Save your empty Polaroid film packs

[Photo Engineer]

Hey all of you Polaroid lovers out there, I have a perfect use for empty Polaroid film packs.

When I coat my film, I cut it to the right size and put one sheet in each pack. I can then put that pack in my Polaroid back and when I remove the dark slide I can expose it with my RZ67 or Bronica.

Some of the pictures I've posted were shot that way.

In the same way, you can buy cut sheets of film in the same size as the back or you can cut down sheet film to fit.

The pack pops open at the exit end with mild pressure and leaves a lip that acts as a guide to help you slide film into the pack. Then gentle pressure and the pack metal edges reseal.

These are not light tight and only have 1 sheet / pack, but I carry a bunch of them around and use them filled with my own film and they work just fine. And, if you don't want to use them, send them to me.

Oh, BTW, with properly cut glass, they can act as glass plate holders too.

PE

 

[tim_walls]

Cool idea, thanks!


I have about 1 sheet of Ilfochrome paper left; I might cut it up and see if I can do some in-camera-prints that way

 

[Photo Engineer]

I've done that. I used ISO 25 and got a good image. OOOPS, that was with MGIV. The Ilfochrome should be several stops slower. Sorry.

PE

 

[tim_walls]

I've done that. I used ISO 25 and got a good image. OOOPS, that was with MGIV. The Ilfochrome should be several stops slower. Sorry.

Don't apologise . I guess as a starting point meter for about ISO 5. Colour filtration could prove problematic as well...

 

[David Grenet]

Or RA4 paper for reversal processing...

The sheet film/plate holder idea is brilliant - thanks PE!

 

[bdial]

Has anyone discovered some way of using regular film in an SX-70 type camera? Though I don't have one of the folding ones, a folding MF SLR is too cool to die because of film availability. OTH, having it spit out a sheet of film into the light is a bit inconvenient.