Why Polaroid photography is making a comeback

www.thenational.ae ^ | May 10, 2018 Updated: May 10, 2018 01:45 PM | Kevin Hackett

[1Old Pro]

Let me know when wide ties make a comeback, I have dozens.

[Red Badger]

I didn’t know they ever left.....................

[null and void]

Polaroid, n, a cross between a Pol@ck and a hemorrhoid, it takes s#!tty pictures but any a$$hole can use it.

I'm going to Heck for that...

[Red Badger]

[moovova]

Somebody forgot to tell Canon...

Canon shutters 80-year history of film cameras

[moovova]

“Let me know when wide ties make a comeback, I have dozens.”

You saved yours?!

I cut mine in half.

[Responsibility2nd]

Millennials.

They thinks Polaroids are cool? Wait till one of them stumbles across a rotary dial telephone some day.

[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad worked for Polaroid for 40+ years.Dr Land came to my Mom’s funeral and my Dad attended Dr Land’s.Polaroid went bankrupt a couple of years before my Dad died and it broke his heart.To this day I wish they had lasted until after my Dad died.

[nomorelurker]

I tossed my Polaroid about a year ago, now they are making a comeback? Darn.

[blackdog]

Skin shots of boobs and junk that won't come back to burn you after the lover is long gone.

Smart young people like to not be sharing their topless tatas and cooter shots with Mark Zuckerberg and service access providers. Let alone losing your phone.

[Dr. Sivana]

it takes s#!tty pictures but any a$$hole can use it.

Not true, before the SX-70, you had several issues:
One: Not shaking the camera, because the shutter stayed open longer.
Two: You had to pull the tab at a quick but uniform speed to spread the solution over the picture in a uniform manner. That required considerable coordination. Three: Shutter not so automated. If you don't set the brightness knob right, you get an expensive lesson in having to adjust it.

[a fool in paradise]

Apples and orangles when it comes to ‘old things’ revivals. Had more in common with audio cassettes than vinyl records.

And famous artists like David Levinthal who shot in large format polaroid stock gave it up, $150 a shot just to throw away as you adjusted figures and lighting and camera settings.

Meanwhile where it made sense (on the camera back of large format negative film cameras, to test the focus/lighting/etc they went to digital backs).

Film exists and can be used to print photos from that negative. There are no prints from polaroids, one and done, anything else is a copy photograph taken of that polaroid print.

Vinyl records have a very long lifespace (approaching 75 years at this point). CDs collect scratches on both sides of the surface that render them completely unplayable. Anything in the cloud only exists until hosting policies inevitably change.

[imardmd1]

A great tool for Optical and electron microscopy. You could have negatives with B&W, not just positives. Color backs were also great for landscape cameras to preview the shooting with regular color negative shots. Regularly used by pros.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Skin shots of boobs and junk that won't come back to burn you after the lover is long gone.

They didn't call it the 'Swinger' for nothing...

[wally_bert]

How about a handcraft Victrola or a foot pedal Singer sewing machine that’s sitting around at home?

[Vendome]

I was at a memorial last month and a friend had a Fuji instant camera.t

Houghton it was old but, she had just purchased it brand new.

Makes pictures about the size of a playing card.

[Flick Lives]

30 or so years from now, people will look back nostalgically at cell phone cameras. By then, humans will all come equipped with built-in 64K hi-def cameras in their eyeballs or something.

[Terry L Smith]

One thing about THIS camera ... it cannot be hacked by Google, Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media - unless you scan the pictures onto your electronic media!!

Also, the negatives are “one write” and not copy-able.

[Red Badger]

Google Wants to Install a Camera In Your Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiLZ9Xcwpg