How to use Instax film in old Kodak Instant cameras! 

"this is Fuji film in Kodak cameras... this is the dark side of photography, this is awesome" liked your video right there lol

empty kodak cartridges are almost as rare as the film itself

Dear god,you are a revolutionist!!! Thank you for this,it's the best thing ever!

I solved this issue today and now I am snapping pics like I did back in the 70's! All I had to do was jump in my DeLorean that Doc Brown gave me. I set my time machine for 1985 I drove the DeLorean to the K Mart store and bought a whole cart full of film cartridges that just happen to be on a Blue Light Special! How did I get so lucky? 1985 was the year they stopped production of the film due to the loss in court to Polaroid. So Kmart was practically giving the stuff away. So glad I still have my Colorburst from all those years ago.

This is amazing ! All the old heads will love this I can't wait to try it out too !

I have an EK6. Just got it and was disappointed I couldn't find film for it. This video was informative and I will be putting this to use!

I did it!!! I had three pretty successful exposures and then a few Tv staticky type ones mixed in as well, looking forward to kicking around with this in daylight! This is on an EK4, as well! So so so cool. Thank you for making this!!

Awesome video man, helped me a lot, I got a camera from goodwill and thought I couldn’t use it. Thanks a lot!

i recently aquiered a HANDLE kodak film camera and with some research realized there was no point lol. i'm on the hunt right now for a cartridge, but i'm glad that once i find that i'll be able to use it, so thank you

Very clever, I did one. I like your line of thought

have you tried this again with Instax square films?

This is amazing. I have at least 2 of these old Kodaks sitting in the garage. I did buy a pack of film off Ebay last year but surprisingly it was dead so I'm thinking I will give it a go.

I'm so excited to try this! I knew there was a reason I bought that old kodak for $3 hahaha. I'm going to search my desk for some plastic now.

😱What... You just changed my life. Thank you!

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

Polaroid sued Kodak, yet those Kodak pics looked better than plain-ass polaroids...and they knew it, too! Kodak had them shook! 😅

Found mine down the local dump film still in it during the eighties.Will give this a go!! Colourburst 100 cant wait

No one wants these cameras but I’ve been hunting one down since August before I knew you could do this. I want one just for the legend of the lawsuit.

This is amazing! You should definitely do more videos :D

my gf is going to college so she gave me her camera collection, and she has a kodamatic 960 and a colorburst 250. I'm really excited to attempt to shoot on them, will keep you posted.

Well done! I might have to buy a camera and try that myself. :)

Please let me know if you manage to make an adapter foe the Instax square to shoot more than 1 image? I would like to buy one

I just bought a Kodak Colorburst 50 still in the box, the batteries were easy to find and I have tonnes of instax film for my mini 8, can't wait to try this.

Hi there! I have the Kodak Colorburst 50 and I just gave your method a go, I bought the camera at a thrift store and just had to order a new battery for it so I was able to try it out for the first time today! There was the old Kodak film in the cartridge already so I said what the heck and snapped photos to get rid of the film that was in the cartridge already, obviously none of the pictures developed correctly but it was worth a shot. Anyways, I bought all the materials you mentioned in your video except I bought the instax mini film in ‘’mono chrome” because the retailer had no more regular ones left. When I load the film into my the cartridge using the plastic file folder template, the picture comes out of the roller just fine however, nothing really develops & there was this black gooey residue on the back of the film towards the pod area but that residue did not come out when I had taken photos with the original Kodak film that was already in the cartridge. Do you think it’s because the instax film I bought is the mono chrome type or do you know what that could be from? The camera seems to work fine and there is no residue inside the cartridge or anywhere else aside from very little spots on the roller. I would love to use your method for my camera but just want to figure out if maybe I’m doing something wrong on my end! Thank you very much!

Will try this with my mom's old EK260-EF for sure!

this video is incredible.

I wonder if the new Instax square film would work with this method.

Great!!! have ti give this a try

Thank you so much! I have a Kodak but I didn’t want to buy a 135 dollar film for it because welll that’s just a lot of money lol, anyways this is really helpful! I’m gonna try it thanks!

My Dad just gave me an EK6 thinking it could be worth something in a vintage sense. I'm not disappointed that its basically worthless, but saddened that he hung on to it and assumed it was valuable this whole time. I will keep it as an heirloom. Kind of want to use it but I don't know anything about these old cameras and based on this video, more complicated than I'm willing to invest in.

I just brought two for display now I can pull the, out and try to see if they work thanks 🙏

Thank you for tinkering with film for this camera! Recently inherited a colorburst and really excited to use it :) I'm still very new to photography, so I had a question about the changing bag: What does it do for this film? I see you can develop in it from what google says, but unsure of what exactly is being done here. Thank you, again!!!

I have to try that !

What type of film does it originally take? I have a Colorburst 100, and it takes PR-10. Would this still work? Also, now that Fujifilm has released wide film, does it work? And, was the battery easy to pull out for you, at first? It's really hard, on my camera.

Awesome glad u exist

I have used cut film with them years ago as an experiment. It works fine too but you obviously need a changing bag.

I have the EK160 (colorburst 250 in the US, released July 1979 ) and it will be great to actually take some pictures with it. Perhaps you can figure out how to put some sort of slippery sheet between each unexposed sheet so it slides rather than stick together

Hi! I have the same camera and I went through the same things with it :( by any chance do you still have the .obj or .stl digital archive for the 3D print? It would be really helpfull! Thanks.

THANKKKK YOOUUU SOOO MUCHHHH

you know if it can be use with a kodak ek160 ef? And you know if the new istax square fit in my camera?

Thank you so much for sharing. I'm trying this on the Pleaser and the EK6.. so far couldn't get it to work :/ Thinking it might be an issue with pre-exposing the film.. also the roller seems to be pushing down too tight on the film and squishing the ink.

What kind of folder texture did you use. The one I got was matte and it looks like the plastic used is glossy but I'm not sure as I'm trying to find out how to get mine to get good pictures to work

I just bought a Kodak Partytime that has a few exposures in it, but i want to find ways to take more than what it came with. Do you think this would work for that model?

Could you use the expired film itself as an insert for narrow fuji film

Good video

Thank you for showing 👏🏽😌 I was looking for the original film and Kodak wanted 50 bucks for one set of film. No package deals either 😩

how are you able to get the instax film on it's own, undeveloped without exposing it with the light?

There's an exposure on your desk that looks like TV static in the video, and all of mine come out sort of like that, with the thing I took a picture of kinda there, how did you get it to stop doing that? Thank you!

Thank you for this tutorial! Is so cool! I will buy this camera and try it! Just one (maybe stupid) question: the camera works also without battery? Isn't it all "mechanical"? The battery is only for the exposure signal on the viewfinder? Thank you very much. Cheers from italy :)

I was thinking about buying one of these Kodak cameras and doing this but do you need one of the film cartridges to do this? Or does it come with one or do you know where to get the film (even though it’s probably beyond expired)

I have an EK2 and after watching this and your 2nd video I decided to make these. I've only done dry-runs so far but the film keeps jamming and coming out all at once? also, why did you put the square piece of tape on the corner?

THANK YOU!!

This is awesome, super helpful. Do you know if this would work in any older '60s Polaroid Land Camera? I've got a few, a 100, 210, 250, etc. I'm working on building a similar concept but with the older style, with pull-out tabs just like the old packfilm. Do you know if - with the developer chemicals facing out (so, a sideways instax film) - would the rollers effectively develop the image?

I've got a colorburst 250 but haven't got the cartridge that would hold the film (I assume when it was done you through it away and replaced it with a new one but the new ones don't work. Any ideas where I can get one and/or whether I can actually get this camera working? Also would getting Polaroid film work at all like this?

Now, make this for something like RZ67 polaroid back! :D

Cool. Going through some storage I found my old Kodak Colorburst 100 camera. Fortunately, there was an empty cartridge in it. The battery was stuck and I had to carefully pry it out, but it looks good inside. Ordering a battery to see if it comes to life OK and the motor works. If so, I will give this a try. Just not sure how you are getting the film into the cartridge, I guess I'll figure it out. Interesting.

I thought when you took film out of the pack then its exposed to light and is ruined so I'm just confused on how you took the picture with that film if it was exposed to light when you were taking the video or did you change the film out and put a new one in in your changing bag?

I would really like to know if there's any way that you could use integral film in a pack film camera🙏🏼🥺

I have Kodak ek6 with automatic ejector buts it’s not ejecting any tips also when putting in film does room need to be completely dark since I don’t have a changing bag

what if i don't have the filmbox of Kodak?can i use something instead，for example，the filmbox of fuji ace?

I am going to try this with my old Polaroid 600!

you can also use the wide stuff, just got to make some mods to the camera..

Does this work with a color burst 300

This is awesome! I've been looking to buy an old Colorburst 50 like I had when I was a kid, I would be interested to see if this technique would work with that. Meanwhile I'll look for some other types of old Kodak Instant cameras.

where did you get the cartridge? I cant find any, anywhere.

Hi I just saw this , I came home tonight and my boyfriend surprised me with a working kodakmatic Pleaser 2 camera ( the owner rarely used it, even came with manual and original battery). Since film is impossible to find, will the Fuji instax mini or wide work on this? Thanks so much

So sorry if I missed the explanation but couldn't quite get through all that. Did I understand you to say that the square format of the instax film will work without all this dark magic?

Hey man I just found a Kodak Colorburst 250 but realized there is no cartridge inside. I cant seem to find a replacement online. Is there any solution you could think of for this problem

hey! thanks for the great tutorial! since I haven't yet bought instax mini film I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the whole loading up the EK4: from what I found out, the instax film comes within a cartridge. So to get the film out of it aren't you already exposing it? Like the film you show in the video - is it just a test film or what is it that you do inside the changing bag? Thank you!

I tried this with a 940 kodamatic instand camera, and it's using the film. However, it's like the image isn't developing at all or it seems over exposed. I've tried each exposure settings, but I feel like I'm just wasting film. It rolls out automatically with no trouble at all, but nothing is developing. How can I fix this?????

have you ever tried putting in multiple photos in to the cartridge?

How did you insert it ? And what do you mean by exposure?

does square film fit in it?

Damn this is cool. Would this work with a Kodak Colorburst 50?

Hi, I do exactly the same with instax film, but not working properly at my kodak EK6. I think everythig work properly, I insert film in dark room, then take a picture and the film came out with no problems, but then on the film is nothing (none picture) it's all white...and I notice that on the film when come out (at negative side) at the up edge, and the bottom edge is some kinda drop or peak of greased ink or chemical from film. My kodak has automatic system to eject out the film, is maybe this a problem, or a roller problems? maybe too much squize the film on the way out? Can you please help me or suggest something. you can contact me, thank you

I bought one of these cameras off of Savers. Its a Kodak Colorburst 250. The thing is that I don't have an empty cartridge to attempt this with do you know where I could get one or what the name of the old film cartridges were so i can atleast buy an expired pack of ebay?

dude thanks

Could I just slide the film into the corner for the pick arm to catch instead? I feel like I could glue in a border to hold the smaller film in place

do you need a battery if you just need to roll out the film?

Works alright on one picture =what about 8-10 ?? very labor intensive

How do you find a used cartridge? I can’t find one and have no clue how to get past this issue

May be you can help me about this issue with your experience with the old Kodak instant camera I have just bought 3 Color burst Kodak cameras and after shot one photo in the next shot the motor of the camera don't stop. Do you know why? Trying to figure out why my motor is always running? Do you know where I can resend this email? Regards jmsabate

how do you get cartridge open i have got an ek100

W colorburst 250 kodak instant camera film size?

Hey how did you found the batteries for it? :/

I bought the Kodak EK6 for 3 bucks at the thrift store. I just thought it was a cool vintage piece. It doesn't work but it looks cool.

I wonder if this would work on the high end Kodak EK8? Not sure if that particular model has the lighten/darken function to help with the different speed of instax film.

What if you don’t have the old cartridge? Could you put something else in that spot?

how did you get the new film out of the instax box and HOW did you put everything together in the dark?! also do you just put the black paper sheet "adapter" on top of the old cartridge? doesn't it fall off? Where do you keep the new unused instax film after opening the cartridge? thanks for a great video! hope my kodak EK160 works!

Does it work for Kodak pleasure 2?

So I cant use this tips If I dont already have negatives?

I need the adapter or the film to print it can you help me

Hey everyone, I have a Kodak EK300 Instant Camera, but it doesn’t have cartridge, so how can I find one or how can I find films?

Will this work with the colorburst?

Where could I find a cartridge at for this?

Is any film available for kodak Handle?

Photography noob here, but I think I need a film cartridge to put the film in, right? lol where can i get an empty cartridge?

This is awesome! Everything I had read told me that my colorburst 300 was a doorstop. I do have a question. Do you know if there is a way to "reset" a camera. I got a new battery for it and after working for 3 shots then getting jammed the motor won't stop running unless I hold down the shutter button.

Hey...Would this work with a Kodak Colorburst 100? Has anyone tried that yet?

Can you use the squares?