Polaroid 600 film?

[Degicide]

Anybody have any experience using those instant picture Polaroid cameras, I believe they're called Polaroid 600? Are they relatively good quality? Easy to use? Is the film cheap? I'm gonna need to be able to take thousands of pictures for a stop motion sort of film, so just wondering.

-Dylan

 

[Will Vincent]

Any reason you wouldn't use a digital camera?

 

[Degicide]

I'm going to fast forward looking through polaroids to essentially make a film while filming. Going for the trippy effect here.

 

[Will Vincent]

Hmm.. I'm not sure the cost or quality of polaroid instant film, but you could probably composite something like that pretty easily and have much more control over the end result.. That'd be the route I would take anyway

 

[directorik]

I've used them. There once was a time when all scripty's, art directors, set dressers
and make up people used them on sets. I still have four or five cameras somewhere
in the back of a closet.

The quality is only fair. They are easy to use - point and shoot. I don't think the film
is cheap, but you should check on line for the actual prices. Let me know what you
find about the price, okay?

 

[Zensteve]

Didn't Polaroid stop making all their instant film about a year ago?

 

[Will Vincent]

It looks like it would be a spendy way to go..

If you were to do a stop motion type of animation, even at a slower speed you'd probably want several frames per second. 100 Exposures will probably run you in the neighborhood of $200

A quick google search shows that it's available at least through Amazon, if nowhere else:
http://www.amazon.com/Polaroid-Colo..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0J828P6GJA7HW9RGBY38

Again, I think compositing is going to be the best solution here.

 

[spinner]

Didn't Polaroid stop making all their instant film about a year ago?

I didn't know they stopped making polaroids.

Kinda strange to know that something like that is going the way of the brownie camera....


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