Polaroid Love

I am so overdue for sharing some of my Polaroids on the blog.

I blame my lack of scanner, but isn't it nice that I can now share a bunch all at once? Now, not all of these are awesome, but I love them because film is so wonderfully unpredictable.

Taken with my Spectra and film from The Impossible Project

Taken with my SX-70 and PX Silver Shade 100

Taken with my SX-70 and film from The Impossible Project

Taken with my Polaroid Impulse and expired 600 film

Film is fun. Blurry photos are fun. So use up all your Polaroid film kids, before it goes bad. 

A Polaroid Interlude

When I got The Mustache (my Polaroid SX-70) I decided I wanted my first pack of film to be proper SX-70 film. So I picked up some TZ Artistic and loved the grungy, faded results.


Well, a few days a go, I got the chance to pick up some fresh film via The Impossible Project via Urban Outfitters. (If you get a chance, please help save polaroid... I even asked Santa to send me some for Christmas this year.)


Anyway, one of the things about using the more modern 600 or 779 film is that the SX-70 needs a little bit of a mod in order for the film to expose properly.

See the photos below? Exact same subject, shot at about the same time (at night, in my room).

The photo on the right was taken with the Mustache au naturale with the new film. I had the knob all the way on dark and it still overexposed the heck out of that photo.

The photo on the left is after I used a circle punch and some glue dots to (very carefully) adhere a 2-stop ND filter piece over the lens of the camera, avoiding the gears, of course. And as you can see, it turned out much better. The filter does make the viewfinder a little dark, but manageable.

I just like to think that the Mustache is wearing shades.

I saved polaroid (a little bit)

On Friday, our downtown Urban Outfitters got some 600-type polaroid film (and apparently, little polaroid sculpture pieces) available for purchase.

I bought a few packs (ouch on the budget) to help out the Impossible Project (and to replenish my stash). I love integral film, but dang it is expensive. I really hope that they are able to get the new film developed next year.

Thank goodness I can still shoot Fuji on my packfilm cameras. It's not the same though...

Anyway, a funny thing happened at check out when the sales girl apologized that there weren't any cameras available for purchase. I told her that the camera thing was really not an issue for me.

;)