Polaroid Yellow Edition Duochrome wasn’t the only rarely-in-stock Polaroid film I was attempting to hoard… While my Polaroid color film hoarding effort was especially unsuccessful, I more recently purchased three boxes (24 exposures total) of SX-70 monochrome film. Two of the three packages worked well, and the film was paid for long ago (making me less bitter about the expensive, failed package), so I was able to enjoy myself.
I’ve mentioned before that new Polaroid media fails in heat, and the second package was in my bag while I was out shooting the first one… It appeared to have multiple issues (see top row, below). Even the last two images from the first package were lower in contrast than expected. Due to the age of the film, development was slow enough that I didn’t know I was having an exposure problem for about half an hour.
When Polaroid monochrome media is fresh, it is enjoyable to use. It isn’t cost effective at about $2.50/image, but does let me break out my very fun, very strange SX-70.
Speaking of which, here is what my camera looks like:
