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The Polaroid and the Dodo
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:40 am
by Jacques
By now I'm sure everyone is aware of the progressive loss of Polaroid film. If you are not, Polaroid are to cease manufacture of all instant film. It's not all about 600 film either, gone will be the truly wonderful Type 55 and it's contemporaries.
The day is nigh when a ten sheet pack of 600, currently available for + or - ?12 at Jessops, will start hitting ?50 or more on evilBay. Eventually even those will be out of date, slowly running out of stock until there's nothing left.
If you knew you had the last sheet of Polaroid film...what would you photograph?
Re: The Polaroid and the Dodo
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:05 am
by Steve R
My violins, guitars, pipes, cat and wife !happy!
Re: The Polaroid and the Dodo
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:59 am
by Hugh Jampton
Surely Polaroid has no future - it might have been the ideal for home porno fans in the 1960s and 1970s but it's no more relevant today than 78rpm records and Betamax video.
Is it possible to shoot using a digital camera and use photo modifying software to produce that characteristic tone/feel of the Polaroid?
Re: The Polaroid and the Dodo
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:19 am
by Jacques
Hugh Jampton wrote:
> Surely Polaroid has no future - it might have been the ideal
> for home porno fans in the 1960s and 1970s but it's no more
> relevant today than 78rpm records and Betamax video.
Tell that to all those that use Type 55 (extremely high-resolution positive/negative film) and Type 79 (accurate true-to-life colours). For the consumer, yes it's a dead duck but for the pro it is still very relevant.
> Is it possible to shoot using a digital camera and use photo
> modifying software to produce that characteristic tone/feel of
> the Polaroid?
No, is the simple answer.
Re: The Polaroid and the Dodo
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:34 am
by Steve R
78rpm records sound wonderful with the appropriate equipment.