The Digital Death of Instant Photography
For those who haven’t heard, Polaroid will be ceasing production of all of their instant film products. Instead, Polaroid will concentrate on digital imaging and other electronic products, including a line of DVD players, flat panel TVs and monitors and GPS systems.
It’s a case of instant gratification being replaced by instant gratification gone high-tech.
Polaroid SX-70 Image Manipulation Uploaded by PolaArt.
Polaroid started marketing instant film and cameras in the early forties, and the film has been popular with photographers ever since. Most recently, Polaroid films have been a favorite with portrait photographers who shoot with medium format film cameras for proofing lighting and exposure, and also with fine art photographers for use in various artistic alternative process techniques.
Polaroid is considering sale of the technology, and hopes that a smaller company will pick the line up and continue making the film.
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Meanwhile, for those of you who like playing with the stuff, Fujifilm holds a license to make the stuff, and you can get 600-series pack film from them. I don’t know about the larger sheet stocks, though.
Info on Fuji’s instant films can be found here. It comes in an ISO100 color and an ISO3000 black and white, each in two sizes: 3.25×4.25 and 4×5.
There’s an ISO100 B&W as well as the high-speed, thank goodness.
Hey…..you guys still around……no posting since 2-18-08???????????????????????
Yeah, we’re here. Just real, real busy.
Glad to hear that………….