Shooting 60 Year Expired Polaroid Type 47 on a Polaroid 110a
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yeah that went about how i expected it to
this film expired in August 19631 but i wanted to give it a shot because worst case the film i didn't pay extra for is dead, best case i get to shoot on some extremely fucking dead film.
knowing nothing about the storage conditions i had to assume the worst: North Florida Attic for 60 years. given the condition2 of the leather parts of the camera (hand strap, storage box) i assume this is correct.
loading this thing is a fucking wild experience3. absolutely stupid complicated film format. they expected people in the 50s to figure this out and presumably they did figure it out.
after i pulled the first shot through, i noticed the development pod was hard as a rock and very much Not Broken, giving me good information about how the rest of this would go. in my endless optimism, i tried again4 and got the same results.
fun experience. this camera is wild and trying to shoot with it just makes me more excited to get it modded for instax wide. just need to get my 3d printer working.
gives me a hint of when this camera was last used↩
falling apart↩
if you are unfamiliar, i found Analog Resurgence's video helpful for figuring it out↩
partially as an excuse to calibrate the ancient light meter it came with, which was shockingly extremely accurate↩