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    More Polaroid Portraits

    I'm clearing out 40 years of accumulated junk. How do you dispose of LF trannies? They seem undestructable.
    The polaroids are easy. Just tear them up. But how to store the keepers other than by scanning? Is the chemistry going to last like bromide prints?
    Here's a keeper on 4x5 done with a 120mm Sironar. Any one else got polaroid portraits?

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Broadbent View Post
    I'm clearing out 40 years of accumulated junk. How do you dispose of LF trannies? They seem undestructable.
    Easy Christopher-
    send them to me-

    I like that one, I've seen it before I think-
    Interesting that he's leaning on a horizontal plane...

    I've got some, posted here already in the other threads-
    ok to include some here too, do you think?

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    Posted before, but what the heck...

    Type 55 (15 year or so out of date)
    Speed Graphic w/ magnifying glass lens

    scanned contact print (on 25 year or so out-of-date paper)

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    My Last Polariod!

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    Quote Originally Posted by jb7 View Post
    ...I've seen it before I think-...
    No, Ives was looking the other way:

    It would be nice to see your past polaroids. It's a weird medium, with it's own character.

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    I remember now-
    should have said that I've seen Him here before-
    I'd make a terrible lawyer, everything thrown out on technicalities...

    Now that I see it again, I think I prefer the second,
    more enigmatic, with the shadow-
    but he's a very memorable character-

    They look like they're scanned from the print-


    These ones T55, scanned from the neg-
    Both shot on a small French cinema projection Petzval, 185mm-

    From last month, I have a habit of posting at the very end of the month-







    And this one from the end of the month before...




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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    joseph, those are awesome. I hadn't seen the second one before.

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    Joseph. There must be a lot more to chew on in a polaroid negative. How do they scan compared to other negs? I only know pola prints and give up on low tones and let them drop out altogether making virtue out of necessity.

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    Christopher, I've got a limited experience with other b/w negs-
    I've only used Foma films-

    They scan beautifully, really soft tonality, imperceptible grain-

    These were both slightly underexposed,
    in that they produced an acceptable print-
    but they weren't underexposed by much-
    there weren't any tones lost that I didn't need-
    perhaps the stated exposure guidelines refer to printing rather than scanning-

    It's a lovely film, and I'm rationing it-
    I'll only shoot one per setup,
    and usually I'll only do one setup per person...

    Vinny, thank you...

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    Re: More Polaroid Portraits

    All I want to know is who designed Ives's jacket and what material it is made from
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