This will be sad if true, as I actually use 100B professionally for proofing. It took me a few tests after switching from Polaroid, but I managed to get TX in HC-110 to match the 100B almost exactly at the same EI.
What, what, what? You were changing your final product, the thing you have to be happy with, so that it would match your test material???
Sounds backwards to me.
Sounds backwards to me.
You have to know what your film - the thing that will be the end product - is capable of doing, and use the dreadful instant film (bad contrast and tonality) to check for surprises.
I never hear of anyone tweaking the film so it would match the Polaroid before.
Film is much, much more capable than that instant film stuff. Seems a terrible waste to mistreat it so it mimics what you get on the instant proof thingy.
Instant film 'proofs' only served one 'real' purpose anyway, and that was to give clients present at the shoot an idea that they too mattered ("Here's the Polaroid. What do you think?") and/or that you are a professional using all the professional tricks available, so their money was well spent.
A Polaroid will show nothing you couldn't and shouldn't see yourself, while the big difference between it and a real photo takes your experience and knowledge to judge how the final thing can be despite the limited quality the Polaroid shows (you couln't give clients Polaroids without ensuring them that the image on film would be much better, so not to worry).
As such, sooner a hindrance than a help for your workflow.
What I don't really understand is why they are discontinuing the 400 ISO variant, while maintaining the 3000 ISO... in terms of proofing, it would be much more logical to maintain 400 ISO, and get rid of the 3000 ISO stuff, as all the major films like TMax 400 and TXP 320, HP5 are close or 400 ISO.
I use instant film proofs to check exposure for portraits in tricky light. I know the film will look better. But I would much rather check the instant film than deal with printing problems later.
Apparently the B&W 100 and 400 were selling quite poorly
So, as I asked before, what instant films are still available?
I know that there are quite a few people in the scientific community who use the 3000 speed b/w film for research photographic purposes. One guy I used to sell it to used it on an electron microscope of all things. Yes, I guess polaroid back in the day when this microscope was built designed an instant film pack so they can proof what they saw through the scope. I never say how or what they were shooting exactly, except that he came in every month to two months and bought a case (60 boxes of 10sht packs). So they were using it a lot.
I know that there are quite a few people in the scientific community who use the 3000 speed b/w film for research photographic purposes.
So what about 400B? Haha.
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