fun with fuji in the fall

a very generous photographer friend of mine recently gave me a supply of large format film including some fuji instant color film. it's like polaroid film but this stuff is so much more spectacular.

when you look at a print it feels like you are looking at the scene through a very clean window - like you could reach in and touch it. the colors are bright and clear and since there is no enlargement in the print, the details are as sharp as you could ever imagine.

here are a few pictures taken on the fuji instant film with my large format camera. unfortunately my scanner can't reproduce the quality and detail in the pictures so you'll have to use your imagination.

elliot and sam in our front yard (sam had just thrown some leaves up in the air)



the first test run of the fuji instant film

elliot actually took this picture of me

fun with an old polaroid

this cumbersome piece of machinery is the polaroid 101 "automatic" land camera named after edwin land - polaroid's founder. it was made in the mid-sixties and originally cost about $135 - i got mine for $35 at an antique store in parowan, utah. sweet.

one of the things that makes this camera fun is the way the pictures are made. after taking the picture, you pull a small paper tab which comes out completely but also exposes another tab. as you pull this tab a small pocket of chemicals is broken open and is spread over the picture. you wait about a minute, peel the picture away and there is your picture! the black and white film worked well overall but i was thoroughly unimpressed by the color film.

these were all taken with my polaroid land camera...

the kids

the girl

sammy watching for trains in boston

stay tuned for a post about the champion of instant photography...fuji large format instant film! oh yeah!