Putting a party hat on a nearly 50 year old camera is the kind of stuff that really separates this channel from the rest

Dude seriously, you deserve more than that amount of subs

You’re on fire in this video 🤣 MiNT wanted to make a Polaroid camera, but Impossible did not approve at all. I wish they had approved! A MiNT i-Type camera would be on another level! It would not be a competitor to the new Polaroid cameras at all, and would still benefit the film sales

The pop and smell when you powered the camera on was most likely a capacitor exploding (they do that sometimes). If you can open the camera up and figure out what blew, most likely you can order a new capacitor and replace it! It may help the camera work better, but idk for sure.

Got my original fist year SX70 rebuilt by a guy in Australia. The new film is awesome. They are still among us.

Never heard of the berkey. Wish kodak would make a kodak branded packfilm (with them charging 8 bucks a roll for portra 400 I'm sure it wouldn't put to much strain on them)

hi, watched your video from mainland china. I got to say love your youtube channel so much, definitely my favorite instant camera channel. Keep spreading your love and skill throughout the world man!

I’m so grateful to have come across your channel. The content and the editing of these videos are amazing. Keep em coming!

Maybe my favorite video from you yet! Wow, better and better. Keep it up!!

Great video bro! Perfect timing.

This was very interesting. You continually impress and entertain me, Ben. (And your expression after your "long-time-to-develop/unlike-the-photos" pun was priceless.) Thanks for your outstanding work. I wish you continued success. PS: To follow-up... I just didn't have the heart *or budget* to invest in a 20+ year old Instax 500-AF. So I settled for a sweet eBay "best-offer" deal on an Instax 300... mint-ish condition, with close-up lens (often missing) for a mere $40. (My husband tells me that I need to stop watching your channel. HA! As-if!) PPS: It's very difficult to search eBay sometimes, because everyone refers to their instant-camera and instant-film as a "Polaroid" no matter what the brand is. ARrrrrgh! I was tempted to use the minus sign to exclude the word "Polaroid" from my searches... but I was fearful that I'd miss out on a good deal on someone's "Instax Polaroid 300". So I just slogged through until I found the one I wanted.

Never heard about that before :) sadly no more storys about that kinda strange cameras :(

You look like taron egerton! And your channel is amazing.

The "pop" and smell is more than likely an electrolyte capacitor blowing. They dry up with age. If you get all the capacitors replaced it will work for you. Had to do this many times on vintage equipment. BTW. Love the Videos, keep up the great work...

Another awesome video fun and educational

I really wished the current Polaroid company would allow 3rd parties to make cameras. One of Instax’s major advantages comes from having a huge selection of cameras with many combinations of features, affordability, and availability. Whereas Polaroid film either requires cameras from the past, or their small selection of new cameras, neither of which are really all that easy to get especially where I live

Hilarious ending Ben 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻😂

You are the best. Period 🙏🏽

Awwww the camera looks cute with its little party hat. It likes it saying “I’m special!”

Your late grandmother’s late husband, my late stepfather, who was as you know a (late) photographer, was a loyal customer of Berkey Photo. Berkey was a part of my youth. Not necessarily the best part, but a part nonetheless!

I've for one of these and it works... Or it did six years ago when I shot a pack of impossible SX-70 film through it. I think if I revisited it now I would save it for maximum sunny days to get the most out of that zone focusing. Maybe next summer I'll try it again and hope it doesnt pop.

"Film not hardware was the real money maker". It'd be sweet if polaroid could refigure out how to make the film slim enough for 10 packs, but 8 exposures being $20 a pack is a price I'm willing to pay to keep the instant film industry growing

A great video. I’ve never heard of that camera before. Is that a vintage Broncos cardigan?

I love your videos! Your emergence during this pandemic has been a real bright spot. About a year ago I was helping a friend test a bunch of cameras they'd thrifted and one of them was a Berkey Keystone Wizard Everflash, it was still in the box, and I was able to get it to work with dummy film and an old pack. But one interesting thing is that it came with two packs of film sealed in an unbranded wrapper. It likely said Polaroid on the cartridge if you opened it up. But at the time I wondered if there might be off brand Polaroid SX-70 film in there. That obviously wasn't the case, and I didn't want to open the package just to find out.

Subscribed on the strength of your potty mouth alone. Good piece, sir!

My KZfaq video speed is always set to at least 1.5x.. except for your videos. 👍

the cost is a tad ridiculous, but I hope one day you can do a video on the Mamiya RB67’s attachable Instax back module. the depth of field, clarity, and look in general are so dang cool with instant film on medium format cameras!

F$#@ yeah! Honorable mention is the Minolta Instant Pro baby!

There were other 3rd party Instant cameras too like the Konica instant press, the mamiya universal press, and the npc 195.

Want your wizard fixed? I had to get into mine. That poo you heard was the main bypass cap in the flash circuit.

I wish they would bring back peel apart. I have way too many land cameras that are fancy bricks

I never could get the Everflash 800 or my non-flash Wizard to work correctly... Talk about QUALITY

wait a second I have that model of everflash in mint shape LOL

When you said it took 3 double a batteries, I was like YES! A VINTAGE I-TYPE CAMERA! And I was then dissapointed. Still a cool camera and a cool story though. Edit: i just noticed the flash was slighty off center and it's mildly infuriating.

6:33 The most probable reason is because modern (Impossible) film is thicker than old (hence 8 shots per cartridge instead of 10 as it was). You might try using an NOS of (real) Polaroid film...

I saw same camera, but branded as Revue :)

I've got one that works. It's at least as good if not better than an equivalent Polaroid camera.

The burky,,,,, I love it!!! Lol... defs king of the doinkers....

Berkey Wizard Everflash, the "F*CK IT" of instant cameras

Genial

wow that's an interesting camera, but what I am DYING to know, is where did you get that Denver Broncos sweater???

And what about the Gomz Moment?

1:36 I’M SCREAMING

I actually have one of these keystone cameras in good working condition! No problems with ejecting the film whatsoever

Keystone was a pretty well respected camera builder out of Massachusetts. Originally their main market was in regular 8mm, 16mm, and later super 8 cameras and projectors, which were about on par in quality with Bell and Howell. However, they branched out into making clones of the Kodak Instamatic 126 cameras and eventually even made the above mentioned polaroid compatible. Surprisingly they were still in operation until the 90's, though by that time their prestige had eroded, and their product lines were pretty much noncompetitive with Japanese and Chinese built equipment. Prolly their most loved cameras are their regular 8, K series movie cameras, notable for being one of three cameras available to shoot Kodachrome at the 1939 worlds fair. (and is thus responsible for some our earliest color amateur cinematography of that era.) They also produced military aerial cameras for awhile.

Berkey should become iconic

Berkey also made a version of that camera without the flash (just with a slot to mount external one). It was called Berkey Keystone Wizard XF1000.

Hey I have a great idea for a video! 😁

you slightly resemble Keith Haring

What a disgusting camera.

666th like.

If you go back further there were some other companies that made Polaroid cameras, but they used pack film or roll film. There's the Konica Instant Press and Fuji FP-1 plus a lot of different companies made more specialized pack film cameras like the ID/passport cameras, scientific cameras, etc. There were even some oddball Soviet cameras that used roll film. You've probably seen them before, but these pages have some good info: www.landlist.ch/landlist/nonland.htm www.polamad.com/polaroidshop-special-clone.html