As I posted, I recently converted a friend’s Polaroid Automatic 100 land camera to use normal AAA batteries. I got the chance to take it out for a spin in Golden Gate Park. Having separate windows for rangefinder focusing and framing is a little weird, and more shows up on film than the framelines tell [...]

I just modified a friend’s Polaroid Automatic 100 Land camera to take normal AAA batteries. I followed the battery conversion instructions from option-8′s excellent Converting Vintage Polaroids, and it went really smoothly. I did end up having to shave a few mm off of the two plastic supports that held up the original battery holder [...]

"To do this, all that is needed is a Polaroid Land camera, some small screwdrivers, and a small sheet of thin metal. These cameras can be found on eBay, or better yet, at yard sales. It will be made into a pinhole camera with several pinholes that can be switched into place, for use in [...]