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Polaroid 665

Peel-apart black and white film that produced a usable negative as well as a print.

Polaroid 665 film emulation applied to a reference photo The same reference photo before any film look is applied Original Polaroid 665

Drag to compare. 9 renderings of Polaroid 665 are included.

Try it on your own photo → Download .cube

What this look does

The print side is contrasty with rich blacks; the negative variants invert to a fine-grained, long-scale rendering that could be enlarged.

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About Polaroid 665

Type 665 was unique: after peeling, the negative could be cleared in sodium sulphite and printed conventionally, giving both an instant proof and an archival negative. Ansel Adams wrote about it approvingly.

Included renderings

In Filmgrid each rendering carries its own name. The exposure and temperature labels describe how it differs from the base look.

Filmgrid nameRenderingLUT
Vintage Archive -2 stops .cube
Aged Gallery -1 stop .cube
Worn Darkroom base .cube
Quiet Letter +1 stop .cube
Nostalgic Studio +2 stops .cube
Dusty Diary -1 stop, negative side .cube
Muted Portrait negative side .cube
Antique Attic +1 stop, negative side .cube
Slow Bookshelf negative side, high contrast .cube

Polaroid 665 is no longer made — what to use instead

Polaroid 665 went out of production around 2008. Remaining stock, where it exists at all, sells for several times its original price, and expired rolls do not render the way fresh film did.

The practical substitute is to shoot something current and apply the look afterwards, which is what this page is for — the 9 renderings here reproduce Polaroid 665 on any photograph, free.

If you would rather shoot film, the closest options in this library are Fuji FP-3000B, Polaroid 664, Polaroid 667 — check each for whether it is still in production.

Apply Polaroid 665 to your photo →

How to use this LUT

The download is a standard .cube 3D LUT, so it loads in almost anything: Lightroom Classic (Profile → Browse), Photoshop (Color Lookup adjustment layer), Premiere Pro (Lumetri → Creative), DaVinci Resolve (LUTs panel), Final Cut Pro (Custom LUT effect), Affinity Photo, Capture One and OBS. See the step-by-step guide if you have not loaded one before.

Photographers who work in Lightroom often call these presets. Strictly they are profiles rather than presets, and the difference matters when you want to edit the look further — that distinction is explained here.

If you only want the finished picture, skip the download: open the tool, drop a photo in and export at full resolution. Nothing leaves your device.

Questions

Is Polaroid 665 still made?
No. Polaroid 665 was discontinued around 2008, which is why its look is now reproduced digitally. The 9 renderings on this page emulate it, free, with no film to buy.
Can I use Polaroid 665 as a Lightroom preset?
Effectively, yes. The download is a .cube LUT, and Lightroom imports those as profiles — Develop → Profile Browser → Import Profiles. A profile behaves like a preset and adds an Amount slider for strength. See LUTs versus presets for what differs.
Is the Polaroid 665 LUT free?
Yes. Every rendering downloads as a .cube file with no account, no email and no watermark, and the browser tool exports at full resolution for free as well.

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