RE: Using Polaroid SX-70 film with modern cameras

Well thanks for the suggestion but I can do that (Photoshopping) with any
film. Why would I use expensive polariod for that purpose? The reason I'm
intersted in SX70 manipulation is the "hand made" quality of it and of couse
for the uniqueness + unpredictability + uncertainty it incorporates. I don't
want to work with a media that has "undo" capability ;)
 
Regards,
Loris.

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From: Argon3@aol.com [mailto:Argon3@aol.com]
Sent: 31 Ağustos 2005 Çarşamba 21:29
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Using Polaroid SX-70 film with modern cameras

Well...you could return the film....or you could scan it and do the
manipulations with that "liquify" function that Photoshop has. I know that
it would be cheating but to me part of that polaroid manipulation look was
based on the look of the polaroid image when it was un-manipulated. The
undulations created by manipulating the emulsion just seemed to be
enhancements to that image's "look"...I wish that I could find the correct
words to describe the qualities that I'm refering to...there was a certain
"roundness" to them and the color seemed to lean toward earthier tones.
I've worked on movie shoots where polaroids were used as references to
maintain continuity between shots and some of those images were really
striking by themselves without any manipulation.

I know that using photoshop would be terribly "un-alt", but you might
consider trying it on a couple of images just for the hell of it...it seems
unlikely that we'll be seeing any manipulable polaroid coming along in the
future.

best

argon
Received on Thu Sep 1 01:07:37 2005