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fatso said:
No one else is taking Polaroids ??
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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.
 
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?
 
fatso said:
Nice - for $20 you should at least try one pack
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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).
 
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)

 
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.

 
runswithsizzers said:
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.
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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).
 
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.
 
winger said:
but overall, I learned better how to use the camera.
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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...
 
Love 55P/N... kinda sloppy separation of the neg here but the tonality is extraordinary...

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