Never ever would I have thought the Instax Wide delivers such sharp images! Awesome!

I finally recieved my 110B instax conversion. I'm so glad I went this way. Having total control is so much more enjoyable. With a variable ND filter for bright days it's a please to shoot. Thanks again for this video,because I would not have done it without seeing this video first.

Thanks for sharing this!! Been following your Instagram account for ages. Love your photos there! Can't wait to see more of frankenstax 3.0!

I have been waiting to see your take on your frankenstax camera. Nice to see all is well with it. Now if only they can create a new peel apart film. Great video and take more shots.

Great to see you back Travis, I was getting withdrawal symptoms not seeing you and your cool camera vids, Great shots and an excellent review of your FranKenstax = Respect from the UK

Great job Travis! Love the "Frankenstax" I am always modifying my camera's and this is the best I have seen! Love it! Good seeing you again on KZfaq!

Glad to see you back! I would love to see some content on darkroom printing as that is something I am just getting my feet wet with now. Also, I'm sure it would be a massive undertaking, but it would be awesome to have a frankenstax build-a-long series! Thanks for what you do!

Really cool! You mentioned double exposures. Could that possibly be a topic for a how to video?

the long exposure is amazing!

the shots that you got out of that are amazing. Now the gears are turning to figure out how I can make myself a friend for your frankenstax. Have always loved instant film; have rarely liked the cameras.

NEED instax backs for ALL pack film shooting cameras now. I WISH I could get an instax back for my RZ67, I'm running out of fp100c.

This is so sick!!

I am a 35mm guy but I love your project thank you for share!

Glad your back, and hope your ankle mends soon.

i got Fujiinstax 210 wide . for some three years . It`s outstanding camera . Pictures a sharp , especially for instax film . Zone focusing works very nice . Very easy to get the exposure right . Colours are wonderful. just got to know what are you doing . One of my favorite film cameras . Everyone loves ( and wants ) the pictures from it .

Nice job Tre. I want one

man i would love to have one of these

I'm wildly jealous of you for having done this so well. I really want to get into the instax wide format, but I don't want to settle for subpar results when a Polaroid SLR680/690 can provide excellent results (I dropped out of impossible film format because of how pricey it is). I've just been sitting on my hands waiting for someone to create an excellent instax wide camera that can provide exceptional results with accurate focusing. I don't think I have the skills or knowledge to create something like this and I don't have money to invest into creating this while there's a chance of failure. You sir, have done an excellent job.

This is fantastic. I completely agree with everything you said here. The film is without a doubt the most widely available instant film and arguably produces the best results when compared to other instant films currently in production (*cough cough "Impossible"). It definitely has an untapped potential simply because, as you stated, there isn't a camera available that has accurate focusing and fully manual exposure controls. If there were, instant film would be less of a cliche. I'm completely inspired by what you've done and I very well might build my own so thank you for your open invitation to ask questions because I very well might take you up on that!

You rock man! I am a new film photographer. Still have yet to expose and develop a roll of film but you helped me get into the medium from digital. Do you have a blog post about it? It would probably be a great post! I would LOVE to read up on this and make one myself! :-D Keep up the good work!

This monster is just .. awesome!

Very cool man, very cool. You're right, the Instax film is WAY better than the cameras. I converted a Polaroid Highlander a few years ago to shoot 120 film, so I seriously appreciate the amount of effort that you put into this. I'm still hoping that we will eventually get a decent camera from Fuji, Lomo, or somebody that will have a better lens and offer more control.

That camera is so sick!! :D

can you maybe do tutorial of how you wet about doing this? I just bought a polaroid 350 and was not aware that the film was discontinued when I did. do you know where I can buy the backing? I would really love to do this conversion

Awesome. This was genius. I wonder if there's a way to do the same with my German pre-WWII 9x12, and a Graflex Speed Graphic for my long exposures in the subway tunnels.

Awesome man !! hopefully your sell some !!!

I would like to buy one from you

This thing is awesome!

If building one of these I would suggest a 150mm Xenar, it might be a closer match so you can get to infinity with out collapsing the front end. Resolution wise I don’t think it will be noticeable with Instax film. The Xenar you have on the camera tends to be a pricey piece of glass!

Crazy that someone has to build a camera that works and gives control. Fujifilm PLEASE make a camera that gives us control with the wide film. They'd surely sell a lot of them! I think you could make these and sell them. I know I'd be interested. How much?

Awesome camera! Have you ever considered converting your graflex to instax?

do you have any guides or pointers on building one of these? thanks!

Wow that's crazy awesome! Luckily Mint is coming out with their new instantkon rf70, so the rest of us don't have to go full engineer to have more manual control for instax film. Exciting times!

Very nice

Might do this with my Mamiya Universal Polaroid back.. interesting. Got the 150mm 2.8 Mamiya lens. Would look awesome after Fuji discontinued fp100 and 3000b

funny I would see this video because I had a idea for what I was going to call a frankenroid camera. Has anyone noticed the instax wide film is the exact size as the polaroid 600. So what happens when you load instax wide into a empty polaroid 600 cartridge ? Well for one thing it has to go through the rollers sideways. So try it and let me know how it goes

Great video and thank you for sharing. Is your viewfinder matching the film size: 3.4 x 4.25" / 86 x 108 mm Or are you giving extra space around your subject? What do you see vs. the end result? Have you considered a grafloc back and shooting 4x5 film?

Hello! I'm going to convert Polaroid 360 to instax. I've removed 360's back cover, and i got an instax 200's mechanism. but, i couldn't figure out how to join it together. Could you help me?

Just awesome. Great work! I wonder if you can tell me where to get one of those Belair Instant Backs? I was not able to find one online. Best wishes from Berlin.

Hi Travis, I love this contraption, and would like to build one of my own - like now! If you don't mind, I'd like to ask a couple of Qs. 1. Do you find that the Polaroid 250 is best suited to match up with the Lomo back? How about the 210 or 320? 2. Did you have to make any major alterations to the Bel Air back to fit the Polaroid? I haven't checked your other videos, so apologies if you have instructions already uploaded somewhere. Desperately seeking info. Thanks in advance.

OK, this is always my question; the calibration of the film plane. You said " longer focal length " for the change in film plane. Did I understand that you adjusted the viewfinder or calibrated it yourself? Was this a trial and error thing or did you have another method?

I totally agree that lomography cameras are a joke. I got tired of wasting film also. I customized a Diana instant back to work with a mini Graphlex and enjoyed the control of picture taking again. I've ordered a Polaroid 110B already overhauled ,calibrated and ready to shoot instax wide.I'm waiting patiently for it to arrive. It is so mush more enjoyable to be able to plan a shoot and have it turn out the way you envision it. Good Luck with your new camera.

Want one so bad

what kind of light meter is that?

I have a 210 polaroid that I've never used and I'd love to mount the back of my Fuji instax 210 to it, but I don't know if it can be done or how to do it. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how do you get the shutter to sync with the instax?

Looks like you use the back from a model 200 =210.

Have you tried taking flash pictures yet?

Ill buy it off you...

I made a "pola-instax" from a Polaroid 100 and an Instax wide 100 camera, and even the Polaroid 3 element glass lens is much better than the 2 element plastic Instax lens. I also made a large format instax back from an Instax 100 for my 5x7 and this truly showcases the quality of Instax film! I'm thinking that putting an instax back on a Polaroid 110B would be perfect as you wouldn't have any focus issues since infinity focus can be adjusted, and close focus would work as well since the rangefinder is coupled with the same 127mm lens, instead of using a 135mm on a rangefinder designed for a 114mm lens. I did a quick mashup of the Pola-instax build at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5eIo65619nRaZc.html

The long exposure shot and the cow shot are awesome. the others aren't cool, but it's not your fault. instax films suck. and people wonder why impossible films are more expensive...

Nice Job, because of the hassle with infinity and the rangefinder I didn´t convert this one to Instax. but its not the world first and only manual Instax camera ;) First Land Camera maybe, but not converted Polaroid I converted my Polaroid 110a in 2015. Others way before