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Golden Girl
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I just got an sx-70 as a birthday present (after a bit of hinting :wink: ) Was too scared to pick it up for a few days, and wasted a rather expensive film pack experimenting :roll: , but really love it…. lots more experimenting needed but this was one of the first few….
Congrats on the SX-70. Yes it can be expensive to experiment but it’s worth it when you get a good one.
Thanks Dave :wink: The film was sx-70 blend film from unsaleable.com….I believe 600 film is the other type mainly used, but it needs to be modified and an nd filter used ?? Then I read somewhere else that its sufficient to use the light/dark controls to compensate for the faster 600 film. Could you shed any light on this before I waste anymore film? ( :roll: )
I’m not sure you can get away without using a ND filter unless you electronically modify the light sensor which is difficult to do.
Here is the official Polaroid notice on the subject.
http://www.polaroid.com/sx70/en/index.html
There have been many discussions on this in Flickr so t may be a good idea to browse through those too in case someone has found a way.
http://flickr.com/search/groups/?w=11961199%40N00&q=600
I still have a few packs of Time Zero left so haven’t played with 600 in my SX-70 yet but I also have a Pronto B which I stuck a two stop ND filter on and the results were pretty good.
I wonder if you could us a polarizer. Either way you can get ND filter quite cheap on e-bay. Waiting on my SX-70 , due to arrive any day now.
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