Oh, sure... NOW I figure out a Polaroid transfer process?!

[Deleted member 19578]

A friend gave me a couple of boxes of seriously out of date 8x10 Polaroid film- some 809 & some 891... What? You never heard of 891? Well, it was a "Colorgraph Overhead Projection" film. So I took a bunch of shots to see what a giant 8x10 Polaroid slide might look like, but was rather disappointed (too thin, too yellow, etc)... I put the box away & forgot about it, until today.

I was trying to get some shots together for the Last Polaroid Exchange & found the 891... Thought I'd try a transfer process (like the 809) with the last 3 sheets... Of course, it works! NOW THAT THERE'S NO MORE TO BE FOUND!

Ah well, here's a sample:

(There's a bit of tearing on the paper, but otherwise it looks pretty good.)

 

[Alex Hawley]

Don't feel alone. I had planned to some serious 809 work this year. Was lucky to find two boxes before the price shot off to the moon.

 

[rwyoung]

If you do find some more 891 there really will be monkeys flying out of your butt!!!!!

Looks great!

I'm hoping for some decent weather on Saturday to try for some 809 shots. Sunday is out because I'm running a pinhole photography workshop (not taking the 8x10 to that, I probably won't get to do any shooting).

 

[nickandre]

Try buying from polaroid directly from their website? It might not be so ungodly priced, but even the amateur 600 film is 2x what it cost 2 months ago. Between a pack of that and some 4x5 color neg stuff for printing, I decided to forgo the polaroid. I'll have fun explaining to future generations that one time there was an "instant camera" which took pictures and spat them out which you could then look at that didn't involve digital hocus-pocus/garbage.

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Fine time for me to buy a box of PN55, huh?

 

[Deleted member 19578]

Aw hell... it's a fun film to use, and even if you find really old PN55 you can always develop them by hand.

Fine time for me to buy a box of PN55, huh?