewfinder windows, and the 250 has a zeiss-ikon finder that combines the rf and vf into one window. A lot of people place the ZI finder Land Cameras as a premium model of sorts, but personally, I prefer the two-window finder. Same lens between the 100 and 250.
The right battery for this camera is $10 online, otherwise if you're handy with a soldering iron, go get an LED flashlight at a dollar store, steal the 3 AAA holder out of it, and solder it in. You might find that the darkslide and first frame or two are harder to pull out of the camera...some people break off the spring tabs inside the back or hold them back with hair pins. I never have a problem with the tabs ripping off, etc. that others seem to report.
The lens is solid enough, a 114/8.8 triplet. If it has some serious sharpness shortcomings, etc., those are masked by the not-clinically-sharp instant film anyway.
Some test pics on this lens that I shot to sell a 250, a while back:
I amicably disagree that the film resolution masks the effects of the non-overhauled camera with it's clouded lens. The first thing I did when I got mine was a disassembly and cleanup, along with the battery case work. The Fuji film and the Polaroid 100 together is capable of astounding sharpness. It depends on whether you want to play with your new camera or give it the work-over and have something great. I gave mine the treatment, and it's great. Nice camera, dude.
A hazy lens is a different story altogether...I meant that triplets generally aren't renowned for their wide-open sharpness across the whole frame. The print from 100c is good, but the neg itself when cleared with bleach is definitely sharper. However, neither are as sharp as normal film. Fine details in a shot at infinity can be lost pretty easily. That said, I burn through a ton of 100c between my land cameras and 4x5 stuff, and love it. It'll be a sad day when they axe this film.
100c45 is dead, but you can get the Polaroid 405 holder, which allows the usage of 3.25x4.25" film in cameras with Graflok backs (or springbacks if you take the focusing panel out, but that's a hassle).
Picture stolen from wikipedia:
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