The Don Quijote theme song got lodged in my brain after shopping there and occasionally pops up without warning. "Don, Don, Don kee-ho-taaaaaaaaay!"

A1: No, but I got my daughter a Kodak Charmera and she loves it! #photochat

A2: Every year I do photos at a neighborhood winter solstice celebration called the Parade of Spirits. Aside from that, family photos during the holidays. And there is a big snowstorm coming up this weekend... #photochat

A3: A lens hood to shield the front element, a towel in the bag to dry stuff off, a pack cover for my camera bag if it's really supposed to pour. It also helps if your camera is weather resistant! #photochat

IIRC someone said that in the case of peel-apart films like Type 55 the machinery was lost but the chemistry is known. For integral films Impossible saved the machinery but had to recreate the chemistry.

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The chemistry for peel-apart b/w isn't complicated but all the precision manufacturing machinery is gone. New55 had to recreate a pod-filling machine, paper coating was a struggle. Packets were hand-assembled with night vision goggles. Despite my gripes I am amazed at what they accomplished!

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I loved that the negative was still sensitive to light after a peel, and it would solarize if it didn't go into fixer right away. I did not love the prints - they were hot garbage - and the iffy quality control. Clips that fell off, too much chemistry in the pods that would gum up the rollers.

In 2016 I had high hopes for New55, a recreation (of sorts) of Polaroid Type 55. Even taught a workshop on using it. That‘s gone.

In ‘15 or ‘16 my local lab shut down their E6 line so I started shooting less slide film and more B/W.

Meet Dr. Abraham Horatio Pickles, employee of the Book Trader in Philly.

Meanwhile Texas has moved east, between Siorigia and Glfekkns.