I usually just toss my photos out into the void on Instagram… But this one photo, I am completely obsessed with it. Something about the multiple layers of division between the physical wall and sidewalk, and the painted lines at slightly different angles. The color is super interesting (the camera has very unique color science)… I just can’t stop looking at it.

And I only took one photo of this dandelion. The non-removeable internal hard-drive in the camera only has enough capacity to store 40 images at once, so I just take one shot and move on to the next subject. So lucky that this one came out so good!

This is unedited in any way, straight off the camera (off of its 40Mb hard-disk, through the proprietary SCSI cable, and into the Polaroid PDC Direct software to convert the proprietary in-camera format to .TIFF, then through Photoshop 4 to make it an easier-to-use Jpg.)

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month ago

    How are you still running the software and connecting the cable? Using an old computer?

    • Bags@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yep! I started out with a Windows 98 Vaio laptop and a PCMCIA SCSI card, but now I also have a Windows 2000 desktop with a PCI SCSI card. I’ve uploaded the software to the internet archive

      If you find a camera without the cable, take note that it is a proprietary SCSI interface on the camera, so you NEED the Polaroid cable. Said Polaroid cable also has a very uncommon DB25 connector on the PC end, which pretty much no SCSI interface uses natively, requiring an adapter to whatever flavor of connector your interface has, but those are easier to find and not specific to the camera.’

      If you can find a PDC-3000, it takes the same photos, but uses Compact Flash memory cards, which is infinitely easier to use. You still need the Polaroid software (which is different for the 3000, someone else uploaded that one ) to convert the camera files, but just plugging the CF card into a card reader is so much easier than dealing with SCSI, turning the camera on, plugging it in, turning the PC on, making sure the camera doesn’t go into low-power mode before the PC finishes booting, etc…