Kodak Brownie Hawkeye with flipped lens

I used instant film in some old cameras, and it worked! It was fun and the photos came out pretty cool. I put the film one sheet at a time into each camera, in total darkness. Closed up the cameras then took them out to shoot. After shooting the photos, took the cameras back into the dark, then ran each photo through a hand-cranked pasta machine! It worked surprisingly well, and it has been a fun little project. Plus it's much more instant gratification than the usual developing process. Not sure how I ended up with some of them upside down; guess I wasn't paying attention in the dark.

Fotograf:
jolom
Hochgeladen:
2020-04-11
Tags:
fbhf instaxwithoutinstax
Kamera:
Kodak Brownie Hawkeye with inverted lens
Film:
Fujifilm Instax Square Film (im Online-Shop erhältlich)
Objektiv:
DIY flipped lens
Land/Region:
United States
Albums:
Instax in Classic Cameras

2 Kommentare

  1. mrco
    mrco ·

    Hi! I love your work!! I was wandering why the pasta machine... is it important?

  2. jolom
    jolom ·

    @mrco Hi, thanks! Instant film is developed by rollers rolling over the chemical pod at the bottom of the photo and spreading it out across the picture. Usually this is done by the rollers in the camera. When I first started using Instax film in other cameras, I didn't yet own an Instax camera, so I had to find a way to squish those pods and spread out the chemistry. So I used a pasta roller! I've heard of some people rolling a pen over the pods on a flat surface, but I never tried it. As you can see, the pasta machine isn't quite as good at getting the chemistry to the corners of the film as the real rollers are. But I was thrilled that it worked as well as it did!

    Now I have some Instax cameras, so I don't use the pasta roller anymore. Instead, I put the film back into the Instax cartridge and put it in the camera (in the dark) then I cover up the lens and take a shot, which forces the film out through the rollers in the usual way.

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