Look what someone gave me... an unopened box of Polaroid Type 55.... I used to shoot about 3 boxes per month until they stopped making it. Yahoo!
For those that don't know, this was a film that Polaroid made before their ultimate demise. From one "instant" photo you got a 4x5 inch Polaroid print as well as a very high quality 4x5 negative. You had to put the negative through a sodium sulfite solution to fix the image, then wash, Photo-Flo, and dry. Not sure how many boxes of this I shot back in the '80s, '90s and 00's, but I just about cried when they stopped making it. These have got to be the last 20 sheets of it I'll ever see again... Now what to do with them?
For those that don't know, this was a film that Polaroid made before their ultimate demise. From one "instant" photo you got a 4x5 inch Polaroid print as well as a very high quality 4x5 negative. You had to put the negative through a sodium sulfite solution to fix the image, then wash, Photo-Flo, and dry. Not sure how many boxes of this I shot back in the '80s, '90s and 00's, but I just about cried when they stopped making it. These have got to be the last 20 sheets of it I'll ever see again... Now what to do with them?
MAY 09, 2012 03:48 PM
MAY 09, 2012 04:39 PM
MAY 09, 2012 05:47 PM
take pictures of me, of course!
MAY 09, 2012 07:57 PM
That sounds cool! I hope you find something totally worth the historic last box 
MAY 10, 2012 12:11 PM
I'm excited to see what you make of the last box in the world 
MAY 11, 2012 04:52 AM
wow...be interesting to see what you do with them and I remember them,vaguely
MAY 11, 2012 05:52 PM
I was going to suggest donating it to the Smithsonian...but that would be a waste of something potentially brilliant, I'm sure.
I miss my little Polaroid snaps. Another lovely thing lost to the digital age. *sigh*
