andreas_krennmair

<p>The photo looks very much like this one: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebollo_fr/2539716124/in/pool-46195334@N00/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebollo_fr/2539716124/in/pool-46195334@N00/</a><br>

That's a French ad for the Zeiss Ikon Nettar from 1934.<br>

And collection-appareils.fr also has something on it: <a href="http://www.collection-appareils.fr/zeiss/html/zeiss_nettar_515_2_octo.php">http://www.collection-appareils.fr/zeiss/html/zeiss_nettar_515_2_octo.php</a><br>

I would say from the looks that this is your camera. The hexagonal shape, the shape and position of the handles and the viewfinder, the black and white stripes, the labels both on the face and on the ring around the lens, it all basically looks the same.</p>

<p>I think Andrew Lynn makes a good point: good photographers will use whatever is the right tool for the job.<br>

Besides that, here I found a picture of her shooting with a simple Canon EOS 1Ds: http://danielgebhart.com/blog/2008/10/17/annie-leibovitz-fotografiert-mit-canon/</p>

<p>I built a medium format pinhole camera (roughly 6x6) by myself a few months ago. I started by drawing a sketch how I want to build it, then I cut out the parts from cardboard (corrugated fiberboard, to be exact). I used nails/wall hooks to connect the parts, and used rubber tape to make it light-tight.<br>

Here are a few pictures from the construction process:<br>

<img src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0267/8832_f173_390.jpeg" alt="" width="390" height="292" /><br>

<img src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0269/8736_c779_390.jpeg" alt="" width="390" height="292" /><br>

I used no how-tos or other instructions, all I used was my mind and a few simple tools. ;-)<br>

And here are some results that show that the camera indeed worked:<br>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krennmair/sets/72157616210356726/</p>

<p>Hope that helps.</p>

<p>At least the Polaroid Colorpack 80 are constructed in such a way that you can open the case without removing or even lifting the whole pack film cassette, so when you're careful, you can keep the cassette light-tight at its place. Don't know about Polaroid 600SE, though.</p>

<p>In my experience (Type 80 film, Polaroid Colorpack 80 camera), pack film has always been pretty unreliable. The design is that the white strip _should_ come out, but too often I had the experience that it either didn't come out, or that it did come out but added friction when the film was pulled out (thus leaving a nasty stripe on picture itself) or that it came out and took the next picture with it which usually ended in a total mess of developer paste.<br>

That's why I ended up reopening the camera after each shot, separating the white strip from the strip it is connected to and correctly threading it into the spools. Yes, that's quite a lot of work, but I haven't found any other solution yet to make that type of film any more reliable.</p>