The Polaroid 600SE (a.k.a. Lucy)
I mentioned to forum member Todd Baker in another thread that I had just gotten a camera that he might take some interest in and this is it.
My Polaroid 600SE. I call her Lucy.
At the moment I have the Mamiya 127mm ƒ/4.7 lens which is equivalent to around 50mm on the media size, which is about 4X 3.25 inches. so that’s somewhere between medium format and large format. You might think that the lens is slow and it technically is, but if you had a larger aperture lens on this size media you might end up with too shallow a depth of field.
Where the shutter is of the leaf variety I can sync my strobes up to 1/500th of a second and I really love the heft of this machine. The only disappointing bit is that with a leaf shutter in the lens the actual click, which isn’t that satisfying a shutter note. :-)
The window so far as rangefinders go is pretty good. The “bright lines” are selectable on the back of the rangefinder and it has parallax correction for it as well. When I first received the camera the rangefinder itself needed some work, but thanks to Peter down at Phototec it’s in tip-top shape now and I should be shooting with it this weekend! The two backs I have for it take Polaroid 66X series films which are available on eBay but expect to find only expired Polaroid film lots. Also, Fuji still — for now — make available two types of film: A BW Film (FP-100B) and Color (FP-100C) made to fit those same holders.
Feel free join in with your own camera porn — new or old — in the forums.
