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Impossible History (So Far)

By On 6 February 2012 · Leave a Comment

A photographer named Heather Powazek Champ has just posted an excellent visual diary of Impossible‘s progress, from its first (somewhat frustrating) color film to its impressive new PX70. Click here to view.

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Maybe Not So Impossible After All: The New PX70

By On 31 January 2012 · 1 Comment

The Impossible Project—keepers of the SX70 flame—has had a tough go of it, and its name has, at times, seemed a little too on-the-nose. The company’s first films, released in mid-2010, were maddening to use, and some of them produced images that degraded to nothing within days. Every iteration of Impossible’s product gets a little […]

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Impossible Goes to Siberia

By On 11 January 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Impossible Project’s film does not cope well with cold climates, so hats off to David Gilkey, who used it to document wintry life aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway. The premodern-looking sepia images are uncannily appropriate for this setting, evoking as it does an era when travel (like photography) was far more difficult than it is […]

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“Can you still get film for that thing?”

By On 10 January 2012 · 9 Comments

I carry a Polaroid camera with me most days, and this is, hands-down, everyone’s favorite conversation-starter. The short answer is… it depends.

Briefly: Over the decades, Polaroid used nine* principal film formats, and although the company no longer makes any film, other manufacturers have picked up production for three of those. Fortunately, they are the ones […]

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