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Update the firmware on your Polaroid I-2 to fix the autoexposure features.
Until recently, full auto, shutter priority, and aperture priority modes on Polaroid I-2 cameras have been lacking or useless, according to @theinstantcameraguy in his YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=j4z-T5…
But an easy firmware update that you can initiate through your Polaroid app is now available to fix it all. Once you pair your camera with your phone, you can view your firmware version in your app and update it if necessary. The version that fixes the above issues is v1.02.1.
In addition to the firmware announcement and explanation of what it fixes, @theinstantcameraguy notes that it took Polaroid an entire year to develop the firmware update meant to remedy critical features of an expensive camera. It is an unusually long software update cycle, even for a large company with the pains of corporate bureaucracy.
Based on his explanation of how the exposure issues were circumvented manually, it must’ve been a complex problem to solve. Nevertheless, Polaroid is also known for restoring one of the most complicated chemical products in the world. Hence, it’s hard to imagine this fix was beyond their ability to deliver in a shorter timeframe.
One last thing: the video is a little fumy, so if you’d rather not get upset, just update the firmware and enjoy the fix!
I found a video of someone scanning 35mm film with a microscope.
@atticdarkroom’s recent video is an experiment I’ve been meaning to do but never quite got around to. In it, he compares various scanners and demonstrates a relatively cheap method of adapting a digital camera lens to a microscope.
Of course, simple ideas can become complicated quickly, as is the case with this scanning setup. Because a microscope can view only a tiny area of the film strip, it needs to be shifted precisely and methodically over the entire area, and the resulting images would need to be stitched digitally. @atticdarkroom made each shift manually by twisting knobs with the numbers on them. Not to forget wet mounting, adapter lens aberrations, and vignetting — it’s a lot!
Pretty happy someone did this, yet I still wonder about more powerful microscopes, like the ones used in this study: videopreservation.conserva…
A mathematician and a stand-up comedian filmed the platform’s first YouTube video on 35mm film, only occasionally switching the format to 16mm to illustrate a point.
Stand-up Maths’ explainer video is not a short film or an art project. It is specifically YouTube-style educational content. In his exceptionally expensive ($2 per second, not counting the crew fees) video, Matt Parker explained various film formats and aspect ratios, including anamorphic lenses and IMAX. His team did film some anamorphic footage, which you may get as a gift (on a strip of film) if you subscribe to his Patreon account under an appropriate option.
This video was so impressive (just for its sheer audacity) that I half-expected some of it to be filmed on an IMAX camera. That didn’t happen — which I suppose opens the door for someone else to claim YouTube’s first. Maybe Marques Brownlee can afford some?
I made a short video about loading, testing, and packaging Kodak Vision 3 Motion Picture film.
A few of you ordered Cinema Shorts, anniversary edition triple packs (analog.cafe/r/new-film-cin…) last month — thank you. It’s that film.
I’ve since loaded all 200 feet of it into upcycled metal film canisters, tested the emulsion, designed the branding, ordered the materials, and packaged the boxes. This short video summarizes the process.
I didn’t include the part where I was sweating while trying to fit a reel that was too big for the bulk loader and the (literal) potato stamp. But that’s not important.
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