What it’s like to shoot portraits with resurrected peel-apart instant film
Sep 16, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Back in 2016, Fujifilm announced the discontinuation of FP-100C peel-apart instant film. It made many film photographers sad, but SuperSense is on a mission to bring the peel-apart film back to life. They launched a Kickstarter project to fund ONE INSTANT, the “next generation” Type 100 peel-apart instant film. And Mathieu Stern got to test it out. He teamed up with Chris Holmquist of SuperSense to demonstrate what it’s like to shoot with the new version of the familiar peel-apart film.
ONE INSTANT is a project led by Florian “Doc” Kaps, founder of The Impossible Project. He left Impossible in 2013, he formed SuperSense, and he’s been attempting to revive the peel-apart film ever since it got discontinued. His project got successfully funded via Kickstarter, and it’s available for pre-order.
It’s fun to see the “new” peel-apart film in action. In the first video, Chris explains that it was made out of film designed to work with Polaroid’s 20×24 instant cameras from 1978. There’s some surplus film left, and One Instant team cuts the master rolls. The film then gets adapted to work with all classic Type 100 pack film cameras.
When shooting with peel-apart film, it’s important to load it properly, but also to pull it out of the camera the right way. “Slow, strong, and straight” is the mantra to remember when pulling the film out, and then you just need wait three minutes for the photo to develop before you peel it apart.
In the second video, Chris and Mathieu take photos in Paris with the ONE INSTANT film. It seems that it takes a few attempts to get a good grip on it. But when you figure out the right technique and speed of pulling out the film, you’ll end up with some beautiful instant prints.
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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3 responses to “What it’s like to shoot portraits with resurrected peel-apart instant film”
Not new. Impossible have been making Polaroid films for ages.
Are u dense??
9$ for old Polaroid 690 film outdated in 2009 whit refreshed pods not is a return of packfilm and in a future price and quality not will be the same or better of Fuji fp 100 outdated in 2018,at 1 $ you shoot instax wide that use fp 100 c negative that print on Mylar and whit opacifier,but is modern version of peel apart Fuji film,is like to pay 9 times for a tank of fuel whit lead vs normal unleaded fuel,only to use and old car,top quality and whit vintage coolness,but always a car whithout electronic injection….