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punk

punk

Phoenix, AZ
January 2004

FEB 11, 2008 08:09 PM

Polaroid announced on Friday that they will close their instant film plants in the US, Mexico and the Netherlands, ending almost 60 years of production and a photography icon. President Tom Beaudo hopes these changes will help "…reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years."



Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures such as a portable printer for images from cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.







Polaroid failed to embrace the digital technology that has transformed photography, instead sticking to its belief that many photographers who didn't want to wait to get pictures developed would hold onto their old Polaroid cameras.





Instant camera and film enthusiasts won't be left up a creek: Fujifilm will still produce its instant film, and Polaroid is currently seeking partners to purchase the rights to their own brand so that someone else can carry on the legacy.



punk wonders if there are any instant-film photographers on SG, and what their thoughts are.

scylis

scylis

Anchorage, AK
November 2004

FEB 12, 2008 10:33 AM

i had been wondering when this was going to happen. it honestly seems like it's a little late in coming, but still kinda sad, for nostalgia's sake.

OhSoOrdinary

OhSoOrdinary

Tacoma, WA
July 2006

FEB 12, 2008 11:05 AM

I'm totally sad! These are the best to have at parties. I hope someone decides to pick it up and keep making them.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

FEB 12, 2008 11:20 AM

punk said:
punk wonders if there are any instant-film photographers on SG, and what their thoughts are.



Margot_Dent is an excellent Polaroidist, actually.

Nessuno

Nessuno

Washington, DC
May 2006

FEB 12, 2008 02:11 PM

I never used polaroid, but this saddens me because it's a part of photography's history that seems to be passing. Like black and white film, which is now a pain to get or develop.

Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

FEB 12, 2008 02:26 PM

I have a newer Polaroid camera, but I wish I had my grandmother's old one, because that one had the film that still had the gelatin emulsion where you could fiddle around with it and make yr photo look like the cover to Peter Gabriel's Melt album.

halfjack

halfjack

Allston, MA
June 2005

FEB 12, 2008 03:29 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Cairo

Cairo

SUICIDEGIRL

Maryland, USA

FEB 12, 2008 04:38 PM

halfjack said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



+1

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

Charleston, SC
August 2004

FEB 12, 2008 04:40 PM

time to horde film for my holgaroid, apparently. frown

Sick

Sick

Minneapolis, MN
June 2003

FEB 12, 2008 04:44 PM

All the great films are getting discontinued; Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome and HIE some time ago. Terrible losses. You just can't get a lot of the same effects with digital.

Sick

Sick

Minneapolis, MN
June 2003

FEB 12, 2008 05:06 PM

Sick said:
All the great films are getting discontinued; Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome and HIE some time ago. Terrible losses. You just can't get a lot of the same effects with digital.



Let me rephrase: you can get the same effects by spending much more time and/or money.

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Morocco

FEB 12, 2008 05:10 PM

halfjack said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



Agreed.

J24U

J24U

Danvers, MA
February 2006

FEB 12, 2008 06:12 PM

Subrosa said:

punk said:
punk wonders if there are any instant-film photographers on SG, and what their thoughts are.



Margot_Dent is an excellent Polaroidist, actually.



I believe Cherry is a polaroid enthusiast as well.

Gillionaire

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH
February 2007

FEB 12, 2008 08:51 PM

I think this is sad. I have fond memories of my grandparent's old polaroid camera.

strndniowa

strndniowa

Grimes, IA
May 2007

FEB 12, 2008 09:34 PM

I will miss those- and kind of made the photog work just a little bit still- digital is just too easy...and the peel off sheet was cool in it's own way

_DictionaryGirl_

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

FEB 13, 2008 03:48 PM

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. frown

At least production hasn't entirely halted. They were saying the same thing about 120 film when I first got my Holga. I firmly believe that film will prevail.

commonman

commonman

Sarasota, FL
August 2003

FEB 13, 2008 04:30 PM

Suck.

I have all sorts of Polaroid cameras. Now they're all paperweights?

mad

Dot

Dot

SUICIDEGIRL

Japan

FEB 13, 2008 04:33 PM

J24U said:

Subrosa said:

punk said:
punk wonders if there are any instant-film photographers on SG, and what their thoughts are.



Margot_Dent is an excellent Polaroidist, actually.



I believe Cherry is a polaroid enthusiast as well.



i have a SG polaroid set and am very sad about this. happy i had the opportunity to shoot it!! frown

dotheheather

dotheheather

Santa Cruz, CA
April 2007

FEB 13, 2008 06:14 PM

its such bullshit. it pisses me off. do we really want to trust the digital world entirely?

Kindle

Kindle

Seattle, WA
March 2006

FEB 13, 2008 06:28 PM

I like the Polaroid film. Not so hot on their televisions though. I mean, if you're looking for something inexpensive, sure, it's great, but I'm not so impressed with the picture coloring. I thought it would be better than it is considering the source.

jermhawk

jermhawk

Warren, PA
December 2004

FEB 13, 2008 08:29 PM

Damn, that my only camera i can still get batteries for frown

pyromethious

pyromethious

Silver Springs, FL
October 2006

FEB 13, 2008 09:03 PM

BGage

BGage

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

FEB 13, 2008 09:40 PM

Sick said:
All the great films are getting discontinued; Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome and HIE some time ago. Terrible losses. You just can't get a lot of the same effects with digital.



Kodak has also stopped making B&W paper, I believe, and Ilford is bankrupt, and worst of all, Agfa is out of business.

I loathe digital. Even my phone doesn't have a camera in it.

BGage

BGage

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

FEB 13, 2008 09:47 PM

_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. frown

At least production hasn't entirely halted. They were saying the same thing about 120 film when I first got my Holga. I firmly believe that film will prevail.



I agree. I hope. I work in a lab in Hollywood, and a lot of our clientele are still using, or just discovering Holgas. I've never used one myself, but they look like an awful lot of fun, light-leaks, weird double exposures and all. There's a bit of a resentment among a lot of professionals of being forced, economically, to go digital, and I've been saying for years, and still say, that demand for film has shrunk as much as it's going to. I haven't gotten tired of being wrong yet, but I'm getting there.

Kindle

Kindle

Seattle, WA
March 2006

FEB 13, 2008 09:50 PM

BGage said:
Kodak has also stopped making B&W paper, I believe


They did? If so, are you talking about for consumers because at the photography studios I have worked at we still get black and white paper from Kodak.

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