Customers Reviews
2010-03-03
A great value
I've been shooting medium format film for around a year, after cutting my teeth on digital cameras for 10 years. Fuji is pretty much the only remaining instant film manufacturer in the world (that is until hopefully The Impossible Project launches their newly revamped lineup utilizing original Polaroid equipment!) ... as such, they pretty much own the market right now. I use their 3.25 x 4.25 film with a Polaroid holder on a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II camera, and I find the results absolutely outstanding. I end up with a full 7cm x 7cm image - not enough to fully cover the print, but very good, and nicely centered (vertically and horizontally).
The results you get with instant film, I find, depend very much on the quality of lighting that you start with. Indoors, it is very important to be using a nicely diffused flash, or preferably studio strobes. Outdoors, a nice early or late sunlight, or any time of the day diffused cloudy conditions produce the best results with this film.
One other aspect of this film that is worth considering is really the novelty factor. These days, there are a lot of younger folks who just never had that "shake it like a polaroid" experience. With this film, you get instant gratification in a couple of minutes, and the results last (at least a year so far for my prints, which I archive in archival safe photo albums). Friends who I've taken pictures of just marvel at the fact that instant film even exists anymore... so my advice is to snap up some packs (the 5 pack here is a great deal!), take some prints, and spread the word - instant photography is still alive and well!
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2010-01-21
Better than Polaroid color instant pack film
Nicer colors, sharper, and more consistent results are what I have enjoyed with FP-100c over the last remainders of Polaroid 669. I can even reclaim a pretty nice usable color negative from this film by wiping off the black backing with bleach after a couple of minutes of developing. It is a little messy but then you get a positive and a nice negative that reveals nice shadow details when scanned with a good scanner such as an Epson 750 pro and Silverfast SW. The only reason I give it four instead of five stars is because fuji charges too much for the 4x5 version of this fine film, so I am protesting. Otherwise a great material suitable for artistic, documentary and other serious applications, and just for fun too. People are amazed at the colors, especially the glowing reds. Ooohh.
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