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Photo by Lia Sáile

The Chemical Lab

This is the place were the Impossible chief chemist Martin Steinmeijer and its small team of experts and helpers is performing magic, developing new recipes and formulas, creating thousand of the so-called lab-spreads and testing the new inventions.

Instant film is the challenging combination of Negative sheet, Positive sheet and developer paste. In the chemical lab different paste formulations are made, tested, discarded, invented. We search for the best formulation to get the right colors for given sheet and negative, and we work on improving the whole photographic performance.

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