It is a nice looking upgrade, but I just have something against destructive upgrades of old cameras. Feels like throwing out books; usable books, not penny dreadfuls.

And allow me to second the “show us the pics” motion.

Seems like a downgrade, since it probably shot medium format before.

It’s not made for this camera, these old land cameras used a type of rolled instant print film that hasn’t existed for a long time. They are making film for the sx-70 and 600 series cameras. Polaroid has a lot of formats that they have dumped. I like the 4×5 sheets, but that’s pretty much done for, I doubt the impossible project will start remaking the various less mainstream formats.

So that’s how it got it’s name.

I’ve got one of the great big plastic 70s models and was wondering how it could still be used?

jeditalian, the way it will work will be badly. The Land camera lens is designed to provide mediocre resolution and depth of field for a postcard-sized image receiver (the Polaroid print negative). A webcam sensor or anything similar is going to have a sensor the size of a pinhead, making the Land camera lens seem like a super-telephoto with extremely poor light gathering and resolution. Even 35mm film is probably being abused in that the lens isn’t delivering the image quality the film is capable of recording, because it was meant for a larger recording target of lower pixel resolution.

per localroger, a more high performance mod would be to support 120 film, or even 4×5 Polaroid/Fuji instant film packs. If one has the choice, the roll cameras are the easiest to convert, although some of the older pack film versions evidently had high quality lenses as well.

For an example of a roll film conversion, see http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00MtA1

grenadier, I agree, in the future I may not have film for it, I may not even like the thing, but I have put my foot down on keeping it for me

one will never know (especially with ebay about) being a “historical” consumer product that has not been relevant for a while now

35mm would be a significant downgrade considering the resolution of an old lens like that. 120 film can be cut down to fit in a 110 camera by taking toenail clippers and removing the excess spool material. There are places (http://www.bluemooncamera.com) that sell respooled 120film, too.

@ abu

I’m suddenly reminded of a current Geico commercial.

“I’d say it’s worth at least…2 in the bush”

That’s what SHE said! :p

nooo! instructables!