Polaroid Camera

One of my couples had one for their guest book! Well, I say the had one. They actually borrowed mine and bought the film.

Yeh they are pretty good imo at least for their purpose.

Apparently the Fuji's are a bit cheaper if you need to buy one.

DaffodilWaves pics still look squashed even at only 600px wide?

Don't know what else it could be tbh...

Avoid using an actual Polaroid camera itself. The old ones anyway.

The old expired film is £23 per pack of 10 and looks brown. The new impossible project stuff takes 45 minutes to develop and jams in the camera.

The Fuji Instax line is very good, but don't by the cheap film from ebay. It isn't stored properly and the images don't come out right a lot of the time.

We hire them out and source all our film from Fuji UK because it works perfectly every time. More expensive, but works.

We stopped hiring them out as they kept going missing and nobody knew how to change the film / use the cameras. I was finding that only 5 shots per pack were used as everyone was too drunk to figure them out.

People were assuming the film had ran out when they hadn't turned the camera on!

Rhys do you use thy film reel with a plus sign picture to upload them?

Yes go for the polaroid and the guests will take snaps of themselfs and then they have a white space to write somthing for you. What I have then seen is that they get hung up with pegs on a length of sting at the reception for everyone else to see.

Edit --- or what chris said, ----do the fuji still have the white bit tho

I've just bought a little printer, you can plug it into your digital camera and it prints onto sticky paper so people can stick it in the guest book. I cant wait, I've bought loads of props so I'm hoping for some funny pictures!

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Which one have you purchased? Was it expensive? x

I bought the Polariod Pogo, it was £80 from ebay with 200 sheets of the paper in prints on. There were cheaper used ones but they didn't have a box etc so I paid a bit extra to get a new one. Without the film they are around £60 I think.

Here's the different types of films:

Original Polaroid film, you can only buy expired (genuine film) Takes 4 minutes to develop. (note the brown cast).

Impossible Project film, currently in production but has been known to jam (it did so on my one) and takes 40+ minutes for the colour films to develop.

Fuji Instax (WIDE) - Bought from Hong Kong via ebay, cheapest place, but it doesn't seem to be quite right. Parts of the film don't develop and the colours are off. Also, the film still had a year left before expiration (might even be fake):

Uk film, more expensive, but reliable. You really want reliable film at your wedding. 100 guests with only 50 images coming out? Not good.

3-4 minutes to develop.

The stuff we hire out now is all UK sourced stock.

Yes I did, I guess I'll query it with admin. Thanks anyway. ?

I've got one of these (instax mini s7), and an instax mini 10 as well. They're both going to be in circulation in the evening at our wedding for our guestbook:

I put together a guestbook using scrapbooking material from hobbycraft:

and I made instruction sheets for guests who might not know how to use the cameras (i.e. my mother)

As I do interpretation in a heritage site I'm very much of the mind set that you need to spell things out assuming those reading it are complete imbeciles, so you may not need the amount of instruction I'm providing

I thought about this because I was bought a polaroid as a gift but I've never used it. Then I discovered them film was quite expensive. Had anyone found it cheaper than roughly 60p a photo? I'm anticipating people being a bit drunk and wasting two half the photos but we'd need enough film for 180 guests.

It was actually something I was looking into, but then I had a very good quote from a photobooth hire company. And this booth had old style photos too to fit in with my vintage/steampunk theme.

Though, if I do decide against the booth I'll certainly be doing this. I have an old Polaroid in my house somewhere.

I used the Fuji Instax wide for my guestbook. All the guests had a laugh, it was really easy to use and most of the pics turned out really well. We bought the film from Amazon.

I'm actually selling it if anyone is interested but I would need to check postage costs.

The Instax Mini's are the cheapest film - Amazon have 20 exposures for £9.65, so under 50p a photo. But the film is quite small. But usable.

Hi

I want a polaroid camera for my wedding as well but finding one is quite hard. Have you got one now? If so, do you mind me asking which one you got? I want a fairly modern one so I can still get the film but I don't want a mini camera I want the pics to be a decent size.

Thanks

Rachael

Hi Kriek

Do you still have this camera? Are you still wanting to sell if you do have it?

Thanks

Rachael