How analog photography company Retrospekt refurbishes vintage instant cameras and why keeping old cameras working matters.
has branched beyond photography equipment, dipping its toes into vintage VHS tapes, gaming, watches, and even music, it is best known for its analog cameras and films, especially its Polaroid gear., and more, it also refurbishes, repairs, and resells vintage instant cameras. This is where my path crossed with Retrospekt, as the company was kind enough to send me a refurbished Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera with 600 film conversion.
With a couple of quick tugs from the collapsible viewfinder, the SX-70 springs into life, ready for action. Once open, users can peer through an optical viewfinder and adjust focus and exposure compensation using a pair of dials.Everything looks and feels so new that it would be easy to think the camera truly is new rather than having been built sometime between 1972 and 1981. It isn’t until you load the film that you see a small Retrospekt sticker inside.
But that is part of the fun, too. I wish the viewfinder were better, but I’m not convinced that a superior lens would make the SX-70 a better camera overall. There’s something to be said for the relative fuzziness of the images. If I want something clinically sharp, I have other tools I can use. But if I want to snap a photo, hear the whir of a motor, hold an image in my hand, and watch it develop from blank space into a photograph.
Polaroid 600 film costs around $20 a pack, and each pack comes with eight shots. I burned through a couple of packs and quickly realized, “Wow, I’ve got to really think about how I use this camera.” For a camera that is so fun to use and would certainly attract a lot of attention among friends and family, it’s easy to imagine going through $60 or more of film in very short order.
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