Comments, Page 29

Joe, this is beautiful. Thank you!

I’m not sure if my last comment went through, but I would love to win the I-2! Here is a pretty important photo, from when my partner and I found out we were having a child.

This is so good, Dylan!

I’ve never considered using the flash with an open shutter on SX-70 (even though I advocated for doing this on other cameras: analog.cafe/r/a-simple-gui…).

I figure the darkness forced your SX-70 to open the shutter to 𝒇8 and you could probably use your flash’s guide number to get the exposure just right? That’s what I want to do now. 😁

Peel-apart film is a unicorn these days. I really wish it was more available. Have you considered One Instant? They’re very expensive but I’ve heard good things about it and they apparently improved their shopping costs.

My best Polaroid experience was with 4x5 Type 55, and I loved it. Too bad it is gone now. I am trying Instax options now. Not the same :-(

I recently have been trying to figure out a way to use flash with my sx-70 in an effort to stem the desire for an I-2. I shot this with off camera flash unsynced utilising the long exposure time of sx-70 in the dark a single handhelf weak flash was able to get this and I love this portrait of my friend. I love using the sx-70 for capturing moments of life and being able to do a quick and dirty scan with the polaroid app and just give them away. But I have definitely at times felt limited by the sx-70 lack of flash though the lens is absolutely incredible for being 50+ years old design.

Polaroid street-art

Agreed! Nothing else can have the same effect.

I love instant film because it allows for image transfers, which are a wonderful way to extend the creativity of this product.

This is lovely- thank you!

This is an excellent piece of personal history, thank you, Jim!

That pic was taken with my Olympus OM10 using HP5 film in the Tel Aviv mal. The view of the building anf the glass window makes a great composition for me. Thsnk you so much.

I was 17 and out running around with a couple of friends. We wound up in a shopping mall -- it was 1985, so this was very much still a thing then -- and came upon a Polaroid Face Place booth. This was a photo boot that made single Polaroid prints for $1. We each made one of the three of us; this was mine. I’m the guy in the front. I’m blown away by the sharpness and color, which is better than any integral-print image I’ve ever seen. Also, the photo has retained its color even after nearly 40 years.

No instant camera, but just got this lucky snap at a Less Than Jake show a few weeks back on my Canon Photura.

Boy I sure would love to get one of these. It might be the only camera I can get my girlfriend to use to take pictures of me. I love taking pictures but I sure would love to have some of my own as well.

This is a terrific resource! So grateful for the film focus and scanning information.

I don’t have an instant camera- looking for camera/s to put out at our wedding. This would be a cool giveaway to win and give the camera a try!

That sounds like a nice surprise! Perhaps you’ll have photos two decades apart appearing on the same roll 😁

I worked at Ritz Camera in about 1993-94 and bought it the second we got one! My daughter is now taking Photography in High School and I dug out my LT-1. It needed a new battery and had a half shot roll of film still in it. I probably last used it in ‘99 or 2000. I put a battery in it today and started finishing that roll! Seems to work at 100% again! Curious to see if anything comes out on that old film though… lol

Thank you so much 😁

And a lovely story by the way. I still feel the excitement with each new camera, and I’ve tried lots!