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Summary: Put Polaroid film into camera paper side down. Learn more about how to load film into a Polaroid camera in this free photography lesson from a professional photographer.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"So, I take my Polaroid film out of packaging kind of reminds me of Pop-Tarts, oh boy and then I take my film, this is important, paper side down and I put it into the machine and we'll talk about this machine a little bit more as soon as we get loaded. In this part of the machine are called rollers. The rollers on any Polaroid machine need to be really clean. Polaroid has like a caustic development paste and that is basically how the pictures are developed but it kind of like spouts out all over the place really nasty stuff. I always check the rollers of any machine I'm using to make sure they're clean. They're very easy to pop out. I'm going to show you at the end of the demonstration today how to clean your rollers really important part of this. These rollers are clean. I close it down. There's a piece of black paper with any kind of Polaroid back it's important to just to pull straight never to the left never to the right and then I'm good to start working."
eHow Article: Loading Film Into a Polaroid Camera
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lostgyrodog said
on 8/30/2009 mistake
raphael@muladhara.ch
lostgyrodog said
on 8/30/2009 dear Anthony
thought this article would make you happy:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,642218,00.html
i have a polaroid land camara and have never used it; i am trying to figure out how it works....
do you have any manuals? i cannot close it either anymore,
thanks
Raphael from Zürich
rapahel@muladhara.ch