[pure-silver] Re: polaroid films
- From: David Swinnard <davidswinnard@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:47:52 -0700
Ahh, but the dual stuff can make for some fine negatives.=20
Maybe not the best "field stuff" but it (55P/N) can make for a real fast =
way
to get fine grain, acceptably sharp negatives in a big hurry when you've =
got
to copy a lot of old photographs (or, <insert your own project here>). =
Not
quite instant feedback but close enough. The negs are a bit flimsy and =
don't
quite fit the typical 4x5 neg. carrier but a quick snip fixes the fit =
issue
and a glass carrier negates the flimsy issue.
The sodium sulphite bath is a small price to pay for the "speed".
The right tool for some jobs.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph O'Neil
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:34 AM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: polaroid films
At 11:22 AM 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>I want to make some photographs with my 4x5 camera and polaroid=20
>positive/negative film. But I have heard that type 55 film can either=20
>make a good print, or a good negative, but not both. I wonder if that=20
>is true?
-snip-
Yep - if you expose properly for the negative, your print comes =
out crap. If you expose properly for your print, negative is useless.
Also - what they don't tell you is you have to soak the =
negative=20
in a solution of sodium sulfide (spelling?0 immediately afterwards,=20
otherwise your negative is not fixed. If you are litterally shooting =
in=20
the field, unless you ahve abucket mided up and ready to go, having the =
negative is a waste of time.
I am sorry I ever bought the stuff myself. The plain old =
Polariod=20
film that givesyou striaght prints is, IMO, nice stuff. Not as good as =
a=20
well processed print for certian, but if you need a print right away in =
the=20
field - for example, you are shotting a person's home, and you want to =
give=20
them somethng on the spot to show what the final print can look like, =
the=20
regular Polarid 4x5 print film is just fine,.
but the dual stuff, is complete crap, IMO.
joe
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