Instant film for Hasselblad

[treeman]

Ok I've taken the plunge and just bought a 501c, but I'd also like to get a polaroid back for it.

A) which one will fit it?

B) what film will work in it?

Thanks in advance

 

[MindofMel]

Welcome to the hassy club Mark You won't regret it.

It's the fuji instant film for the V series: http://www.ag-photographic.co.uk/fujifilm-instant-film-216-c.asp

I use a NPC polaroid back on my 500CM which should fit your model. Which is pretty inexpensive. Circa £50

 

[treeman]

Thanks Mel that's great.

Is the NPC back any better than the Hasselblad one? Mr Cad have got both types at the moment.

 

[Steve]

Damn...everyone is getting Hassys.

Must....fight....the.....urge.....

 

[MindofMel]

Thanks Mel that's great.

Is the NPC back any better than the Hasselblad one? Mr Cad have got both types at the moment.

No idea tbh - but can't see what major differences there could be. Note that the image doesn't fill the whole polaroid.. I found this useful:

[YOUTUBE]fM7hckgCL_4[/YOUTUBE]

 

[treeman]

Thanks for that, very useful.

 

[orac]

The prices for these seem to vary wildly.
I got one from Peter Walnes for £20 and there's another one on there now for the same price, but I've seen them advertised elsewhere for silly money.

The Fuji instant film is rated at 100iso but that only seems to apply in midday sunlight.
In anything but ideal light, you'll need to adjust by quite a few stops, and I seem to get better results when it's developed in warm conditions.

I use mine as a bit of fun, rather than for anything serious.

 

[treeman]

The Fuji instant film is rated at 100iso but that only seems to apply in midday sunlight.
In anything but ideal light, you'll need to adjust by quite a few stops, and I seem to get better results when it's developed in warm conditions.

Really? I'm struggling to work out how that works

I did also see somewhere the dev time is 30-40mins, surely that's not right?

 

[MindofMel]

I've never adjusted my ISO rating for the film and always got acceptable results. I just meter as normal.. in particularly dim lighting I tend to maybe overexpose by 1 stop as I'd rather that than a possible underexposure. Dev time is anywhere from 90secs to 3mins. Guide times are given on every frame of the film itself.

 

[orac]

The guy in the video mentions the reciprocity faiure.
He meters and takes a shot a 1 second which comes out totally underexposed. He then takes another for 5 seconds which comes out better, which is similar to my experience with the fuji fp-100c film.
They do a 3000iso B&W film as well but I haven't tried that yet.

 

[treeman]

The guy in the video mentions the reciprocity faiure.
He meters and takes a shot a 1 second which comes out totally underexposed. He then takes another for 5 seconds which comes out better, which is similar to my experience with the fuji fp-100c film.
They do a 3000iso B&W film as well but I haven't tried that yet.

Ah I see, thanks. Hopefully reciprocity failure won't be such an issue for my normal speeds.