In article <2008021500155675249-adunc79617@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Michael
<adunc79617@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-02-12 18:58:32 -0500, Alric Knebel <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
> > WQ wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 12, 5:21 pm, Taylor <tayl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> R.I.P.
> >>> Filed under: R.I.P.
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>> This is a sad day.
> >>>
> >>> An essential part of our childhood is going into extinction.
> >>>
> >>> Polaroid has announced that they will stop making Polaroid instant
> >>> cameras and film.
> >>>
> >>> For reals!
> >>>
> >>> Instead, the company is going to focus on making digital cameras and
> >>> manufacturing TVs.
> >>>
> >>> Buy your Polaroids and film on eBay. They're gonna be a thing of the
> >>> past real soon!
> >>>
> >>> Such a bummer.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- I don't get it. The digital camera now is what Polaroid used to
> >> be, only better. Where's the loss?
> >>
> >
> > That's what I was thinking. And these home printing processes are
> > getting better all the time. I saw a photo printed the other day, and
> > I couldn't tell that it was done at home. And think of the creative
> > freedom you have with photoshop, how you can fix the errors.
>
> I just went through a box of old photos. The slides are perfect at 20+
> years. The Kodacolors are pretty good at 20+ years. The Polaroids are
> uniformly and universally awful, faded and almost invisible. Polaroid
> can RIP and good riddance. I think the old old black and whites that
> had to be "coated" have lasted, but that's about it.
My experience: Slides perfect at 35 years. Kodacolor prints also
perfect at 35 years. Polaroid color prints at 41 years look like Civil
War daguerreotypes left out in the sun since Appomattox. Coated
Polaroid b&w prints okay; I recall the lack of contrast in them was
there when the prints were developed. These shots were taken with the
Model 100.
Am I remembering correctly that Polaroid b&w film ca. 1968 was ASA
3000? Can that be right?
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