Improved B&W Polaroid integral film

[GabrielC]

Hello everyone,

Polaroid announced today an update to its black and white instant film.



From their instagram depiction it seems to be a major upgrade. It seems the first packs to use this new formula will be the monochrome frames.
I think that Polaroid was always fun but also deeply flawed, but if the posted results are representative of the film in the future it might start to become interesting, but I sincerely hope colour follows suite.

What do you think about this update ?

 

[brbo]

Excellent! Seem like a substantial improvement. Haven't shot Polaroid in a while, this might get me back to it...

 

[Daniela]

Yay! I don't use polaroid, but we can never have enough black and white and it looks nice!

 

[Donald Qualls]

I might have to order a couple packs and dig up my SX-70 Model 2. Still worked last time I tried it, but I was never all that enthused by the look of their black and white...

 

[xya]

Good news. Yes their b&w wasn't great, but the Instax b&w isn't either. So we will see soon...

 

[Donald Qualls]

but the Instax b&w isn't either.

I completely agree.

 

[abruzzi]

that picture has much better contrst than the istax B&W I've shot. Unfortunately I don't have a way to use polaroid.

 

[xya]

that picture has much better contrst than the istax B&W I've shot. Unfortunately I don't have a way to use polaroid.

they are on sale, sometimes even quite cheap... ;-)

 

[abruzzi]

they are on sale, sometimes even quite cheap... ;-)

doesn't really work for me. The only instax I have is lomograflok back. I'd be interested in a Polaroid back for a LF camera, but AFAIK, one isn't made. I'm not really intersted in a Polaroid camera.

 

[xya]

Indeeed, there is no Polaroid back for LF now. And since Polaroid film is exposed via a mirror, you would have inversed photos with a Polaroid back, not desirable.

I have the new I2, a very fine camera with great results...but that's not cheap.

 

[Hassasin]

I don't know why people keep calling this thing Polaroid ... Polaroid is long dead. I wish it were not.

 

[wak]

doesn't really work for me. The only instax I have is lomograflok back. I'd be interested in a Polaroid back for a LF camera, but AFAIK, one isn't made. I'm not really intersted in a Polaroid camera.

Mercury sells Polaroid 600 backs for 4x5 cameras: https://mercuryworks.store/products/polaroid-600-back-for-4x5-cameras
Images will be inverted (no mirror).