Polaroid/Impossible Project- we need hints/tips and advice.

June 17, 2010

Another post about the new films from the Impossible Project. Do you have any top tips for us, and users in general? We have conducted two fairly rigorous tests of both the 100  and 600 Impossible Polaroid replacement films. You can see those tests

here and

here.

However the tests we made were pretty much ‘out-the-box’ and shoot, so we are looking for any helpful information that you may have which we can put in one blog post that we will hopefully keep adding to. We will then order a bunch more film, bring in a model and see whether your suggestions make this wild film any more useable. They can range from anything to temperature control, storage, shooting indoors, outdoors etc. We also have heard lots of reports of the film fading during storage so we will keep rescanning the images over time and see if the image does degrade. Actually considering how acutely light sensitive they are- maybe even scanning is bad for them. Maybe I have just discovered a tip of my own, we will test that as well….

So you can either mail us, or post comments below, including any links, or images you have shot (lo-res please) and hopefully we will have a growing pool of information that will help everyone get the most out of what Impossible are selling right now. We want to cut right through the marketing, the gimmicky dark slides, the cutesy language and real test this for both consumers and professionals- do any of these films stand up in the commercial world. As you know we are fans of old Polaroid film here at Garage and Kevin is an absolute Polaroid obsessive who would rather have film than food, but we will remain objective and by opening it up to everyone hopefully we will get a good overview of what results people are achieving.

So send us what you have, what you know, what you discovered and we will try and manage it all into a decent pool of information. Plus you’ll get to see your tips in action, without having to spend money on the film yourself- now thats service.

EDIT- More test images here from Andrew Newson.

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