I just bought a used 4×5 Polaroid film back for my 4×5 camera, but it didn have its original instruction sheet. How do I use this thing anyway?
Here, in a nutshell, is a quick set of instructions that should work with any of the single-sheet Polaroid film holders: • Insert film holder into your camera back as usual. If your camera back has a pair of sliding latches (or other mechanism) to lock the film holder in place, you should definitely use them– Polaroid film holders are larger and heavier than the usual 4×5 film holders for conventional film. • Make sure the large function lever on the film holder is in the “Load” (or “L”) position. • Insert a single Polaroid 50-series film sheet assembly into the slot at the end of the film holder. Make sure you have it oriented correctly so that the front side of the envelope faces the lens, and insert it with the metal clip end in first. Slide it in as far as it will go. • Just before you are ready to take the picture, sloooowly start to pull the envelope back out of the holder. The envelope is now serving as a dark slide so you can expose the negative. Leave the function lever in th
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