@Rodeo....Just because your paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you. I made no reference to you did I?, yet you jump on this as if I had. I am not remotely interested in you or how many uploads you have made, and why do you feel it appropriate to compare my uploads?, next you will be bleating 'My Dads bigger than your Dad". I stopped putting images on here ages ago, it serves no purpose whatsoever, other than ego feeding. Whereas I feed my own ego from admiring my own film archive of over 1 million images, my vintage prints and my own private Polaroid collection including Hockney's Warhols, Newtons (Helmut NOT Rings) Nick Night, Bailey, Jim Dine and Mark Quinn, plus the very very nice people who took me up on my swap offer. I can count on 2 hands the number of snappers on here who's work I truly admire and that is only why I look in now and again, that and to enjoy VF and Jays banter, but I can assure you, there is very little else to admire. Not least the unbearable smothering in wet dream juice of the IP products. Now, I was going to contact you to sell some of my massive stock of vintage SX-70 film, but now, instead, out of pure lust for personal gratification....I am offering 1 pack of vintage SX-70 film to the first person who posts on here........

"Dont worry Mike, I love your work so much that the SoTD voting system is no way near praise enough, it is only there for the benefit of the paranoid and delusional, who need constant reminder of how truly great they really are'.

:)

P.S just to annoy VF even more :), find me on FB and see just how much T664 I took delivery of yesterday, all of which will be shot within a month.

Rodeo, your fckr explanations remind me of those implausible stories people tell emergency room staff when they when they describe how a vacuum cleaner nozzle "fell" up their sphincter. It's alright, my sweet. There's no need to explain your dark inclinations to us. We know they're there and we love you anyway. I've been to facebook a few times myself. And I dream of fckr all the time. Now shhhhhh.

Cripes. I certainly never dreamed that anyone would think that I was seriously suggesting I thought self-pollenation among humans was possible or that this hypothetical ability would automatically mark any nation in which it arose as an inferior nationality. (As an unsuccessful self-pollenator myself, I personally think it would mark them as quite the reverse!)

My favourite camera is also Esther's 195. I often dream of being Esther's 195 as it vicariously fulfills nearly all my earthly ambitions for me.

So I don't even need to break sweat.

I'll be drinking and dreaming in colour tonight. Well done Impossibles!

Carmen- True- that does make the process of elimination easier. This is the most fun the newsfeed has been in ages.

Esther: better than my dream? we were still speaking afterwards then!

I speak my thoughts maybe too loud this time but reading the last impossible news letter, i got a bit annoyed.

I hope before they spend time building a new great camera, they have already figure out how to recreate some kind of peel apart 4x5 color and B&W films, 8x10 films, chocolate type 100 (since it's such a success) and so many other ones that are sadly not to be found anymore or soon over. plus they still have a lots of details to work out with the PX type they just released (not saying they are bad at all)
isn't that what we really need?
don't get me wrong, i think it's great they wanna build a new camera. it's probably part of a good selling strategy but
there are tones of cameras out there. not new of course, but they still work fine, and ready to be loaded by hot films the impossible would come up with.

what we are missing is what to put in it, right?

i will probably send them what is my dream come through camera.
but i hope they are not spending to much time away from where the real problem and need is.
or maybe they have many teams working on different things at the same time
like big firm or brand does.

i should probably ask them directly and not post this here, but i guess i'm more interested to know your opinions. plus i'm sure they will read it eventually.

share your wet camera dreams with us!
»link

(impatient ones try this one »link)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti IP at all...I think they are doing great things. I am just going to wait until the film is more stable (I exhibit my Polaroids, and can't exhibit things that don't exist or have faded.)

So I will wait until either 1.) i become a millionaire and can afford to throw money away, or b.) the film gets more usable for the purposes which I need

In the meantime i will buy expired Pola stock because for the same money as IP film, I can get almost guaranteed usable images.

It's all very exciting, and I'm all for keeping the dream alive...I have patience and know it will get better with time.

What worries me is my non obsessive friends, who got given PX for birthdays, etc...one pack here and there as gifts, or bought themselves at vast expense from the photographer's gallery. They are so discouraged by the results they may not buy again...they have lived this long without pola film, they don't need it like a drug like me! these people, the non diehards need to be converted- they don't go online and read all the literature, or sit on forums. They just feed their cameras and end up with poor results.

How do you convince these people?

PX film ageing

nobody is happy about vanishing/dissolving images, no question.
neither doc, nor the guys at enschede, not even the loony webbo like this feature.
please believe me, TIP is currently putting all its efforts into tracking down the problem and finding ways to solve it.
trying to find solutions to avoid it in the next production run, solutions for the packs already produced.
and of course the problem was not known before TIP started selling the film.
of course TIP does not voluntarily produce and sell film with such problems.
neither the LLP nor the ageing problems were known when the film was sent to the warehouses.

there are a couple of ageing phenomena,
they are being studied at the moment and will be documented on the TIP page shortly
hopefully including tips on how to avoid them.

the ageing issue IS a problem, and of course the unhappiness about it is understandable.

however..
..a big thankyou to all of you, who "defend" TIP here and in the various flickr discussions and who keep the faith.
it's not meant cynical when we say that people who support TIP by buying film are "part of the adventure of re-inventing instant film"
it is a fact.

it IS an adventure and the outcome is not certain yet.
either we will have a stable, easy-to-use integral film for an affordable price in a couple of years, and will happily laugh about all the obstacles on the way, and be proud we overcame them..
..or we will have nuffin to put into our Polaroid cameras anymore and will have to document our tearstained eyes with the digicam on our cellphones.
"nuffin" - that is the alternative - it's a simple fact.

the "we" in the above sentences means everybody who keeps the project alive by supporting it.
"the-impossible-project" does not only consist of the employes at enschede and the few weirdos who put all of their private money into this uncertain dream, it much more consists of the thousands (hopefully millions) of people out there who believe in the same dream.

so please keep believing *


grazie
and
buona giornata

humbly

W