Polaroid B & W Instant

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Hello Yiing Lin,

I have enjoyed reading your contributions to Photo 3-D....and thought I would
say...HELLO....and respond to your questions about Polaroid B & W film.  
A few years ago I tried it...there were two types, I think one was called
Polarpan...the other...Polar???
One gave grey tones to some degree...the other was very contrast-y.  The
grain is somewhat obvious......but I think grain can actually be kind of cool
for certain effect....and hey....I am a fine grain die hard ASA 25 or 64
Kodachrome, or 50 Velvia guy.

I shot some structural details of an old iron bridge....on an overcast
day....and the effect of the film was that the images looked rather
'antique"....and have a certain surreal quality to them.  I also shot some
basset hounds on a rustic lakefront in Maine....and there is a "pointillist
and painterly" quality to the images.
Technically....Polaroid    B & W instant is dissapointing in the fact that as
Wolf Sell mentioned....the emulsions curl up and are hard to handle....and
they are VERY FRAGILE.....the emulsion can scrape off the base very easly.

Also, by the nature of the emulsions chemical composition (help Eliot or
Joel, or John B....you guys may know about this)
....when projected....the images depolarize...and you cant get a 3-D image on
a screen without some clever modification to your slides.  AGFA SCALA here we
come!!!
Regar-d-d-d-s  Jon Golden RBT USA


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