Polaroid Camera

[RickLeinecker]

I have a polaroid SX-70 camera. It is supposed to show a photo stream from a cache that has been buried for a long time under certain conditions. Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks,
Rick

[Marc]

Save your money.

This was a topic in Treasure Hunter confidential for quite sometime..

I was a skeptic of it then, and still am now.

The proponents of this bogus technique tried to sell readers on an over priced service - they would come to your site and photograph the area, shooting in the direction of the sunrise (if I'm not mistaken).

IMHO, all you got was a dent in your budget, and a nice example of lens refraction.

[dano91]

Good job Marc!

[ericwt]

There is a link to Geometrics on the top of the page. Bet your money would be better spent there.

Ericwt

[Carl-NC]

Rick,

You shoulda asked me Saturday! I've done a little bit of work with the SX-70 (which was sitting just inside the door), enough to realize the whole Polaroid "treasure aura" thing is another case of wishful thinking, resulting from horrendously bad lab work. I coulda dug out a few test photos that show how to "make" a treasure aura.

- Carl

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

If you want to spend about a buck a picture with the SX-70 you might as well get the book Treasure auras by Louis Matacia - the man who taught the marines to dowse VC tunnels in vietnam. He describes the process and how to do it. I am told he no longer uses the SX-70 and is doing the same things with digital cameras which would make sense since then you would only print the good photos. I am telling you this because I know you like to run your own experiments. Good Luck and exanimo, ss