Chuck(G)
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I confess to having taken lots of snapshots using one of these, but can you even purchase fresh Polaroid film for these things?
I think so! I just saw new polaroid cameras at sam's club.
Much to the dismay of Edwin Land, an absolutely brilliant scientist. I owned Polaroid stock back in the day and it always baffled me as to why they seemed so content just making $$ selling their paper when they could have been a big player in the digital camera revolution. My very first digital camera was a Polaroid - 1.2 mega pixels or something - *drat* kinda of wish I had kept it around. I guess they thought that they could not compete with the likes of Olympus, Canon, Fuji...and so on./--/ the Polaroid corpse /--/
But with DSOs and digicams, why buy Polaroid film for your scope?
Is it the standard square polaroid film? You can still get that at like $20 for 8 shots.
Was that one of the Foveon Polaroid cameras?Much to the dismay of Edwin Land, an absolutely brilliant scientist. I owned Polaroid stock back in the day and it always baffled me as to why they seemed so content just making $$ selling their paper when they could have been a big player in the digital camera revolution. My very first digital camera was a Polaroid - 1.2 mega pixels or something - *drat* kinda of wish I had kept it around. I guess they thought that they could not compete with the likes of Olympus, Canon, Fuji...and so on.
Same with Palm, which I rode on to my benefit but when a bunch of them left and the rest were content to not put a phone in there, I knew they were doomed.
I don't think so, but I can't remember well at all. I just went looking for some early shots that I still might have and what I can find easily is from 1999-2000 but it is from a Kodak DC210 Zoom (V05.00) [from the file info]. As I recall, that was the one I got *after* the Polaroid, but I searched for 'Foveon' and it was something like the x530 - I really wish I kept it - I think I gave it to a relative.Was that one of the Foveon Polaroid cameras?
So--if you have some, it's likely expired.Production of all Type 100 films ceased with Polaroid's bankruptcy in 2008. The last manufactured compatible film was made by Fuji until 2016.
I can assure you there is still a large inventory of it in freezers scattered about the planet. Problem is the pricing is now in the realm of people who don't mind a Polaroid costing something like $12 per photo. Brutally expensive. If we want to take photos of scope screens, there's a camera back option for still available 120 format film.Found the answer to my question:
So--if you have some, it's likely expired.
If we want to take photos of scope screens, there's a camera back option for still available 120 format film.
So--if you have some, it's likely expired.