Now you can shoot gorgeous Polaroid film with their amazing colors, black and white option, and iconic big square format, on a professional camera with lenses of your choice! At Mercury Works we love Instax, but have to admit that it pales in comparison to the latest Polaroid Originals film when it comes to color and iconic format. Our previous Polaroid 600 4×5 back and standalone camera were quite popular, but the vast increase in used prices for the old Polaroid CB-70 medical backs that we used made them cost prohibitive. We engineered an alternative that uses the Impossible Instant Lab, but that too has become quite scarce. As a result, we have only one small batch of these backs. We hope they find their way into some passionate Polaroid shooters’ hands!
You can shoot with new Polaroid film, vintage Polaroid film, or the older Impossible Project film, in color or black and white. You can use both standard film packs and i-Type film (which is less expensive because it doesn’t incorporate a battery into the film pack). The Polaroid back itself contains a rechargeable battery, which you can recharge from any USB power source with the included cable.
This back will mount on any large format camera using the International/Graflok 45 mounting standard, including Mercury, Graflex, many Toyo, Cambo, Wista, Linhof, etc. The back has a darkslide system built in so you can remove it or change lenses at any time.
This back shifts the film plane back 40mm. For Mercury Camera configurations, this is RS+40 (i.e., you will need to remove 40mm of spacing). To focus accurately on a bellows camera you can add a set of infinity stops 40mm back from your existing ones and adjust your front standard back to those after focusing, or you can add our custom ground glass back.
Our ground glass back gives you perfect framing and focus matched to this Polaroid back. When you purchase below, you can select whether or not you want us to include the ground glass back.