As many of you will know, with the rapid advancements in
digital cameras, Polaroid ran into difficulties and the Dutch factory was sold
to the management. The factory, under the name of The Impossible Project, is
again producing SX-70 film to a different formula and slightly faster speed.
The first of the new film was called PX-70 Color Shade but that has now changed
to PX-70 Color Protection. I bought a box of 8 PX-70 Color Shade and tried it
on my test site, which only contains a very small amount of gold (1/4 oz) and
silver (2 oz). Happily the film has produced an aura, which you can see to the
left of centre. This seems to show that it is the SX-70 Single Lens Reflex
camera that produces the auras, rather than the film. So if you are buying an
SX-70 camera for aura photography, make sure you get the SLR type which views
through the lens. The non-SLR or box type has a separate viewfinder. For film
and refurbished cameras, start here:
