And so finally, on August the 4th, a film for Polaroid SX-70 is available again.
Of course this is thanks to dr. Florian Kaps and his project to restart polaroid very analogue film,
Of course - as Dr. Edwin Land said, they did it because it is not worth undertaking a project, unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible:
I HAD to support them, and ordered some B&W (here in France W&B, c'est a dire noir et blanc) film first the "PX 100"
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(photos taken in Montecarlo and at Maison Mitzi).
....and then the COLOR PX 70 film.
Polaroid color has something magic in it. No digital filter, non Pohtoshop add-on can recreate its magic.
So, before going into PX 70, let me post again the original polaroid colors
And here we go with the Impossible PX 70 film:
Do not be disappointed by the colors: first this is the "First Flush" batch of film produced, and will improve with time.
Second, it has to be taken into consideration that re-creating analogue instant film is considered like re-creating a cake (say, the sacher) whitout using ANY of the ingredients...)
And finally.....the images improve with time themselves.
See the first shot I took, scanned just after taking it...
...and 36 hours later
Taking a Instant picture is not like taking a digital one. Each one costs about 2 Euros, and you have just 8 of them.
It is a work of love.
And so today I can really repeat a "facebook" wall post I wrote some months ago:
The Impossible can be Possible.
(I wonder who understood what I wanted to say back then!)
