Instant Film

There are instant film backs for the medium format and the large format cameras.  These are used as they were originally intended with out of date Polaroid and new Fuji instant film in Polaroid or Fuji instant film backs. These are great already finished photos and have a wealth of information before using real film in the cameras. They are great objects on their own. Many outdated 4x5 Polaroid film packs from a friend will be shot to be sewn into a large piece. The first pack was tried, a little blue and long exposures, but it has possibilities.

Nerd Alert - The photos shown have chamfers that are the telltale of the total opening of the Mamiya RZ67. For film there would be masks in the film backs that would limit the image to 6 x 7 cm.  The instant film backs don't rotate for landscape or portrait like the film backs. The instant film backs, unless they have horizontal or vertical mask inserts will show a 7 x 7 cm image with 5mm chamfers.

2024 update - Although there are a couple of packs of Polaroid and Fuji peel apart instant film packs left, they are well past expiration dates and mostly dead and come out pretty unreadable when developed. The switch recently has been to Fuji Wide Instax and there are third party backs that can be used for a variety of cameras. Not shown is a recent Polaroid developing system that will “shoot” an Iphone image when placed on the mechanism and pushes out an image on the current Polaroid film. It isn’t bad.

Lately there are three Fuji Instax devices I have been using: 1. The straight Fuji Wide Instax 210 camera, 2. A third party Instax Wide back for a Crown Graphic 4x5 camera and 3. an Instax Wide Bluetooth processor that receives images wirelessly from the Iphone and prints them out with more options than the Polaroid processor.