Perhaps the film did me a favor with this selfie. But on a more serious note, if you are shooting Fujifilm Instax (especially the Square variety) and it has long past it's expiration date, you may encounter this black streak of black chemical yuck.
What is happening here is that the pods on the back of the film (where all the chemical stuff resides) have started to dry out and the plastic pod themselves are no longer sealed well enough to keep the yuck stuff contained.... thus the black streak.
Nothing to panic about, a new pack of film and you will be good to go - sort of.
You see, the way instant film works is that the brown pinkish layer you see here is the un-exposed film.
You take the photo and the light hits this unexposed area.
The rollers then are smushed and the pods are squeezed and the yuck is spread across the layers of film.
Thus the black back
The rollers will be coated with the yuck.
You can expect the next few shots to have some yuck down the center.
You can clean the rollers and also trick the camera to activate the rollers.
DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON.... those rollers look small but the motor attached to it has a lot of torque.
If you try to run a q-tip with alcohol against it, IT WILL rip the cotton off and jam up the camera.
If you want to clean it yourself, reach out to me and I'll tell you what I do to clean them.
LESSON HERE - DON'T USE OVER EXPIRED FILM (this pack was about 6 years past it's prime)
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