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High Voltage Playground

June 30, 2007

This is the kind of randomly inspired weirdness that can develop when you are using a dodgy (some would say "magic") Polaroid camera that you bought through ebay.
This particular model of folding Polaroid camera, a SLR 680 has some sort of gremlin that every now and then causes an exposed shot to advance only halfway through the rollers. If you shoot again you get the next exposure to push the first one through. The upshot is that you get a half-frame double exposure on the first polaroid, and example of this can be seen above.
Bizarre...
Camera: "Magic" Polaroid SLR 680 using expired 779 film

Filed under: Colour Polaroid

7 Responses to “High Voltage Playground”

nankuru_susumu
June 23, 2007 13:03

It is interesting.
The strange magic is caused in Rollei MinidigiCamera which I have.

twinlens.
June 23, 2007 21:16

oh. polaroid and double exposures - two of my passions combined? you are a darling of fortune.

kevin
June 23, 2007 23:38

that is some quite interesting polaroid magic

william
June 24, 2007 15:57

wow, i want a magic polaroid like that! can you focus the 680?

garrison beau scott
June 25, 2007 03:18

awesome. i love where that lightning bolt ended up.

Cameron
June 25, 2007 06:24

Thanks all. William, yes the camera will focus, it just does these weird things every so often.
:-)>

Lisa
October 9, 2007 01:46

You do know how lucky you are that it misbehaves in this magical way, don't you? If not, send me the camera ;)

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