Originally Posted by
Oren Grad
1. The wheel doesn't have to be reinvented, but the packaging machine still has to be built, at great expense relative to the likely sales volume.
2. Instax Wide would be a better choice for proofing than Impossible/Polaroid Originals. Not only is the image quality far superior from a technical perspective, it develops much faster - 90-120 seconds to completion vs 15 minutes claimed for the latest version of Polaroid Originals. It's a lot cheaper, too. If you want to hack an instant camera to attach to a 4x5, the problem is getting the film near the plane of the ground glass. Adaptations of the late, maybe-or-maybe-not-lamented Lomo Belair Instax Wide back to 4x5 Graflok ended up requiring an extender. Nate Weis (instantoptions.com, Option8 on Facebook) may be able to tell you whether a CB-70 or CB-72 for SX-70 type film can be adapted to Graflok. It won't be cheap. OTOH, if you're not looking to put the instant film in the same place as the camera's ground glass, I'm not sure what you mean by proofing.
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