Polaroid Stops Making Instant Film

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Polaroid Stops Making Instant Film

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RIP instant film, my first camera was a Polaroid Land Camera back in the mid 60s.

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The heart of Polaroid's past business, the iconic instant developing film which debuted in 1948, is about to be retired.
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About time I must say.................. :lol:

The last time I used one of those things, I was getting shot at over in the first Gulf War........................ :mrgreen:
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They arestill pretty useful for some people.I wonder why they are stopping it.
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Never needed to use this for myself though. :mrgreen:
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about fricken time. I wonder if insurance companies will change how they want pictures of stuff. We have one at work purely for insurance pictures of wrecked machines. They don't want digital or even 35mm as they say it can be 'altered'.
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Yeah their "1 Minute Passport Photo" is still very much useful.I don't think, no other camera can produce instant photo like them.Bad that they are shutting it down. :(
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New_age wrote:They arestill pretty useful for some people.I wonder why they are stopping it.
Pretty hard to compete with digital cameras and ink-jet or better yet, dye sublimation printers.
between the cost to manufacture and the environmental waste of Polaroids, I'm surprised they lasted this long.
Film (except for professionals and hobbyists) is becoming rare/hard to find too.
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Leo wrote:Yeah their "1 Minute Passport Photo" is still very much useful.I don't think, no other camera can produce instant photo like them.Bad that they are shutting it down. :(
with a digital camera/dye sub setup you can now get 30second :lol: passport photos, even our local grocery store has this now, as well as 2 kodak DIY print stations. (Just remodeled but not that big an Albertsons) the whole thing takes less space then the photo counter it replaces (they STILL do one hour and overnight film still, but that's down to 1 or 2 drawers at the counter, used to be 10 or 12 drawers, plus alot of counter space, envelopes, and racks of film.
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Sad news, but it was long overdue. The past is the past, time to move on. The digital age has arrived :P
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I never liked polaroid pictures. They fade faster, and you can't reprint them... You know those brown strips you get with your 35mm film? yeah, you can take that to the nearest film developer anytime you want and get reprints!

My mother has all of her negatives stored in her safety deposit box just in case something happens to the originals.
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vicaphit wrote:I never liked polaroid pictures. They fade faster, and you can't reprint them... You know those brown strips you get with your 35mm film? yeah, you can take that to the nearest film developer anytime you want and get reprints!

My mother has all of her negatives stored in her safety deposit box just in case something happens to the originals.
Yeah but it was really cool to just take a picture, shake it for a few minutes, and hang it up wherever you want instantly. But with digital cameras, it is outdated.


Oh well, now when I am an old grumpy man I will have great stories how about in my day we had these things called polaroids...
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inko1nsiderate wrote:
vicaphit wrote:I never liked polaroid pictures. They fade faster, and you can't reprint them... You know those brown strips you get with your 35mm film? yeah, you can take that to the nearest film developer anytime you want and get reprints!

My mother has all of her negatives stored in her safety deposit box just in case something happens to the originals.
Yeah but it was really cool to just take a picture, shake it for a few minutes, and hang it up wherever you want instantly. But with digital cameras, it is outdated.


Oh well, now when I am an old grumpy man I will have great stories how about in my day we had these things called polaroids...
Haha, the shaking of them never did anything as the film over the photo's stopped the air getting to whatever it was that developed them. Everyone just seemed to do it anyway :P

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DMB2000uk wrote:
inko1nsiderate wrote:
vicaphit wrote:I never liked polaroid pictures. They fade faster, and you can't reprint them... You know those brown strips you get with your 35mm film? yeah, you can take that to the nearest film developer anytime you want and get reprints!

My mother has all of her negatives stored in her safety deposit box just in case something happens to the originals.
Yeah but it was really cool to just take a picture, shake it for a few minutes, and hang it up wherever you want instantly. But with digital cameras, it is outdated.


Oh well, now when I am an old grumpy man I will have great stories how about in my day we had these things called polaroids...
Haha, the shaking of them never did anything as the film over the photo's stopped the air getting to whatever it was that developed them. Everyone just seemed to do it anyway :P

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We never shook them either, but around our part of the country everyone either held them up above their heads facing the sun or in a room near the light bulbs hoping that the development time became shorter. :rolleyes:
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DMB2000uk wrote: Yeah but it was really cool to just take a picture, shake it for a few minutes, and hang it up wherever you want instantly. But with digital cameras, it is outdated.


Oh well, now when I am an old grumpy man I will have great stories how about in my day we had these things called polaroids...
Haha, the shaking of them never did anything as the film over the photo's stopped the air getting to whatever it was that developed them. Everyone just seemed to do it anyway :P

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Actually, the early polaroids didn't have a plastic film over them, the shaking was to dry the developer, and then they had a little spongebar/squeege to apply a sealer (varnish?? shellac?? something with a real strong smelling solvent) I have a few family photo polariods from the late 50's early 60's (black and white, of course) that are still sharp and clear.
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The instant film was nice while it lasted, but you really can't expect them to continue producing it when it was causing them to lose money. As for professional photographers they generally use higher quality equipment and film if they haven't already switched to digital. Frankly a lot of them have. Still, it will be strange when actual film becomes a relic that they show off in museums.
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Man, this changes the guys doing the party pics in the bars. We had a going away party for a buddy when I lived in Denver. Lets just say we got some decent talent. While we did have a digi cam, the polaroids are a great memory.
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T-Shirt wrote: Actually, the early polaroids didn't have a plastic film over them, the shaking was to dry the developer, and then they had a little spongebar/squeege to apply a sealer (varnish?? shellac?? something with a real strong smelling solvent) I have a few family photo polariods from the late 50's early 60's (black and white, of course) that are still sharp and clear.
heh, must have been a mentality that lasted for it's lifetime then.

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DMB2000uk wrote:
T-Shirt wrote: Actually, the early polaroids didn't have a plastic film over them, the shaking was to dry the developer, and then they had a little spongebar/squeege to apply a sealer (varnish?? shellac?? something with a real strong smelling solvent) I have a few family photo polariods from the late 50's early 60's (black and white, of course) that are still sharp and clear.
heh, must have been a mentality that lasted for it's lifetime then.

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Really the shaking of the polaroid picture adds to my old man story to make technology of the 20th century seem ridiculous to them darn kids of the future.
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