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So expensive, works out at £2.37 for each picture taken, but I do love the nostalgia kick when the pictures come out OK. As others have said, you need good light or flashbar. The B&W has such a time travel vibe, but it's too expensive for regular use. A nice treat now and then though!
I love the result of every exposure I take with B&W sx70. It’s the perfect combination for my family documentation.
Get the setting right, choose the right lighting and on a well serviced machine, the monochrome film is charming with good tonal contrasts, but as with the colour film, each shot in every pack is a gamble for going right and developing into an image. You can get lucky with the flexibility, the attached shot was at night using an SX70 and original flashbar on a cold November night.
So great that they still produce film for the camera, but it is fairly cost prohibitive. Expect to make mistakes with the film exposure and burn through a few packs in different lighting to work out how to expose.
I've had more consistent results with the B&W film over the colour - similar to most of what I've read online. Given the cost I only use this for special occasions where I can give the photos to other people or travelling. I've had no issues taking this through airport scanners. I agree with others, you'll get the best results with lots of light but I've had good results in shade/indoors when stabilising the camera against a wall.
... Shame about the price and the requirement of a boat load of light.
Photos do come out looking great, but for that price you'd hope to get 10 instead of 8 like we used to. Come on Polaroid!
This film is amazing. It isn't necessarily amazing value (I really do wish PO would reduce the price or include more shots per pack), but paired with the SX70 lens and either a flash or a sunny day, I am convinced that this is the best way to make instant images.
Things to know:
1) You need light. A lot of light. If the scene is too dark then you will either be given blurry or underexposed images - PO film doesn't handle underexposure that well at all.
2) With the normal SX 70 lens, images on this film are sharper than pretty much any Instanx I've seen (I know this is at least in part due to the lenses, but I'm not convinced Instax film can actually produce such sharp results as we see here)
3) Exposure time isn't that bad at all. Compared to colour images which can take up to a month to fully develop, B+W film is mostly done in about an hour, with the majority of the development done within 20ish minutes in my experience
4) It ain't cheap. But you get what you pay for, and I'd rather support PO than have (another) camera that I can't use