How to Take Better Photos with the Polaroid 600

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In this video, I apply the scientific method to different variables that affect how a Polaroid will look after development. By applying what was observed in this video to your own Polaroid shoots you should see a significant increase in the amount of “keepers” you will get from a film pack. You will be able to avoid color shifts and get maximum contrast out of your photos.

Development is affected by temperature and time, and the overall photos are affected by subject-to-background distance and exposure compensation. These factors are tested so that you can see the results without wasting your precious film and time.

This video also covers some history and information about Polaroids, which will help you better understand the Polaroid system.

(0:00) Intro
(0:50) History Lesson
(2:58) Film Lesson
(4:50) Camera Tour
(9:14) How to Load the Camera
(9:59) Experiment 1: Temperature
(12:28) Experiment 2: Distance
(15:26) Experiment 3: Exposure Compensation
(16:59) Experiment 4: Development Time
(17:58) Final Thoughts

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11 thoughts on “How to Take Better Photos with the Polaroid 600”

  2. Why did my Polaroid One Step 600 film not develop an image?

    Help!! I'm just a beginner to this. I own a One Step Close Up 600 Polaroid from my grandma. It's been with me for 4 years but I'm just using it now with a fresh 600 colored film. I tried to take a shot indoors with a bit of light on, a bit of exposure and a flash but my film did not develop anything. It is just blank and white. I don't know what I did wrong.

    I've tried to ask anyone about this but most of them says that the problem could be because of the shutter as it got stuck open. so i tried to test and check the shutter by having another shot in somehow a bit dark place with a some light coming through. i also even put back the exposure in the middle and i refused to use the flash as well just to check if the shutter is moving. as i observed, the shutter did move but the film didn't still develop anything. it turned out gray.

    I also tried to take a shot using a used film just also to see if the shutter will move when i used flash, but it didn't work. i don't know if it is supposed to be that way or not.

    please, let me know your thoughts about this as I am really willing to learn and figure it out. Thanks!

  7. NO the chemicals were not as you say BAN IT, No the writing on the wall in WHY The reason why Polaroid went bankrupt is that the season of the Digital Cameras were showing up, cell phones had cameras in them, and got more popular, and more people like us jump the gun and bought digital cameras like myself I bought the early Toshiba, and Sony FD Cameras, but that era seems to died down when people were coming back to film, like me. I been doing Polaroids since 1977 during my City College days as I got myself a Polaroid 545 back, and doing 4×5 Polaroids, with the addition of getting a book by Ansel Adams – Polaroid Land Photography Copyright 1978 – Read it Cover to Cover, and as I brush off my SX-70 camera, and my Polaroid Colorpack 350 Land camera started shooting Type 669, to do emulsion transfers, and then using the Fuji FP100c in emulsion transfers, then with SX-70 film I starting to do SX-70 Pillows by heating the print with a lighter, and then seeing the both back, and front expand like a pillow during development.. Did you know how many Polaroid Plants were WORLDWIDE? as the one in Cambridge was the main one started DISMANTLING the machinery, and chemicals due to that who ever was the CEO (not Land he died before the word Digital came too)decide to CALL IT QUITS, and when Impossible Project came to the scene that it was too late that some of the papers, and partial machinery was already GONE! They had to start from SCRATCH…

    No the reason in why their are 8 than 10 shots is that the BATTERY is slightly thicker not the film, if it was the film then you would see Prints jamming between the rollers… Right?? In ending that when doing 4×5 Polaroids as WISHING that Polaroid of Holland would bring back 4×5 Polaroid film for us serious shooters, and yea me, and my friend from Japan we also did transfers, and we took a chance in using the 20×24 Polaroid Camera at the Art Institute at SF. So I am no beginner in doing Polaroid as also I work at a camera store for 33 years, and got my experience from other shooters using Polaroid…

  8. Just picked up a Polaroid One Step at the thrift store for $5. This information on development will be incredibly useful. Back pocket for the win! Thank you 🙂 (and yeah, I know the film is going to cost me a lot more than $5, so thanks for the money you spent running these tests!)

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