It works much better with instax film because they expose through the back and you don’t have the inversion problem. I made holders for instax wide out of some sheets of old 5x4 and use them in standard dark slides, with an idea of laser cutting some eventually. Works fine though it won’t auto eject as yours does. I shoot a few, unload them in a dark bag as I would normally and load a cartridge to eject via my existing (currently half disassembled) instax wide camera. Just, make sure you cover the lens when ejecting.
I’m a little late to the game here, but I find it pretty easy to load Polaroid film in to my 4x5 sheet film holder (I made little silts on some card stock to fit the corners of the film) in my darkroom, and then I expose the film normally. After that you bring the film back to the dark room, load it back into the original film carrier and use a Polaroid camera to roll it out ( making sure not to expose the film again) it’s a lot of back and forth, unless you pre load a bunch of film carriers lol but it works pretty well and you don’t have to worry about the focal distance because the film holder keeps it flush with your camera back!
Thanks for this video. You could make a spacer that is the width of the distance from the front of your back to the film plane with a square hole in it that you could slide under the ground glass to focus. When you get focus, pull out the spacer, remove the ground glass, attach your back and take the photo. You could also use that spacer to re-calibrate your rangefinder and then use the rangefinder to focus (for that particular lens). Keep up the good work.
Another great and informative video. A ground glass can be made from thin translucent plastic and placed at film plane to improve focus. Great first effort, looking forward to more.
its really great achievement dude , you diid really well , to get it work , many would have failed or given up .. it works and. you can get cool images from it ... what more do you want .from a diy hacked togather device ... a great project
Thanks for doing this video. I don't know if I'll be able to build something like this, but I really miss pack film for my 4x5. The Fujifilm FP-100C was a really great film, almost as good in quality as negative film, and I'm still in shock that they got rid of it.
Wouldn’t Instax film be better for that kind of camera? Because Polaroid film needs a mirror to reflect the image or the images are going to be horizontally inverted, so you need to revert the pictures digitally to have the images correctly oriented.
Thank you for all of the lessons learned and insights! I have been dreaming 🤔 💭 about doing this for a long time... slightly less interested now but still curious. At least I know what I would be getting into! Just wish Impossible Project / Polaroid Originals / Polaroid - would make AA/AAA-batteries 🔋 instead of their terrible “rechargeable” batteries... especially the first I-1 camera.
My photography professor has a 4x5 camera that he was going to let me try out for my semester final... then they shut down the university due to the pandemic. So that was kinda disappointing. But hopefully next semester I’ll get to try it out
a little question for something I haven't found much information about: how thick must be the connection part of a self made back to fit the graflok system?
I'm trying to put a Kodak brownie hawkeye lens on a canon EOS M3 And I'm trying to figure out how to sucer it to the canon Do you have any suggestions ?
I've been hoping for a way to use current Polaroid film in my 4x5s and also hoping somebody would bring out a new version of Polaroid packfilm or single sheets, but not much chance of that. Today I just heard of Lomo making a back to fit 4x5 and taking Fuji Instax Wide - I think I'll give that a try, as Instax Wide is reasonably cheap to buy if I keep my eyes open for slightly out-of-date bargains. shop.lomography.com/en/lomo-graflok-instant-back
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." --Oscar Wilde
It works much better with instax film because they expose through the back and you don’t have the inversion problem. I made holders for instax wide out of some sheets of old 5x4 and use them in standard dark slides, with an idea of laser cutting some eventually. Works fine though it won’t auto eject as yours does. I shoot a few, unload them in a dark bag as I would normally and load a cartridge to eject via my existing (currently half disassembled) instax wide camera. Just, make sure you cover the lens when ejecting.
wowww that math equation made my brain evaporate (any sort of math is a problem for me lol) really interesting project. So sick
Ya I hadn’t used it in a while and I had to figure out like whaaaat did I do here?
I’m a little late to the game here, but I find it pretty easy to load Polaroid film in to my 4x5 sheet film holder (I made little silts on some card stock to fit the corners of the film) in my darkroom, and then I expose the film normally. After that you bring the film back to the dark room, load it back into the original film carrier and use a Polaroid camera to roll it out ( making sure not to expose the film again) it’s a lot of back and forth, unless you pre load a bunch of film carriers lol but it works pretty well and you don’t have to worry about the focal distance because the film holder keeps it flush with your camera back!
You're the definition of tenacious. And I like and respect that.
Thanks for this video. You could make a spacer that is the width of the distance from the front of your back to the film plane with a square hole in it that you could slide under the ground glass to focus. When you get focus, pull out the spacer, remove the ground glass, attach your back and take the photo. You could also use that spacer to re-calibrate your rangefinder and then use the rangefinder to focus (for that particular lens). Keep up the good work.
I did not expect the shout out at the end of the video! That made my day! I'm so glad I could help! :D
Noah confirmed as favorite youtuber now!
sounds like you had fun... and thats what counts
Suuuuuuuper cool experiment. Hope you could talk about polaroid backs. lml Love your channel.
I wanna watch this video all day
Awesome! I'm digging this LF photography projects!
Another great and informative video. A ground glass can be made from thin translucent plastic and placed at film plane to improve focus. Great first effort, looking forward to more.
it's really cool man, I try to do back from 636 camera and think it will be work without recalculating of focus
Awesome dude. It’s always fun to do stuff like this and experiment. :)
Fan of this channel. I found a Polaroid CB-70 processor some years ago. But you can't use battery-less film on that one.
its really great achievement dude , you diid really well , to get it work , many would have failed or given up .. it works and. you can get cool images from it ... what more do you want .from a diy hacked togather device ... a great project
Awesome! I'm never doing this! But still awesome!!!
Can you do a video on how to rig a Polaroid 600se to shoot onto 600 film or wide stax?
I used to use 4x5 film in an old roll film Polaroid 110a and 95, a sheet at a time.
A T Burke
At 7:54 Noah describes the state of film photography in 2020. :-P
Thanks for doing this video. I don't know if I'll be able to build something like this, but I really miss pack film for my 4x5. The Fujifilm FP-100C was a really great film, almost as good in quality as negative film, and I'm still in shock that they got rid of it.
second image was really cool
Hear video again! Love Polaroid and love 4x5 large format. What's not to like!👍😀
Errr! I meant to say Great video again! 😀😀😀
Love your Channel !!!
got an new lens?
the edges are much sharper
saty safe! :)
greatings robin
Wouldn’t Instax film be better for that kind of camera?
Because Polaroid film needs a mirror to reflect the image or the images are going to be horizontally inverted, so you need to revert the pictures digitally to have the images correctly oriented.
Yes, if you remembered to put the back of the film facing forward in the camera.
A T Burke
Neat. just snagged an impossible instant lab. Game on!
What about making a custom back to shoot 4x5 film in a polaroid pack film camera?
Thank you for all of the lessons learned and insights! I have been dreaming 🤔 💭 about doing this for a long time... slightly less interested now but still curious. At least I know what I would be getting into! Just wish Impossible Project / Polaroid Originals / Polaroid - would make AA/AAA-batteries 🔋 instead of their terrible “rechargeable” batteries... especially the first I-1 camera.
would love to see how to convert a roll film camera to fuji something, but I know how complicated it is... :D
My photography professor has a 4x5 camera that he was going to let me try out for my semester final... then they shut down the university due to the pandemic. So that was kinda disappointing. But hopefully next semester I’ll get to try it out
That little blue circuit board is a buck boost converter
just found one of these instant labs for 70 bucks and pulled the trigger immediately
Hi, could you show us how you opened up the instant lab to install the components please?
I found the details and images in a comment on this video: th-cam.com/video/9j-s9SvFwOw/w-d-xo.html
This is just both so over the top, yet the nerd inside me is satisfied ahaha
How about 4 x 5 night time exposure’s ????
a little question for something I haven't found much information about: how thick must be the connection part of a self made back to fit the graflok system?
I just started trying to build an instax back for my medium format camera using a cheap Instax "printer."
So far, it's going just... ok lol
I'm trying to put a Kodak brownie hawkeye lens on a canon EOS M3 And I'm trying to figure out how to sucer it to the canon Do you have any suggestions ?
Did you record with a different lens than normal? The distortion around the sounds seems to be a lot less than normal?? Very cool DIY!
THAT BOY THICC
Polaroid 110 w/ 600SE system. take your "instant lab" with rezivot kit. DONE.
I NEED MORE 4x5
I made a very ghetto large format camera last year, I’m only refining the focusing system right now.. haha
Could you recommend film backs for a 4x5 camera to shoot 120 film?
I would recommend this list!
mercurycamera.com/backs/guide-to-graflok-45-backs/
Guess at the end of the day, why not? XD
I made some pinhole lenses for my digital camera with a drill and a cut up can. Only hurt myself twice.
Haha nice!
makes me think this is possible to build onto a small format plate camera. hmmmm
You should've replace to USB type c instead of another micro USB
I've been hoping for a way to use current Polaroid film in my 4x5s and also hoping somebody would bring out a new version of Polaroid packfilm or single sheets, but not much chance of that.
Today I just heard of Lomo making a back to fit 4x5 and taking Fuji Instax Wide - I think I'll give that a try, as Instax Wide is reasonably cheap to buy if I keep my eyes open for slightly out-of-date bargains.
shop.lomography.com/en/lomo-graflok-instant-back
Why don't yoy make a back with a ground glass wich has the same distance as the film surface ? Then you can focus precisely without math.
Can I just take a minute to talk about how Polaroid makes 8 x 10 film but not 4x5 film . Even though 4 x 5 has an arguably user base
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." --Oscar Wilde
Polaroid is niche market sometimes idk why they don't cater to their niche consumers......(like just make a Polaroid back, WTF)