Thanks Dave!

For anyone who might enjoy knowing a little more about the Polaroid
SX-70 technology, this YouTube video is a neat 10 minute overview of
its technology:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaiq_ZZ_eM

I'm convinced that Dr Edwin Land was a genius, and that he came here
in a spaceship.

G

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:13 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> The first one and the one of the single egg are the two I like the
> best, but they all have a nice feel to them
>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I decided to work with another pack of film in the Polaroid SX-70 this week, 
>> trying The Impossible Project "PX-70 Silver Shot" B&W film. Only eight 
>> exposures in all for one pack ... makes you think. I decided to play with 
>> small scale still life stuff ... just experimenting still. :-)
>>
>> Slide show of eight images:
>>
>>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157629483212697/show/
>>
>> To scan them efficiently proved a bit of a challenge as the prints tend to 
>> curl and jump around as you try to position them on the scanner platen. I 
>> came up with a neat system using a little piece of tape with a folded over 
>> corner and a jig to position them on the platen in a registered position ... 
>> once I had that worked out, I set up the parameters in VueScan and 
>> standardized the exposure so it only took ten minutes to scan all eight at 
>> 1600ppi.
>>
>> I like the way this camera and film images ...!
>>
>> Comments are always appreciated. Thanks for looking.
>>
>> Godfrey
>> -
>> flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/
>>
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