Alex and Sabrina
Alex and Sabrina
The Impossible Project PX70 Color Shade
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar One Step
Saint Agata’s sunset
Sant’Agata Sunset
With Viola
The Impossible Project PX70 Push!
Polaroid SX70 Model 2
A shot I did a couple of years ago, I was enjoying a beautiful sunset from the top of Saint Agata’s hill in Tremona, Switzerland. This shot is quite a popular between my uploads online. After shooting some packs of PX70 Push! film I was sick of its tones, always the same, but when I look back at pictures such as this one I really miss shooting on that film. It’s discontinued now, but maybe I can find some unsold pack somewhere.
Uno scatto che ho fatto un paio di anni fa, mi stavo godendo un bellissimo tramonto dalla cima della collina di Sant’Agata a Tremona, Svizzera. È uno scatto abbastanza apprezzato tra i miei upload su internet. Dopo avere scattato alcuni pacchetti di pellicola PX70 Push! mi ero stufato dei suoi toni, sempre gli stessi, ma quando riguardo foto come questa mi manca davvero scattare su quella pellicola. È fuori produzione ormai, ma forse riuscirò a trovare dei pacchetti non ancora venduti da qualche parte.
Got a reversal film processing kit
Since I started developing black and white film by myself I was curious on color negative and reversal process. I bought a Super-8 camera months ago and got a Kodak reversal film for it from a friend. I haven’t used it yet but I looked around for lab that are still developing super-8 film and put it on digital media. The two things seems to be pretty expensive, especially the latter, plus I should send the film to other countries. Then going through the web I found out that some people develop their super-8 reversal film in regular photographic tanks with the chemicals for E6 process. The result was not bad at all, obviously it wasn’t perfect in colors and it had a lot of uneven developed zones but it still looked great. I also have several 120 color reversal expired film that I’d love to experiment with so I thought it was time to get the stuff for the process. On eBay I found quite a good deal (see picture below):
Da quando ho cominciato a sviluppare da solo pellicole bianco e nero mi ha incuriosito lo sviluppo dei negativi a colore e di positivi. Qualche mese fa ho acquistato una cinepresa Super-8 e ho recuperato una pellicola positiva Kodak tramite un’amica. Non l’ho ancora usata ma mi sono guardato intorno per trovare un servizio di sviluppo e di digitalizzazione. Le due cose sembrano essere piuttosto costose, soprattutto la seconda, in più dovrei spedire la pellicola all’estero. Poi navigando il web ho scoperto che alcune persone sviluppano le proprie pellicole positive super-8 nelle tank fotografiche con la chimica per lo sviluppo E6. Il risultato non è per niente male, ovviamente i colori non erano perfetti e lo sviluppo non era omogeneo, ma aveva comunque una bella resa. Inoltre ho alcune pellicole positive 120 scadute con cui mi piacerebbe sperimentare, perciò ho pensato che fosse giunta l’ora di procurarmi la roba per lo sviluppo. Su eBay ho trovato un’offerta piuttosto interessante (vedi la foto sotto):
Toner, powder developer, liquid developer, fixers, and a three bath color reversal kit plus some stuff I couldn’t fit in the picture. I was directly interested only in the color reversal kit, but all the other goodies are going to be useful too. I got all of this for 60€, do you think it is a good price? I’m not sure about it, but I hope so.
I’ve read the reversal developer manual but I’m unsure if I actually got how to do it, I remain confused even after video tutorials. Does any of you have any advice or links to a good tutorial? I’ll try it first on those expired film or on lomography film, if it will work I’ll think of a super-8 video then :)
Viraggio, rilevatore in polvere, rilevatore liquido, fissaggio e un kit per lo sviluppo di pellicole positive in tre bagni più altra roba che non stava nella foto. Ero veramente interessato solo al kit per pellicole positive, ma anche il resto di quel tesoro mi sarà utile. Ho pagato il tutto 60€, pensate che sia un buon prezzo? Io non ne sono sicuro, ma lo spero proprio.
Ho letto le istruzioni del kit ma non sono sicuro di aver capito bene come funzioni, e rimango altrettanto confuso dopo i video tutorial. Qualcuno di voi ha dei consigli o dei link a buoni tutorial? Proverò prima con quelle pellicole scadute on con pellicola lomography, se funzionerà inizierò a pensare a un filmato da girare in super-8 :)
Francesca at the rapelli
Agata
Agata
Polaroid TZ-Artistic Expired
Polaroid SX-70 Model 2
One of my early shots from 2010. My friend Agata was having her make up done for my sister’s calendar photo shooting. I miss TZ-Artistic film now, I only shoot two packs of it, my first packs ever.
Uno dei miei primi scatti del 2010. La mia amica Agata stava venendo truccata per gli scatti di un calendario fatto da mia sorella. Mi manca la pellicola TZ-Artistic ora, ne ho scattati solo due pacchetti, i miei primissimi.
Aleksandra
Yo-Landi Vi$$er loop
It’s been a while since my last post, I’m very busy for my graduation. I was browsing some stuff I have online in this lazy sunday and I found this gif loop of Yo-Landi Vi$$er I did when the I fink u freeky video from Die Antwoord came out. The video is co-directed by Roger Ballen. I saw them live for the second time in Milano last friday night, it was totally rad.
È passato un po’ dal mio ultimo post, sono occupatissimo con la tesi di laurea. Stavo navigando tra la roba che ho archiviato online in questa domenica pigra e ho trovato questo gif in loop di Yo-Landi Vi$$ser che ho fatto quando il video I fink you freeky de Die Antwoord è uscito. Il video è codiretto da Roger Ballen. Venerdì scorso li ho sentiti dal vivo per la seconda volta a Milano, è stato assurdo.
Here’s the video, if you are curious about it:
Ecco il video, se vi ha incuriositi:
Architecture (Pala San Giorgio)
Instant film cool storaging
Today I was filling my cart on The Impossible Project Shop (hey, if you think to register to the shop, would you mind sending me an e-mail first? So I will send you the invite, that way I can acquire points for bonuses reserved to Pioneer accounts. I would appreciate it a lot), and while looking at the latest Cool film editions description I though that if that film would be better to be kept cool in the fridge then probably EVERY Impossible film would better to. I’ve been keeping in fridge only original Polaroid expired films, darkroom chemicals and for some reason the Dry Age Kits containing some photographs I wanted to prevent from turning orangish or some other surprise. So I took all the film packs from my film drawer and – woa! – I didn’t notice I had so many film packs in there! In particular I have 8 packs of PX600 UV+ Black Frame Poor Pod, a very popular and totally sold out edition because sold in very cheap combo-packs since their “poor pod” is cause of defective pictures. I had those from the official store in Vienna last summer and I’m using those mainly for experimenting. I went to the fridge where I store film and chemicals, it was a total mess in there, so I wanted to clean it up a little. In that moment I realized that I shouldn’t be buying any more film for a long while.
Sorry for the bad cellphone snapshot. On the back of the stack there are around a dozen of Polaroid Type-100 expired film packs (Chocolate, Sepia and Blue) and a bunch of expired Polaroid Softtone. I have one single pack of expired Polaroid 600 film that a kind friend of mine gave me, I’ve never shot on that film and I feel nervous about it just as I felt when shooting on TZ-Artistic. The green one in the middle is a pack of Fujifilm FP-100C, found out it expired a couple of months ago but that shouldn’t be a big trouble. It’s the contemporary choice of color film for cameras such as Polaroid Automatic 100, Polaroid 600 SE and many Polaroid back for different cameras (see my SL66 post). It’s a bit expensive but the color and sharpness of the picture is excellent. There’s one pack of PX100 test film left (that one without outer box and with a raw label on it, pretty underground huh?), PX70 color shade and its special edition NIGO which features borders with different colors, PZ600 Black Frame that I never tried and – that makes me laugh – the PX600 Gold Edition: black and white high-speed film with golden border. When they came out I though “oh man, this is trash” but I wanted to shoot on them anyway, I’m still waiting for a special occasion though.
Now all these film packs are stored in the fridge along with darkroom chemicals, my suggestion is to always keep film packs in fresh and dry environment (around 5-7°C I guess) when you are not using them, never freeze them and before use wait a few minutes until their temperature is back to normal. If you have any question or suggestion please, don’t hesitate to leave a comment!