Instant Polaroids is no more.

Ian D J

Ian D J

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I'm sure this will have been mentioned in a similar thread hidden somewhere in this web site and I know a lot of you are aware of it, but thought I'd bring it up anyway:
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2008/12/polaroid-to-cease-production-of-instant-cameras-164053.jsp
Will you look back on this camera with dewy eyed nostalgia, the way you shook the freshly captured film in a vain attempt to speed up the developing process? Or have you thought of it as a cheap pile of equpiment with it's inferior fixed focus fish eye lens and wondered how on earth it ever caught on, especially what with it's hugely expensive film cartridges?
Still, it is the end of an era in it's own right as even the most cheapest of digital cameras is capable of taking that dodgy bedroom shot for use in the Reader Wives section (no, I'm sure we all don't do that :nono:).
 
I think i still have one of those at home somewhere.
Bought when an Ex girlfriend said she`d do some risque shots but it all came to nought so the cartridge was used to take photos of random stuff.

It does seem kind of sad that they will no longer be available but then again i cant see when people would use them anymore as you say digital cameras are so cheap now and can do better quality photos than those ever did.
 
Aye 'tis a shame. That's progress for ya!
 
It is a shame. It's not just the instant cameras though. I think all instant film production is going to stop. I'm disappointed as I was hankering after a Polaroid film holder for my LF camera so I could use type 55 film, which gives (gave) a proper negative as well as positive image.
 
And there was me thinking the only reason anyone ever bought a Polaroid was to take the sort of pictures you would never have been brave enough to take to be developed (and I never owned one myself....honestly!!!)
 
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