Digital BW, The Print

Carl Schofield writes:

"[Polaroid 55] negatives are beautiful and scan   
very well (I've been exposing at iso 32)."

I've found that the negatives are underexposed at 32.   I expose somewhere 
between 20 and 25.   Polaroid 55 is great stuff, and it scans wonderfully on the 
Epson 3200.   Lay the negatives, emulsion-side down, right on the glass, and 
lay the Epson 4x5 film carrier on top with the image centered in the hole for 
the 4x5 negative (the Polaroid 55 negs don't fit in my carrier but the carrier 
does a good job of holding the Polaroid 55 neg flat against the glass).

Can you freeze Polaroid 55 film for long shelf life?   Or do the chemicals 
not like that sort of thing?   I keep a couple of boxes in my fridge, but maybe 
I need to put more boxes into deep storage.

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


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