Polaroid Portrait Kit

$50.00 QTY

Product Features

  • Compatibility: 2 Window VF
  • Cameras: See details tab
  • Focus Range: 19" - 42"
  • Lens type: Glass, Slip-on style
  • Polaroid Model #: 541 or 581

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Polaroid 2 Window Portrait Kit

Normally your camera can focus only as close as 3 1/2 feet. With this “Goggles” and “Lens” kit your camera can focus on subjects as close as 19 inches. The Portrait kit is great for head and torso shots with your folding pack film camera. This kit will allow you to be 19″ away from your subject, and up to 42″ at its maximum focus distance. The normal closest distance without this kit is 42″.

There are several different model numbers for Portrait Kits, but they mainly only differ in the type of ‘goggles’ included (Polaroid RF or Zeiss RF) and which flash diffuser(s) is/are included. Therefore, you may find a given Portrait kit is perfectly usable with your camera even though it isn’t specifically listed as one of the models intended for it. To make things even more confusing, the later versions of these Kits were sold as ‘combined’ models (with, say, all of the possible flash diffusers) and labeled with all of the different accessory numbers which they replaced. Incidently, none of the Kits will work with low-end models having a two-element lens. Also, none of the Kits are intended for use with the cheaper triplet-lensed models that have a non-folding RF/viewfinder (i.e. the 330) as the ‘goggles’ won’t fit– but we reckon you could make do with a ruler and some careful parallax estimation.
see details tab for compatibility matrix

Camera Polaroid 2 window Zeiss-Ikon single window Not Compatible
Model 100 – 101 – 102 – 103 yes
Model 104 -125 -135 yes
Model 210 – 215 -220 yes
Model 230 – 240 yes
Model 315 – 320 – 325 – 330 – 335 yes
Model 340 – 355 yes
Model M60 – M80 yes
Model 420 – 430 yes
Model 440 yes
Model 250 – 350 – 360 – 450 yes
Countdown 70 – 90 yes
Polaroid 2 window: “Polaroid Kit” Kit numbers include: 541, 581
Zeiss-Ikon single window: “Zeiss-Ikon Kit”. Model numbers include: 471. 561, 581a
 
note: models 180, 190, 195 use the same “Goggles” over the viewfinder, but the lens will not fit! Please see the Professional Portrait Kits
 

All original Polaroid accessories are extremely rare. The quantity in the drop-down reflects the amount of stock we currently have.