8-1-2011 to 8-5-2011: Luddite Vacation with Ma and Pa

I am off into the wilderness for the week on a lo-tech cabin based vacation (not so low tech as we will be without indoor plumbing or air conditioning!) with my mother and father. I am only taking my Holga 120N and a bunch of expired film. I can't wait to go grocery shopping at a Piggly Wiggly ("The Pig" as the locals call it)!

5-9-11: Polaroid 600: Expired Color Film

An expired roll of Polaroid 600 film found in a crumbling cardboard box of "camera junk" at a flea market for $5. The pictures only develop partially and have a warm orange tint with some striping. I like the effect - for me it creates a mystery. What's happening that you can't see? 

(I'm wearing the real human hair vintage wig I got at the same flea market for $10.)

SX-70 Photos Misc

Polaroid Land Camera Model 95A + Accessories

Here is the latest addition to my Polaroid camera collection! It is a Speedliner Land Camera Model 95A. This version was made between 1954 and 1957. This camera is a real beauty and in almost mint condition. The camera case is a leather embossed to look like ostrich - very fancy!

The camera and all of these instructional manuals and accessories came in a brown leather Polaroid "Master Case". Originally the case and the other accessories were sold separately.

Polaroid Filter Kit #541 - "exciting special effects with clouds, reflections, distant scenery."

Close-Up Lens Kit #540 - "Built-in steel measuring tape gives correct adjustments for camera focus and lens attachment."

Polaroid - G.E. Exposure Meter, PR-22 - "Compact photoelectric meter makes correct exposure simple and certain."

Various instructional, informative pamphlets including How To Make Good Pictures with your Polaroid Speedliner Land Camera Model 95A" were I got the info quoted above. Sadly the Flash Gun is missing from the set - I'll have to look for a replacement.

There are conversions to allow use of 120 film for this model which I will be researching. I saw one that used Legos! Do any of you readers have any advice on converting to a 120 format?

Hortense & Millicent: The Lost Polaroids

Feeling the Spirit: Part 1

Gallery Walk Sneak Peek: Hortense & Millicent SX-70 Polaroids

awkward photos of my cameras: part 1

5-28-10 polaroids

baby doll head polaroids

taken with my polaroid sx-70 using fade-to-black film from "the impossible project"

taken with my polaroid sx-70 using giambarba edition film from "the impossible project"