Thought I might just do a little update on the poster hobby. I decided that i wanted to get a new camera just for this project. Well not really new. I have bid on a 1950's polaroid rollfilm camera. Actually on the 700 version. It is a huge thing. I have a few of the same size but not of this particular version. It was one of the very earliest. It did have one little upgrade.
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To make this old camera usable I have to make a special film pack. When I do, i will be able to shoot a 3.5 x 4.5 negative, which is a monster. but alas there is one draw back. The camera can only take one shot at a time without really big time modifications. I decided that I don't want to modify another one. I want to set it up a way to use it as is.
I can make a film pack that can be loaded into the camera in daylight, but I can't take it out of the camera unless it is dead dark. So I can either go out and shoot just one image then go back to the lab to remove it, or I can buy a changing bag, which would allow me to put the camera in a black bag and take out the film, slide it into a black envelope then load another film pack into the camera in daylight.
So here is the rub, I didn't want to pay twenty bucks for a changing bag. The bag is really made like a tee shirt with no head opening. the bottom of the tee shirt has a zipper. One puts their hands through the sleeve opening then does what they have to do inside the body of the shirt.
So I took a xl sweat shirt. I sewed up the neck opening and plan to use it. I will put the camera and black envelope inside the shirt then fold it over and secure it with a couple of clothes pens. Reach my arms through the sleeves and do my thing. If I had bought the sweatshirt for this project, i could have got it for three bucks at the second hand store.
So i saved a few bucks, but more importantly I figured out a way to use something I had laying around to do something I needed to do. To me that's the fun part of projects. Not only that someday a character in one of my books will do the same.
