Digital BW, The Print

Something I do a lot when I shoot 4x5 for myself (most of the time I am
using a roll back and agfapan25). The results on 55 are magic when you get
it right. It has a beautiful tonal range, very, very fine razor sharp grain,
and while Skip didn't elaborate, the exposure for a good neg is not a good
exposure for a print . . . Polaroid acknowledges this and addresses it in
their data sheets. If you go this route, practice until you get a feel for
the material and then pull the sheets without processing . . . do it later
at home. Using their little sand bucket and trying to clear this stuff while
you are fighting off mountain lions, killer bees and williwaws is not a good
idea.

Downside? It is a little expensive and it is delicate (which is why it is
better to process in a confined area). It is also an enviromental hazard,
but then so is the excess byproduct from computer manufacturing, so I guess
we are excused. (maybe we can get Christo to wrap an island with all those
discarded monitors instead of pink sheets?).

good luck
Paul Aparycki

>I'd likely dev the negs myself, and then scan the negs on a 4990
flatbed
> (not too pricey) and digi-print from there.  No room for a wet
darkroom. Scott

Try Polaroid Type 55 film on a 4x5 LF. Shoot for either a neg
orprint-not both-and
scan on a flatbed scanner for b/w digital printing without a
darkroom. Groovyborders if you
so choose...skip