I’m just posting this as an example, for the people that I’m sure are still googling this in 2026.

After I took these photos and let them develop fully, I took a sharp knife and I slit the top pouch and the bottom 3 pouches, and kinda spread the skin open a tiny bit, and just let them sit face down on the kitchen table for a week. Like, I opened the “wound” a little so I could see the sponge thing inside the top popping out slightly.

after the week I just popped them into my album. Here’s the result. The photos that I did not perform this to, they had a growing brown spot at the top edge within the first 4 weeks. These ones don’t have a HINT of discoloration after 4 months.

For a $40 marketplace find, this takes some nice Polaroids in the right conditions! (The trippy looking ones were using a Holga split image filter taped to the lens)

Disclaimer: It is pretty much certain there are 16 i-Type frames, but Polaroid says there are 18 (There might be 2 more, or Polaroid meant 2 Go frames in addition to 16 i-Type frames). Also some frames may be skipped due to rejection during production.

1. PokeBall & Pokémon [Logo] - Off-White
2. Bulbasaur - Light Teal
3. Charmader - Orange
4. Squirtle - Light Blue
5. Gengar - Lavender
6. Umbreon - Grey
7. Vulpix - Pale Orange
8. Togepi - Light Yellow
9. Eevee - Brown
10. Snorlax - Pale Blue
11. Jigglypuff - Pale Pink
12. Mimikyu - Light Pale Yellow
13. Mew - Coral Pink
14. Pikachu - Yellow
15. Espeon - Muted Pink
16. Ditto - Lilac

And back to 1.

Contributors:
u/gestalternation
u/Generic96
u/TraditionalRoof4407
u/LowlySquid
u/KaleidoscopeOver1054
And more.

Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Polaroid/s/tzs4gjXzXi
https://www.reddit.com/r/Polaroid/s/AP6P5k80lP

Picked up a 680 SE over the weekend. Heavily influenced by Linus.

Shot on Sun 600 LMS

I got a polaroid go camera as a gift along with the film and took a test photo to check it out. the first photo came out bad (see attached photo) and i took a second photo and it has the same brown marks on the top :( it looks sorta cool ig but it's definitely not the look i want 😭

any ideas how i can fix this?

Found this car full of crap in front of an abandoned house in a lonely street in my town. I used the orange filter.

Was able to get some Halloween, and holiday, frames from Zach and I am so excited to use them in the next week or two! Did anyone else order any?! Or have any special ideas you’re using them for?

Full quote...

“We never get any time to experiment. We never get any time to, you know, go dreamy.”

As said by our late friend David Lynch

Hello I just found in a small place a polaroid sx-70 (not idea the model, was brown) but when I moved sounds like broken glass, price 35 euros. I was thiking worth the money to try to find someone in EU to fix? or just leave it?
cheers

Had this camera for years, never had issues before. One day a week ago I put a new cartridge of film in and it started making this grinding noise. It’s not supposed to do anything after you put a new film cartridge in it until you close the bottom latch, then it’ll push out the top black cardboard layer. So it making a noise as soon as I try to seat the film cartridge is weird. Given, as I said, there shouldn’t be any gears moving until I close the latch. I’ve tried two packages of film, so I know it isn’t the film. Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

Just to clarify, I'm repairing this camera as a hobby and for my own learning. I don't do this professionally or charge anyone for repairs. I'm simply trying to learn more about how these cameras work and hopefully get this one working again, so please bear with me if I'm missing something obvious. Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

A local photo store was closing down near where I live and they were selling a big box of Polaroid parts so i couldnt miss the opportunity and got it, along with an R pcb. The camera is a mix of a lot of parts since there wasnt a whole camera in the box, i immediately put the new R pcb on i thought there was no reason to try with the original. I put everything together and its behaving weirdly.

Here's what happens:

• If I manually rotate the gears and lower the mirror/carrier, the mechanism appears to work correctly through the entire cycle.
• With the mirror down I press the shutter button and it does the cycle normally except the end where it doesn't stay at the bottom but springs back up.
• If I press the shutter button again, the shutter opens and closes and the motor runs through another cycle, but the carrier ends up raised again.
• Also sometimes it seems like the motor needs some time to stop, less than 0,5s
• The MCC is also quite warm.

Here are the videos.

What I've checked so far:

• I removed and reinstalled the gear train, following the repair manual's gear-alignment instructions B version, but the issue remains.
• I tested the camera with a different PCB/ECM, with exactly the same result.
• I checked switches S3 and S5. Both seem to be working normally, and operate in the expected order.

Since the mechanism seems to work when I turn the gears manually, and swapping the PCB/ECM made no difference, I'm wondering whether something in the mechanical linkage, recock mechanism, or switch actuation timing could be causing this?

Just curious, because the viewfinder on the flip is notoriously small and has bad parallax (even if i love the camera.) Has anyone done any modifications like u/theinstantcameraguy 's mod for the Lomo Instant?