Re: Polaroid film

[Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan writes:
Members may be interested to know that I have just used a pack of Polaroid 
1200 instant film in a Polaroid "Image Pro" camera - and found it still 
yielding good pictures.  The pack expiry date is 10/08, and if the stamping 
on each picture is a guide, it was actually made in 2007.  The inbuilt 
battery still works, and the color balance is still typically Polaroid !

This for a film-pack which has lain in a drawer inside my house for at least 
2 years, and not in a refrigerator.  I don't know if this is unusual, but it 
does seem to indicate a film pack could be usable long after the printed 
expiry date. Alas I have only a few more original Polaroid packs in a 
refrigerator, the very last of the line.


nice!  Have you any of the positive/negative film lying about?  I found that 
to have one of the bost beautiful color responses and tonal ranges of all 
B&W films..

I had some b&W polaroid film dated 1968 which performed quite acceptably 
when I used it in the late 90's - somewhere in the house I still have some, 
along with some colour similarly dated - the colour film was not so 
brilliant with most of the chemical satchels having gone hard

k