Shooting with seriously old poloroid
By Robin Chanda
5 Oct 2009
One day, looking through my film cameras I've collected over the years. I came across my Hasselblad CM500, boxed up, unused for the last 4years, very sad. I also found some seriously out of date Polaroid.
So I thought I'd take it out for a spin, using the old Polaroid.
Armed with 4 boxes, the 'blad, a 50mm T* lens, a Polaroid back and light meter, I went forth to London, namely, the Science Museum and Kensington garden area of central London. After wandering around the area a while,
I began.
I shot 10 Polaroid's in one hit, giving them a good bit of time to cure, pulled them, then I'd do another 10 and so on, until I ran out of film.
The interesting thing I found was, that the process slowed the frequency of the frames I took, due to the finite number of frames you have available. As for the camera, framing with the Hasselblad felt so certain.
Nostalgia ! you cry. No, I say,
It's just that the old tec' can still teach us patience and also to consider every frame important.
At the end of the afternoon, I got home and scanned them, cleaned the up a bit and the images here represent my efforts.
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