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Viva Polaroid!

I replaced my Polaroid Automatic 210 (which replaced my J66) with an automatic 450. Not an ordinary Polaroid camera. It has a Zeiss-Ikon glass lens and rangefinder. Using Fuji 100c pack film, I'm back in business. (I've got a pack of 100 B&W in the frig waiting, probably for winter shots. Those produce a B&W paper negative that can be scanned and reversed for great moody B&W shots.)

I think the focus is a bit off on the rangefinder, so I'll align that later. I'm going to try a new process with these - bleached negatives. I saved the peel-away negatives for most of my shots. Later, I'll tape them onto a glass plate and bleach the processing chemicals off revealing a negative that I can scan. The negative will be thinner and have muted colors compared with a traditional color negative. However, from scans I've seen from other folks, these are sharper with wonderful pastel colors. I'm stoked to see what these reveal. These shots were taken at Camp Nelson Cvil War historic site in Jessamine County, KY.