The Mijonju Show - Polaroid SX-70 chit chat. (part1)

[visforvanilla]

hi do you know where i can get an sx-70???

[MindsiMedia]

It's great to see someone else with the same kind of passion for this work of art that can create works of art, the Polaroid SX-70. Over the years I have taken hundreds of pictures and have recently started digitizing and archiving them. I will check out your site.

[imfxxxnmagicdude]

shame, it's a foldable, but not affordable (on ebay at least)

[moogle107]

Oh i wish i had one!!

[AndrewRuggiero]

Mines is broken...

[SLACKPLAN9]

I have an SX-70 camera coming in on Tuesday, I will have 3 Polaroid cameras at that point. SX-70, Onestep Closeup, and the Pogo (Which isn't from the OLD Polaroid company, I want to add.) After getting a GL30, when it comes out, I want to make an online gallery with both the classic cameras, and the newer ones. In the gallery, no direct from digital will be uploaded, I MUST work will the prints only. I heard Zink film can still be worked after printing, so that will be fun too.

[OurMindBodyNSoul]

@SgtplagIVIaIV Nope. SX70 do not accept fujifilm. The only fujifilm that you can use in Polaroids are the 100-400 land camera series. Those cams uses peel apart film. You can try getting the Impossible Project film for your SX70 but the price is a bit steep and it is still in experimentation phase.

[xxpnoix2o6xx]

Hi i finally got my mom to give me her sx-70!! I m so happy about it but i was wonderin can i only buy the film online or can i buy at local stores?

[bayusuputra1302]

it's called stereotyping, and i also hate that.. i was just asked by a girl whether my QL17 is a holga?

[madderthanalex]

Do you have a SX 70 to sell Mijonju. Approximately how much do you sell them for,

if you dont mind me asking. Thanks.

[Mijonju]

@crstnprd its not impossible, but recoating the chrome part is gonna really hard, i dont know how to do it, but if you have any car moding friends, they might know what to do.

[technkid]

@Mijonju SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY VIEWFINDER I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS 

[tomsmith100]

@Mijonju Where do you get the film for it from? What is the name of the film?

[Mijonju]

@tomsmith100 I just added a link for you in the description :) check it out.

[tomsmith100]

@Mijonju I have seen the Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 on Ebay for good prices....It says Alpha 1 at the front of the camera below

Polaroid

SX-70 Land Camera

Alpha 1

Have you had any experience with this model. It looks identical to your SX-70 in design apart from this additional text at the front of the camera

Appreciate your reply to this query.

[TheOnishii]

Some of my friends call the Fuji Instax a Polaroid camera and it irks me to no end. They don't KNOW what the different is between a Fuji Instax and a Polaroid, and it makes me so mad because all they care about is the fact that they 'look cool'. They'll go on and on about how they want a Polaroid "so bad!" and when I tell them they should get a Fuji instead, they say "that's what I meant!"

No, you don't. Research before you talk about something you don't understand!

[blizniaczatv]

Where did you get such a nice calendar / image behind?

[mzzzmichelle]

polaroid made the instant 300 :3 im getting one. and btw though this question doesnt relate to a polaroid, do you know any sites that sells a Diana Instant Back?

[Mijonju]

@mzzzmichelle you can get the diana instant back from Lomography com :)

they ship internationally :) enjoy

[mzzzmichelle]

@Mijonju - thank you :D

[kawaikawaii1]

i'm glad you took the time to differentiate instax and polaroids.

[longeygey]

I hate people say the fuji instax photo is POLA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[beurangeljackie]

I LOVE YOU MANNNNN!!! The point you made at the beginning is just...... right. When people uploaded an ablum called polaroid, i got excited to see polaroid photos, but actually, they were never the polaroid film but the fuji instax!!!!! And more strangely, they love photography. I got your feeling. TOTALLY RIGHTTTT!! you are aweomse!

[Mijonju]

@beurangeljackie haha, thanks Jackie, i know nothing much will change after this video, but i just felt like saying it out.

[dizzychicken1]

hey mijonju, nice video =]. You know how you open the sx-70 by pulling up on the front of the viewfinder, shouldnt pull up from the back end where the grip is? it stops the black viewfinder shields from ripping from the top part if you accidently pull too hard and opens alot smoother in 1 step. I used to open your way but got too enthusiastic one day...............you can imagine the rest

[Mijonju]

@dizzychicken1 both ways are correct actually, its just that if you add an extra step it makes the polaroid open smoother. :) you know what i mean :)

[heron1991]

Lots of products are known by the names of companies that created them, or are the leading brands of that product type. Vacuum cleaner = a Hoover. Ball point pen = a Biro. and to some people an Instant photo = a polaroid.

[Mijonju]

@heron1991 true, like how we call staplers here hotchkiss :)

ya, but I just got fed up from the over flow of people asking me if the sx-70 works with instax and if the SD card could be fit into the flash bar socket... so ya..

haha thanks for the comment anyway :)

[GoldenMarvel]

I have a polaroid 1000s land camera, does that count? It takes SX-70 film :)

[Mijonju]

@GoldenMarvel sure :) why not, as long as it says Polaroid on the camera.

[davidyeah]

hey mijonju, i actually saw some taiwan people modify the flim box of the SX-70 to put in a instax photo haha...personally i dont think it's a good way to take pictures~ but it's actually possible==

polaroidlove.blogbus.com/logs/­52250315.html

anyway SX70s are great cameras!!! ppl mix up instant photos and polaroid probably because polaroid was so iconic to everyone in the instant photo industry..so it maybe a good thing so don't be so annoyed dude haha

[Mijonju]

@davidyeah polaroid integral films are a little special, because of the use of mirrors, the film is usually reversed :) so if you put an instax film in, the image will be reversed, because the instax images are usually from direct imaging. from lens, so its just reversed once, but on the Integral films they are reversed then reversed again because of the mirror. but thanks for the info :)

[ChristianAnhalt]

polaroid isn't just a brand though. it's also a term. like how a tissue is a Kleenex.

[MarcoZ1ITA1]

No love for the Sonar autofocus camera? :(

[Mijonju]

@MarcoZ1ITA1 yes love :) part 2 and 3 will be featured :)

[mushsmegma]

Ok, so the fuji instax don't work on sx-70 but do the polaroid 300 or whatever work? hahaha. love it :)

[Mijonju]

@mushsmegma haha stop pulling my leg Nic :)

[Sirilloh]

I saw a sx-70 at a Swap Meet (flea market) the other day and I regret buying it. :[ I felt dumb because I managed to open it but couldn't close it. bahaha.

[Mijonju]

@Sirilloh could you close it now? i think if you put an empty pack in it might slam the mirror back, i think its stuck in the middle now. look for an empty pack and put it in, run the motor once, it might work again

[tonymaithai]

I love Polaroid. Always. Don't be so angry.

[Mijonju]

@tonymaithai nah i was just being romantic.

[vans1170]

best camera of all time. i'm hoping that i can fix the one i'm hopefully buying. if not, i'll be making a holgaback (hopefully)!

[Mijonju]

@vans1170 wo! ive seen people use a used polaroid 600 back, slice it up and shove it in some other camera, but the image will be reversed :) but thats cool aswell :)

[vans1170]

@Mijonju yeah, i'm not quite sure how i'm gonna get the electronics working, but it's worth a shot!

[Bloop586]

People in the US especially that aren't film nerds do call instant photos polaroids, it's just one of those things where a company has such dominance in a market that people refer to the type of product by that companies name. Like many people call a cola drink Coke, or a tissue kleenex, or a photocopy a xerox, or an internet search "googling". Plus Fuji instax was never as popular as Polaroid in the US and Kodak only made the film for like 6 years until Polaroid sued them off the market.

[Mijonju]

@Bloop586 true true, i guess its hard to make everyone look at things seriously sometimes, haha just wanted express myself a little, got nothing against anything or anyone.

[CharlieKdiary]

Is that real leather on your SX-70 mijonju?

[Mijonju]

@CharlieKdiary nope, i re skined it with vinyl :) last longer

[lewcml]

Man... I want an SX-70 camera, mainly the brown leather one... I do have the sonar model but I want the manual focus one...lol

[Mijonju]

@lewcml yoo! im still getting camera sounds we really gotta do this, haha

sonar is cool i will talk about it on part 2 of this future.

[LOMOLOVE21]

i absolutely hate it when people say that an instax picture is a polaroid too! I correct them all the time. I've got an instax and adore it, but POLAROID is totally different! It's beauty is on a whole new level. >:|

[Mijonju]

@LOMOLOVE21 I love both just as you do, but its just sad to hear people spreading things that are not polaroid and calling polaroid, they need to respect fujifilm too..

[chocomental]

I bought an SX-70 not two weeks ago and I love it! <3 such a lovely camera. But I can't afford to keep buying film, so it's going to be sitting dormant a lot. :(

And lol at your mini-rant at the beginning xD I used to call all instant film Polaroid film, but then I wasn't aware that Fuji and Kodak made them as well. I even thought that the square format [600, 100] was the only type available. I guess it's the most memorable, so when people think of instant film, they think of Polaroid.

[Vinvolve]

@chocomental Go Impossible

[chocomental]

@Vinvolve I've bought two packs of Impossible film, and it's been great fun, but now I have to save my money for university and such :( plus £12 for shipping is a lot! :(

[Mijonju]

@chocomental there will be cheaper shipping in the future, i heard.

[Mijonju]

@chocomental We'll its alright I dont really blame them, but the twitter feed about polaroid is killing me, thats why i got pissed at that moment, I feed the world Polaroid from my tweetdeck, so whenever someone says "polaroid" a tweet will pop out, /

and most of the time, when they say, OH Check out my polaroid! and i click on that twit pic, its a fuji min cheki 24 or 7s.. thats when i just pop.

[DSanches666]

Mijonju- How many megapixels is the SX-70? And does it take 120 or 35 mm film?

Hahahahahahaha...lol

[HelloKt93]

I think I need one... It's so beautiful D:

I love your videos! :)

[aadiflesher]

of course I care about the sx-70. I love cameras. And that one is cool :) unfortunately I don t have the money to buy one now....

Waiting for more videos from you.

[NoShame86]

lol, i didn't know that the right way was to pull up the front part of the view finder first followed by the back. Instead I just pulled straight up from the back.

[Mijonju]

@NoShame86 you are not doing it wrong, its just that it opens more smoothly

[NoShame86]

@Mijonju ahh...i see :) 

[faithloh1]

HAHAH whoever said they dont care abt the sx70 should give me their money so I could buy one!

Sadness, unless I eat air everyday and walk to school, then only I can afford the buy one! BAAAA!

[Mijonju]

@faithloh1

[StickyVinny]

Haha! I love how annoyed you are in the first half of this! :D

[Mijonju]

@StickyVinny indeed i was lol..

[fattyale]

IT'S THE BEST INVENTION EVER

[hellomouthwash]

i.love.your.hair.

and yeah, send me your polaroid collection, with a million packs of film<3 :D

[Mijonju]

@hellomouthwash ill do that when i become a millionaire :) :)

[1Coltorti1]

what should i do to keep my monochrome polaroids look like in the beginning?

[Mijonju]

@1Coltorti1 you mean your px film?

[1Coltorti1]

@Mijonju Yes

[Mijonju]

@1Coltorti1 get those silica gel and get an air tight box to keep it and it should be solid for a long long time.

the shot i took at the beginning is a little blur cause the exposure time was around 2 seconds, i tried very hard not to breath. and that photo came out.

[1Coltorti1]

@Mijonju thank you!

keep making videos :D

[1Coltorti1]

@1Coltorti1 i mean after shooting the picture, that they don't fade too much

[dragonknightsages]

Hey where could i buy your SX-70 from? I live in Singapore! (:

[Mijonju]

@dragonknightsages from my shop :)

[dragonknightsages]

Hey mijonju! ((:

[Mijonju]

@dragonknightsages hey dragon!