Polaroid 690 film

topic posted Sat, November 13, 2004 - 1:22 AM by  Marvin K.
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As far as I can tell, I don't recommend using polaroid 690 film for image transfer. I had some really funky in a bad way effects the other day and had some other people tell me similar stories.
I'm gonna make another test just to be sure and will post that when I have some actual results(I only used 3 or so leftover shots to just play around last time).
The polaroid website acually has an article on using 690 so I'm gonna try again.

www.polaroid.com/global/pr...iendly.jsp


Anybody else have experience with 690 transfers?
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Marvin K.
Los Angeles
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  • Re: Polaroid 690 film

    Mon, January 10, 2005 - 5:17 PM
    Mike, i have yet to try using the new 690 film for image transfers however, the 669 film has always produced great results for me so i tend to stick with whats tried and true. would be interested how your attempts with 690 turn out. cheers.

    • Re: Polaroid 690 film

      Mon, January 17, 2005 - 9:04 PM
      I think I have to agree with you, dart. The 690 is a nice convienence at 100 ASA, but the 669 is just better for image transfer, no matter what Polaroid says.
      I will try to post a transfer from that run up here on the tribe or on my profile.
  • Re: Polaroid 690 film

    Tue, January 11, 2005 - 5:26 PM
    Mike - I just received my Daylab for Christmas and haven't tried 690 film yet. I was unhappy with the color I was getting from 669 & printed my slides on Fujifilm instead. The color on Fuji prints is great, I'm going to attempt an emulsion lift on some dud prints soon (although I'm not sure it'll work)
    About the 690 - I wrote to Polaroid regarding the color of the 669 and whether or not 690 would work for emulsion lifts or image transfers (since it looks like that color is more saturated) They sent me to their website for the specific instructions on using 690 for image transfers, but pointed out that 690 will not work for emulsion lifts at all.
    • Re: Polaroid 690 film

      Mon, January 17, 2005 - 9:12 PM
      Congrats on the Daylab- the color balance feature is cool. Especially when trying to make polaroid transfers.
      And I use a lot of Fuji Velvia when I use my Vivitar machine. I think the saturation does help the color on the final product. The 690 test I just did was straight from my RZ-67 so maybe that had something to do with the colors, but I doubt it, cause straight from the camera should be the best.
      Oh wait, are you talking about the fuji polaroid substitute film? Never tried that stuff, would be interested to hear how that works. I go back and forth between favorites of transfer or lift. With emulsion lifts, I found that waiting too long would really make them hard to take off- 2 days seemed to be the longest I could safely wait.
      • Re: Polaroid 690 film

        Wed, January 26, 2005 - 4:51 PM
        I experimented with my bad prints on 669 film to get the process down for emulsion lifts. They had sat around for a couple weeks and it was difficult to lift the first couple, but I did get the hang of it and managed to get a couple of decent lifts (and the images look better lifted than they did just as a print!)

        The Fuji I was talking about was the Fujifilm instant substitute film. The colors are excellent for saturated prints, so I tried to do emulsion lifts with those too... the emulsion liftes much easier than the polaroid film (it had much less goo, or what I call "photo snot" under the emulsion) but the edges curled and I couldn't manipulate it on the watercolor paper very much. After it totally dried I discovered the emulsion didn't stay attached to the paper, whereas the polaroid emulsion sort of became a part of the paper. Which is probably why most people have said you can't do emulsion lifts with Fuji. You can, but they won't stick to anything else once you get them off. I suppose if I Modpodged the emulsion they'd stay on whatever I wanted them to stick to (which may be cool for something like a glass candle holder or something?) I'll post examples when I get around to scanning them.
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          Re: Polaroid 690 film

          Wed, January 26, 2005 - 11:43 PM
          Just to let you all know, the Polaroid 669 emulsion is the best for Image Transfers and Emulsion Lifts. It's a shame that the colors are limited. It's the nature (read: old technology) of the emulsion that allows it to lift or transfer.

          Polaroid will only make available instructions for processes that work. They want you to be successful so that you will buy more film.

          Artists will always experiment. Sometimes it's expensive and frustrating. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

          And sometimes you get art.
          • Re: Polaroid 690 film

            Thu, January 27, 2005 - 10:14 AM
            I do like the muted colors of Polaroid for some shots, it's just a shame it won't work for all my photos. I've seen some examples online of Polaroid transfers that had brilliant colors, but then I went back and read the fine print and it said "hand tinted image transfer" so I have to assume the artist added those colors after the transfer and it wasn't in the film. (I assumed I was doing something wrong) I think I'm in the midst of a learning process trying to figure out which shots will work with the Polaroid tones and which ones I should just print on Fuji and be done with them.

            I was just thinking this morning that the Fuji emulsion lifts I have would make great sun catchers if I can adhere them to glass clearly.
            • Re: Polaroid 690 film

              Sun, February 4, 2007 - 12:05 PM
              Fabulous idea about putting them on glass, but keep in mind they will fade within a couple of weeks if exposed to direct sun, sorry :(

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