My new Polaroid camera (modified 110A/B)

[Thomas78]

Hello,

yesterday I got my new Polaroid camera, a Polaroid 110 A/B with the modern rangefinder and modifierd for polaroid type 100 pack film. 😀

Here some photos of it:

Comparing the size with a Rollei 35:

And when the camera is unfoldet:

If you are interested, I may scan some picture I will take with it the next days and weeks.

Thomas

 

[robklurfield]

Who did the modifications?

 

[charjohncarter]

I just modified a 95 for 4x5: total cost $60. I hope it works:

 

[al1966]

I just modified a 95 for 4x5: total cost $60. I hope it works:

Could you do a how to?? I have one I wanted to convert but not sure how

 

[dave lackey]

I just modified a 95 for 4x5: total cost $60. I hope it works:

Wow...I have one of Al Kaplans's old 95's.... I would love to see how this is done.

🙂

 

[dave lackey]

Hello,

yesterday I got my new Polaroid camera, a Polaroid 110 A/B with the modern rangefinder and modifierd for polaroid type 100 pack film. 😀

Here some photos of it:

Comparing the size with a Rollei 35:

And when the camera is unfoldet:

If you are interested, I may scan some picture I will take with it the next days and weeks.

Thomas

Nice Thomas! Please post some pics from that camera!🙂

 

[charjohncarter]

al166 and dave lackey, I'll PM you how I did it. It only took a couple of days and $20 in plastic.

 

[al1966]

Top man 🙂 Thank you

 

[charjohncarter]

Hello,

yesterday I got my new Polaroid camera, a Polaroid 110 A/B with the modern rangefinder and modifierd for polaroid type 100 pack film. 😀

Here some photos of it:

Comparing the size with a Rollei 35:

And when the camera is unfoldet:

If you are interested, I may scan some picture I will take with it the next days and weeks.

Thomas

Yes, I'd be very interested. Thanks, I have 5 Polaroid Packfilm cameras, some good and some slightly better than good. So I'd like to see the difference.

 

[silverbullet]

Wowww, what a beauty! The modification would interest me a lot...!

Yesterday my first try with my 3 days ownership Land 180 took place near the floods of the Rhine river in Coblenz.
A feeling like Venice in winter.....
Poor people having the water in their homes.

After this shot the boys asked me to photograph them. It was as in the past....

 

[Thomas78]

Who did the modifications?

The modificaton was done by Patrick Putze.

Here the first two pictures:

DOF at about 0.9 m and f/4.7:

and a crop:

Now I did the same at f/16, the sharpness is much higher but the resulution is still not good enought to show the mm - scale clearly at a distanc of 0.9 m.

At with aperture would you expect the maximum sharpness of the Rodenstock Ysarex (it is a tessar type). I would guess somewhere between f/11 - f/22.

And do you know the resolution of the FP-100C film?

But besides absolute sharpness, it can give you nice pictures:

(more to come)

 

[Thomas78]

The same picture as above with f/16:

And the crop:

I think that the image resulution here ist limited by the film emulsion.

 

[Brian Levy]

I've got a 180 and a 195 and have always thought they'd make a fine 4x5. I'm not mechanically gifted so never planned to do it. sadly, with the withdrawal of Polaroid and the lack of distribution of Fuji here in Canada and elsewhere, I can see a lot of excellent Polaroid cameras hitting the junk yards.

 

[charjohncarter]

This is an 'as is' aution but they always have Polaroids, and they are cheap:

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/search/...0&sellerID=all&srchdesc=&showthumbs=on&page=1

 

[Brian Levy]

$26 bid for a 250. Maybe there is still value in that crate of pack film cameras I've got stashed. I used them for teaching photogrpahy. I was about to send them to goodwill as I'm cleaning out.

 

[fbf]

$26 is not bad for 250. The zeiss finder is great. I got a few 250 just for the finder parts. You see people sell the finder alone on ebay for more than $50.

 

[Thomas78]

Here some new pictures with my polaroid 110A/B:

These two with FP-100C:

f/5.6 1/30 s (if i remember right)

f/4.7 1/60 s

And here my first image with the FP-3000B film at available light:

f/5.6 1/15 s


Sorry for the poor scanning quality.

 

[Thomas78]

A picture from saturday night:

Some blur because of 1/8 s.

 

[charjohncarter]

Thomas, those look great. Some people don't like FP100c, I do. To me it is in the same class as kodachrome. I don't know if it is still there but B&H had it for $7.50.

 

[z.bruce.li]

I used to have a 110A converted to 120 roll film, with mask for 6x9 and 6x12. It was a neat concept, but couldn't get right focus or sharpness even at f/11 or f/16. I just cannot compare the slides to a Fujica GSW690. It is quite compact when folded down, but not particularly easy to handheld stably when opened. Eventually I gave up. Hope you guys have a better conversion!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blee1996/sets/72157605738302947/with/2600133146/