Tough development for fans of Polaroid

[didymus]

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Tough development for fans of Polaroid

Reports that Polaroid will no longer make its legendary instant-camera films have sparked a run at stores that sell the iconic product.

“One of my shelves is empty now,” said Jeff Newman, manager of Calumet Photographic in Cambridge. “Some customers are basically panicking.”
The once-mighty Polaroid, which used to employ about 15,000 in Massachusetts, announced earlier this week that it’s soon closing its Norwood and Waltham film-manufacturing facilities and later this year ceasing all film-making operations in Mexico and the Netherlands.

The net result: Polaroid, whose founder Edwin Land forever changed the photography world with development of instant-print technology in the 1940s, is effectively exiting its film business.

So long, Polaroid, it was fun. No waiting, no developing – so what if you faded after a few years?

Now that you’re gone, there won’t be any pix we can be sure haven’t been cropped, edited & photoshopped.

We’ll miss you.

 

[ora_pro_nobis]

I always wanted a polaroid camera!
I still have an instamatic that belonged to my grandad (RIP), but you can no longer get the film for it, also it had a separate flash cube thingy which went out of the shops years ago.
Does anyone remember disc cameras?

 

[johnstown_johnn]

I would bet anything that China will buy the patent and produce a “Polaroid”.