This video was a Godsend! I just bought the exact same polaroid and it didn't work. Using your video I confidently took it apart and was able to determine that my issue was the same as in the video. Then I was able to get a spare unit (thanks to you!!!) and repair the whole camera. Now it works perfectly and of my three polaroids has the most crisp photos so I am sooooo happy I didnt give up. Thanks so much!
So glad I was able to help and supply the parts! I find it very interesting you had the EXACT camera as I had here Next free time I have... I think I'll attempt to tone out the PCB with a multi meter for shorts and see what I can find! Don't throw out your old flash yet!
planning on respraying one of these sometime soon, collecting all these dissasembly videos to make myself fully confident. thank you for the contribution
Thanks for showing the repair of this camera, even it is not as popular as a folding SX-70! Helped me to get a 636 close up working again. All the best and a happy new year!
This is the best repair video out there. I have one with sonar autofocus where the lens doesn’t seem to move. It also is one where you need to pre-charge the flash and that connection is flakey, and you’ve just told me what to clean to fix that. I was also completely unaware you could get the dark slide back into the film to remove it. That’s useful.
Really thank you for this video, I was very anxious to open mine. Always afraid to apply too much force. Especially with mine because for me it's a family relic. I was raised in 90's Russia and my family had exact one in the video (same rainbow strip, albeit labeled "635 CL Supercolor" and fully black). Over the years I finally decided to take a look inside, service it just in case. Even after extensive use 30 years ago (we have a full album with photos from it) and occasional in last 3-4 years by me, it looks pristine inside. Even if feel cheap in hand, it is really good piece of engineering. Still remember the day Polaroid finally started making new 600 film, decided to gamble and bought one. Bad boy worked like a charm even after dozen and a half years in a box.
just found myself a polaroid supercolor 645 from a flea market, a bit banged up but not horrible price at 10€. your video has really helped out with especially the disassembly (which, as you said "feels like breaking them"). i only have the empty and used film casette so im not sure if the camera is 100%, shutter doesnt seem to turn and flash doesnt work - but the motor ran once or twice so im confident it will run eventually. cheers, channel subscribed!
I found a camera like this in my Grandma's old stuff, I don't remember when she last used it, maybe 2002 or 2003, well there are no pictures left but the film pack has power still and I hear the flash charging up when I flip it up. The one I found says "OneStep Talking Camera" and it was in the box with the manual and everything. I guess I can just buy some film and see if it works, looks like it probably will.
Interesting review to see the inners of the box camera and how easily it was designed to strip down. I have a 670AF and it works ok. Only thing is when it charges up the red light goes off but the green light does not illuminate. Camera still flashes ok though !
This video is a godsend, but I’m particularly having trouble replicating how you opened the flash casing. I’m going to keep trying but it would be immensely handy if you could do a close up on how that works and which part of the casing actually holds it in place (looks like it has grippy arms on the *inside* side of the casing that seem to pinch it? if that makes sense) Also, hi from Perth! :)
Honestly a close up won't help. Unless you have the original factory tool, there is an "art" to cracking them open I've shown other repair technicians who still struggle to this day No amount of close ups are going to replicate years of experience in this case
Meant to reply to this sooner, but I got it in the end - you were right, blindly fiddling about got it open eventually without any real damage. Now that I’ve been able to see inside the snapping mechanism though, I might have a shot at making a proper tool for it, since the ones from the Polaroid factory/repair shops inevitably disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve got a decent collection of these and it’ll be handy to have something that works every time.
I was about to ask if you'd do a repair on a 600 box, and WABAM! You uploaded one, lol. But I have a Sun660 that when a new pack is inserted, it immediately starts ejecting before the door is closed. I can't find ANYTHING on how to repair it. I took it apart and the actuator lifting the 2 pins to disconnect power after a cycle won't pause to stop the camera. I also don't know it has an issue knowing the film door is open as it ejects once power gets to it. Would it be possible for me to send this to you for repair and if a video could be made on it?
I'm happy to give it a crack! Most likely your camera has an issue with its film counter mechanism, and the camera is stuck on dark-slide eject mode. If any of the plastic parts have snapped in the mechanism, the easiest method of repair is to poach a working shutter unit from another camera. Good donor cameras are ones with broken body panels or flash units etc Even if the camera is beyond repair, they are useful to take apart for parts if only for the motor, which can then be modified and used to replace worn motors in SX-70 cameras Message me through social media and we can talk about looking at your camera!
I use this type of cameras to make Polaroid Tours in Florence, Italy. What I noticed is that after years of usage and hundreds of packs of films, one cam after the other, the camera flash stops working. The camera still works perfectly but the flash doesn't charge. I was wondering if it's a capacitor issue that can be fixed or I just have to accept that these cameras will just stop working one after the other.
Hello friend ! I have a 670 AF that is not spitting his black protection and not taking pictures (obviously) the only sign of life that he does is the 2 leds, firstil the normal red and then, the green is FLASHING (wtf) if you have a guess, please tell me I look for help ;) Thanks
@@theinstantcameraguy Yeah i see, no problem mate ;) but can you indicate how to take the electronics out of the shell of the camera, in ur video it looks easy but for me it’s not, is there something i miss i’ m at 9:01 min in the video
My Polaroid Sun635 QS keeps spitting out film as soon as the film pack is inserted and motors keep running would you have any idea what the cause of the issue might be?
This video was a Godsend! I just bought the exact same polaroid and it didn't work. Using your video I confidently took it apart and was able to determine that my issue was the same as in the video. Then I was able to get a spare unit (thanks to you!!!) and repair the whole camera. Now it works perfectly and of my three polaroids has the most crisp photos so I am sooooo happy I didnt give up. Thanks so much!
So glad I was able to help and supply the parts! I find it very interesting you had the EXACT camera as I had here
Next free time I have... I think I'll attempt to tone out the PCB with a multi meter for shorts and see what I can find! Don't throw out your old flash yet!
planning on respraying one of these sometime soon, collecting all these dissasembly videos to make myself fully confident. thank you for the contribution
my pleasure!
Thanks for showing the repair of this camera, even it is not as popular as a folding SX-70! Helped me to get a 636 close up working again. All the best and a happy new year!
This is the best repair video out there. I have one with sonar autofocus where the lens doesn’t seem to move. It also is one where you need to pre-charge the flash and that connection is flakey, and you’ve just told me what to clean to fix that.
I was also completely unaware you could get the dark slide back into the film to remove it. That’s useful.
Really thank you for this video, I was very anxious to open mine. Always afraid to apply too much force. Especially with mine because for me it's a family relic. I was raised in 90's Russia and my family had exact one in the video (same rainbow strip, albeit labeled "635 CL Supercolor" and fully black). Over the years I finally decided to take a look inside, service it just in case. Even after extensive use 30 years ago (we have a full album with photos from it) and occasional in last 3-4 years by me, it looks pristine inside. Even if feel cheap in hand, it is really good piece of engineering. Still remember the day Polaroid finally started making new 600 film, decided to gamble and bought one. Bad boy worked like a charm even after dozen and a half years in a box.
just found myself a polaroid supercolor 645 from a flea market, a bit banged up but not horrible price at 10€. your video has really helped out with especially the disassembly (which, as you said "feels like breaking them").
i only have the empty and used film casette so im not sure if the camera is 100%, shutter doesnt seem to turn and flash doesnt work - but the motor ran once or twice so im confident it will run eventually.
cheers, channel subscribed!
I found a camera like this in my Grandma's old stuff, I don't remember when she last used it, maybe 2002 or 2003, well there are no pictures left but the film pack has power still and I hear the flash charging up when I flip it up.
The one I found says "OneStep Talking Camera" and it was in the box with the manual and everything. I guess I can just buy some film and see if it works, looks like it probably will.
just ran into the film counter issue with my sun 660 yesterday. luckily afterwards i was able to put another pack in and it shot no issue.
Interesting review to see the inners of the box camera and how easily it was designed to strip down. I have a 670AF and it works ok. Only thing is when it charges up the red light goes off but the green light does not illuminate. Camera still flashes ok though !
This video is a godsend, but I’m particularly having trouble replicating how you opened the flash casing. I’m going to keep trying but it would be immensely handy if you could do a close up on how that works and which part of the casing actually holds it in place (looks like it has grippy arms on the *inside* side of the casing that seem to pinch it? if that makes sense)
Also, hi from Perth! :)
Honestly a close up won't help. Unless you have the original factory tool, there is an "art" to cracking them open
I've shown other repair technicians who still struggle to this day
No amount of close ups are going to replicate years of experience in this case
Meant to reply to this sooner, but I got it in the end - you were right, blindly fiddling about got it open eventually without any real damage.
Now that I’ve been able to see inside the snapping mechanism though, I might have a shot at making a proper tool for it, since the ones from the Polaroid factory/repair shops inevitably disappeared off the face of the earth.
I’ve got a decent collection of these and it’ll be handy to have something that works every time.
Really thank you for the video. Gonna try diagnosed my 600 OneStep Close Up soon 😊
I was about to ask if you'd do a repair on a 600 box, and WABAM! You uploaded one, lol. But I have a Sun660 that when a new pack is inserted, it immediately starts ejecting before the door is closed. I can't find ANYTHING on how to repair it. I took it apart and the actuator lifting the 2 pins to disconnect power after a cycle won't pause to stop the camera. I also don't know it has an issue knowing the film door is open as it ejects once power gets to it. Would it be possible for me to send this to you for repair and if a video could be made on it?
I'm happy to give it a crack! Most likely your camera has an issue with its film counter mechanism, and the camera is stuck on dark-slide eject mode. If any of the plastic parts have snapped in the mechanism, the easiest method of repair is to poach a working shutter unit from another camera. Good donor cameras are ones with broken body panels or flash units etc
Even if the camera is beyond repair, they are useful to take apart for parts if only for the motor, which can then be modified and used to replace worn motors in SX-70 cameras
Message me through social media and we can talk about looking at your camera!
I use this type of cameras to make Polaroid Tours in Florence, Italy.
What I noticed is that after years of usage and hundreds of packs of films, one cam after the other, the camera flash stops working. The camera still works perfectly but the flash doesn't charge.
I was wondering if it's a capacitor issue that can be fixed or I just have to accept that these cameras will just stop working one after the other.
its likely some aspect of the flash. Could be part of the trigger circuitry, diode, the bulb blowing etc
Fixable, but needs spares
Where can I get a flash unit
Hello friend ! I have a 670 AF that is not spitting his black protection and not taking pictures (obviously) the only sign of life that he does is the 2 leds, firstil the normal red and then, the green is FLASHING (wtf) if you have a guess, please tell me I look for help ;) Thanks
It's very hard to know without seeing it in person
A 670AF flash will blink green once charged, that is normal behaviour
@@theinstantcameraguy Yeah i see, no problem mate ;) but can you indicate how to take the electronics out of the shell of the camera, in ur video it looks easy but for me it’s not, is there something i miss i’ m at 9:01 min in the video
What you are missing is years of experience
I make all this look easy :)
But these are tricky things to work on
@@theinstantcameraguy for real ! i will try my best to not break something
My Polaroid Sun635 QS keeps spitting out film as soon as the film pack is inserted and motors keep running would you have any idea what the cause of the issue might be?
this is usually a film counter issue
But could also could be any number of issues, including bad capacitors, snapped shutter pieces etc
Love these
8:52 i got fucking zapped…
Edit: twice
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ME FIRST >:D ANOTHER STUNNING VIDEO JAKEY BOY
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