Re: Using Polaroid SX-70 film with modern cameras (alternative)

There is a way to create a symbiotic relationship with your SX-70
original and digital printing that maintains the
"uniqueness + unpredictability + uncertainty" of the process. Have a
look at Synthetik's Studio Artist 3.0
http://www.synthetik.com/ . It is an image synthesizer that gives you
unlimited possibilities in manipulating your
images. This is unlike any photoshop plug-in. It parses your original
image and allows you to synthesize it
visually. It is to photographs what the Moog is to music.

-Phillip

Loris Medici wrote:

> 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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 03:59:57 2005