Lo-Fi and DIY

Somewhere along the line the transition occurred- maybe the early nineties. Entertainment centers were out, and a reinvented version of...

We have entered a new era of creation. Scrapbooking tools like Crikut and Silhouette replace jobs normally done by commercial vinyl cutters,...

I, like many Polaroid nuts, love the style of the Automatic Land Camera pack cameras from the sixties, but need more control. Though the ...

This rather small collection within a collection is of the 500 series film cameras. The flagship of the line is the Captiva or Vision camer...

Perhaps the most popular Polaroid camera today, the folding SX-70 was a design miracle at it's inception. It was the first folding slr,...

In the back of our crabgrass choked lot there is a small cement pad-nine foot by nine foot. Originally the home of a hot tub, it became a...

When you have the D.I.Y. Bug, sometimes you do things just to see if they will work. No true major goal, just will it work. I do a lot of...

The Polaroid Spectra line was made with the high end in mind. The film is the largest film they sold, wider by 5/8 inch. It could still f...

How does one become a collector? Though there are many ways to rationalize collecting (preserving, sharing, specializing in, investing in...

Landscape has been shuffled and changed enormously by human intervention. The “nature” trails you have become accustomed to are likel...

When people think about Polaroid's crowning achievement they think about the folding sx-70. A work of art employing sophisticated tec...

Have you ever just wanted something? No logic involved? It is a lot easier to get something you want when you have a string of excuses for ...

It is true, I get the best deals! It is not accidental that I am thrifty. I come from a fairly modest background of hand-me-downs and make ...

News flash- Fuji has just announced a square format instant integral film due this spring- this comes right on the tail of the announcement ...

The showcase of my Polaroids is far from over! If your response has started at polite interest and now moved on to genuine concern- don'...

Unfortunately I don't have a museum, so I cannot put all of my Polaroid cameras on display. Pulling them out of totes, dusting them and ...

Now that you can make one shots and can crudely bracket some shots, you may want to see exactly what light is getting through your len...