Yesterday was one of the first gorgeous NYC Spring days this year. After work Kate and I met in the West Village for some sidewalk eating and drinking. After an almost microscopic $15 dollar endive salad at Morandi (boycott is on!), we decided to go to an old/new favorite – Frankies has a newish place on Hudson Street. Since it was such a lovely day I grabbed my Polaroid 420 Land Camera, which was loaded with Fuji’s FP100C instant peel apart film.
Awesome Display in a Window on 8th Avenue, West Village
Rebel Rebel Record Store on Bleecker Street, West Village
Kate Having a Glass of Prosecco (on tap!) at Frankies, West Village
Right Across from Frankies on Hudson, I Noticed this Film Developing Sign on Awning, West Village
On the Way to the Subway, A Mural of Cards on Corner of Bleecker Street, West Village
And this final shot was from last week, when Kate and I walked from her work down to the East Village.
Lovely Day for a Guinness Sign off of Second Avenue
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Fell upon your blog researching polaroid images– I feel like we speak the same love language on film a little bit! (only you shoot much better) Love your composition, lines and life shots. Headed to NYC again tomorrow night for a week, I will be checking out this record store solely because I am seeing it here! Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Just noticed you are familiar with the Film Is Not Dead crew– I have many friends here in Utah involved with that group. I will be doing walkabouts all over Brooklyn and New York during the next week–email me if you are up for a photo walk!
Great shots mate.
I myself am wondering how to confuse the meter on these cameras to expose a bit more, yours seem to have the same under exposure mine has. I have mine on full ‘lighten’ and using FP-100c.. thinking maybe i’ll have to put a tiny ND2X filter on the meter to get it to expose correctly.
@Kaneischa – thank you so much for your kind words! I always appreciate hearing from a fellow film lover. Your Polaroid party pics are awesome and I saw that you had your camwra bag well packed for NYC.
Rebel Rebel is a decent little record store. Worth a visit. Also you might already know about Bleecker Street Records, which is a little further down Bleecker across 7th Ave. If you are in the East Village at all, Gimme Records on 5th St. between 1st and 2nd Ave is awesome. Lots of places! Have fun and take great pics!
@Dave, mine was only one tick towards lighten for these, but i think i need to go to full lighten as well. The filter is not a bad idea!
Hello, I have also begun to experiment with film in my 420 land camera. My question is, how did you set up your film holder so when you focus with your RF you images come out sharp?
Hi Dante, I didn’t do anything special on mine, but I do have to kind of roll the focus back and forth to get the sharper focus. I find it’s good to go past the good focus point and then push it back to lock it in.
Your RF might be off a bit too. Might need to play around with it.