{"id":273,"date":"2010-11-25T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-11-25T00:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:21","slug":"flicker-of-the-day-sx-70-time-zero-photo-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/flicker-of-the-day-sx-70-time-zero-photo-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Flicker of the day: SX-70 Time Zero photo manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SX-70 is a fascinating little camera made by Polaroid back in the early 70’s. One of the things that makes this camera interesting is that the film it uses, Time-Zero, can be manipulated after the picture is taken using your fingers or other things like pencils or toothbrushes. Even without the manipulation, the film has a unique look to it – strangely tinted skies and color-cast subjects, with a hazy, unfocused look combine for an overall effect – dark, ethereal and morose, almost archaic. Today, there are still people using the SX-70 to create these heavily artistic images that take you back to a time when the world was a little more innocent, yet much much stranger and exotic, with shadowed mysteries around every corner and things you wonder about all around.<\/p>\n

Here is a shot by tobysx70 on flickr that demonstrates the photo manipulation technique.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a nice shot of London done with Time Zero film.<\/p>\n

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It really is amazing to me how creative you can get when the technology in your hands is limited; would I get a shot that conveys as much emotion and feeling as the above if I was using my crystal clear Canon EOS? I wonder what would happen if I took the shot with an SX-70, with its dirty rollers and its inclination to distort and discolor the image as it develops. I have an SX-70 with one pack of Time-Zero film. That’s ten exposures. I wonder what I should shoot with them.<\/p>\n

See the Time Zero Collective<\/a> group on flickr.com for more.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8426916@N04\/5016660084\/in\/pool-timezero#\/photos\/8426916@N04\/5016660084\/in\/pool-58144320@N00\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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