Congratulations to Wei How & Ywoon Yee!
A first wedding to be photographer cum heng dai.
Without dancing, push-up, but I do drink the tom-yam-supreme.
First wedding to try on polaroid too. Its indeed fun, because they’re both my very best friend.
Just finish editing their slide show for tonight’s dinner. More photo later.~
Went to malacca for a day trip. A groomy and raingy day. Didn’t take much photo, just some polaroid, some film and very little digital. More like a food outing trip than a photo outing. Malacca is still hot as usual despite its a rainy day.
Ever since I discover the ‘defect’ of PX100, I google-ed handful of complaint with same issue.
I did wrote to TIP to reflect this issue , but what I got is some funny reply “this is not a defect”
Today, TIP finally made a video response, specifically from Dr. Florian Kaps. The content in text, can be found here.
Despite the Worldwide Compensation Program is not announced yet, I hope I can have something out of it. After all, I really think TIP is for a good cause (besides making big bucks).
Let’s hope my SX70s does not need to put to sleep.
Dear Customer
of The Impossible Project,
as you know we recently started manufacturing the First Flush Edition of the PX Silver Shade – a completely new, highly complex analog Instant Film, assembled from more than 30 different components that we carefully developed piece by piece within the last year.
Alarmed by an increasing number of customer complaints regarding some of our PX Silver Shade materials, I visited the factory in order to analyze possible defects with our technical team. Back in our headquarters in Vienna, I see it as my responsibility to inform you about the following:
Some quantities of PX Silver Shade Film FF produced between the end of March and the beginning of April MAY show a defect that we call a Loose Lamination Problem (LLP). One of the new components, the so called “rail”, is the small stripe on the back of each frame which guides the developer paste and seals the edges of each frame. A defect in this material causes the white side boarders of the white frame at the back of the picture to get loose. Of course our films pass hard tests during and immediately after production, but apparently the LLP starts several days after production.
At best, effects of the LLP are just loose and acceptable bad looking white stripes on the back of your pictures or undeveloped patches (aka mushrooms) within the image, at worst developer paste emerges from the loose frame.
We clearly communicated our Impossible Films as an exciting analog adventure with unpredictable results and different characteristics, as they are highly sensitive to temperature and 789 more aspects, BUT we do not intend to sell a product that is not fun to use as we always strive to do our very best.
Films that do show the LLP are clearly NOT the best we can do and we very honestly want to apologize for this mistake. Moreover I am very sorry for all inconveniences this may have caused and I will be happy to let you know about a worldwide LLP compensation program that we plan to start the very next Monday, May 3, 2010.
Thank you for the ongoing support so far and please do not stop believing in us, our visions and our Impossible Project. We promise to do our very best to learn from this mistake and do our very best to make you forget this drawback asap.
Dr. Florian Kaps
Founder of The Impossible Project
