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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Streaky


This is a good (if that's the right word) example of the 
streaking common in some low cost Polaroids.

 

5 comments:

  1. As uncle Charlie said “Thank god for instant film ! Though that developing gel was a mess, and don’t have to worry about that damned Kodak lab down the street destroying my male art !”
    I think they kept uncle Charlie’s male art for themselves !…:)

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  2. I recall some black and white Polaroids I shot in the 1960s developing these streaks even after I coated them with the pink gel. Not sure why. -Dee Exx

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    1. They hadn't perfected the technology yet, not that they ever really did.

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  3. One way to take nudies and not worry about the labs confiscating them.
    That early developing gel was a mess no matter how you tried and streaks were very common.

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    1. Eventually they got better, and the mess factor was pretty much gone by the mid-1980s, at least on the pricier models.

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