What have I done?

[wuyeah]

Hello all. I have come to ask this question and prepare for the worse.

 

I am using medium format camera with polaroid back. The film I am using is 690

color. I have done several things wrong, first after i seperated the film positive and

negative apart, i staged the positive together and they end up...sticking on to each

other and when i peal them apart, the color imaged got ripped...ouch

 

after my heart broken experience, i tell myself that as long i have my negative, i

should be fine. Then I see there are extra chemical on the negative, i

came "creatively" thinking i should use cold water to wash them...i have done it to

2 of my negative then, shock me to see it. There are something got washed away

by water! OMG.

 

Now all have left with is a real purple color negative (it was more like black). Am I

truely mess-up my negative to a degree that nothing can do to help?

 

I have search a bit that people said sodium sulfite& Hypo Clearing Agent can

develope polaroid negative. Should I even bother to do that with my purple

negative?

[nicholas_rapak]

William,

Most Polaroid films, with the exception of the 665/85/55 B&W pos/neg film, are

not designed to have a salvageable negative. The developing chemicals all but

ruin the negative, and no amount of developing chemicals are able to salvage it,

or so I have heard. I have never heard of one getting a viable negative from a

standard Polaroid peel-apart image pack.

[randall ellis]

http://www.polaroid.com/service/filmdatasheets/3_4/690fds.pdf

 

There is no negative produced with this film. The proper way to 'process' this film is to wait the time stated on the box (90 seconds) before separating the halves. Only the color print is retained, the rest is garbage. The above link is the data sheet for that film.

 

- Randy

[randall ellis]

One more thing, you have to let these prints dry before stacking them so that the emulsion side touches anything else or they will glue themselves to whatever they are touching. You might be able to soak them apart, but I've never done this so I can't say for certain if it will work or not.

 

- Randy