Take your final picture of your collection, shows your journey of old Polaroids come full circle, as the pack film disappeared. I think that would be beautiful

I love your passion, and dedication. As a lover of 35mm film/film cameras, I've often thought about the pain of seeing the format die. I admire your resolve and effort to give your cameras new life. ❤ Hat's off to you...

This is beautiful. I can feel his enthusiasm and passion talking about his projects. Absolutely lovely!

If Dr Edwin Land were alive today he would find a kindred spirit in this fellow scientist. His enthusiasm and curiosity is infectious. He should keep going because the younger artists are returning to film photography. Instant real photos may be the old/new thing again.

Brilliant stuff! I have a variety of similar old Polaroids, but never have taken the time to experiment with modifications. I’m envious of you for accomplishing what you have. The fact that you’ve shared your experiences, instructions, and the 3D printing files is just excellent icing on the old Polaroid cake! Bravo sir!

Amazing. Will be looking into this. Thanks

omg this is the perfect video, i just ordered one of these on goodwill before realizing film had been discontinued

Manual exposure is genius!

This was so interesting. I have a couple of Polaroid cameras laying around (like you, I’ve used all my pack film 🙁). I’d love to have a go at printing one of these backs. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise!

I loved this video. It’s so inspiring! I just got into modifying some Polaroid 110As and Bs to shoot Instax. I’m currently working on the 4th one and I’m also doing a lot of 3D printing and learning how to CLA the lenses and thinking about what else I can improve. Watching your video and see how far you’ve come has really motivated me and made me desire more. Thank you for sharing. It was a pleasure to watch

Wonderful work to keep these old Polaroids going. I have a few of these that I've been hoarding to convert to 4x5. You gave me some additional ideas. Thanks.

You are a genius! I just inherited a Polaroid Land Camera 100, while cleaning out 'the old family homestead'. I was so thrilled until I looked for film. I started thinking that there's got to be SOMEWAY to put some film in these, but I'm not handy at all. Now, I found some photos in the case and figured out that the camera originally belonged to a different branch of the family tree. The cousin wants the photos of course, but I'm also going to offer the camera to him. Kinda hoping he doesn't want it. lol. I'd love to do the 120 film hack with this. As I am NOT handy, I'll likely contact you for a quote if you'd be willing to make the mods for me. Here's to hoping he doesn't want the camera!! lol I guess there's always Ebay if he does --because now I am obsessed with this thing. The photo quality is amazing. I was thinking, 'This is a Polaroid?" The pics I found were 50 years old and in great shape. The colors, everything... so much better than the Polaroids I grew up with in the late 70s and 80s. Too bad they stopped making the film.

Step 1: Get Timothee Chalamet and Kendal Jenner some Polaroid Land cameras to be seen with. Step 2: Internet goes crazy for Land cameras. Step 3: Wait for Kodak to buy up One Instant and invest several million dollars. Step 4: Shoot an improved version of One Instant. It is a bit sad that instant technology (or rather film available) has actually regressed, a bit like how Concorde was decommissioned. I hope that the trend for instant film and instax continues and eventually One Instant becomes a little more consistent and affordable. If you didn't know already, there's a startup called 'Newland' which is developing a Polaroid integral back for Land cameras. It's a completely reversible conversion with an adapter for the lens. The film is ejected by hand crank, so I guess no battery required and it can use the cheaper i-type film.

Something I miss from packfilm land cameras is the distinctive smell when peeling the print, and tucking the cold clip somewhere warm.

left me speechless

such a charming video! i became the owner of a land model 450 a few years ago, rescuing it from the dump despite knowing full-well it was essentially "unusable." however, after reading up on that particular model, i became so intrigued in the possibility of using it somehow. it appeared to have been a fairly decent model when it was released and i always love a good glass lens on an instant camera! while these projects are impressive and i'm in awe of just how many modifications you have developed, i fear they're outside of my realm of ability. 😅 but nonetheless, it's nice to see that there is a lot of potential for modifications to breathe new life into those bellows!

Polaroid need to put you on their pay roll! Genius 👍

You’re my new favourite crazy inventor!

Thank you, this is so helpful!! I just snagged a 250 lane camera at a thrift store and wasn’t sure what to do with it.

Each of those cameras are fascinating! I can't really think of any other format for you to fit into those land cameras!

this is fantastic! i have a polaroid 420 i picked up and figured it would just be a display piece, but this is inspiring me to modify it!

You should collaborate with (or consult for) Mint, Lomography or Chroma cameras. What you’ve achieved it very impressive.

This is so fun!! I wish I found this earlier!

Thank you so much for sharing all these with us ☺️ you have inspired me!

thanks you so much im gona try do the conversion to 4x5 :))

Super cool projects 👍

Thank you so much for putting your 3d models online, I have been able to convert my polaroid 210 to shoot 6x6 120.

Pretty cool i toyed with the idea of a internal 6x9 120 film back for my pack film camera and 3d printer but my skills weren't up to the task Found your website i my try one of your mods

Fantastic!!! Thank you for sharing your brilliant work

Thank for your terrific work! Im particularly interested in the instax and 6x9 mods

I’m nearly 26 and i was shooting 35mm/120 since 21. Recently i got into instant - got myself impulse af and some 600 film to test it out and few month later sx70 is one of my favourite cameras that i lug almost everywhere and shoot everywhere(i mostly shoot landscapes and cities, not like street photography or anything - just cities. Architecture, views, streets and so on. Got back from my day trip on weekend from Budapest with 20 amazing polaroids). And then i got into instant rabbit hole even deeper and got myself refrigatered fp100(yes i paid 100 euros for it) and polaroid propack. I doubt that i will afford to shoot more of pack film but i will come to any good deals i'll probably get some more of pack stuff :) Seen some with 90s/2000s expiration dates and unknown storage condition in 20 euros price range. But all and all that format is most likely dead and i'm so jealous of you that you had such wonderful expierence of shooting it for so many years. I will probably shoot my fp100 at special occasion and then get some more old polaroids as they are getting cheap as chips now and do a different conversions to 120/4x5/instax and integral film and will shoot my sx70 and 600 box cameras more and more.

Great work man would love to see your 6x9 stuff

Fantastic video, I have a few Polaroid and instax cameras. I would love to turn my 230 into a 120 or instax camera. I just purchased a Lomograflok for a Crown Graphic, hopefully testing it out soon

You are a pleasure to listen to. Personally I own a 250 and hunt eBay for as many expired refrigerated packs as possible! Happy shooting!

Great custom camera projects!

I miss pack film so much

I have an idea for a future 6x9. Have you ever seen the Agfa Clack. It is a very compact bakelite 6x9 camera. It maintains a small width by useing a conave film plain in the back. You might even just try getting a Clack just the play around with one. This is fun camera to use.

These are thing YOU can do...not ME...i dont have the skills lOL. Congrats on the great projects!

Lovely ideas , and results. I however like to shoot them originally .

wow, i would love to give some of these a try! Amazing!:)

Your idea of shooting an image and then putting the developing chemicals inside the camera is being done in the “Pinsta Camera”, and the results are quite nice. It is a pinhole camera design, but I would think that a combination of your paper positive color process, and their developing injection/rinse and removal process might do the trick. Pinsta Camera only does black & white for now, but the design is interesting.. a 3D printed camera that uses syringes to inject, and remove, the developing chemicals. They have several vieeos out now here on KZfaq. Thanks for this video! I’m beginning to experiment with paper as film in 4x5 and pinhole cameras.

You mad lad, you went and did it…!

Came across by chance..great content thanks. Now subscribed :-)

you are awesome ! :)

Wow

The greatest thing about Polaroid peel film was the smell of the emulsion.

Great content- I really enjoyed your work!

I shoot 120 roll color film and would love to mod one of the two old land cameras like that I have to shoot it :). Thank you

You are a legend!!

I wish I was as mechanical as you. I don't have the mechanic/engineer gene. I am looking into using some of the 3D instax backs. There are ones for Graflex, Polaroid 600SE, Mamiya Universal or Super 23. As I recall there is one company that puts out a single image pack film that is very expensive. Perhaps some a company in China will see the demand for pack film and start producing it again. There are millions of pack film cameras and pack film back waiting for film. I suspect many folks would pay $30 a pack if it was available again.

Hey, do you still have the printer files for the 120 film pack designs? I have a pack camera, & would love to see mine with some life in it again!

Do you have any tutorials or detailed instructions anywhere that explain how to do the instax wide conversion? It's surprisingly difficult to find any specifics out there.

Wow!

Could you use one to make a enlarger head shining the light somehow in the back and building a negative holder? Just a thought to spur your curiosity

How do I buy a conventional film holder like the last camera has? What is it called so I can ask my computer who sells them?

How do i do the modification for 120 film

Why didn't you film any of these projects?

I have a Colorpak iv. Which mod would you recommend?

I just bought a 355 from a garage sale (brand new and never used) and you are telling me I am never going to use it ? Can I still find some films on the internet ? If yes what would be the best pack to get please 😢?

I have a 195. I was thinking the same thing re: paper negs and real film so I saved six or seven pack film holders. How do you hold the film flat, just tape? I was considering cutting foam to fit. Be nice if more cartridges were made available through 3-D printing.

do you got a 150 in your collection?

At this point you just need to make cameras from scratch

What about land cameras like the 80b?

This guy is some sort of Polaroid wizard 🪄