[LargeFormat] Sally Forth Unto A Bright New Day

[Les Newcomer]

My experience in Polaroid long term storage is not good.

During my assiting days I kept a spare box in the photographers spare wheel
well incase we needed it. This was the entire blue corregated box not just
the foiled white box.

Well we needed it one January so i went and got it and about two thirds of
the pods had burst leaving them useless.

And room temp storage doesn't work either.  This is one of the few things
that I watch the expiration date on, for B&W 3 to 4 months out is tops and
even less than that for color.

Polaroid keeps saying they are commited to the sheet film and pros.

but then Enron said they were in great shape, and the Titanic was
unsinkable.


I'd like to turn back time as see what would have transpired if Kodak had
acted on the proposal to buy Polaroid early on when it had the chance.
Considering Kodak fired all of it's B&W reasearch chemists in 1982 because
digital was just around the corner, maybe it's better for us that they
didn't.

Les

> From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:54:44 +0800
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Sally Forth Unto A Bright New Day
> 
> Dear Friends, and Tori Nelson,
> 
> I single you out, Tori, because you said nice things about me and you
> have the same first name as my daughter. If you agree to clean up your room
> and not leave pizza crusts and cast-off boyfriends lying around the house
> for me to stumble over, you can apply for her job....
> 
> Thank you for the vote of confidence. Should you wish to accompany that
> vote with a cash donation, I can email you my postal address. I accept all
> major currencies including Yap Island stone wheels.
> 
> On to large format photography. The correspondents are sorting out the
> water problem - the water stop and alkaline fixer sounds interesting and
> cheaper than the current prepacked material. One problem - if I use a water
> stop bath how will I know when it is exhausted? What colour will it change
> to?
> 
> I did a flow measurement last night for the Nova Speed washer I have.
> For a full flow from the outlet pipe and no overflow it uses 150 litres per
> hour. The recommended time for washing is 2 minutes so that uses 5 litres -
> my processing times and workflow are fairly consistent so there are prints
> going in and coming out on a regular basis - thus I can't really stop water
> flow during the printing time.
> 
> The final dip for stabilization is sounding pretty good for the C-41
> line.
> 
> And a final odd note - I visited my local camera knackers yard today and
> passed the time of day with the proprietor. He advised me to purchase as
> much sheet Polaroid for my 4 x 5 as I was likely to need and had capacity to
> freeze. His reasoning centered around a viability issue with the
> manufacturer and the unlikelihood of anyone else making 4 x 5 instant film
> in sheets.
> 
> Is this just a rumour or should I act accordingly and stock up? I do use
> a Polaroid 4 x 5 sheet back for studio tests. Sad if it becomes a relic -
> particularly since the Land Corp squashed the Kodak instant picture business
> all those years ago.
> 
> Uncle Dick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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