First PX100 Photos

[Pickett Wilson]

They started out with a web site selling Polaroid film and made a going concern of it. Then Polaroid pulled the plug and they saw their livelihood threatened. Realizing that eventually even all the expired Polaroid would be sold, they hatched this crazy scheme, convinced some investors that they could reinvent Polaroid, and tried. And failed.

So the story from their website seems now to be that they never intended to produce anything that resembled Polaroid, and that the current stuff is what they intended all along. Perhaps.

 

[sepiareverb]

I think I understand what your preaching, but didn’t you just perfectly repeat a Polaroid print and post it with a computer? Bill

Huh? Since when are silver images and scanning mutually exclusive? Pointless to continue.

 

[Jamie123]

A sound business decision to target this lot, as they're enthusiastic, loaded with disposable income (have you seen the prices for Lomography gear?!), a growing segment of film consumers, and are forgiving -- even enthusiastic -- about even really awful products. The lower the fidelity the cooler it is, don't you know?

I think they'll find that even this enthusiastic crowd won't keep buying this stuff unless they significantly improve it. People might buy a pack or two now to try it out but will they keep spending money on this over and over again? I doubt it.

 

[morback]

I like it.

 

[jsrockit]

I set my SX/70 to lighten and used a cold clip in my armpit to keep it warm and out of the sunlight.

I think people forgot to read the OP's original statement. This was the look he was going for... he overexposed and tried keeping the images cold so that the developement process wouldn't be normal... or at least that is what I got from it.

 

[jsrockit]

This stuff belongs in art galleries with other modern art. I have a perfect place for it in my bathroom.

There is plenty of great, modern photography shown in art galleries.

 

[charjohncarter]

I guess I don't get it. You can always tweak film to look worse (put it is the over before using, etc) but it is hard to make worse film look better. What I don't understand is why people don't sell their SX-70s and buy a good peel apart camera for $20-40 dollars. Fuji has an instant peel apart and you can get both B&W (2 films) and color (1 film). The three types are all excellent and better in my view better than the original Polaroid films.