{"id":766,"date":"2025-11-16T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/?p=766"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:58:08","slug":"north-side-of-san-francisco-expired-monochrome-polaroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/2025\/11\/16\/north-side-of-san-francisco-expired-monochrome-polaroid\/","title":{"rendered":"North Side of San Francisco (Expired Monochrome Polaroid)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polaroid Yellow Edition Duochrome wasn’t the only rarely-in-stock Polaroid film I was attempting to hoard…\u00a0 While my Polaroid color film hoarding effort was especially unsuccessful<\/a>, I more recently purchased three boxes (24 exposures total) of SX-70 monochrome film.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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On my first outing, the strong contrast was delightful (I do turn up the darken wheel to get this result). Using the exact same setting on my next outing with a flawed film pack generated completely different results.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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…\u00a0 It appeared to have multiple issues (see top row, below).\u00a0 Even the last two images from the first package were lower in contrast than expected.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Failures at top, successes below. I loved using automatic exposure and challenging my camera to cope with the dark shadow of the palm tree on that last building. Three dark slides from the top of the film are also shown on the right.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Polaroid monochrome media is fresh, it is enjoyable to use.\u00a0 It isn’t cost effective at about $2.50\/image, but does let me break out my very fun, very strange SX-70.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, here is what my camera looks like:<\/p>\n

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Polaroid Yellow Edition Duochrome wasn’t the only rarely-in-stock Polaroid film I was attempting to hoard…\u00a0 While my Polaroid color film hoarding effort was especially unsuccessful, I more recently purchased three boxes (24 exposures total) of SX-70 monochrome film.\u00a0 Two of the three packages worked well, and the film was paid for long ago (making me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,34],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analog-film","category-monochrome-black-white","category-polaroids","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\/11\/2025.10-aeg-Polaroid-BW-Aquatic-Speaker-e1763316138865.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}