These are two of my favorite photos I’ve taken on an instant camera (Instax Mini 40) and I’ve wanted to pick up a Polaroid for quite some time now. I don’t expect to win but it’s honestly just nice to have a chance to share some of my pictures:)
Im a big fan of compact point and shoot cameras so i prefer to use cameras like Olympus Trip 35 and Canon AF35. Those cameras are just easy and a joy to use. Although the process of actually getting the photo is a bit long so once in a while i like to use a pricy convenience, the Instax Mini. My cat is often the star of my photos so here is one of them. I didn’t expect that it would be so over exposed but it has a charm.
Hii……I have never owned a Polaroid camera and it would be a very great opportunity to win this one…….it would be a real blessing for me to win this giveaway. I don’t have any photos to attach. I really hope and pray i get the camera
This is one of the first photos I took with my latest camera, a shiny Contax S2, and maybe one of my favourite photos from any camera! The colours and setting look straight out of the 90s. I’ve never shot instant but I’ve been on the fence about buying a Polaroid for about a year now :-)
This is a detail of the main staircase of a once grand casino built by Austro-Hungary for its naval officers. The building has since changed function (and the country where it is situated) several times during the past century, but it is still standing in all its melancholy splendour.
I have just treated myself by buying one of these cameras, and am awaiting it‘s arrival as I write this.
This is one of the best, and most informative articles regarding the use of a camera that I’ve read, and I’ve read a few over the years. Rambling lectures on specifications are of little interest to me, but empirical knowledge learnt from practical experience is. Your tips for opening the lens and using the plunger are something I’ll keep in mind when I’m familiarising myself with the camera.
I‘m well used to Voigtlanders, and regularly used a Vito iia, a Vitomatic ii, a Vito B and also a Perkeo 1, which is like a Vito iia on steroids.
I’ve bought my Vitessa, (which I now know to be an L, thanks to your article) as it has the Ultron lens. I bought it because (a) I like Voigtlanders, and (b) I fancied something a little smaller than my Konica iii, which is a fabulous camera but quite bulky. Both cameras have similar specs and well regarded lenses, so it’ll be interesting to compare them.
Thank you once again for a most informative article.
Here’s a special one for me of my twins having a paddle. They grow up so quick and I’ve been using an instax wide printer to print out my favourite analogue scans. Would be amazing to have an actual Polaroid like when I was a kid. 😍
I got a message from Lomography today that said, “…in recent years we’ve noticed the wider analogue Community grow increasingly reserved about this distinctive and charming format.” They were talking about 120 film.
Indeed, 120 is harder to scan; it has fewer frames per roll and thus is more expensive if you are to count dollars per shot. Having recently done an unpleasant exercise of tallying up the costs of shooting film (analog.cafe/r/film-photogr…), it’s plain to see that MF film is not cheap, particularly in the current inflation-driven environment.
But medium and larger format films are not like 35mm. They have a potential for vastly more resolution and finer grain — which is especially helpful on stocks like Lomochrome Color ’92 (analog.cafe/r/lomochrome-c…). MF cameras also have significantly more pronounced background separation and huge ground glass finders.
Say what you will about Lomography, but since they were founded, the brand has been all-in on film. They’ve supported our shrinking niche for over twenty years and even released some brand-new films, which hasn’t been done by anyone, even Kodak, in over a decade.
Today, they’re announcing discounts, up to 30% off, on their 120 film to encourage more photographers to use this format (and maybe to clear some of their stock, but that doesn’t make the above claims any less accurate).
Hello! I‘m sharing this image of myself and a friend from school I connected with in the past year. We‘re both heavy nerds, so this particular day we visited my city‘s planetarium. It was a lovely time and a wonderful memory.
I’m still hopeful that I can find a development method that can reduce the grain and the fog further with Ilfosol 3. I’m thinking of pulling the film by keeping it in the tank for just four minutes next time or using an entirely different developer.
I’m also really pleased that despite my exposures being all over the place (the camera I was shooting this film is quite limited in shutter speeds and apertures, plus I guessed the light every time), the results have almost always come out. Over- and under-exposures seem to be really easy to correct and some sort of an image is almost guaranteed no matter how this film was shot.
I must add that I bumped the contrast to most of the new photos in Photoshop, but that’s mostly to suit my taste and hide some grain in the shadows. Overall, the contrast profile hasn’t changed.
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