Re: Another casualty on the digital highway

"Elmore" <el@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Polaroid to Close Last Remaining Film Plants.  There were some things I
> wanted to try with Polaroid film, but never got around to doing.
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> In its heyday, Polaroid employed some 15,000 people in the state. The
> company filed for bankruptcy in 2001 as the advent of digital
> technology dampened demand for instant photography.
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Polaroid was Polaroids worst enemy, not digital photography.  Their whole
system was messed up from the start.  They would develop a great process,
improve it and then drop it.  When they had the pack cameras (peel apart
film) they came out with basically the same camera year after year.  The
first was the 100, then 200, the 360 introduced electronic flash.  You
would
think they would have that on the 400 series but no, they came out with a
flash cube flash.  They went backwards.  When the SX-70 came out they
never
really introduced any variations of it, but when they came out with the
600
series, the film would not work in the old SX-70's.  So eventually those
that had SX-70's were out of luck for film.  Their history has shown a
company that could never settle down with one format and stay with it. 
The
whole idea with them was to get you to buy a new Polaroid every three
years.
People that wanted an instant film camera for sales or to do***ent things
soon found out they might as well use regular film cameras and go to a
quick
development lab.  Fuji will probably make some instant films for the time
being, but who knows for how long.  Had Polaroid improved some of their
better cameras like the 180 and 195, they might have been taken seriously.
Eventually people like me that were sup****ters of the Polaroid system felt
we were using toy cameras and lost interest in them.  For some things,
they
were more conveinient than digital, but they are history now.  Ric in
Wisconsin.