Polaroid obsession!

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whitecat said:
Thanks, guys, a little history is in line. When I first joined the photos were questioned about qualifying to be in the forum since this is a rangefinder forum. Well the original SX 70 camera is a rangefinder camera! The film is (or was) made up of layers of different colors. Once the exposure was made the "sandwich" of colors is still soft. You were able to manipulate it by using a tool and this is where the fun begins. It had to be done within the first 20-30 minutes. Various tools provided different results. I preferred a knitting needle since the tip was rounded and firm. Different pressures or circles or pressure directions provided different results. I am saddened this SX 70 film went the way of other cherished films. I just saw a pack of 10 a few years old selling for over $100.00 on Evilbay. It used to be $8.95 at the time which was very expensive.
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Popsicle sticks... the bonus... you had to eat the popsicle first, and manipulate away with that great taste in your mouth.
 
Nice David. Polaroid 4x5 looks very good indeed. Like the overhead train shot. Nice composition, dynamic, and pleasing pastels.
 
I've been playing with my 450 and SX70 type in the snow... here are a few shots (taken rather hastily on my iPhone for now)

Really look the look of the black frame PX600 film.

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I love that style of building... can just imagine getting a fire going and being all cozy in there with the snow belting down outside. Lovely.
 
If you are not familiar with Polaroid Type 55, search Flickr for "polaroid type 55" (w/"Interesting") to see some great stuff. It seems that a great lot of creative people are still involved with instant - a good argument can be made that some of the best galleries are in this medium.

(A startup is trying to bring a 55-like product out that also doesn't have the split exposure values for pos/neg. We'll see: New55 blog.)

My children think the 100 automatic is the most fun of all the gear - beyond the instant exposure, they like the look of the images. I do, too. They look like memories.

There was a clothing ad on the radio this week that painted the suggestion that I wander about town with my girlfriend and a Polaroid on Valentine's Day. (There is a marketing person out there who is either well-tuned to the hip or been in a space station for 6 years.) I'm hoping the hipsters provide enough demand to get some good films/formats back. I want to get the Pola 545 back cranking again...

-Charlie
 
Great shots, all! I am going to have to reprioritize and scan my instant shots soon. I end up giving most instant pics away, but I do have some I've kept. I shoot 4x5 and 100-series instant in a Super Graphic and Toyo Monorail, and I also have a fair collection of actual polaroid cameras:

SX-70, 600 One-Step, Spectra Image 1200, 600 Impulse AF, Automatic Land Camera 250, MiniPortrait 201, 600SE (with 127 and 150 lenses...it's in the shop right now)...

And I have owned a second 250, a land 230, an automatic land 101 and one of the new Polaroid 300s. The second 250 and the 230 I sold, the 101 I gave to my dad, and the 300 I gave to my fiancee.

I adore instant. I think even in today's world of digital everything, instant analog pictures are magic. Viva Polaroid!

3rdtrick said:
I am kinda getting interested in the instant film thing. I see a few pack film Polaroids on Craigslist. I think the instant gratification would be fun but then if you give your print away you have nothing. Not sure how good the negative is from the Fuji film.

This guy sells instant prints from his Speed Graphic:

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Anyone here selling them at events? Looks like it would be a fun way to make a few bucks...
Pete
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I had, and have, been considering doing exactly that in DC during tourist season.
 
I must admit, I get infatuated rather easily. As such it shouldn't have come as a surprise that I am impressed with FB100C from the get go. Sunrise on my way to work this morning, as most mornings in mid winter they can be quite stunning. This morning was better than most, but camera was loaded with FB3000B. Two remaining frames got shot off in a hurry, ran indoors and loaded up the FB100C and ran out again. The deep red colours were already fading as the sun was ready to break the horizon, but I managed to get off two shots. This is an iphone shot of the two. I will post the better of the two from a proper scan later.

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I can easily see myself doing more colour polaroids!
 
Todd.Hanz said:
Not sure if anyone knows this or not...if your into the alternative stuff, but there is a negative side to fuji 100C that has some cool effects. You can clear the negative with household bleach and get this effect...
have some fun with this...

Todd
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Nice images. I save all the negs from shots to bleach off the backing coat. It's not Type 55, but you can get some interesting effects. They fit into the V700 4x5 holder (with a little trim) for scanning and get the color cast removed, then add contrast (in PS).

Whitecat: Was that SX-70 film? Isn't that is the only kind that you can "draw" on for those effects?

-Charlie
 
As promised. A scan of the better of the two first frames of FP100C. This is the lighter of the two frames. My scanner made a right mess of the darker slightly underexposed one, no matter how much I tried.


The Bath house #5 by Eirik0304, on Flickr

In a rich reddish scene like this it would seem the film favours a more blueish tint when more or less correctly exposed, opposed to a more red when underexposed.
 
Polaroids and weddings are a match made in heaven.

To make a long story short I was supposed to bring along some cables and adapters along to a wedding so the groom´s son could download a picture from any which (digital) camera and print and frame it and then present it to the happy couple later in the evening. Sorry to say the cables got lost. I however had the 250 along with both FP3000B and 100C. So to make up for my mistake I took 15-20 polaroids of the couple, maid of honour, best man, parents and friends which got framed as a mosaic instead. It went down a treat. I spent the rest of the film taking couple portraits giving them the prints there and then. End result. A lot of happy people.

In the end it was quite easy. The electronic flash was of the weaker kind, one output level. Ended up taking two or three group portraits, set focus once and for all and they came out great. Any wider and the flash wasn´t up to it. As it turned out that was a good thing.
 
Darn, I do miss Polaroids. My favorite was a Mamiya Universal Press. Next various press cameras with a 545 back. Mamiya is long gone, still have the 545, but film is long gone for it. Maybe a 405 holder for the Crown Graphic is an idea. The 100 speed B&W stuff was my favorite.

Anyway, nice shots guys. I kind of like the picture in a picture idea.
 
I understand Tom. Been working on a 110A Pathfinder, converting it to 600SE type back. In the process been reading up on them, and what an intrigueing system (It and it's brethren the Press and Super23). Once converted the 110A will work with any M og G (600SE version) mount adapted back. Might even try to get it to work with a 4x5 back and some stage. First up is a CB103 back.
 
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