POLAROID Instant Slide Films

I recently won an ebaY auction for a Polaroid autoprocessor and it

came with one roll of Polablue film.<br>

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I was reading up a bit on this film and was rather astonished when I

saw that the speed was only 4 or 8! In other words... this film must

always be used with either a tripod or copystand and can't be

handheld.<br>

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Will I have to manually set the speed of the film on my Canon Rebel or

will the camera automaticallly set the speed of these films?<br>

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Also... what are YOUR experiences with this film? Do you find it easy

to work with? The instructions seem a little complicated for me!

Working with film that is so damn expensive is intimidating because I

don't want to screw things up, but I guess one can only learn by

doing.<br>

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Also... what FILMS do you prefer? The color, black & white, or high

contrast???<br>

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AND.. about the EXPIRATION DATES on this film... will the processing

packs work if the film was stored properly and the film is dated in

the late 80s???<br>

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ANY help or advice with this instant slide film is appreciated! Thanks!

Those films are no longer produced and I bet the roll you have is all dryed up. You won a prize with no use. Sorry about that.

 

Larry

What Larry said. But I have used Polaroid instant slide film (given to me by a friend, cold-stored since before expiration sometime in the 90s) and shot it without problems.

I have read about these films on the internet and several people use the film w/o any problem even though every pack of the film is expired. What makes you so sure it is dried up if stored properly?

If you want to try and get some go for it. But the chem packs do dry with age. Even if kept frozen but you never know untill you try them. Good Luck. I know because I have found alot of them also on the internet. I had one of the old Hand crank machines to process them and I did not find 1 good roll out of the 5 I got.

Larry

well... thanks for your input. I do value your opinion. That film is not cheap to be buying if it's useless because it's all dried up. I don't know... I really want to try this out... but I'm already getting discouraged. I had a roll of Polablue that I got in an ebaY auction that included an autoprocessor to- and the autoporcessor turned out to be a piece of crap... the knobs didn't even turn the film.

Kim but if you get even 1 image you like then it is worth it.<div></div>

I thought PolaBlue was a film used to make text presentations with a blue background and white text. I don't know what a photo would look like. Did you get instructions for the processor? I had one that broke and one that my brother gave me. The one that broke worked fairly well with their black and white positive film and the color film. The color was kind of grainy but the photos still seemed sharp. I don't suppose the package you bought came with the slide mounter. I haven't used it lately but will try it again soon. The slides might make some interesting photos when scanned.