From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 12/20/01-08:03:54 AM Z
The older style model 500 holders go for $25 used, just buy one! You may have heard that the model 500 holder can't be used with modern film, but it can.(this holder uses the 4x5 film) Its missing the mechanism to keep you from pulling the "darkslide" too far out when you expose, but all you have to do is watch for the mark that indicates the center of the frame. When you see it just starting to be visible outside the holder, stop pulling. If you are exposing under an enalrger, you will have to find some way to feel where to stop, but it should be far easier than trying to do it without the holder.
Another idea since you are using the 669 film (that's the 3x4 inch film, isn't it?) Buy a used polaroid colorpak camera ($5-$10). To use it with an enlarger, you will need to cut off the front part of the camera, leaving only the back part that holds the film.
Bill
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From: andrej hocevar <ah@siol.net>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:42:42 +0000
>Hello,
>even though I've been told that you cannot make Polaroid transfers
>without the appropriate holder I decided to give it a try. The
>result -- and I'm actually not complaining :) -- were 20 lost pieces
>of 669 film. No problem, but before considering buying a holder I'd
>like to clear some things.
>This isn't really about transfers, it's just dry theory, so, please,
>try to help me. I used a 600 series Polaroid camera's rollers to
>spread the emulsion over the surface of the 669 film, exposed with an
>enlarger. The results weren't OK; true, there are many factors,
>starting with the exposure time etc. But what I got was an image, as
>if trying to look OK at the beginning -- ie. the area near the
>developing pocket -- and more and more yellow towards the other end,
>vaguely reflecting parts of the motif.
>Now what does that mean; was the pressure to high, did the developer
>gel squeeze out too much?
>
>In short -- has anyone experience with that or is a holder
>absolutely necessary?
>
>Thanks,
>andrej
>
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