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When searching for a Land Camera on eBay I used this very useful table to narrow down my search. I think I will stock up on a few more packs! Delivery was within two weeks, but it’s certainly worth the wait for the reduction in price. I found an eBay seller based in Hong Kong selling it for £9.90 (incl. Ordering film – the FP-3000B does not seem to be readily available in the UK and where it’s available it’s pretty expensive at about £17. I’m left with a lot of jaggy and splintered plastic, but I have ordered some grinding stones that will fit on my drill to tidy things up a bit.
HOW TO TELL HOW MUCH BATTERY LIFE IS LEFT ON POLAROID FUGI TRIAL
It’s certainly a snug fit and it took quite a bit of trial and error to finally fit the holder in a way that allows the door to close. I had to remove a LOT more plastic than expected, which includes removing part of the battery holder plastic.
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The next step is to brutally modify the battery compartment so that it will allow the new battery holder to fit. When performing long exposures, you have to make sure to leave your finger on the shutter for the whole time otherwise the shutter will close prematurely.Īfter cocking the shutter and with my finger covering the ‘electric eye’ I pressed the shutter button and heard a click, then uncovered the ‘electric eye’ and heard another click – success! It seemed to work! Covering the ‘electric eye’ on the front of the camera simulates this nicely as the camera thinks it’s extremely dark and so holds the shutter open. I then tested the camera to make sure I could hear two clicks from the shutter mechanism. The picture below is the conversion in a nearly finished state. I wanted to make sure the camera was functioning before going to too much effort so I quickly snipped off the old battery terminals and did a quick and dirty connection between the new battery holder wires and the camera +ve (white) and -ve (black) wires. I soldered a wire between the -ve and +ve terminals of one of the compartments to short it so that only three batteries were required (the camera needs 4.5V). It’s very well documented on the web so I won’t go into the details. The first step in getting the Land Camera up and running with readily available batteries is the battery conversion. This camera brings together the big three film companies – Fuji, being the last manufacturer of instant peel-apart film, Polaroid for the camera itself and Kodak(!) for…ummm… the AAA batteries I wanted Kodak to be involved somehow! However, after seeing many brilliant examples of great images from Polaroid Land Cameras I’ve changed my mind and now I’m hooked! I’ve even gone back and listened to previous episodes of FPP that I snoozed through! Listening to Michael on the Film Photography Podcast (FPP) go on and on about instant photography was driving me mad. After resisting the temptation for many months to delve into instant photography, in fact I wasn’t at all interested in it and I didn’t really appreciate the potential of it. I recently bought a Polaroid Land Camera 340 (manufactured between 19) from eBay.