Since a preset telephoto lens was 20 dollars, one could make a useable telphoto for just a few dollars. Folks used the 127mm as a poor mans telephoto lens on the Exakta VX once, with homemade cardboard tubes for the focus mount, and a 3 dollar T mount to Exakta with the cardboard tube epoxied to the T mount. Old obsolete broken or junk Polaroids have been "converted" for over 1/2 century. saying XYZ was the first to convert a camera is like claiming one was the first to use a Briggs engine on a go-kart, abit of a stretch.Old junk free or nil value cameras have always the source of an experimenters parts box. Conversion to what? 120 roll film or sheet?This camera came out in 1957, and many have been kludged to use 4x5 sheet films etc, over many decades.They were once as valuable as old AOL discs, old 386 computers, old manure.
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