Post your Polaroids or other Instant Film pics here

[Paul Ozzello]

I recently rediscovered instant film and can't get enough!

 

[removed account4]

taken just before I learned Jerry died

made for APUG's 2nd Birthday

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

taken just before I learned Jerry died

Which Jerry?

 

[removed account4]

Which Jerry?

Jerry, man
a vision of him in a jacket of stars appeared to me in my morning coffee
when I went to work later that day a friend told me he died

 

[Paul Ozzello]

No one else is taking Polaroids ??

 

[Paul Ozzello]

White cars matter

 

[Duceman]

No one else is taking Polaroids ??

I took this Polaroid from my neighbor. Well, actually, he gave it to me. Does that count?

I'm still debating whether I want to spend $60 on film just to see if it works.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I haven't bought Polaroid film in several years, though I have an SX-70 Model 2 (last of the 150 speed SLRs, IIRC) and 3-4 various One Step variants.

Would you accept Instax?

 

[Paul Ozzello]

I took this Polaroid from my neighbor. Well, actually, he gave it to me. Does that count?

I'm still debating whether I want to spend $60 on film just to see if it works.

Nice - for $20 you should at least try one pack

 

[Paul Ozzello]

I haven't bought Polaroid film in several years, though I have an SX-70 Model 2 (last of the 150 speed SLRs, IIRC) and 3-4 various One Step variants.

Would you accept Instax?

Instax yes - maybe a moderator can change the title.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Already posted this in the gallery, but what the hell... SX-70.

 

[Duceman]

Nice - for $20 you should at least try one pack

By golly, you're right. When I looked at film in my local store (Target), they were only selling 3-packs for $60. However, I just bought a single pack online for $21 shipped. Will post whatever comes out of the camera (if anything).

 

[MattKing]

Instax yes - maybe a moderator can change the title.

And maybe a moderator did

 

[runswithsizzers]

These photos were taken around 1959 by my father with his Polaroid Land Camera. I don't know the exact model, but as I recall, it looked like the Model 800. I have not kept up with recent developments in instant film - but if there is any modern instant film presently available that can produce the kind of smooth tonality I see in my parent's old Polaroids, I would like to know more about it. (sorry about the color cast introduced after scanning the print)

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Those old Polaroids were gorgeous. I used to really like Polaroid film. I even built/modified a Polaroid 250 pack camera with a Schneider lens. I was going to shoot 665 in it for the neg. Finished it about a month before they discontinued the film. Todays Polaroid is more for the Lomo crowd. Nothing wrong with that.

This is a Fujiroid that has been converted to a negative by bleaching the back. Scanned then inverted. Fun to do. I still have a bunch of the Fuji. I should probably just sell it.

 

[Donald Qualls]

if there is any modern instant film presently available that can produce the kind of smooth tonality I see in my parent's old Polaroids, I would like to know more about it.

I don't think we'll see that combination of tonality, sharpness, and latitude again unless peel-apart makes an actual comeback. I've got a couple packs each of FP-3000b and FP-3000b45 that I should use up (or trash), and then that's it for me; it's all SX-70/600 and Instax after that (because I'm not willing to pay $10/frame for film that expired ten years ago).

FWIW, the Instax has nice color and seems sharp enough (given we can't enlarge it without scanning). I haven't been impressed with the few frames of Instax Monochrome I've shot, but the same was true for Impossible Project B&W for my SX-70. I don't think dye image B&W with that sort of process will give the kind of tones and punch you'd get with peel-apart and a silver image (though I will give the Instax Monochrome another try in my LomoGraflok).

 

[winger]

When I first got my Chamonix 4x5, I somehow had also ended up with a bunch of boxes of FP-100C and 3000B, so I did a 52-week project with them. There were some I really liked, but overall, I learned better how to use the camera.

 

[removed account4]

 

[Donald Qualls]

but overall, I learned better how to use the camera.

Yes. There's a lot to be said for nearly-instant feedback. Even the 5+ minute development time for Instax is better than waiting a week to develop and scan/print negatives because you ran out of weekend...

 

[tomkatf]

Love 55P/N... kinda sloppy separation of the neg here but the tonality is extraordinary...

 

[winger]

Yeah, T55 is still the one I wish was still around (in its original formulation).

 

[Donald Qualls]

Yeah, T55 is still the one I wish was still around (in its original formulation).

I have to say I liked 669 (and 59?) a lot, as well as FP-3000B (and FP-3000B45). Still nice tones, a bit of grain texture in what amounts to a contact print, and night shooting without long exposures (or "flash" with that ridiculous tiny "Winklight").

 

[awty]

Instax square I bought for my daughter in law, had to test it out first.

 

[swilliam1968]

Positive transfer onto watercolour paper . Shot with polaroid 250 i think