At last… it’s been a long-term project to work out the linguistics. The image is still rather rudimentary in design and concept (proof of concept project) , it does bear the seed of success (rather crudely).

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Image: Local playground, Carson City, NV. Metered gray card / ISO 500 / F25 @ 1/250. Modified PQ image receiving sheet / expired film 03/2014.

Camera Body: Modified Harman-Titan w/150 mm cone and pistol shutter release grip. Lens: Symmar-S 5.6-45/180mm, Copal 1 shutter T B 1-1/400, mounted on Fotoman 180mm Helical Focus LT mount/5.5ft.to infinity.
Viewer: Digital cradle mount.
Metering: GE DW 68.
Focus Aid: Bosch laser tape measurer.
Film: Polaroid(r) 8x10 cassette / Impossible B/W PQ 8 X 10 film and handcrafted experimental film / Modified receiving sheets.
[Assembled/mo dified from market-place components]

Scanner: 8 x 10 Film scanner was unavailable, so a Polaroid Z340 Digital was used with the transparency on a light table and a diffuser to soften the screen pattern.Enhancements : The only enhancement was importing into Photo Studio 5.5 with 100 percent saturation because of the pale colors were mixed with the black silver in the image receiving sheet.

NOTES: One thing about additive color is the colors can be changed to suit my mind’s eye of the scene. Both monochromic/color film materials will lose its ISO sensitivity as time pasts.One advantage with a monochromic negative and additive screen has, is it lessens the color bias that unexposed color multi-layer film negative is heir to as it ages.
Even with much hair pulling (I don’t have much anyway), it is a fun project. The next (Phase 2) will be, a more handcrafted integrated screen and a new silver nuclei image-receiving sheet (like some of my smaller images in the archives). The images then should resemble a hybrid between the obsolete Autochromes of the 1900;s and the Polaroid Polychromes.
Please excuse some vignette at the image plane, but that was expected.

NEXT PROJECT: Unknown….so please stay tuned…if you have an interest in such things. Thank you very much for having a peek.

TAKE CARE ALL AND GOOD HEALTH.FROM THE DESERT OF LONG SHADOWS…..JOHN GEE

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playground, b/w, 8x10, instant film, additive color screen, handcrafted

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additive color , alternatives , historically instant , r-sheets , 8x10s instant

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