Mamiya RZ67 Polaroid Back (all modern Polaroid integral film)

Description

Backs are made to order and all 2024 orders have a 3 weeks lead time. “Stock” means I have a limit on pre-orders (and parts on hand) I can realistically make during this time

Introducing a modern Polaroid Back for the Mamiya RZ67 series of cameras.

This takes any modern Polaroid integral film (SX70, Type 600 or Itype). The back only processes the film (pushes it through two rollers to squish the chemical packs and spread them inside the print).

Since RZ67 is a fully manual camera and there’s no built in metering (using the metered prism does not communicate with the back, the RZ67 needs to be in M mode for the back to work), in order to expose properly, you simply use an external meter to the film ISO (itype/600 has ISO640, SX70 film has ISO 160), then expose at will, one or multiple shots, then press the eject button on the side of the back to process the film. Don’t forget to turn the back on before you do so (switch on the back).

If you want to see this in action, I shot a video demo, click  here to watch it on the dedicated page on the Rescue Me section of this website!

Press here for a demo on how this works!

The back has a dark slide,  single push eject, an on/off button on the back, and works with 4 replaceable AAA batteries housed in a battery holder under the removable cover on the back.

Due to physical constraints with the Mamiya RZ 67, the back mounts sideways – and cannot be rotated, therefore the chemistry will be on the side.

The dark slide is opposite the eject slot, so it’s also on the side of the camera, thus allows one to place the camera down without interference from the dark slide.

And two important notes:

As is the case with ALL Integral Polaroid backs, the image will be mirror reversed. The mirrored image is from the design of the integral Polaroid film (film is exposed from the front), meant to be used in a camera with a built in mirror (light path is folded 90 degrees in all Polaroid cameras)

In addition, the image will have a ~2 mm border on all sides and corners will be cut.  This is NOT a defect of the kit/back. The border/corners shading are from the Mamiya RZ67 film mask  (~68x68mm vs the 75x75mm Polaroid image size, and with cut corners). You can clearly notice the shape of the film mask if you take off the film back.

You can clearly see the shape if the mask in all sample images and the mirrored text on the Tshirt in one of gallery photos.

Backs are made to order and all 2024 orders have a 3 weeks lead time. “Stock” means I have a limit on pre-orders (and parts on hand) I can realistically make during this time