Unfortunately the only way to test it is by investing in an (expensive) new photo pack, but the cameras themselves are generally simple, robust and very reliable so it may be a worthwhile gamble if you can stand the cost of just eight photos per film pack...
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battery is an integral part of the film pack. When you put a fresh pack
in, you get a fresh battery. A dead battery means the rest of the photo
pack is unusable.
Original photo packs are no longer
manufactured and all remaining unused Polaroid stock will be long out of
date with flat batteries and stale chemicals. If kept stored cold, the
chemicals may be fresh but the batteries will be flat as cold kills
batteries even faster. Such photo packs cost a lot, are not guaranteed
to work, and you only have the vendor's word that they have been cold
stored. They're only usable in cameras modified to accept an external
4.5v dc power supply.
You can buy new and fresh photo packs from The Impossible Project,
though. Just be aware that it's not the same as the original material
and is really intended for artistic use. It's also not light stable and
fades quickly, so scan any images you wish to keep, but is designed to
be far more manipulable than the original material.
Click here
for the company website where you can learn all about their product and
how best to use it. You can buy directly or the site shows you where a
few retailers are (not many worldwide).
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