This is a great little Polaroid camera if you simply want something you can point and shoot with and not worry too much about focusing or lighting. Whilst it’s quite a big hunk of plastic to carry around, I love the way it folds up and the balance of the thing in my hands – it’s a pleasure to use!

You can watch my video here for all the deets but I wanted to use this space to show some of the photos I have taken with it to demonstrate what this humble beast is capable of:

And finally – and this is a pretty scary photo, so apologies – this is the self portrait you saw me take if you watched the video.

I’ve ensured it stayed as true to what came out of the camera as possible – the yellow line about a centimetre from the bottom of the image; that’s the ‘edgecut’ – hardly noticeable I’m sure you’ll agree. This is Softone film and you can see it’s VERY soft and the colours are pretty muted. I think it should produce better results in lots of natural light (and no flash). I’ll keep you posted!

I have been dusting off my Polaroid cameras over the last week or so – I find they really need lots and lots of light to be truly happy and what with having to be super-careful with my precious stash of old-school Polaroid film, I’ve given them a bit of a rest over winter.

My Polaroid Spectra (with some Softone edge-cut film) makes everything look super-moody…

It’s not all been as gloomy as the above photo might suggest though – it’s been really quite warm here on the south coast and so we’ve been delighting in the first of the blossoms, this is hawthorn (I think)…

I took this with my Polaroid SX-70 and some TZ-Artistic film.

I think the ‘SX’ in ‘SX-70′ might just stand for SeXy – there’s nothing feel and and the sound on a photo physically being delivered to your hand at the touch of a button and developing before your eyes. It IS magic. It is also addictive and the urge can stike at any moment.

…speaking of which, this is me first thing in the morning (still in my jarmies) so excited about the huge amount of daylight bouncing round the dining room that I decided to try a self-portrait (this is PX-70 Color Shade film from The Impossible Project)…

My opportunities for being outside in daylight hours, let alone taking any photos is minimal these days to say the least.

Each day I pass these berries on the way to work and think how delicious they look, so I travelled prepared today with my Polaroid Spectra and snapped them. Berries are awesome!

Polaroid Spectra + Image Softtone (edge cut) film