{"id":192,"date":"2020-02-02T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/?p=192"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:29:08","slug":"polaroid-originals-black-and-white-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/2020\/02\/02\/polaroid-originals-black-and-white-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid Originals: black and white prints"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a Polaroid SX-70 camera, which is one of the more precise and exciting Polaroid cameras out there.\u00a0 I also have a long history of supporting what used to be called The Impossible Project<\/a>: a business that purchased Polaroid’s manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands to re-invent the instant print for the world’s vast supply of existing instant cameras.\u00a0 The project was bold, though the results were initially mixed: some of the early iterations of the film have faded to nothing!\u00a0 However, emulsions improve, the business has licensed the Polaroid name, and now provides its re-engineered\/new products under the Polaroid Originals<\/a> name.<\/p>\n

I gave myself the gift of Polaroid Originals film last fall and early this year, and am sharing some of the monochrome images.<\/p>\n

This black and white film is my favorite yet.\u00a0 It really is black and white (early editions were sepia-to-chocolate), and the contrast is excellent.\u00a0 There are flaws in the emulsion, which you can see are coral-like patterns in the corners, or spots in the shadows, which I’m leaving in (because they are really there!).<\/p>\n