I heard some thumps coming from a car down the street, turned to my wife and said... "Sounds like Taylor Swift"...
One thing the conversions have in common that makes them so great...
The Grafmatic.
The one-pound film holder that holds 6 standard sheets of 4x5 film in a solid unit that is easy to advance quickly. Makes it easy to get ready to shoot, and take then next shot quickly if you need to fire off two shots. I don't know about firing six shots in succession because I usually only carry two for a day. But it can be done.
I used to use nothing but Grafmatics but found that in portrait sessions I could shoot them too quickly. Seriously, it gets too expensive and if you shoot like that, you should drop down a format. But regardless, WeeGee and thousands of other press photographers used them in handheld 4x5s for many years, before the Polaroids were even manufactured ;-p
Whats great about converted Polaroid cameras?
It keeps them out of the land-fill
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Seems to be quite a few uneducated LF's out there. Why is it Chris Usher has five converted Polaroids?
http://www.chrisusher.com/projects.h...album-14&num=1
Click on 'One of Us'
GF
Gordon, I took y'r advice and looked. Why couldn't those shots have been taken with a different camera?
Understand, I'm completely neutral about converted polaroid cameras. They don't seem to be for everyone, do seem to suit some very well.
If only WeeGee had one, how much better his shots would have been.
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