Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

It is a sad day, Polaroid announced they will stop making Instant Film.

My first camera experience was with one of these camera. It is just sentimental

for me.

 

My son just bought one of these cameras for his girl friend this past Christmas.

She had a digital camera but this instant film thing was new to the 18 year

olds, and is getting popular with the kids at his school. At least the kids got

to experience this cool technology. Maybe someone will come up with a digital

that has a built in photo printer soon. :) Perhaps a small nitch market company

will pick up making film.

 

Is 35 mm films days numbered?

 

I have to admit I really like my Canon Digital Rebel XT, but I did experience a

hard drive/system crash a few month ago. I regularly back up photos to DVD and

CDs, but I lost several hundred photos. Digital has pros and cons over film. I

still have 35mm film from the 1970's and film and slides from my dad from the

40's and 50's. No hard drive crash going to take those out.

 

Here is a link to an article

 

 

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-abandons-instant-photography/

Tear-soaked Kleenex aside, doesn't Fuji still make and sell instant film and cameras(Instax)? Thought also that Fuji was actually making some instant films sold under Polaroid's brand.

[[No hard drive crash going to take those out]]

 

Mold and fire won't help. Nor will losing a box in a move (which is more common than you might think).

 

I'd recommend backing up nightly to an external HD. Look to SyncBack SE for a nice automated (fire-and-forget) tool.

I think Fuji only makes the peel-apart type instant film.

Looks like a camera to me, Mark!

 

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/Instax200.html

http://manufacturing.net/News-Polaroid-Instant-Film-In-Demand.aspx

 

Thanks Gary, it looks like a different camera. I don't see a current replacement film for the polaroid camera, but I did run across this article.