Watched this video a few years ago and thought it was awesome that you can do astrophotography using a Polaroid camera. Finally bought a OneStep+ this weekend and can't wait to give this a try, all thanks to this video! :)

Two of my favorite things! Space and Photography! Have to try these camera settings, great video as always :)

I’ve been discussing doing this with my girlfriend because I’m interested in astrophotography but don’t own a digital camera and don’t want to buy one. I’m really happy you made this video. Super interesting. Thank you for this content!

Random Dan has the personality to match his photos. What a cool dude.

Also, you can always modify the camera to have a wider aperture. Sometimes the ones with swappable aperture holes you can drill one out to a huge size and keep the others so it's still useful

I am amazed with how constant you were to finally took the shot. That was a great adventure to watch.

Sich a good video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I love the way that your structure this video. I just find your and you have a fan in me! Greetings from germany

cool experiment! maybe try putting it on a tracker with half speed tracking so the stars won't just be streaks.

That's really cool. I have a great view of the moon from my place so I might try your settings for the sunset.

That was interesting. I actually searched for this video to see if anyone have tried such an un-suited camera for astrophotography. 😂 I’ve been doing deep space astrophotography for 5 years or so, and I think the biggest issue here is the lack of tracking. You might set your exposure to be a hour, but the star is only on a film grain (whatever you call the film equivalent of a pixel) for likely 15 seconds or so. So the rotation of the sky moves that star to the next part of the film and stops illuminating that previous bit. The over all image will brighten because there’s some constant sky glow, but the star trails will just get longer rather than brighter. If you could track the sky however, you would be able to capture all of the light onto a the same portion of the sensor for the entire duration of the shot. I wouldn’t worry much about f stop either. I’d rather have a out of focus image and collect light much faster. Since it’s doomed to be a little subpar anyhow. Interesting video. I respect the effort.

This is why I would have never figured this out (because I've wondered myself)....I HATE math, don't have the patience to do it lol. Awesome video!

Coming to this video late, but ... Bravo! Being an experimentalist is what Polaroid photography beyond pictures of friends and family in sunlight or with flash is all about! I love your process and the way you reached out to find expertise and information. I'm sure you're well beyond this now. ❤ I have a very unusual Polaroid ... a 6/66 Pinhole Polaroid ... that requires a very similar experimentalist approach. You've inspired me to pull it out and charge it up for another fun time making photos without a lens. Perhaps I'll do a video with my results when I achieve some. 😂

such a good video. you really killed it with this one!

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Making astrophotography specific instant film cameras with massive film sizes would probably sell amazingly as a niche photography device. It'd be bulky, for certain, but the overall size would make it simple to design and thus fairly inexpensive overall, especially compared to digital cameras with large enough sensors to be useful at 25+ second exposures without star trailing. How the lens system would work would be a question. It might make sense to make it a fixed lens device like traditional instant cams. The device would male a lot of money off the film, since it'd be a new format (I'm thinking it would be designed for ~a12 paper sized pictures since you could always use a set of adapters or a telescopic film framing system to make smaller photos). Maybe it's stupid

Nice video bro. I love astrophotography and have shot some but one day I should travel to a lonely place away from city side to shoot without light pollution. Subbed to your channel.

In your calculation you forgot reciprocity failure... past 2 second a lot of films need to have more light, for exemple if you meter for 2 it’s 4s but if you meter for 12 it can be 30s, it depend on the film stock and it’s not a linear curve more like a logarithm ones. You can find some app than calculate that for you but only for commun films like HP5 or tri-x etc. I don’t think someone had try this on Polaroid film Édit : Oups, too early comment...

Great stuff, great idea and you tried, made the experiment. I wonder if you could borrow a star tracker and try it again, reckon it would work out great. .

He’s so nice

How do you get hour long exposures on your polaroid onestep+?

nice video! Just answered what I was looking for, thanks!

Damn your videos are so qualitative!

Dude please do an fstops video !

amazing! your passion for this stuff is inspiring :)

Great video man! Learned a decent amount 🙌🏽

How about taking it on the now +?

Why are the photo with the clouds coloring purple/pink?

Thanks, very cool video, hello from Russia!

Hey man! Thanks for this video 🤙🏼

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How did you manage to get such an amazingly slow shutter speed? 44 minutes.

I wonder if Mint 670S will produce better results because of its glass lense

great video

Remember film takes longer than calculated exposure esp for these types of super long exposure. Edit: should have watched the video....

Lmao reciprocity failure go brrrrrr

Thank you for sharing. I had the chance to view a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I uploaded a pretty cool montage of the trip to my channel.

Wow...well, thank you for failing for us. Burning through film like that who needs student loans. 7:50

You need to get out of the town or city you live in, air quality and light pollution also play a part.

Reciprocity failure