 Yo, what up welcome back to another episode. Well, I'm just gonna come right out and say it if you have access to those new Mountain Dew Doritos and want to hook a homie up DM me Well amigos, there's no easy way to say it I've been having a lot of gas lately, which usually means it's time to face the music and just take a shit Hopefully by now you realize that this is just a metaphor for buying new film cameras where the shit is a new camera And the gas is gear acquisition syndrome gear acquisition syndrome is a disease that many Photographers and videographers face where you feel the need to buy new cameras probably because you need some excitement in your life I won't lie to you I'm guilty of it because I have no self-control if you've ever been to an all-you-can-eat buffet with me You've seen this firsthand. I decided to pick up this Polaroid camera. So let's give it a go These photos are gonna be more Slice of life quarantine themed and if after watching this video, you're like wow that was depressing as hell Then imagine living it So I was thinking it'd be very fitting to shoot the first roll in my pink Polaroid camera with Polaroid pink film But I looked it up and holy shit. What the hell Yeah, quite a few these shots didn't really turn out how I imagined I think the biggest factor was that there wasn't a whole lot of available light Which is something I probably should have known going in The film is 600 speed and after looking it up the lens is somewhere around f14 So yeah, this beast is gonna be hungry for light This shot is my favorite from the first batch. It's kind of a happy accident in my opinion Because I couldn't hold still long enough for the long exposure It kind of looks like the gas station is being washed away in the rain, which yes That is my justification for a shitty photo. I think not too bad for my first batch of Polaroids But I can do better. I will do better No one is counting on me. Anyway, let me tell you I had quite the inner monologue going about purchasing this camera It haunted me for nights to the point where I couldn't sleep anymore As I know I would just have another nightmare featuring a slow zoom in on the camera with the song Take a chance on me playing on loop. You know what song I'm talking about the song That'll be stuck in your head for the next month. I think Takashi six nine sings it why the nightmares and inner monologue You may wonder. All right, here it is. I'm not as much of a camera whore as I may lead you on to be I love using different film cameras But these days I'm actually quite picky when it comes to purchasing a new one for me The camera needs to be damn near perfect before I throw down any schmackles on it because frankly My biggest fear in life besides the slow decay of all things as a result of the linearity of time is winding up one day with two hundred film cameras that I proudly display in my local dumpster because that's where I live because I Can't afford rent anymore. So why did I pick up this camera? Well, I've never shot Polaroid before and I've always wanted to give it a go and this camera is a Polaroid 600 camera so that means it takes 600 speed film Which I think is a good range for the type of stuff I'm gonna be shooting and believe it or not Polaroids can actually be used for more than just blackmail and as a convenient way to Remember who to trust after you lost your memory in a Christopher Nolan movie the second and probably most obvious reason is that it's pink And I've always wanted a camera that looked like my favorite drink pepto bismol So the Sun was shining for the first time all week and I decided now is as good a time as any to give these Polaroids all the attention and light that they need thus I loaded up the camera with more color 600 So I'm not too sure what happened on this one. There's like a white streak in the center Maybe it's just a defective Polaroid if anyone knows let me know So on we took Baxter for a walk as the Sun was setting and these are some of my favorite shots for sure So something that I thought was interesting about these photos And I guess Polaroids in general is that none of the shots really turned out how I imagined when I took the photo But in an alternative way, they kind of look really cool if that makes sense It wasn't what I was aiming for but they still turned out really awesome in a different way like how rise of sky Walker was not really what I imagined but it still turned out kind of cool in a different. Okay. No that movie sucked I really dig the whole shooting process with this thing too when you click the shutter and the Polaroid comes out It's like it's giving birth to your child even the motor inside is screaming at you And then you watch it develop over time and eventually it lets you down Just like all of our parents when they watched us grow up things I'm not a fan of it costs about $20 to shoot a single pack of color Polaroids how many are in a pack You may be wondering it's eight. So yeah, not great prices I guess you could argue that in the pack you're also paying for the cartridge and the battery But $20 is $20, you know what I'm saying black and white 600 film is less So maybe I'll take a swing at that next time also apparently this thing will fire the shutter if the lid is closed What the fuck is that about? Another weird thing about this camera is that the shutter speed will go as low as 1 3rd of a second But there's no tripod socket on this camera. So It seems like a weird thing to have because let's be honest Only a robot would be able to handhold 1 3rd of a second of a shutter speed anyway I actually really enjoyed shooting Polaroids and I could potentially see a project being made out of this in the future now You may have watched this whole video and you might be thinking wow Jason has really shown some growth in this video and that he's finally accepting square is a legitimate format Don't get me wrong square format is for nerds and losers, but maybe just maybe I'm becoming one of them I guess quarantine changes a man But still six by six