Impossibly Polaroid

I got an announcement last night that the Impossible Project is releasing its new SX-70 films this week. They have already given a bunch of it to photographers around the world to let them test it. What luck for them. By the project's own account, the film is temperamental and quirky, so these photographers got to find a way to work with the film for free. The rest of us will have to pay to find our exposures. With all the money I spend on Polaroid film, I would have liked to be one of the privileged ones. Maybe next time.

The big great news for me, though, is not that they have made an integral film but that they have plans to work with 8x10 film and 24x20 emulsion films again. They have shipped the equipment from Massachusetts to Europe and will spend some time working on that. No promise and no date. Still, it is incredibly good news to me.

The bad news is that they have no plans to produce the peel apart film that I use now. Last night, I bought up some more of the last known 669 film on the planet. If any of you want a print, you can buy me some more film. I'll send you the address. I don't want to post it here because I don't want somebody else to buy it. There is truly only a very little of this carefully preserved film left.

The photo above is an example of one of the new films. I am breaking one of my own rules here by posting a photo I've not asked permission to post, but it is good advertising for the project and the fellow who took the film didn't have to pay for the film. I don't know his name. He posted this with the initials CDR.