Make Polaroid transfers

denies, saar & klaar.

So they stopped producing time-zero film.
I guess I give up.
I can’t afford to buy up the last batches of it on eBay.

I’ve never done much experimenting with film. I have a nice digital SLR, but I’ve never had an opportunity to use a darkroom so I never learned how to develop film. I think Polaroid transfers would be a great place to start. Recently, I read that one of my favorite photographers, Mike Brodie, used a Polaroid sx70. I have a Polaroid 600 series, but I’d like to get the same kind that he uses. I’m watching one on eBay right now so hopefully I’ll win. The type of film that he uses is the time-zero stuff that Polaroid just stopped making. So basically the only place to find that film is on eBay. But I guess I’ll wait to win the camera before I buy the film.

I have several obstacles here:

1. I don’t have the Daylab equipment
2. I don’t have the space to really do this. That’s why I want to finish another room in my house and use it as a studio.
3. A lot of the subject matter I use for photography is architectural and I run into parallax problems (coverging lines). I think I might need a shift lens and they are expensive. I was thinking of switching to digital, but can you use a shift lens on a digital SLR?
4. Then there’s the dilemma of converting the images to slides (which you need for the DayLab Polaroid transfer). I could shoot directly to slides with my SLR using a shift-lens if needed. Or, have slides made after shooting either onto film or shooting with a digital camera. Too many decisions!

Well this is one of my first attempts. A lot of fun but the film is pricey.