A month or so ago, I tried to mess around with Polaroid’s 35mm instant slide films, including the blue-white contrasting film PolaBlue. My first test results weren’t all that spectacular, and I was about to give up on the project entirely.
Then I found another couple of canisters of both PolaBlue and PolaChrome film, and thought – you know what, I can’t just give up with this film. Maybe I caught a bad batch. Maybe I didn’t have the right settings. Maybe that Nikkormat FTn wasn’t the best camera to shoot this stuff with.
So this time I loaded a fresh cartridge of PolaBlue film into my new Nikon F100. Thursday morning and afternoon, I took the camera through downtown Albany and shot a few things here and there.
Brought the cartridge home, developed it – yes, the film comes with its own developing kit and I have a mechanical developer – and here’s what I got from the cartridge this time. Now granted, I could airbrush those red smudges out, but maybe I’ll do that at another time.
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Today I’m posting the PolaBlue. Tomorrow I’m posting the PolaChrome, along with a very interesting “comparison” shot.
Chuck The Writer 
Chuck, I am so happy for you! Of course you did it once again. You got the results you have been working towards with that film. After listening to you and your excitement and hoping you would get this affect with the film YOU DID IT! I am excited for you. I enjoy all the work you do. However, I Really enjoy listening to you in your creative mode. Your excitement when your in the thought, creative mode is great. You have inspired me to write again. I hope to keep it up. Thanks Again Chuck!
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