In memories of Polaroid type 55

[Christo.Stankulov]

Hello everybody! I have this And do not know how to proceed with. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Christo

[Bill L.]

Christo,

If you don't have a polaroid 545 holder, then you will need one to shoot the film. You can pick them up cheap on ebay. They will fit most any 4x5 back, spring or graflok. Good luck!

Bill

[Sal Santamaura]

Hello everybody! I have this...And do not know how to proceed with. Any suggestions?...

...If you don't have a polaroid 545 holder, then you will need one to shoot the film. You can pick them up cheap on ebay. They will fit most any 4x5 back, spring or graflok...

And, after exposing the sheets in your Polaroid holder, you'll need to have them E-6 processed. That's a box of tungsten-balanced transparency film packets, not Polaroid instant film. Fuji made the master roll (it was the original Fujichrome 64T), then shipped it in that form to Polaroid, where it was cut and assembled into packets compatible with Polaroid sheet holders.

I'm not sure whether many color labs today are familiar with how to open the packets and get sheets separated for processing. Also, if memory serves, this film's dimensions were slightly larger than those of standard 4x5 sheets, requiring special hangers, which labs probably no longer have.

[Ramiro Elena]

Well, I don't think the film is so big they will need a hangar.

(sorry, I couldn't help it)

[Sal Santamaura]

Well, I don't think the film is so big they will need a hangar...

Most E-6 labs use dip-and-dunk processors that employ hangers on racks. Standard 4x5 hangers, if I remember correctly, are too small for the Professional Chrome sheets. Of course, anyone doing their own E-6 in a Jobo (or the unusual commercial lab using a Jobo like Prauss) will have no size constraint with this film.

A much greater issue is likely to be the fact that Professional Chrome hasn't been sold for decades and is almost certainly in bad shape.

[Ramiro Elena]

Hangar->hanger

(sorry, bad joke) :P

[StoneNYC]

And, after exposing the sheets in your Polaroid holder, you'll need to have them E-6 processed. That's a box of tungsten-balanced transparency film packets, not Polaroid instant film. Fuji made the master roll (it was the original Fujichrome 64T), then shipped it in that form to Polaroid, where it was cut and assembled into packets compatible with Polaroid sheet holders.

I'm not sure whether many color labs today are familiar with how to open the packets and get sheets separated for processing. Also, if memory serves, this film's dimensions were slightly larger than those of standard 4x5 sheets, requiring special hangers, which labs probably no longer have.

Praus Lab can process these...

Tell Edgar that Stone sent you

http://www.4photolab.com

[Christo.Stankulov]

Thank you, Sal Santamaura, this is what I was asking for. When I was at Gandilfi's place back in 2008, I saw there the same but 18x24 polaroid 64T, but it was paper positive.

[Emil Schildt]

did a few portraits the other day.
Apolline was the nice model - she wanted to look like a "garcon" (she is french) so we made her a Little mustace...

I played with solarization on these pol 665 negs...

[t0aster]

Does type 57 have a home here?

Cambo SC
180mm Symmar-S