Topic: Weekend - March 10, 11 & 12, 2023

[Bryan]

This Air Heritage museum was a short walk from my hotel in Beaver Falls, PA, had to go check it out.  Leica IIf with a Summaron 3.5cm f/3.5.  Ilford FP4+ developed in beer.

Short Brothers Sherpa C-23B by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Douglas C-47 Skytrain by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[Francois]

My dad would be in heaven if he went there!
And then he would just not stop talking about tiny details nobody really cares about... 

[Kai-san]

More coastal landscapes from me.

Contax RX / Yashica ML 35mm 1:2,8 / Kodak T-Max 400 in Adox XT-3

[rotarysmp]

My dad would be in heaven if he went there!
And then he would just not stop talking about tiny details nobody really cares about... 

I can relate to your Dad

I used up my last frame of this pack (missed focus), on the three Land cameras I butchered yesterday as a start on my next Instafrankenroid V2.0

[Bryan]

My dad would be in heaven if he went there!
And then he would just not stop talking about tiny details nobody really cares about... 

I can relate to your Dad

I used up my last frame of this pack (missed focus), on the three Land cameras I butchered yesterday as a start on my next Instafrankenroid V2.0

It’s hard for me to pass up an airplane museum.  I grew up in a neighborhood where just about every household had a parent that worked for Boeing. 

Mark, I’m interested in what you’re going to do with those cameras.  I have a drawer full of Polaroid land cameras and accessories.  I’m not paying over $100 for a pack of film so they will need to take on a different format if I’m ever going to use them again. 

[rotarysmp]

I have been using one I hacked a couple of years ago, with a Mamiya 105 /3.5 lens on the front, an Instax wide camera bodged onto the back, and a new cam to match the shorter focal length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYeu-3LmRk&list=PLHRtJd1bD3ISZmUGt9bgK-xwa8Ls_NVf9

It is a rough prototype, with light leaks, a flakey hand ejection mechanism, and the instax back upside down.

The next one, I am following the ideas of Mattins32
https://www.instagram.com/mattins32/

By chopping the body in half, you can space it enough to fit the Instax film pack and the ejection rollers between the Polaroids front standard scissor arms, and thus get to the original film plane. I am looking to get a Polaroid 180, and use it's front standard and lens this time, as the price of them has come back down from the heights they reached 10 years ago.
My aims:
- Instax wide upright (Wide frame below photo).
- Instax on original film plane
- Electric ejection
- Polaroid 180 Lens
- No light leaks.
- Hot shoe.
- Look finished.

Will take me a while to get there. So far I just butchered three of my doner bodies.

[Francois]

My dad would be in heaven if he went there!
And then he would just not stop talking about tiny details nobody really cares about... 

I can relate to your Dad

It’s hard for me to pass up an airplane museum.  I grew up in a neighborhood where just about every household had a parent that worked for Boeing. 

Dad used to work for turbine engine manufacturers. He can talk to anybody about the rotation speeds of PT-6 engines on the combustion stage until you feel like becoming deaf... though he has about 5 fun stories that involve either an engine exploding or pigeons.