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When it is fresh, the shadows are deep black: the contrast is beautiful, and the yellow is bright enough to flaunt it.\u00a0 It appears to take a few days to develop fully, though development seems close to final within the same day.\u00a0\u00a0As the film ages in (dark, dessicant-rich) storage, it fades toward sepia.\u00a0 I disapprove of this: I want my photos to be stable, at least as stable as traditional Polaroid. (More on that another time.)\u00a0 But my scanning habits are slow, so my scanned archive shows the prints faded to a warmer, less neutral tone.<\/p>\n
I like the sharpness of my SX-70, and so I shoot Polaroid 600 with it, tucking a neutral density filter into the cartridge atop the film (!) to obtain the correct exposure range.<\/p>\n
Polaroid (by which I mean the company that owns the name now: possibly the buyers of the Impossible Project turned Polaroid Originals turned Polaroid<\/em>) issued four versions of duochrome, each for limited periods of time: blue and black, pink and black, green and black, and yellow and black.\u00a0 Yellow feels the most satisfying for me, and I’m thrilled to obtain some.<\/p>\n Should I buy integral films that fade within a few years?\u00a0 No.\u00a0<\/em> Would I buy many packages of this tomorrow if it was available again, so I could enjoy its unique look, the satisfaction of shooting with my beloved SX-70, and the satisfaction of instant results?\u00a0 Oh, yes, yes I would.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Millions of Polaroid cameras remained in circulation when Polaroid decided to stop manufacturing both instant (peel-apart) and integral films.\u00a0 During the post-Polaroid re-invention of integral film technologies I eagerly tried, one stands out.\u00a0 It’s a monochrome novelty film: Yellow 600, the “duochrome” rendering as black on a yellow background. I love it beyond belief. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analog-film","category-polaroids","tag-monochrome","tag-polaroid-sx-70","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4","has-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Polaroid-Duochrome-2021R046web-aeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Polaroid-Duochrome-2021R069-web-aeg.jpg\")