Four days, nine shots later, this is what I have to show: an underexposed image I took on my way home from work. Along the way, I wasted a frame shooting into a dark slide, I messed up an 'okay' shot by putting a wet Polaroid into a paper envelope, and underexposed and overexposed the remaining frames.

Things I've learned about the 600SE

The other things I've found: I've adjusted fairly quickly to shooting 'left-handed' (the trigger and handle is on the left), I can hand hold this heavy body to 1/8th of a second without much shake, learned that the filter size of the 127mm lens is 55mm and I can elicit expressions of amazement and incredulity from people who recognize the 600SE for what it is.

Responses from other photographers and strangers

One response: "why??" and another: "they still make film for that?" The first one is a bit hard to answer. It requires first explaining the romance of an imperfect medium. One guy just laughed at me and kept going. Yeah, that's me. The Camera Clown. Twice I've gotten this far into the conversation: "So, you have to wait 90 seconds for a picture?" And they wait for me to show them. But I don't because I'm not going to waste a three dollar image just to show someone what turns out after 90 seconds.

And besides, like I said, I'm no good at it yet.

More and hopefully, better, later.

Update

I've since gone on to do a few things with this beast. Browse the links below.

Shooting rollfilm with the Polaroid 600SE
Folk festival only in analog
Thank you Mr. Hat