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Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: Skorj on December 22, 2006, 09:50:16 AM

Title: The Polapet, or how to hack up a few cameras for fun...
Post by: Skorj on December 22, 2006, 09:50:16 AM

o Fujipet - no viewfinder, no hood, broken lens-plate ring, broken 1-2 lever springs. No B/I switch. The shutter works OK with coaching though.

o Polaroid - stuffed shutter.

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Title: The Polapet - Step Two.
Post by: Skorj on December 22, 2006, 09:51:58 AM

Some Dremel time... One Polaroid back ready for the next step... The square format back was tempting, but no film available any more it seems, so a rectangular format hard-case will have to be sacrificed.

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Title: Re: The Polapet.
Post by: moominsean on December 22, 2006, 09:53:57 PM

are you going to modify the pet so it works like a holga back?

Title: Re: The Polapet.
Post by: Francois on December 22, 2006, 10:19:41 PM

I guess that's the plan...
I sure do hope Skorj got those lens to film distances correct. Surgery like that can be disaster for both cameras...

Title: Re: The Polapet.
Post by: Skorj on December 23, 2006, 02:04:29 AM

Quote from: moominsean on December 22, 2006, 09:53:57 PM

are you going to modify the pet so it works like a holga back?

I hope to make the Fujipet equiv of a Polga - a Fujipet with a Polaroid back... The Pet looks like it will fit nicely onto the back, I just need some careful plastic work, and some accurate taping.

The lens on this Pet too is really crappy, plastic with a heavy age-film, and some scratches too. This Pet is really a combination of about ten other Pets having been used as a donor machine until it had no good parts left itself.

Title: The Polapet - Step Three.
Post by: Skorj on December 23, 2006, 02:15:20 AM

Owww... did not hurt one bit. Honest. No going back now.

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Title: The Polapet - Step Four.
Post by: Skorj on December 23, 2006, 09:22:44 AM

After careful Dremel work, the Pet with a hole in the back slotted nicely into the Polaroid back... The film plane is almost in the same place as previously, so hopefully the focus will not be too far off.

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Title: Step Five.
Post by: Skorj on December 26, 2006, 11:23:35 AM

Load with film. Preferably expired...

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Title: Re: The Polapet, or how to hack up a few cameras for fun...
Post by: Skorj on December 27, 2006, 01:10:51 PM

Expired film. Some better than others, but focus is OK, and exposure moderate. The Polaroid films have less latitude, so shooting ISO125 with a toy lens requires some bright sun (f11 & 1/50), but results are pleasing. Some faster film will also be interesting, as would some non-expired stuff. But, where's the challenge in that? Skorj.



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