Polaroid Swinger Model 20

Although this camera came out in the 1960's, I didn't get it until this year. (2013.) Don't know if I'll be able to use it somehow since Polaroid doesn't make this kind of film anymore.

A row of school buses parked for the summer at our local grade school. I didn’t think I’d ever get to use this camera, because they haven’t made the special type of film it takes in probably 50 years. But, I noticed the shutter worked, even without batteries, so I cut down some 120 film, positioned it carefully where I thought it should be, (in total darkness, of course!), and then shot with it. For the first attempt, I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Now I can mark off another camera in my collection that I’ve used. My goal is to be able to say I’ve used every camera in my collection - all 267 of them. Taken with my hundred and twenty-sixth camera. This image is not cropped, I simply scanned it to all the edges. It turned out the same dimensions as a 35mm negative, so I suppose that’s the shape the original instant prints must have been. Camera: Polaroid Land Camera Swinger Model 20 Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, cut-down120 sized B&W (expired 05/2012) Date: June 30th, 2023, 12.47 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F Adox Adonal – 14 minutes (1:50 – 2 tsps. of Adonal and 500 ml of water) Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean) Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute Water rinse - 1 minute Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minutes Water rinse – 1 minute Polaroid Swinger Tri-X 2023 01ef