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It has now been 31 years since I last worked on my SX-70 Constructions. The advent of Time Zero in 1979 put an end to the kind of emulsion stripping and emulsion transfers that I could accomplish with the “Q” film or what TZ’s predecessor was known inside Polaroid. I returned to using TZ in […]
For many years creative Polaroid aficionados took advantage of the printers offered by Daylab to print existing transparencies onto Polaroid Polacolor peel apart film. Not as well known was a base manufactured by Daylab that utilized integral film, or SX-70 and 600. With these Polaroid films now quickly becoming unavailable, the Daylab base seemed obsolete. […]
I have worked with instant film for almost all of my career. In 1975 I began working with SX-70 film that predated Time Zero and was capable of amazing manipulations. I returned to SX-70 in 2004 and began a series of images I called SX-70 splits. Printing 6×6 transparencies on a DayLab 120 with an […]
This is a tutorial on how to remove the opaque backcoat from Fuji FP100C negatives. Unlike Polaroid’s peel apart negatives, the opaque protection is not impregnated into the backcoat. It is soluble in bleach. Caution is recommended in handling bleach or the toilet bowl cleaner used in this video. Eye protection and gloves are highly […]
