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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 540144" data-attributes="member: 9240">So, my film from the Impossible Project showed up Tuesday.&nbsp; I'm completely underwhelmed.&nbsp; 8 shots for for about $24.&nbsp; Film is EXTREMELY light sensitive, from what I'm told, so I'm forced to carry a card in my pocket to place over the print immediately as I remove it from the camera (I bought the extra long &quot;frog tongue&quot; from them as well which remains over the image after the shot instead of pulling back immediately as the old one did).&nbsp; Bit of a PITA, but so's developing your own negatives, right?&nbsp; The kicker for me is developing time.&nbsp; I kept reading &quot;about 30 minutes&quot; for a shot to develop.&nbsp; Truth is that after an hour it looked faded and without many details, but at 16 hours there was a lot more to see.&nbsp; Colors are still extremely muted at 36 hours and I don't know if it's stopped developing or not.&nbsp; I'm told that I need to keep it out of direct sunlight until the chemicals harden and the image is stiff.I can see the charm of this in a very lo-fi way, and if I was more the art photographer I might really explore it.&nbsp; The feeling of &quot;I never know what I'm going to get&quot; again has an artistic excitement about it as well, but again that's not me.So I suspect that I won't be ponying up any more cash for this stuff, but the remaining 23 photos I have (including B&amp;W film) have an opportunity to convince me otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 540144, member: 9240"] So, my film from the Impossible Project showed up Tuesday. I'm completely underwhelmed. 8 shots for for about $24. Film is EXTREMELY light sensitive, from what I'm told, so I'm forced to carry a card in my pocket to place over the print immediately as I remove it from the camera (I bought the extra long "frog tongue" from them as well which remains over the image after the shot instead of pulling back immediately as the old one did). Bit of a PITA, but so's developing your own negatives, right? The kicker for me is developing time. I kept reading "about 30 minutes" for a shot to develop. Truth is that after an hour it looked faded and without many details, but at 16 hours there was a lot more to see. Colors are still extremely muted at 36 hours and I don't know if it's stopped developing or not. I'm told that I need to keep it out of direct sunlight until the chemicals harden and the image is stiff. I can see the charm of this in a very lo-fi way, and if I was more the art photographer I might really explore it. The feeling of "I never know what I'm going to get" again has an artistic excitement about it as well, but again that's not me. So I suspect that I won't be ponying up any more cash for this stuff, but the remaining 23 photos I have (including B&W film) have an opportunity to convince me otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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