Polaroid To Abandon Instant Film Products

Polaroid won a lawsuit against Kodak to make them stop producing instant cameras and film. Maybe this would be a good time for Kodak to buy back the rights to make instant cameras and film. They would have no competition this time around.

I am so heart broken by this!!! When all of my children were born, their very 1st pictures were taken with my polaroid. I am a nurse working in Nursing Homes and we use Polaroid cameras to take pictures of our new admissions some of who don't know their own names, and this is an instant for of identification for them. I say everyone that finds this to be a travisty should write to Polaroid and let them know just how much we will miss this product, perhaps enough of us could get them to reconsider!!!

I wouldn't go putting that film in the fridge or freezer!!! One of the key features of that film is that the battery for the camera is in the film pack. You will kill it by storing it cold! Unless you can figure a way to charge it later it would not be smart!

Some overseas company (Fuji etc.) will manufacture the Polaroid discontinued products. There are too many Polaroid cameras and photographers ($$$) out there to discontinue their products .

Don't panic!

Jim

Some Polaroid film will be ruined if frozen. conventional film is best kept frozen, but Polaroid warns against the practice. Check before doing that.

Polaroid Digital 3.2 Mega
My second - 1st was replaced because at times would not focus.

Present one - shutter & Flash not in sync. Cannot use inside or w/ low light.

Not worth the price or trouble, try another brand

I have a Polaroid Land Model J 66...it took me 3 years to find one pack of film for it...and it still takes decent pics.Sad to see Polaroid discontinue film production, but its a sign of the times.My Swinger still works great, too.

TIME MARCHES ON AN SO DOES TECHNOLOGY.TO BAD ABOUT POLAROID,I PASSED THE WALTHAM PLANT MANY TIMES.

I still have my parents Polaroid instant camera from the early 1960s. I wonder if it's now worth something???

Do not do away with instant photo. Do not do digital and you make it after 11, 2009.

ANYONE WANT TO BUY A VINTEGE POLAROID?

I agree with Marlin d. I had one of those Kodak cameras in the late 70's and liked it better then the Polaroid I had. I was very upset when Polaroid won the lawsuit against Kodak. Hoping that Kodak re-introduces that great camera!!

This brings up a need for a camera that will take digital and film pics at the same time...film always better but digital easy corrections and back up...

Stop your crying. This is all part of a capitalist plot of planned obsolesence of everything. I still have a million 8-tracks tapes but no player to run them on. What do I doThe only way to beat the system is to not buy anything.

What's new? Ever noticed when you would buy one of their cameras in about four years, you can't buy the FILM anymore. You have to buy another camera from them ... I have a Captiva ... and one I used last night .. forgot ..They are a sham .. and know what? Won't EVER buy another camera from them again.

Dont worry.The chinese will make knockoffs like they do with everything else

Marlin, you are correct about the Kodak camera.
I bought one and I still have it. Actually I liked it much more than my Poloroid, if only because it folded flater to put in a suitcase. Also, I found I was able to buy film for it in Canada on my trips there even long after the lawsuit.

AOL ANTI-FIRST AMENDMENT!

if we can get "jericho" back on the air, perhaps enough voices screaming "NO!" will help. my daughter LOVES the poloroid her grandmother gave her so many years ago...what a shame to put it in the attic with other childhood memories. perhaps my grandchildren will rumage around up there years from now and i can tell them about the magic of poloroid...pressing photos onto rice paper (an old but very cool technique done with the peel & fix film that digital tries to imitate but never really can) and 'squishing' the background around on pictures before they're 'fixed' on the ones w/the white borders...so many films, so much fun, so sad to say 'good-bye' to another piece of history.

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