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paper archive
Most books on the SX-70
and how to use it are out of print. Check your library if you want
to borrow; searching Amazon
or your local bookseller through out-of-print suppliers, if you
want to buy.
Freeman, Michael. (1988).
Instant Film Photography: a Creative Handbook for Polaroid, Instant
Film and Convertible Cameras. Horizon Books.
Kirkham, Pat. (1995).
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge,
MA; London, England: The MIT Press.
(note: this text
contains information on the films produced by Charles and Ray
Eames for the Polaroid Corp.)
Olshaker, Mark. (1980)
The Polaroid Story, Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience. (was
also published under the title THE INSTANT IMAGE By Scarborough/Stein
and Day.)
Polaroid Corporation
Staff. (1984). Polaroid Color Films. Focal Press.
Polaroid Corporation
Staff. (1991). Pocket Guide to Polaroid Professional films.
Polaroid Corporation
Polaroid Corporation Staff. (1992).
Polaroid Guide to Instant
Imaging: Instant Innovations, Creative Uses for Polaroid films.
Polaroid Corporation.
Wensberg, Peter C.
(1987). Landıs Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
other
geeks with polaroid fixations (and websites)
The
Land List : by Martin Kuhn. An invaluable resource for all
things Polaroid. Martin has an obvious love for the system and
actually contributed the tech specs section of this site! Thanks
Martin!
Hacker's
Guide to the SX-70 : by Georg Holderied. An especially helpful
guide to all things technical about the SX-70 system. Georg tears
into cameras and you reap the benefits!
PolaPro:
A super fun art site by a woman who is into instant imaging of
all kinds, even gameboy cameras.
Polaroid
Corporation: Actually a pretty good resource for information
and remember, they still will repair your SX-70 if you need it!
Also check out their excellent guide to creative
film manipulation.
SX-70
Manipulation: ideas from Pirkko Kuusela.
SX-70
vs. Captiva: A nice little treatise contrasting the past quality
of the SX-70 with the modern Polaroid consumer offering, the Captiva.
retailers,
repair shops, and ebay
Graphic
Center: company specializing in older Polaroid products. Repairs,
sells and modifies SX-70 cameras, as well as a great source of
accessories and adapters.
Precision
Camera Repair: company that repairs SX-70 cameras and others.
Ed
Romney writes books on camera repair, and if you're up for
the challenge, he has a book that describes how to repair SX-70's
yourself! ($19,order through his website)
Cress
Photo: still sells flashbars and bulbs for your polariod cameras.
Freestyle
Photographic Sales : This Hollywood retail and mail order
house got me through my undergrad years with their great prices.
Have seen slightly expired SX-70 film for half-price here!
ebay:
Auction site which can be a great source for SX-70 cameras, accesories
and ephemera. Search keyword "SX-70" and see how many
hits you get!
credits
Huge thanks to Martin
Kuhn, whose Land
List (see above)provided most of the tech specs data, and
who encouraged this project.
Mountains of gratitude
to my graduate committee at San Francisco State, Dr. John Dierke,
Dr. Cece Iandoli, and Kristen
Gates, who nutured and prodded this work into something cohesive,
and that I am proud of.
The biggest thanks
of all to my family, especially my partner, Peter, who has been
an oasis of calm and patience in the course of the year and a
half that this site has been in the works.
about
me
I am a Web Designer
[Information Architect, Navigation and Graphic Designer and Production
Artist] living and working in sunny San Francisco. If you would
like to know more about my work and skills, please visit my portfolio
site. Thanks for looking!
It's SX-70 ©
Copyright Joy M. Opfer,
1999. All rights reserved.
Legal
disclaimer: I don't have a thing to do with Polaroid Corp., and
they do not guarantee the accuracy of information of this site.
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