Steven Icanberry from Alpenhaus Camera custom built a Polaroid 900 for me years ago before he passed, with the Xenotar 135mm lens. I believe this was one of the first ones he ever built with that lens - and he passed away a couple of years ago, so no one is really doing these kinds of conversions anymore.
Despite my love of rangefinders for 35mm film, I've never gelled too much with the Polaroid. The combined viewfinder and rangefinder are great, and one of the reasons I went this route, but the awkwardness of shooting while trying to focus with a mediocre RF (the RF patch is very dim) made it difficult.
However I get a nice wider FOV on this compared to my SLR cameras, so decided to shoot some with it at a Renaissance Faire. Here's some photos:
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