25 Facts About Instant film

Instant film is a type of photographic film that was introduced by Polaroid Corporation to produce a visible image within minutes or seconds of the photograph's exposure.

The Instant film contains the chemicals needed for developing and fixing the photograph, and the camera exposes and initiates the developing process after a photo has been taken.

In earlier Polaroid instant cameras the film is pulled through rollers, breaking open a pod containing a reagent that is spread between the exposed negative and receiving positive sheet.

In 1972, Polaroid introduced integral Instant film, which incorporated timing and receiving layers to automatically develop and fix the photo without any intervention from the photographer.

Early instant film was distributed on rolls, but later and current films are supplied in packs of 8 or 10 sheets, and single sheet films for use in large format cameras with a compatible back.

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Instant film is used by artists to achieve effects that are impossible to accomplish with traditional photography, by manipulating the emulsion during the developing process, or separating the image emulsion from the film base.

Instant film has been supplanted for most purposes by digital photography, which allows the result to be viewed immediately on a display screen or printed with dye sublimation, inkjet, or laser home or professional printers.

Instant film is notable for having had a wider range of film speeds available than other negative films of the same era, having been produced in ISO 4 to ISO 20, 000.

Instant positive film uses diffusion transfer to move the dyes from the negative to the positive via a reagent.

Color Instant film is much more complex due to multiple layers of emulsion and dye.

Additive Instant film uses a color mask of microscopically thin transparent red, green, and blue lines (3000 lines per inch) and a black and white emulsion layer to reproduce color images in transparency Instant film.

Roll Instant film was distributed in two separate negative and positive rolls and developed inside the camera.

Pack Instant film was distributed in a Instant film pack which contained both negative and positive sheets and was developed outside the camera.

Each roll of Instant film came with a cartridge containing developing chemicals which were pressed between the Instant film and a developing strip by a hand-cranked machine called the AutoProcessor.

Kodak instant film was exposed from the back without a mirror, the opposite of Polaroid's film which was exposed from the front with a mirror to reverse the image.

FujiInstant film has a long history in magnetic media dating to the mid-1950s.

Instant film ACE is nearly identical to System 800, the only difference is the design of the plastic cartridge in the ACE do not contain the spring mechanism.

FujiInstant film originally wanted to release the Instax series worldwide including North America and Europe simultaneously, but decided to work with Polaroid on the mio camera based on the Instax mini 10 for the US market; while Canada did get the Instax Wide 100.

FujiInstant film makes pack Instant film for their passport camera systems, and had been available outside Japan since the mid-1980s.

In 2000, Fuji decided to change the way they manufacture pack Instant film, making the entire pack out of plastic instead of a metal and plastic combination.

FujiInstant film announced at PMA 2003 that pack Instant film would be made available to the North American market.

FujiInstant film's FP-100b45 was announced in Sept of 2009 for the US market.

The FP-3000b45 arrived in the North American market in Jan 2011, after FujiInstant film Japan stopped manufacturing FP-100b, but was discontinued in 2012.

In late 2012 FujiInstant film discontinued FP-3000B, followed by the discontinuation of FP-100C in spring 2016.

Summit Global Group, using the Polaroid brand, produced an instant photography camera and film starting with the Polaroid PIC 300, based on Fujifilm's Instax Mini 7.

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