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How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« on: January 31, 2013, 06:57:45 PM »
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 07:03:54 PM »
I saw this on petapixel this morning. It certainly made me want to figure out a way to build one...
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 07:04:45 PM »
What kind of back is that though?
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 07:07:12 PM »
excellent!
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 07:08:03 PM »
And what kind of lens would you need?
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2013, 09:00:49 PM »
Awesome, and I'm not being hyperbolic about that! 

Ok, so it's a weekend's work, if you've not made belows before I expect...but what fun if you've got a spare polaroid back and lens.

Chris, to me it looks like a polaroid back, perhaps from a large format camera, and a large format lense like from a Speed Graphic or something...
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2013, 09:10:46 PM »
looks like many minutes! that is just a basic film back, probably one designed for a camera with the mount removed. and then a large format lens...
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2013, 09:27:14 PM »
Probably something like a Polaroid CB-103 back. They sell on eBay from $30-$50. You sometimes find them attached to things like oscilloscopes and other instruments. From the text I saw it seems like he got a lens from an old folding camera. Chances are that something in the 100mm range would cover the image size of the Fuji FP-100C/3000B.

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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2013, 10:06:11 PM »
I saw this earler too and added to another thread. You wouldnt even need a proper back, you could cit down a cheap instant 30 or something, or any rigid Polaroid camera... Inspiring though!
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Re: How to build a Polaroid camera in minutes?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2013, 10:04:24 AM »
another double topic in here :)
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