Giving It Another Try

After a devastating experience with the last pack of Impossible Project PX 70 Color Shade film pack for my Polaroid SX 70, I decided to get back on the bike, shake of the fear of falling and give it another try.

 

You see, either the film was old (although I had bought it only a few months ago and had stored it in the fridge ever since), or the formula of the Impossible Project's film is different from the original (in that it has a much higher viscosity of the devoloper and thus nearly no spread at all), or my trusty old SX 70 (that I hadn't been using for months) now has a problem with the rollers that spread the emulsion. Thinking about it, I'd blame a combination of all possibilities.

 

First of all, the film had the date "04/2012" written on it, which could be the production date, but is more likely to be the estimated shelf life. I had used an expired film from Impossible Project before with my other Polaroid with nearly the same disappointing result. Looking through my old Polaroids, I admittedly found some patches of undeveloped film in the top corner of my SX 70 pictures, too, already two years ago. I attributed it to having stored the film in the fridge back then after consulting Google. But now, Impossible Project recommends that for its films, so I don't know if that could be a reason or if the camera is actually having issues.

 

Anyway, this picture is about the film I loaded into my other old cameras to give it another try. I hadn't used the Exakta for some years and was glad I still knew how to load it, but I have picked up the Canon every now and then. What came as a surprise to me: It was the Canon that I didn't know enough about to rely on it and thus missed a couple of (what I imagine to be) great pictures I was taking later on.

 

See my next picture to find out what this means.

Done