Fuji Instax Wide 300 camera hack mod with a vintage Schneider Kreuznach 105mm F4.5 Radionar lens
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- An introduction to my current camera mod project: putting a 60-year-old German lens onto a Fuji Instax camera.
Fuji Instax cameras are fun but the Wide 300 has a few things I'd like to change:
-I'd like to have control over the aperture and set the f stops
-I'd like to focus the lens myself (I think the Instax is more or less focus free, okay it has TWO whole settings)
-I'd like to control the shutter
To do that I gutted out a brand new Instax Wide (what was I thinking) and have spent the last few days trying to figure out how to make the mod.
MORE importantly, I want to show you how to do it, the simplest way I can figure out. It will take a few tries but...let's go.
Still in progress.
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And here is the step by step of how it is assembled in its current configuration of parts.
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For the ACCURATE specs on the original Instax Wide 300...see below.
Specifications:
Instant Film Fujifilm Instant Color Film "instax WIDE"
Film size 86 x 108mm
Picture size 62 x 99mm
Lens Retractable lens, 2 components, 2 elements, f = 95 mm, 1:14
Viewfinder Real image finder, 0.37 x, with target spot
Focusing Motor-driven 2-range switching (0.9m - 3m / 3m - ∞)
Normal Mode (0.9m - 3m) Landscape Mode (3m - ∞)
Shutter Release Programmed electronic shutter release, 1/64 sec - 1/200 sec.
Exposure control Automatic, Interlocking range (ISO 800) : LV 10.5 - LV 15 Exposure compensation (Lighten-Darken Control) : ± 2/3EV
Film Feeding Out Automatic
Flash Built-in, automatic electronic flash, Charging time: 0.2 sec - 6 sec (using a new battery), Flash charging indicator (LED lights in red), Fill-in Flash Mode, Effective flash lamp range: 0.9m - 3m
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Exposure counter (number of unexposed films), Lighten-Darken control, Fill-in Flash Mode
Power Supply Four size AA 1.5 V alkaline batteries (LR6),
Capacity : 10 film packs (Based on our test conditions)
Others With film pack confirmation window, close up lens, and tripod socket included
Dimensions & Weight 167.8mm x 94.7mm x 120.9mm (not including protrusions) / 612g (without battery, strap, film pack, and close up lens)
If you wire the motor in series with the microswitch and shorten the cam a bit, you can wire the shutter button in parallel to kick start the motor, then the microswitch takes over to eject the film until it turns off by the cam. I managed to do this on a pack film mod: ruclips.net/video/M1XpKIrsm9c/видео.html
that's brilliant, that's totally doable!!!!
it does require getting INTO the shutter which I don't have a lot of success at doing...too many parts.
but you could use the flash sync!
@@JJLee I didn't have to take apart the gear structure, or use any of the electronics (I removed them all). I just filed down the cam a bit, then cut it off with a knife so it was lengthened around 3 mm. The timing cam that shuts off the motor is all mechanical.
Mad props on changing it up.
How cool. I've been shooting my second hand instax 100 wide for a number of years now, and I've been interested in modding it. Thanks for all the insight!
I'm still working through all the light leaks. But I have good infinity focus now. Good luck on your project and thanks for letting me know the post was helpful.
Hey JJ, awesome mod! Keep sharing!
Hi JJ Lee
Please! Make a button mod that will allow to use polaroid self-timers. Or how to make a button with self-timer function!
Gold
Hi🙌 could you please measure the distance from camera part to the lens?
it will depend on your lens. there is no typical flange distance for this mod. i hope that's clear. if not, let me know.
@@JJLee I get it) but my lens seems completely the same🌚
@@stasgavrilovru i'll do my best to measure, i've dissabled that particular camera so i'll have to recreate it.
@@JJLee bless you!
Hi JJ Lee i need your help with instax mini 8, 9, 70, 90 and wide 300.
Great mod.
May I ask why you had to change the eject routine? Why 5 seconds instead of just a single press of the button?
I mean, if you disconnect the flash and remove the shutter wouldn't it just keep doing the eject routine like before?
I'm trying to find an alternate way to wire it so that it develops with one press, but the way he has it wired powers the motor only when the button is held down. Let go once the film is at the top.
@@thnikkamax that's exactly it. i had to keep it simple. the circuit board was a little too complex for me.
Why is it leaking light?
sorry about not replying sooner. really don't have a video blogger game. the leak, in my case, is coming from a crudely cut out "lensboard". I used the dark slide of an Instax pack and cut the ring out with scissors. It's just not shape right. If I recut it I'm sure that wouldn't happen. But also the lens is old and the shutter leaves themselves may be letting some light in as well. But that has nothing to do with the barrel assembly I show in this video. Thanks for your question.