supercolor 1000

Modified my Polaroid Land Camera today to work with the newer, more easily available 600 film rather than the SX-70 it was designed to take. It was pretty easy.

I stuck a knife down the side of the front casing and pulled it off to reveal all the gooey insides.

Then twisted the tiny little cog thats on the right hand side, underneath the viewfinder, anti-clockwise as far as it would go using a craft knife. This controls the sensitivity of the photocell, as due to the inconsistencies in production of film and components in the factories, as well as constant advances in types film and quality of the components, Polaroid built in a small mechanism to compensate for this. This was originally calibrated in the factories.

On the other side of the cog there is a four section density filter with the equivalent of a two stop difference per panel, basically all that needed altering was to change this to the lightest panel, two panels away, being the equivalent of four stops, 600 film is approximately four times faster than SX-70 film. Easy.

Then I clicked the case back on the front, Bob's your uncle. The only other problem is that 600 film cartridges have extra little nubs on the front of the plastic case which get caught inside the front door of the camera, these need to be sanded off every film cartridge before using it.