The Best Way To Scan Instant Film

A short and sweet video about how I scan polaroids, instax, and peel apart packfilm - instant films - at home. Enjoy.

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[patrickjclarke]

TIP 1 from an old Pioneer. Polaroids need to "breathe" a little while they dry. They don't rust like they used to, but they still can degrade if you don't let them dry. Albums are great, but during a shoot they go into an empty pack box like you and chill out in darkness in my bag. It lets them breath and dry a touch. BUT, standing up like that can make them bow slightly. SO, when I get home, I take the stack and put something a little heavy on top (it doesn't need to be much) but still leave it out so they all dry flat. I have a place in my film closet, so they don't get disturbed or dusty. If I'm scanning right away, that's cool, but I don't put them into my album (I use the same Polaroid ones you do) until a week or so later.

[nicolasandresalvarezarangua]

2:46 are you kidding me? That's an amazing photo.

[bjr]

Damn this is fire. I wanna get the album.

[simonvandoorne]

This video just makes me want to shoot polaroid again and more, that album is pretty cool too. 😃

[Tattoosbyjevon]

Dope video brother!!! Definitely going to try these tips out 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[lukenatewilson]

I’m surprised you don’t have issues with newtons rings when scanning Instax directly on glass. I shoot instax wide and the newtons rings are horrible unless I use the grid tool.

[just_eirik]

Been seeing a lot of Polaroid and Instax videos lately, kinda wanna get a camera. Had the Mini 99, which was fun but I didn’t like the tiny film size. The details though! I looked at the photos with a magnifying glass and there was details for days!

By the way, and I’m asking all the artists I follow here about this now, any chance of seeing you on Cara? It’s made by artists (a photographer actually) for artists. Right now there are no ads, so your art isn’t being used to sell ads. And there is an iPad app as well as website version, so your art fills the screen and looks great! I just really want to follow more people there and I want people to abandon IG because it’s awful.

[pablofernandez]

please do more videos about polaroid!! greetings from Brazil!

[mrmjstewart]

Do you use the Polaroid photo album book to store your instax photos too? I have a decent collection of instax photos and I'm always curious how people store them. Great video. Thanks!

[felicityshoots]

ugh love this linus!! thanks for another great video :)

can any of the other mamiyas do a "frankenstax" back besides the rb67?

[hipbdaniel]

What's different about the films that you use a holder for polaroid, but instax is directly on the glass?

[skateenjoyer]

have you seen Matt Days way of scanning polaroids?

[TheWarnack]

Have you found a binder for Instax square ? I just can’t no mater how much I try to

[flearhcp]

Does the polaroid become equal to a “negative”?

[koladetladipo]

could you ppost a video of you scanning negative colour film please ?

[areksoltysik]

Don’t Polaroids get damaged by tape? If not, what kind of tape is it?

[jmtphotographymedia]

Great shots. Razor-sharp instant photos don't do the medium justice. The art in the shot itself outways that. If you want razor sharp go modern digital mirrorless