Retaining negatives from Fuji instant films

[Thingy]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Marco B]

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]

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]

Thanks Marco B and SoonerBJJ for links

 

[nickandre]

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.