From: Ken Showalter (kshowalter3@home.com)
Date: 12/20/01-10:40:12 AM Z
Sounds like you need to get a Polaroid 405 holder if youre going to use 669
or other 31/4x41/4" film
They go for about $50-75 on ebay e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1311584986
----- Original Message -----
From: "andrej hocevar" <ah@siol.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: polaroid transfers without holder???
> 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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