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To: nickcarraway

What could Polaroid bring to the modern world of photography that isn’t there already? No one cares about instant print photography anymore.


2 posted on 04/02/2009 7:40:51 PM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: pnh102

I suppose that you don’t like Studebaker automobiles either?


3 posted on 04/02/2009 7:50:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: pnh102
No one cares about instant print photography anymore.

Especially now that we have so many other ways to produce amateur naughty photos that don't require a trip to the drugstore.

5 posted on 04/02/2009 8:08:08 PM PDT by hunter112 (SHRUG - Stop Hussein's Radical Utopian Gameplan!)
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To: pnh102
For a while there, I thought I saw some printers, and even displays with the Polaroid brand.

Not sure what they could bring to the table these days that is truly innovative, in their core field. The only thing they had going for them in photography was really the instant film processing. Their cameras weren't anything special. The German's and then Japanese blew them away in that category. And the Germans still rule in the area of specialized, high end photographic glass.

6 posted on 04/02/2009 8:18:23 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: pnh102

There is still a market, albeit small, for polaroid instant film in the photographic community. I’m going to miss it.


11 posted on 04/02/2009 8:46:49 PM PDT by Karma Police ((optional, printed after your name on post))
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Sorry... I think many like myself, have a love art in photography. There is a quality and unique ability that film photography in all of it forms has to offer.
It will become a hobby of those who can afford to purchase it.
Funny... it was introduced at a price level that was well above the average family and progressed to a popularly priced item that all families could afford, only to be relegated back to the pleasure of those who will be able to afford this technology.

It will continue to be used in art, graphics and other media realms where it can be respected for what it is.


19 posted on 04/02/2009 11:47:56 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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