Thank you, Godfrey, for your detailed post. I appreciate it. I should probably just buy film for each of my sx70 cameras to test. I've now accumulated 4 or 5 of them. If I run through your suggested pre-film checklist and then successfully take a print, I could sell the camera with the remaining frames in the camera and hopefully recoup most of the cost of the film (and get a higher price for the camera in "tested/working" condition.)
I've got a lot of other things I'm interested in doing before I get down to shooting with them. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, the other cheap way to test an SX-70 is to send it to me and let > me test it. If it doesn't pass the initial functional test, you're out the > cost of postage. If it passes the first functional tests and you want me to > test some film through it, that will cost you the film pack too. Depending on > where you are, however, the postage could be more expensive than a second > pack of film... ;-) > > Godfrey > -- > Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] > >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Seems like Godfrey or someone posted on this before, but I can't find >> it by searching. >> Does anyone have a tip for testing the functionality of a Polaroid >> sx70 camera, in the most frugal way possible? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
