PESO 2018 - 032 - GDG

Off on another tangent ... 

I have been experimenting with the new Polaroid Originals 600 B&W film: I haven't done much with my Polaroid cameras for some time, my old film finally croaked, so I bought a few packs of the latest stuff.

For this exposure, I made a prior exposure in the same light and found that the shutter time was such that there was just time to move the camera as the exposure finished to create a dreamy effect.

  https://flic.kr/p/25SmWGJ

One of the difficulties whem shooting with SX-70 type integral instant film is that the shiny cover surface on the image area makes it very difficult to capture to digital due to Newton rings when using a scanner and/or specular reflection when using a copy cam. I decided to try using the L16 as a copy camera because I could work at a reasonable distance and control the reflections, lighting the print from the side, and the camera has great DoF at its default settings. It does a good job, making it easy to see and frame accurately what I wanted from the original. The biggest difficulty is nailing the focus, it takes a bit of understanding and practice to get it right, but once you get past that hurdle the results are very true to the original image. I made very minimal adjustments to the captured Polaroid image to get it just right.

I'm pretty happy with both the new Polaroid Originals film and with the Light L16.

G
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