Where to buy Polaroid camera?

Where can I buy Polaroid 600 camera film for cheap?

• I have a Polaroid one step close up camera that needs Polaroid 600 film and I need to know where I can buy it for cheap!

• Answer:

  Simple answer. You can't. It always has been expensive to run a Polaroid instant photo camera. All of the original unused Polaroid film packs are now so old that the built-in batteries will either be dead or will give you a few shots at most, they're only usable reliably on cameras which have been modified to accept an external 4.5v d.c. power supply.. The photo chemistry will also likely be stale and the camera may be unable to roll out the developer chemicals to cover the entire photo. Even then, the prices that original photo packs go for isn't usually cheap. The photos also must be shaded from direct light immediately after ejection from the camera while they're still developing; with the original Polaroid material it was good enough just to keep them out of direct sunlight as you watched the image slowly appear. If you do that with the new material then the photo becomes washed -out and the shot is wasted. Your only reliable source is from The Impossible Project (link below). It's not the same as the original film, colours are more muted, you only get 8 shots per pack instead of 10, it tends to fade quickly even if you manage to remove the excess chemical from each photos (so scan the images to keep them) and isn't cheap. But it really doesn't cost much more than the Polaroid packs used to cost (as they were in the UK at least). It's a special product which is really intended for artists and specialist photographers. One little tip: if you take a very over-exposed image (as opposed to one which has bleached out due to subsequent light exposure), then don't discard it. You can pull a huge amount of the detail back if you scan the photo. It doesn't work for underexposed images so well though, as a scanner cannot pull out details which were never captured to begin with.