Tales Of The Traveling Tennessee Tina: The Polaroid Project- Part 1

Last year I purchased a Polaroid Square Shooter 2 from Ebay for twelve dollars. I then realized that the film required for that model is extinct. There is no getting that film back because they destroyed all of the machines and apparently no one cares enough to make a new one. For over a year now I have been trying to find a Polaroid Colorpack 2 on Ebay that was full functional and finally I succeeded. It was quite a steal at six dollars and it has been bringing me a lot of joy these past few days. To help you understand a little about the camera I have copy and pasted below from http://camerapedia.wikia.com

Initially produced in 1969, the Colorpack 2 was the first rigid, plastic bodied, colour film capable Polaroid to retail at consumer range prices, and set a precedent for many, many similar models that followed. The Colorpack is designed only for 100 series packfilm.

Focusing is carried out by turning the distance-marked front lens element; unlike the original Polaroid 100-400 series packfilm cameras, this series features no rangefinder mechanism. As an improvement over the original folding series however, there is no need to cock the shutter after each exposure. The Colorpack 2 also takes generic 'blue dot' flashcubes, with a wind-up hot shoe and small plastic diffuser set to one side of the lens.

Early versions of this model featured a glass lens, but most were plastic.

I have been experimenting with both color and black and white and I luckily had one flash cube from the square shooter. It is a process for sure, just getting the photos to be clear is something I am having trouble with, but in all honesty the blurriness might appear to some as art. It is art, and I am enjoying every minute of it I absolutely love the depth of the black and white but it really is hard to gauge.As you will see some of the photos are really dark. Working with a light background really helps. I only used the flash cube on three pictures. The one of Andy and Harvey, the one of Ellie Mae and Harvey and the single of Pilot. Flash is weird with puppy dog eyes but I am sure I will get this down soon. Practice makes perfect right? I just wanted to document here a few of my favorite shots so far and invite you to come along on this journey into film photography that I am about to take. This is the beginning stages, come back to see how I progress with film. Hope you enjoy!

All photos below are taken with a Polaroid Colorpack 2 using FP-100C film.