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Instant film demise?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:34 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by dennis
I believe (only half listening!) I heard on the radio that Polaroid are ceasing making instant film. Is this so? Dennis
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:11 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Paul Mitchell
It is unfortunately true Dennis. I have known for quite some time now, Polaroid used to be one of my clients and am still in touch with some of the staff.
In the past I have experimented with transfers, emulsion lifts, SX-70 manipulations etc. I was even out and about at the weekend with my 4x5 shooting some 665 neg/pos film.
Lets just hope that someone like Fuji obtains a licence and continues production.
Paul
Instant film demise
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:26 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by vanman
On the B.B.C. 10-00p.m. news last night they said that camera production was to end. Nothing about film though but I don't doubt what the previous posters have said.
Vanman.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:38 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Paul Mitchell
Polaroid stopped making film cameras last year, their sunglasses division in Scotland was also sold off. The film manufacturing plants in Holland and the US are in the process of being sold off. Most Polaroid employees have been aware of this for some time but has only just been announced publicly.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:02 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by keffs
There is no news of this on the Polaroid website, although it has been reported in the Boston Globe. However, I don't really trust newspapers to get the details correct.
Steve
ome news on APUG for the UK enthusiats of polaroid products
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:24 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Emmanuel Bigler
Some news on APUG for the UK enthusiats of B&W plus polaroid products
http://www.apug.org/forums/forum172/474 ... mited.html