White prints only... Polaroid Automatic Land 100

Hi everyone,

First, thanks a lot for the help... I did get rid of the One Step and kept the

Land, got the film for it in a little store in Dallas (just cuz I didn't want

to wait for it to arrive if I ordered it on line...) Bottom line is I got a FP-

100C film from Fuji. ISO 100.

I also know that the camera needs a battery, so I built one myself since I

didn't wanna get the expensive original, so I just put 3 AAAs in a battery

holder and wire the camera.

So I took my first pic right... everything was working, the shutter worked,

pulled the first tab, then the second tab.. the barrels squeezed the chemicals

over the pic perfectly.. and... the result.. Nothing! Just a white print.. I've

tried 3 more times and its the same result...

Could it be my DIY battery?

Thanks a lot again and... happy thanksgiving. I was yesterday but you know...

White print means the shutter is not opening. So for some reason the shutter is inop did you check the shutter with the back open befor you put film in it?

Larry

The question is.... how did you wire your batteries? if you wired them will have to test it with stacked on top of each other, you get 4.5v if you wired them side-by-side with connected positives and connected negatives, you get 1.5v, that will last 3x longer than a single AAA. i doubt the 1.5v will be enough to fire the shutter properly.

Unfortunately its very difficult to reload Polaroid film if you decide to take it out. the disclaimer that should come with polaroid cameras is that you can pretty much guarantee wasting your first roll. if you cant get it to work by changing the battery wiring, then there might be some kind of other issue. if the camera had batteries sitting in it for a long long time, they might have caused corrosion inside the circuits of the electronic shutter.

You batteries should look like this:

-----positive wire--- +(AAA)- +(AAA)- +(AAA)- ---negative wire----

or like this:

----positive wire---- +(AAA)- --->

--------------------- +(AAA)- --->

--------------------- +(AAA)- ------negative wire---

$9 for a battery you can only buy online...

or 3xAAA for basically nothing?

get a 4xAAA holder, hack one off so it looks like:

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rewire it so its in parallel (like noted above, + to - then + to - and so on). now you have a 4.5v battery.

connect white to pos, black to neg.

should fit snugly into the original battery compartment with a little hacking of the original battery holder plastic.

I have exactly the same camera, exactly the same battery hack and used exactly the same film. But in my case the picture came out entirely black. :-( Any clue what was going wrong?

Eugen