This is the negative side of a Fuji 100C shot, black backing removed with household bleach, cleaned with windex and scanned as slide film. The results seem a bit grainy but doable, not the same as type 55 but similar (and in color). I read somewhere that over exposing by 1-2 stops makes a better negative, need to try that.
Memorial Corner - Japan Town, San Jose 2020
SuperSense 6/66 Instant Pinhole Camera
Polaroid Originals SX-70 B&W
I pulled out the Instant Pinhole camera for a bit of shooting/testing today and am delighted to say that the improvements in available SX-70 and 600 series film now make it a quite usable camera.
I took the SuperSense 6/66 Instant Pinhole on yesterday's cycle ride again, with the intent of doing a selfie of myself with the bicycle on one of the nicer highway pedestrian crossings on my route. I set it up for a wide view (bellows position #2) and calculated exposure with the 0.12mm pinhole to be about 4 seconds. The first exposure was to test my exposure calculations ... Thank the gods for the current version of Polaroid SX-70 B&W film, which has processed enough after just four-five minutes that I can tell whether the exposure is good.
Having made that exposure, I then realized the folly: The Instant Pinhole camera has no self time, actually no shutter: You make the exposure by twisting the blind in the standard the right direction and uncovering the pinhole for a set amount of time, then twisting it back. To achieve this, I had to pull the camera much closer so it would be within arm's reach, and then carefully do the dance with the shutter blind, trying not to move the camera overmuch.
Eh! what's life without a little challenge?
Fun stuff.
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