A few hand-held frames from my Razzle Polaroid conversion

[Matt Bigwood]

A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I signed up for a mindful photography walk around Sharpness Docks in Gloucestershire. The whole thing was great and I had decided to take my Razzle Polaroid conversion (along with my Kodak Retina IIIC with colour neg film) camera by the late Dean Jones. It has a 127mm Rodenstock lens which easily covers 5x4. I exposed ten sheets of expired Fomapan 400 (expired 2023) which I rated at 200 and developed in Bellini Euro HC, 1+47 for eight minutes. Scanned on my old Epson 4990 using Vuescan.
The picture of the horse has light leaks as I dropped the old Riteway DDS after taking the photo and didn't notice it had cracked.

 

[Ian Grant]

Get it right Matt, Razzle Dog conversions.

I had quite a lot of contact with Dean Jones, he used to fit 90mm f6.8 Angulons to some of his Polaroid conversions, But some of the early 90mm Angulons were poor quality, not very sharp. He realised that the batch of Compur Synchro shutters used had inconsistent barrel lengths. He was employed as a camera repair technician, in his own time he would make Razzle Dog cameras, and would strip poor 90mm Angulon Compur shutters down, correct the barrel length, and hey presto a sharp lens.

He died to young.

Ian

 

[Nas]

Nice work, Matt. Years ago a mate of mine showed me the website with the cameras Dean Jones had converted. He showed how versatile the Polaroid Land cameras could be.

 

[Matt Bigwood]

Thanks Nas, it is a great option for hand-held shooting, I'd tried Speed Graphics and MPPs over the years and the Razzle Dog is by far the most useable.