Outings with My Polaroid Instant

[cassidy]

Well here we go: my main camera is a Polaroid Colorpack II and these are a few of the best pictures it's taken. Critique/criticism/pointers; which picture do you think is the strongest; which is the weakest; your personal preference ?

I apologize for the picture-of-a-picture thing going on, my printer broke a few weeks ago and I had no way of scanning these in. I tried my best to keep my lamp from putting a big white spot in the reflection of the pictures but eh still got in there a bit. Be that as it may, the pictures are below, thank you in advance if you take a look ! There's quite a few
None of these have gone through any additional processing/touch-ups/manipulation; straight through the rollers and peeled tape! I use Fuji fp-100c film and it gives a slight purple-ish tint to each picture..

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[limr2]

They look good to me, though it's hard to say for some because of the quality of the reproduction. #9 in particular I'd like to see more clearly because it seems there's more detail in the foreground shadows than is readily apparent in the picture of a picture. Even so, it's clear that you've got some great skies in a lot of those shots! FP 100C, right? Good film.

Colorpack, eh? I picked one up a little while back and haven't used it yet. Thinking of converting it to a pinhole. My main Polaroid is a Land Camera 100, which I was just shooting with an hour ago, in fact

 

[cassidy]

They look good to me, though it's hard to say for some because of the quality of the reproduction. #9 in particular I'd like to see more clearly because it seems there's more detail in the foreground shadows than is readily apparent in the picture of a picture. Even so, it's clear that you've got some great skies in a lot of those shots! FP 100C, right? Good film

Colorpack, eh? I picked one up a little while back and haven't used it yet. Thinking of converting it to a pinhole. My main Polaroid is a Land Camera 100, which I was just shooting with an hour ago, in fact

aside from them being plastic (I actually dropped mine last year and now its attractivly held together with a strip of duct tape, and glue for the small bits ehe) they're pretty great.

Have you any pictures you've taken with your land camera up? Im curious to see how they came out and the film you use with it as well.

 

[limr2]

I don't remember specific threads, but here's a link to my Land Camera Flickr album:
Polaroid Land Camera 100 - an album on Flickr

I use the Fujifilm 100C and 3000B (oh how I love that film, and oh how sad I am that it's been discontinued!). I also do emulsion lifts and negative recovery, so some of the photos in the album are scans of prints, some are lifts and others are scans of the negatives. There's one emulsion transfer that came out okay but I need a lot more practice with those!

Here's a recent collage using 100C recovered negatives:

rs Collage sans text by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Somewhere I have a shot of the corresponding emulsion lift collage of that tree...

 

[cassidy]

I don't remember specific threads, but here's a link to my Land Camera Flickr album:
Polaroid Land Camera 100 - an album on Flickr

I use the Fujifilm 100C and 3000B (oh how I love that film, and oh how sad I am that it's been discontinued!). I also do emulsion lifts and negative recovery, so some of the photos in the album are scans of prints, some are lifts and others are scans of the negatives. There's one emulsion transfer that came out okay but I need a lot more practice with those!

Here's a recent collage using 100C recovered negatives:

rs Collage sans text by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Somewhere I have a shot of the corresponding emulsion lift collage of that tree...

Such nice pictures! Especially like the cat, of course. 3000B ? I didn't think it was discontinued, are you sure ?

 

[limr2]

Such nice pictures! Especially like the cat, of course. 3000B ? I didn't think it was discontinued, are you sure ?

Thanks
Unfortunately I'm very sure about the 3000B It was announced late last year that Fuji had one last big batch that they were delivering to retail outlets in April of this year (which was delivered in May, I think), but there would be no more production after that. So it's still available for the moment, but if you noticed that the price has gone up, that's why. I still buy a pack or two when I have a little extra money just so I can stock up as much as I can.
Fujifilm 3000B Instant Film To Be Discontinued | F Stop Lounge