Let's try to save Fuji FP-100 C instant film

[Olivier]

Here is a link to sign an online petition to try to make Fuji continue the FP-100 C instant film production.

https://www.change.org/p/save-instant-film?recruiter=64980890&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

Please feel free to sign it.

[Pete]

Thanks,
I signed it some time back. They send me regular updates but it does not sound promising. I have quite a few cameras that use the pack film and this is quite a loss. Looks like we will be moving to Instax as that should be in production for a long time.
Pete

[kansalliskalaCafe]

done and shared

[Olivier]

Thank you.
I use pack films in a Mamiya Press with a polaroid 100 back.
It sure is a loss. Instax wide exists but optic design can't compete with the Mamiya Sekors of the Mamiya Press.

I saw that there is a way to use instax wide film in a polaroid back, but it's complicate : you have to take a film sheet from the instax cartridge, insert it in the polaroid cartridge, load it on the camera, take the shot, then insert the film sheet in the instax again to use it for extracting and develop the film. Boring...

[Pete]

I just grafted a Belair Instax back onto a 3x4 Speed Graphic. It seems to work well but still have a small light leak to address. My next will be a Polaroid Pathfinder that I was going to put a pack film back on.

Oliver,
I think the Mamiya Press is the same as the Polaroid 600SE. We have a guy here in US (Polaroid Conversions) that makes an Instax back for the 600SE. There is a small mod to the camera but I think you can do that yourself and not have to send the camera out.


While the Instax wide film is quite nice and only a little smaller than the Polaroid format I will miss the peel apart film. Maybe we can get Fuji to make a B&W instax or even slide film, Instax-Chrome. Wouldn't that be cool?
Pete

[Olivier]

Yes, Pete, the Mamiya Press has the same design as the Polaroid 600 SE.
The main and great difference is that the Mamiya Press is made for film 6x9, 6x7 film backs and also can receive a graflex back.

Thank you for the name of the Instax wide adaptor.
Is it this one : http://www.polaroidconversions.com/

[kansalliskala]

I still have fully working Polaroid 100, regret that I sold my 250 for peanuts.

[Pete]

Your 100 is a nice keeper because it was the first pack film camera. The 250s are better work cameras because of the single window Zeiss viewfinder. They both have the same glass lens. Unfortunately I don't think this series can be easily converted to Instax.
Pete

[kansalliskalaCafe]