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The engineer who created this camera had formerly created the Alpa cameras and Bolex Cinema cameras. The early Alpa cameras combined a rangefinder direct viewfinder and a single lens reflex viewfinder (at 45 angle as a compromise between normal and chest viewing).

Thank you so much for this information! It’s very helpful and insightful. I have an idea for improving the design, but I don’t know if it will work. The rollers on a Polaroid landcamara might be worth looking at, to skip the instaxcamara development part. But I don’t know, just a hypothesis that might be worth looking into.

I was given a model B2 with filter kit. They are in beautiful shape and work well. The focus is a bit still so I'll use in zone focus.

Hello ! How about fitting the hole instax cartridge into a “FP100c” adapter ? Maybe the Instax wide does not fit, but how about the Instax Square ? I could use this with a Mamiya RB 🥰

I want a I-zone

Nice cinematic biographic history! Thank you!

I-zone did not bankrupt Polaroid. Polavision had a large part, as well as market forces. Their only option was to scale back operations a lot and wait it out until the analog revival took place. The izone was just the last breath of a global company trying to stay alive.

Excellent video - Just subscribed

Stop croaking its so last season. A cup of tea with honey might bring out your normal voice

Amerikan Kamera ist not gut, it looks like it is kaputt

I knew it was a scam when it was introduced. Someone tried to sell me one and I told them they were being ripped off by a pyramid scheme. I already owned a Nimslo, the camera it copied. It was a piece of junk, a poorly made imitation of the Nimslo, made to look like an SLR to give the impression of quality. It had a metal weight inside so it would feel more substantial. The Nishika was a fraud from the beginning. It was a ripoff of the Nimslo. Get a Nimslo, a well made camera.

In hindsight it's so easy to say they made the wrong decisions. But back then everything digital was hot and everything analog was not. It was a very dificult time to predict how things would turn out, specifically in the consumer retail business. Some companies went bankrupt because they didn't adapt to digital soon enough while others went bankrupt by neglecting their core business and investing in digital products that failed. In 2000, no one I knew was interested in Polaroids. We'd just seen the first digital consumer cameras and those were way more interesting. So I get why Polaroid jumped that train. Unfortunately they jumped on the wrong one.

I have an N8000 along with a bunch of the Canadian MLM "Dealer Network" paperwork, and even the "Dealer card" the owner held. The owner also sold Avon products, so make of that what you will :D

“He designed the most important motion-picture camera of all time” is plain rubbish. There is not one most important motion-picture camera and if yet, it would be the Cinématographe by Lumière, Moisson, and Carpentier. The Cinégraphe Bol was first presented at the Geneva trade fair of 1923. Whether design began already in 1919 can be disputed. The Bolex camera for 16-mm. film is not the same as the Paillard-Bolex H-16 or H-9 of 1935. The two designs differ fundamentally. The H was not the first amateur motion-picture camera for the mass market, that is just wrong. There have been a number of other makes for the mass market years before, the Victor, the Bell & Howell Filmo, the Ciné-Kodak of course, then the Cine-Nizo from Munich, Germany (1925), Stewart-Warner, Peko, Moveo, and more. The Wollensak f/4.5 was not “an absolutely excellent lens for the time” but a low to middle-class system, namely a triplet after the Cooke portrait lens of 1893. Way better lenses such as the Tessar, Opic-Biotar-Xenon or Ernostar existed since 1902 and 1920, respectively.

Thank you! I saw one of these not understanding the work of art before me. Now i know

just got one of these at an estate sale from a Peace Corps Photographer. I'm halfway through my first roll and it's just lovely.

My daily was a Minolta maxxum 7000 and this looks like it ripped off so many features from it

Incredible

Esto es una aberración de camara muy mala

I love the history of this camera. I love the old Vincent Price informercial-that alone is worth the price of admission (so to speak). The gifs are fun, but after watching this I'm going to have to try getting one of the prints made. Great video!

Literally just bought a Slik 713CF tripod used. It feels amazing and the build quality is just perfect.

Was lucky enough to be given a Land 180 by my dad recently, as he found it in his lab at work during a big sort out. With One Instant currently sold out and Fuji peel apart film becoming both increasingly expired and horrendously expensive, this might be a way to actually try this wonderful camera out. Thank you so much for doing the work to design this and for putting it out there for us all to try!

haha wtf polaroid! love your channel

I was gifted this and I’m so glad this video exists lol

Thank. God I'm getting a Sony Alpha 37 in my birthday this friday

The sample print that came with my N8000 looks incredible. It doesn't look like a traditional lenticular print. The center of the image stays put while the edges move. I tried the same thing (printed my own from this camera) and it looks way different. I am honestly thinking that the sample print they provide is an example of something that can't actually be reproduced by the camera...

Great channel, you put a lot of effort on these videos!

I mean, this is off-topic. But damn you're so cute.

I was asked about this camera and found your review of their camera to be very insightful and helpful. I would love to see more of the photos you took and look forward to seeing more of your content.

it's a bootleg. canon didn't make it

I have several Sliks, Velbons, and one huge Swarovski branded Manfrotto that came with a set of 15x56 binos over 20 years ago. One of the Sliks is labeled as a Mini II on the base and below the ball head it says Slik SBH 100DQ. It looks exactly like the one in your video. Nice to know that you rate it so highly. I have absolutely no complaints about mine. I've had tripods fail/break before at the worst possible time, which is why I never carry just one.

I have a slik sprint mini II tripod. I love it. It goes everywhere with me. It just works. I have many tripods, but I seem to take this one most of the time. It takes little space and is super strong Holds the Canon 5d's (1,2,3) and L lenses with no problem.

I am using the Slik Sprint Pro GM for the last 14 years, it's a great tripod and still works fine. Only now I need the mini version... looking at one.

Hey, I tried this but for some reason my instax film just comes out as blanks / what’s causing that? Thanks

Check Leofoto MBC-20 for replacing the included one in the SLIK... seems to be lighter and much better/compact

My parents have this from back in the day and I decided to see how it works and put batteries in it and well lets just say it would stop beeping until i took the batteries our

😂😂😂 children love to scan

Interesting history of Bolsey and his cameras. I collect and use film still cameras but never had an interest in movie cameras until I saw a beautiful Bolex H16 in an antique store at a price I could not pass up. That led to getting a B2, Jubilee and C. Thanks for your video!

Hey man just got the n8000 and after watching this video I felt like it wasn’t going to be worth it but after viewing your pictures they look amazing and fun to have. From what I’m picking up on this video as much fake stuff as there it the camera still does it’s job. I’m going to continue with this camera and have fun with it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Finely calibrated lenses ? You’re kidding………..anyway, the machine used to slice and realign the negatives broke years ago, and couldn’t be fixed. I think there are companies you can upload to and they can make a lenticular print.Good vid though

"it transferred digital photos with an aux cable" i lost it 😂

I have one that’s been sitting here for a year. I literally googled 35mm TLR one day to see if any were ever made and I had one right here. I’m that forgetful. The shutter works but I’m having trouble with the winding mechanism. And the lens needs a good cleaning.

Thank you! I was looking for a historical video on this camera!

Man I'm having the same problem with my photophone in a snap camera. Just don't know what film to use for it. Any advice?

I have the nimslo 3d with the original bag and flash with a german photo magazine from 1983 about the nimslo 3D with a demo photo print ^^ really impressive the 3d effect on a postcard format. i like my nimslo as 3d gif machine maker :D

I just bought one at Goodwill for three dollars any buyers?

I found one in a box at my dad's house after he passed away..with manual and strap still in the plastic wrap..I put it on ebay and have several bids already..I get it why people want this but I would never use it.

That's really something! What a neat design

have you got a link to the company that make the lenticular

Yikes. I have a very similar piece of crap camera from "Olympia" whose shutter didn't even work. I got it for $15 at a flea market a couple of weeks ago. Wasted a whole roll of film and got no exposures on it, and I found out about this a couple of daya. Not a happy camper. This lemon is going straight to the dust bin!