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Bird wrote

The conversion I did was fairly simple, although could be described politely as less than ideal, and could definitely be done much better with not that much effort, I just didn't have any materials at the time. The loading process was a bit of an ordeal, it became a single shot camera that required loading the film in a darkroom, and for the modern instant film required taking the film out of it's cartridge it comes in, cutting some of the margins off without piercing the chemical pouch so it would fit the rollers of the camera, attaching some cardstock to the back of the film so it would engage the rollers, along with a pull handle to pull the film through the camera, all in darkness, and with my less than refined methods took about 30 minutes to prepare the camera for one exposure. But required very minimal changes to the camera itself lol. Thinking on it I could probably replace one of the rollers with a slightly different sized one and it would probably work great and without all the messing around cutting and sticking.

A big part of the cost of film development for me right now is because of unfortunate circumstances I have to start completely from scratch in chemicals, workspace, and equipment so I've been putting off even trying, and have a large backlog of undeveloped film.

What sort of stuff do you usually shoot?

That's fair, for quite a while I didn't have really any old digital cameras, have gotten most of mine from thrift store style establishments over the years. They also have the benefit of being super easy to modify unlike more fragile (and expensive) modern cameras. Recently converted one of them into a super basic near infrared camera by removing the IR filter from the sensor and adding in something that blocks only visible light, mostly broke the autofocus but it's neat to play around with.

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cyberrose wrote

hehe the polaroid mod sounds rather uncomfortable. ^^

I like structures, so often architecture from weird angles, "rotting" stuff/decay (biological, metal, civilization), and also "street"/friends/people doing (weird) stuff.

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Bird wrote

It was quite the procedure lol.

Very neat subjects!

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