![]() Polaroid Spectra System cameras are still easy to find online on for example eBay (starting as cheap as $9,99) or similar websites. ![]() Read more about the Impossible Project and get Polaroid film on the Impossible Project website. This has led to a revival of the film and cameras which still have a large following. In 2008 Polaroid decided to end the production of Spectra/Image film, but in 2010, the Impossible Project, set up by former employees, started to produce film again in an old Polaroid factory in Enschede, The Netherlands. ![]() The camera uses Spectra film (or 1200 or Image film in some countries) which is slightly bigger and more widescreen than the 600 film. The power to run the camera is built in the film cassette. The Polaroid Spectra/Image system was introduced by Polaroid in 1986 and was an improvement over the previous 600 film models and still considered to be one of the better Polaroid cameras. The photo shows an infrared image of Q and Bond as skeletons and even the photo of the president on the wall in 'infrared' form. James Bond never uses the camera, but he and Q almost get fried when CIA agent Pam Bouvier takes a picture of them, accidentally shooting the laser beam. they're affordable impossible film isn't.Q (Desmond Llewelyn) brings a Polaroid Spectra System Camera with deadly laser beam to James Bond (Timothy Dalton) when they are in Isthmus City in the movie Licence To Kill (1989). i agree with other posters and would not try for too long before buying a different spectra. Hope you get it figured out and don't lose too many more shots in the process. or it was getting used to impossible project versus polaroid brand film. i suspect it was just stiff and the impossible project tongue has more resistance than the stock tongue. My camera was a closet camera, or one that thad been purchased new, used a little, and then put away for decades until i bought it. this happened less and less until i lost the pin and it never happened again anyway. when that happened it would burn the bottom of the photo like so. just shaking the camera worked in a pinch. i attached a hair pin to the the hand strap and would use it to help the frog tongue (sticking it in one end of the rolled up tube and pulling out) if the photo was getting stuck. if the camera recognizes the error and stops trying, the photo is ruined. even if it stops for a fraction of second you'll be ok. If the picture starts coming out and you hear it struggling, you can save it. the problem started after attaching the impossible project frog tongue and then went away quickly but progressively. super frustrating, huh? i did not do anything (that worked) to fix the camera except continue to use it. it's driving me crazy at $4 an exposure and losing great photo opps. ![]() sometimes it works but sounds like it's really struggling.Īny idea what's up? lots of people are complaining of similar issues, but i'm not finding any solid solutions. It's like the camera just doesn't have the power and shuts off because it thinks it's jammed, but i know the batteries are good because they're new impossible project packs. like it doesn't have the power to push the frog tongue out so it powers off. i don't think it's this hook people are talking about because the photo always makes it into the rollers before getting stuck. worst case is that the photo stops, which makes the camera power off completely, and then the picture is ruined as i have to open the front and pull it out. ![]() resulting in some picture but burns from the developer being concentrated at the bottom for too long. if the picture starts to eject but doesn't seem like it has the power to finish, quickly shaking the camera and/or pulling on the frog tongue often helps. the photo often stops ejecting almost immediately, and when the camera thinks it's jammed it powers off and stops trying. some packs are perfect, but most are a struggle. I am using a polaroid spectra camera with a impossible project frog tongue and impossible project film, both color and B&W. ![]()
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