We’re about 2 weeks into the release of the Impossible Films and there has been quite a lot of buzz around the film and Polaroid cameras in general. We mentioned the big kickoff here on the blog… but neither Tom or I have purchased any film yet.
Two reasons for this: 1. Tom sold his Polaroid cameras a while back, and 2. I haven’t found enough spare change in my couch yet — right now I can afford 4 shots, so I’m half way there! But next week, we should have a review of the PX-100 film right here on Feeling Negative (one of our awesome readers offered up a guest post).
Until then, I’ve rounded up some videos and articles related to the new film and the old cameras. The best single resource I’ve found so far is a character by the name of Mijonju from Circle Rectangle. He also has an amazing YouTube Channel and the videos are part hilarious and part informative. If you want, you can start with the unboxing of a PX-100 Impossible Film — but the really informative videos are these two:
Holga Blog also did a review of the PX-100 film. And again we see mentions of blank frames, hiding the images from light, getting the right temperature, etc. All in all, a good review with lots of little tips and tricks.
A review from Lomography also came out on a slightly different film: the “Fade to Black” available from The Impossible Project. This film is pretty cool, and I’ve actually had my eye on it for a while… I’ll probably pick up some of this before too long.
And on the camera front, PetaPixel mentions the new Polaroid 600 One camera kit. It seems a bit expensive (and yet out of stock), but it may be worthy of a Polaroid camera collector.
To wrap it up, there’s a neat DIY post at Instructables on how to modify your Spectra for sheet film. It’s definitely a destructive modification, so don’t do this if you plan to shoot Spectra film in the future. I’m half tempted to do it with my Minolta Instant Pro… but I could never hurt a precious Minolta camera.
I think it’s great that the new Impossible Films are finally out, and my hat is off to the folks making it happen. I just can’t help but feel a little skittish around these new films… they seem to be very finicky and hard to use. Of course, some of this is expected with a brand new run of film and I’m sure things will change as time goes on.
Anybody else shoot with this stuff yet?
April 7th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I had a box of the PX 100 and Fade to Black in the site’s shopping cart the other day, but just couldn’t bring myself to spend a total of $50 for 16 shots.
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April 7th, 2010 at 10:24 am
I haven’t found them finicky or hard to work with thus far but it has been around 100 degrees Fahrenheit so honestly I wouldn’t be shooting outside even if the film weren’t so sensitive to temperature changes.
I have been doing “studio” shots so I have a little more control over exposure and find the tones very pleasing looks very creamy. Posted my first shot to the pool http://www.flickr.com/photos/quicohernandez/4494727401/ but probably wont posting more PX100 shots for a while because I would rather be using it with a specific purpose in mind.
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April 9th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
I posted a PX-100 shot of several very old Polaroid folding cameras – you can see them if you click on my name above. I must say we are having fun with this new film.
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April 15th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Personally, I’m going to wait until PX 600 is available and order both at the same time…it’s the only way to save on the ridiculous shipping costs!
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Tomas Webb Reply:
April 15th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
They announced it today….
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