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Re: A film question -- Polaroid 55
Old 04-22-2007, 01:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SamBeasley View Post
... I'm wanting to try Polaroid 55 film -- the one that makes both a positive and a negative -- and I know you have to clear the negative in sodium sulfite. The question is, how many negatives can you put through the sulfite? I'm assuming you can reuse it to some degree, right?
Gosh, it's been almost 15 years since I've shot Type 55, but I can remember making up about a couple of pints of the solution in a 4x5 film development tank and using it all day on a full-day of product shots - musta been 80 or 90 shots, if I remember right.
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