To all your questions: 1) The tripod mound REALLY sucks. I wrapped black electrical tape around the camera and around the mount. It's now solid enough that I can do horizontal or vertical images. It's ugly, but hey, it's a cardboard box to begin with.
2) Fuji's FP100 will work in it, I've shot it. It won't solve the film loading error problem, that's just a matter of getting used to the weirdness (or should I say "unique features") of Polaroid film. Learning to pull the film out in a way that doesn't give you a white triangle of blank at the corner of the image is another skill that you will find yourself striving to master. It's fussy, no matter what kind of film you use. 3) I wish I understood why they package 669 with the camera when it's the worst film for reciprocity failure. The 689 film is fantastic and I strongly recommend using it - the increased color saturation helps a lot, and reciprocity failure doesnt really start to show up until you get into the 30 second exposure range - I've gotten good color up to 15 second exposures. Take your 669 images into photoshop and use the eyedropper tool in levels - you'll yield a very quaint 1950's Kodak color film look. Some of the newer Kodak color films have a lot less reciprocity failure, they say. I've used black and white, even the 3000 speed stuff indoors and in dark blizzard conditions. Any Polaroid film will work. In my opinion 669 is the worst possible choice, reciprocity failure sets in around 1/10 of a second. And finally, developing time is very sensitive to temperature. _____________________________________ _______ Ed Nazarko -----Original Message----- From: pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ??????? [mailto:pinhole-discussion- admin@p at ???????] On Behalf Of Matti Koskinen Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:45 AM To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? Subject: [pinhole-discussion] polaroid pinhole kit hi all, today I received my Polaroid pinhole kit and sort of managed to put it together. The tripod mount sucks, first of all in the package was so little bit of sponge tape that it never held the camera, I bought some more, but still the tripod mount is unusable. Here's so windy that the camera moves so much, that the pictures I finally got, are all too bad. I'd like to know how others have got the tripod mount rigid? Another problem was loading the film. I have never loaded earlier 669 type film and so I ruined four first photos. Luckily with the kit came another film pack, yesterday I tried to locate Polaroid pack film here in my home town, but it seems no shop has it for sale, only for their own passport cameras. Does the kit's holder accept Fuji FP-100 film? Then after getting the film loaded correctly, the photos are very bluish. They look otherwise ok (exposure) but colors are badly off. Polaroid says long exposures may cause this, but mine were about 5 secs all and development 1 minute. All information urgently needed. TIA -matti
