Retaining negatives from Fuji instant films

Thingy · Apr 28, 2010

I have heard that the negatives from Fuji's instant film can be retained and does not need to be discarded. Is this true and if so could someone tell me how to do so?

Steerage · Apr 28, 2010

I've heard that the situation is different for the different films -- FP-100C works, and FP-3000B, but not FP-100B. Here is a post about doing it for FP-100C:

http://new55project.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_6525.html

vdonovan · Apr 28, 2010

Fuji FP-3000B leaves a visible image on the negative side. I frequently just let this dry and then scan it. It makes a nice faux wet-plate look:

Thingy · Apr 29, 2010

Thanks Steerage and vdonovan. Very helpful. Letting the negative dry and scanning it in sounds the easiest option, but the other option sounds fun!

keithwms · Apr 29, 2010

It's unfortunate that the backing for the instant b&w films is so horribly non-transparent, otherwise you could flip it over and do a contact print to make another neg.

Also, my various attempts to get the emulsion off the b&w films have not worked, so far. With the fp100c it's easy, but not the b&w ones.

I have also scanned the neg parts, the main thing is that the time for the optimal neg aren't the same as for the optimal positive.

darkosaric · Apr 29, 2010

Sorry for little off topic: I am planing to play with fuji instant FP films for polaroid transfer. Is it working with all of them (100B, 100C, 3000B)? After transfer it is unusable for anything else?

thanks,

Lars Daniel · May 1, 2010

Thanks for the tip VDonovan! Very obvious, but I just did not think about it. I will give it a go.

Marco B · May 1, 2010

darkosaric said:
Sorry for little off topic: I am planing to play with fuji instant FP films for polaroid transfer. Is it working with all of them (100B, 100C, 3000B)? After transfer it is unusable for anything else?

thanks,

Maybe this Fuji link is of some help:

http://www.fujifilmusa.com/shared/bin/CableRelease_May_2008_CR08.pdf

Marco

SoonerBJJ · May 1, 2010

You might find moominsean's blog about "goop" paper negatives helpful.

http://moominsean.blogspot.com/2007/07/secret-society-of-goop.html

There's also a group at Flickr where you can see some good applications. I played around with "goop" from my 600SE. It was cool but the novelty wore off for me after awhile.

darkosaric · May 8, 2010

Thanks Marco B and SoonerBJJ for links

nickandre · May 8, 2010

I've recovered the negative from the 100C film and printed it in an enlarger yielding a normal contrast but very low saturation image with moderate grain. I'll post more when I've had a chance to repeat the experiment. you use Chlorine bleach to soften/remove the black layer on the rear of the film. You seal the negative with duct tape onto a piece of glass so that none of the bleach comes into contact with the front of the negative.

Retaining negatives from Fuji instant films

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