Hi Chris...I enjoyed your ProCam video. We designed and manufactured the ProCam as a business camera. Rrealtors and Insurance adjustors wanted a wider angle lens and a date stamp. Also, they asked for a robust camera as well as a low profile when closesd. We were able to do it with a small team, ustilizing much of the spectra components. Anyway, your video brought back many great memories. The world is digital now, and everyone takes pictures with the cellphone cameras. We, now digital photographers, should remember to make prints of our good stuff to enjoy all the time. Thank you...A former long time Polaroid guy.

@James-hb5fr

Ай бұрын

thank you for the wonderful insight on this really unique part of polaroids history!

okay Polaroid has recreated the OneStep designs for modern I-type film but can they redesign the spectra body for the modern age?? how cool would it be to have a modern sleek version of the spectra but it shoots in regular square Polaroid film. Personally I think the spectra and SX-70 designs are the best Polaroid ever made

@ilmago5291

11 ай бұрын

Exist one 600 2003 also in pro version that is a mini spectra for 600;find used this item

@koekje00005

7 ай бұрын

You are 100% correct, but honestly, I just want spectra film back :(

My father found his spectra stored away in late 2019 and gave it to me. Bought 3 packs of film for it and used at Disney world the very last day they were open before the world changed because of Covid. Then I found out it was a discontinued film and it’s once again stored away. I remember the film fed perfectly though.

I bought a spectra 2 at a yard sale, expired film, battery mostly dead, tripod and all. I found a 600 film adapter and i am waiting for batteries, i hope they bring back spectra film so i can experience the true spectra camera experience.

I can not belive that Polaroid will not be able to bring back the spectra film. There are so many cameras still waiting of the film. Please Polaroid bring back the spectra film, and make a lot of fans happy 😊😊😊

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

Well to be fair they did bring it back then they killed it off. It’s gone forever now.

@ilmago5291

11 ай бұрын

Nobody uses spectra camera because people want reflex Polaroid;spectra is camera developed in large size;big and bulky,folded flat but film for it not was able to find in store in 80 s 90 s …and also in impossible project time;was always a niche marchet for people that was orfan of similar size instant Kodak film

Loving the t top and the vids bro ❤

@JustAnotherChris

9 ай бұрын

Me too!

Great video^^

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! What was your favorite part!?

Back in the Impossible Days, I love their Spectra B&W, I still feel that the B&W film is better than color film to this day!!!

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

It’s pretty dang good. Even for being years “expired”

@ilmago5291

11 ай бұрын

Bw spectra film was unusable for terrible problems of fogged picture and internal biadhesive that taken 2 vertical strikes terrible to see;production of it was stopped many times for this reason;the Polaroid originals had short life only 2 years because defects was not solved

@brineb58

11 ай бұрын

@@ilmago5291 I never had a problem with the "Impossible" Spectra ... far better than their SX70 or 600 for me, but I may have been lucky!!!

I recently found one while i was working, clearing out an old building and the said we can keep whatever we find valuable and i found one still in its box but used it also came with a lil add on to the cam and stuff! Ive been trying to figure it out but cant get the film to come out ive gotten it to flash but its been a while since. I also have the box and the instruction manual

@JustAnotherChris

Ай бұрын

Hmm well they don’t make film for this camera anymore so that might be your issue 😅

@danteherrera1983

Ай бұрын

@@JustAnotherChris do you think the camera would sell well? I aint tryna keep it 😅

Pack film, definitely!! Good video :)

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

I agree!

Spectra was a top-tier polaroid format. Too bad Impossible's spectra sucked so much

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

May it rest in peace!

Literally today I just found one sitting on a bench and it’s seem alright but idk how to use it

What old camera models can we get that will shoot film that is currently available?

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

For instant photography there’s Polaroid 600 and SX-70 film available

@notyouraveragevegan2677

11 ай бұрын

@@JustAnotherChris are those the camera models or film?

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

Both actually. And just this week I launched something that might be of great value to you especially if you’re just getting started. I dive deep and break things down into everything you need to know. cre8academy.thinkific.com

I absolutely adore the Spectra format. I think the cameras are all robust. You're right that the problem was not with the cameras AT ALL, and more that their product was a thicker integral emulsion package. That said...when Fuji killed FP100C, and when I shot my last two shots that I had been saving.....forever.....that killed me. That stock and their BNW were absolutely fantastic. It's one of the best film stocks, full stop, ever made, IMO. The ability to shoot the photo, have the immediacy of the positive, and then go back and pull these huge negatives from them for darkroom printing or scanning, was so frakking cool. It's about the most remarkable film stock ever made, and even its positives were almost always stunning if you knew in what kind of lighting conditions to properly shoot the stock. Truth be told. I want to have my cake and eat it too. I want them both back, but...if you're making me choose....it's pack film all the way.

@ilmago5291

11 ай бұрын

I also loved Fuji fp in my pro pack Polaroid cameras and spectra onyx;I hate square format that was thinked for folding flat reflex cameras but not have sense in box camera;the size of spectra more large not was terribly more vs 600 box camera but at time spectra film cost very more until 18 $ vs 12/15 of 600 in the 90 s;nowadays that spectra film was 20$ like 600 the high cost was bw film;600 and spectra bw cost 20 vs old polapan film have half cost vs color film;bw integral film also instax wide film cost more of fp 3000 b and 667

WOOHOO!

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

🤘

I actually have one of these. My best spectra. Still works. And I have seven film cartridges left, four of them B&W. Wonder what to do with them ...

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

Hmmm 🤔 I have a PO Box 😅

@ManuelBianchiBooks

11 ай бұрын

@@JustAnotherChris well, the shipping from Germany is a little expensive. And I don't know what kind of X-rays they send through the boxes when I ship them.

So what’s the hack?

I have a spectra 1200si Polaroid camera, and I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My grenma have instant photos ėhat dont have border line its like printed straight on paper not like polaroid pics today , l still wonder witch camera it was all l know it from 70s80s

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

That was a pack film camera Or better known as peel apart film

@TheEigylyte

11 ай бұрын

@@JustAnotherChris oh cool thank u , do they still for sale cameras like that and film or they no more avable ?

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

@TheEigylyte no that’s a dead format as well

I wish I coulda got the chance to shoot spectra

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

It’s a bummer!

i will forever have a semi irational hatred for the go because its machine is a destroyed spectra film machine, i mean i like the go format and i totally understand them having to do this but its like looking at your grandmother after she runs over your dog, i mean you have to love her but at the same time she killed your dog may he rest in peice

@JustAnotherChris

11 ай бұрын

Well only polaroid knows the real reason why unfortunately

The close up lens is only souvenir of this camera;the americanino for Polaroid case was in bad condition;I bought used pro cam in 2001 after Polaroid image elite pro/spectra pro used;wide angle effect very limited;4 lens vs 3 of spectra but was able Only to reduce distortion in the wide angle lens;ok date function laser on the photo but ugly design like impulse;nowadays design of both cameras was reevaluated but pro cam has green coating on glass lens vs pink coating;if spectra glass lensed cameras take terrible orange/brown shifted pictures the pro cam take terrible green shifted pictures and soft muted colors;the wiewfinder not is good like impulse cameras or spectra cameras but simply the figure on it was totally always out of focus;ok not has manual focus and sonar make automatic focus but out of focus wiewfinder not have sense;also another friend that had this camera has this wiewfinder;at time I believed that my cameras was faulty but not;nobody bought new spectra camera more ingombrant and that not maked more sharp pictures;at time new camera was 450 $ and whit film and case 500 $ like original new sx 70 manual cameras vs spectra cameras that basic was 200 $ and 360 $ pro version;pro cam was a big flop epic fail second only to Macro slr cameras for dentist and dermatologist;was only Polaroid that disappointed me and that I sold after 3 months;nowadays was wanted because had a power rollers circuit and is only cameras except macro slr that not has eject problem whit impossible project film and Polaroid originals film but whit discontinuation of spectra/image film is a paperweight;is bulky and carry this camera whit adapter to use 600 film not have sense,there are optics of sx 70 s and 680 that has better optics and more rapid shutter;

I understand English very poorly. There is such a camera, but no film, as I understand it, you were able to use film from 600? Show me the full process, clearly, please.