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Product Reviews:
Great film and color, August 23, 2005
Reviewer: Walter E. Ramsay
This is a great film the colors are great and sharp this film is the best
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Awesome Film, March 24, 2001
Reviewer: A customer
The Polaroid Spectra Platinum is the best Instant Film I've ever used.
I use this film for my Polaroid Colorshot USB Digital Printer. What I see
on the screen is what I get on the film. It is the most perfect transfer
of digital imaging I have ever seen.
Printing digitally on this film has it's advantages. No need to worry
about running out of ink. The film is instant. The film is resistant to
water because of it's built-in protective coating of plastic. The image
reproduces very quickly. Whereas a ink jet printer would take minutes...
I also use the film for my Polaroid Spectra 1200si which I love as well.
The photo is just as sharp as on regular film. The color is perfectly
balanced and the image quality is extremely sharp.
This is a great film by the great company Polaroid for either instant
traditional of instant digital photography. I would recommend it to anyone
on the planet.
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Polaroid's best integral film yet, December 2, 2000
Reviewer: William Sommerwerck "grizzled geezer"
When Polaroid introduced the SX-70 in 1972, its self-processing "integral"
film represented a major backwards step for instant color-print materials.
The need for the dyes to migrate through a titanium dioxide layer before
reaching the receptor sheet caused a significant loss of sharpness, as
well as a creamy "bloom" in areas of fine detail against a light
background (eg, bare branches against the sky).
Polaroid has not been able to make an integral film that matches the
overall quality of their peel-apart materials. The latter have detail and
a vivid edge sharpness the integral films will probably never achieve. But
the current Platinum film is unquestionably the best of its type.
Color rendition is noticeably improved. Platinum film can tolerate direct
comparison with the Macbeth color chart without suffering acute
embarrasment. The tonal scale has been lengthened without a loss of
saturation. (The 150-speed Time-Zero material has a noticeably shorter
scale, often producing excessively contrasty prints.) Sharpness is better
than any previous integral film (including the 150-speed), and the "bloom"
is lower than ever.
Nevertheless, Polaroid's integral materials do not match the overall
quality of modern color-negative films. The latter have multiple layers
and complex chemical interactions among the layers that allow both a wide
tonal scale and high saturation. It's unlikely Polaroid films will ever be
able to perform these chemical feats, so the gap between conventional and
instant-picture quality will continue to widen.
On the other hand, Polacolor (both peel-apart and integral) has a quality
rarely seen in negative films -- it looks almost three-dimensional.
There's depth -- an almost-palpable "roundness" -- you don't get from
Kodacolor or Fujicolor. The latter look flat by comparison.
A note about processing... Although Polaroid integral films give good
results over a wide temperature range, the highest saturation and cleanest
colors occur in the high 70s or low 80s. (I discovered this when I threw
several developing prints on top of a warm amplifier in a cool room. The
pattern of the amplifier's vent holes appeared in the print, with the
areas over the holes noticeably more vivid.) A warm Spring or not-too-hot
Summer day gives the brightest colors.
If you haven't taken Polaroid pictures in a long time, try the Platinum
film. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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