pratyusha_bandla

sorry . . . didn't see your second/third response before responding to your earlier one.

again, no instructions and what's a aperture reducer washer?

i don't think the polaroid back has anything to do with it, either. but i don't know anything about holgas and the only reason i mentioned anything about the polaroid back is because the shutter stopped working right after i installed it.

thanks for your help.

um, instructions? what instructions? i didn't get any . . .

i installed the lens modifier. but i didn't disassemble the camera and i don't know anything about the reducing ring aperture. i didn't install the 6x6 mask that the polaroid back came with, though . . . i figured i could just use the 6x6 mask that came with the holga, because i wasn't making any progress in installing the new one without using some pressure and i was afraid that i was doing it wrong (no instructions) and that the plastic would break . . .

also, my holga doesn't have a hot shoe. it has a built-in flash, and a compartment for batteries which i sincerely despise.

and when i examine the shutter with the back off, what exactly am i looking for?

your polaroid pinholes = very cool. i'm a sucker for extreme wide-angle distortion, but i never got past empty tubes of Quaker oatmeal.

there's no new resistance in the switch . . . i contacted polaroid's customer service, maybe they'll be able to help me out.

also, i heard that the shutter spring wears out after awhile and the shutter stops working and you can't do anything about it. except that i've only had my holga for three months . . .

i have a holga 120FN with a bulb setting and a "normal" setting,

which operates the shutter at about 1/100 sec . . . recently, i put

a polaroid back on it, and the 1/100 setting stopped working

normally and started working like the bulb setting. i'm not sure the

polaroid back has anything to do with it, but the setting stopped

working when i put the new back on it. does anyone know anything

about this?