gwendolyn_white Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I'm new to Polaroid and I just purchase a Hasselblad Polaroid 100 film back. I've been tinkering around on it and it's all fine and dandy, but I'm wondering about the exact area that gets shot on the film. It's a very small percentage of the entire Polaroid, on my back/film, and I'm wondering how I can fill up the <i>entire</i> Polaroid with the picture. I know Polaroid cameras do this, but I could have sworn some people were doing this with a Hasselblad as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ_britt3 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Not possible....hasseys shoot 2 1/4 square images.The Polaroid is much larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwendolyn_white Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 I thought that but at the same time I could have sworn that there was a way of filling up the entire Polaroid. My sister is a model and on photo shoots the photographers who shoot film always shoot Polaroid first, and my mother would take the thrown away Polaroid's home. I never remember the Polaroids looking like this though, and the photographers, I'm fairly certain, used a Hasselblad. My sister even saw my back and recognized it from sets she has been on. So... this is confusing me. Is there another type of back that fills the entire Polaroid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpthurston Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Sorry... a Mamiya RB67 Medium Format camera when you remove the rotating film back and use the "P" adapter with a Polaroid Film back using the same size Polaroid film gives an image almost 7.65 cm by 7.65 cm...utilizing almost all of the surface. A positive for keepsakes no doubt. Better yet when you use the soon to be discountinued Type 665 Polaroid film you get a BIG Negative and a Positive that size... Awesome fine grained film...Leibovitz utilizes it in her current exhibit fotos.Good luckJT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwendolyn_white Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Are you saying that Mamiya cameras are the only ones that can do this? Maybe that is what she saw. I'm surprised this can't be done with a Hasselblad though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 A lot of fashion photographers use old Polaroid 110-type cameras, that use the full Polaroid area. Or, newer Littman 45 conversions. But, the medium format cameras i'm familiar with do not use the full Pola sheet. It's unfortunate. 6x7 cameras (Pentax 67, Mamiya RZ, etc) use more than the Hasselblad. I think there is even a special Pola back for the RZ that uses even more than the standard area, but still, not the full film with white borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Polaroid backs are used to check what will be recorded on film, and how it will be recorded on film.<br>So you need to see exactly that, and anything else (like 'full frame' Polaroids) is of little or no use.<br><br>If you just want Polaroids to help you remember who was who and what was what again, use an SX or similar Polaroid machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwendolyn_white Posted May 1, 2007 Author Share Posted May 1, 2007 I know what these are for, I was just curious as to why I could have sworn I had seen full frame Polaroids taken with a Hasselblad. I actually am playing around with image transfers so a full frame Polaroid would be useful, but it's nothing major. I simply wanted to know what I didn't know. Thank you all for replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Wow, never heard of the P adapter for the Mamiya. Gotta get one ... anyone know where those can be found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky_mirror Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Years ago I was using Mamiya RZ and the image on polaroid is 7x7. I remember I had to shot extra polaroid for the stylist and sometimes for the model, too. Those days are over... no more polaroid. Just look to the monitor. (models still shoot my monitor with their handphone or pocket digital camera) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean-louis llech Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 The construction of the Hasselblad's body allows only 6x6cm. That's all.<br> If you buy a large format camera and a 545 Polaroid back, you will have 4x5" pictures.<br> About the Mamiya RB/RZ, the revolving back allows either a 6 x 7 cm picture in portrait or a 7 x 6 cm picture in landscape, Thus the complete format is 7 x 7. No mistery.<br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwendolyn_white Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Yes, I just realized this, but I was confused because, like I said, I thought I heard some people were using Hasselblad's to make Polaroids that filled the picture -- whether the Polaroid was smaller so the picture filled the Polaroid, or something else, I didn't know, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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