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I used to work in the now closed scottish factory that made Polaroid Peel-Apart film, sunglasses, and lots of cameras. I seen this coming a couple of years ago, but still cant believe it has actually came to this. No doubt we will still see the classic Polaroid picture ident for many years to come.

Hi to all Polaroid ex-pats reading this.]]>Feb 23rd 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/May 4th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_camera
But instant cameras were found to be useful for other purposes such as ID cards, passport photos, ultrasound photos, and other uses which required an instant photo. They were also used by police officers and fire investigators because of their ability to create an unalterable instant photo. Medium and large format professional photographers have also used the higher end instant cameras to preview lighting before taking the more expensive medium and/or large format photo.
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I can't imagine why they can't preview lighting now with a cam connected to a laptop or similar larger display (dunno about the other uses, which i presume have mostly gone digital down to purely cost savings, as most things do)
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Another industry that's going to be hurt by this is the film industry, although maybe not as much. Polaroids have long been used for both location scouting and continuity. A location scout would go out in the morning with an empty notebook and a Polaroid camera and would come back with a notebook full of Polaroids to show the producer and director for locations. Doing that digitally is not such a big deal but it does require the extra step of transferring shots to a laptop, not to mention carrying a heavier laptop around everywhere. It's a waste of time and energy.

Continuity is a little bit harder, although I'm sure there are already systems in place and that the switchover has already started. But again, in the Polaroid days you'd just take a bunch of shots and put them in folders. Everybody could then pull those out and look at them while they were on set to make sure makeup, costumes, etc. were the same from shot to shot (given that many shots that are supposed to take place at the same time in the same scene are often shot days apart). I imagine these days they use a laptop, but they've either gotta go through the time-consuming process of burning a bunch of discs every day so that multiple people can have simultaneous access while working on different costumes, makeup or sets, or they just have to limit access to whoever's around that one laptop. Either way, it's gotta be a pain in the ass compared to using Polaroids.

I doubt anyone didn't know this was coming, though, so I'm sure the industry's prepared for it... but that doesn't mean they're happy about it.
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I do save about 10K /year by not having to buy polaroid.]]>Feb 9th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 26th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
How's it feel OutKast! How's it feel!?!?!?!

On the other hand, "shake it like a Polaroid picture!" is a lot more catchy than "Shake it like a MicroSD solid state flash storage device!"]]>Feb 8th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
Shake it like an asthma inhaler.. *sexy*]]>Feb 9th 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
"Shake it like a Polaroid picture."

Polaroid couldn't have been handed a better marketing line associated with a hot pop act at the time, did they sign them up for marketing at all? I'm pretty sure even with a slight push Polaroid could have sold out product because there was so much hype around OutKast at that time.

Those freakin ZINK concepts better get to market!]]>Feb 8th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
Polaroid did mention that their sales shot up after the song was released. Then they had to remind everyone that shaking a developing shot did not do anything to help it develop faster, thus proving they had no real idea why it was in the OutKast song in the first place or how to capitalize on it.]]>Feb 8th 2008 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 9th 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
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You mean they're disappearing? so mean]]>Feb 10th 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
They are the sweetest things in the world, but you're quite right...their high end ones cost nearly triple what normal high end monitors cost :/]]>Feb 8th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 12th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Movies use them to check the scene real quick, some high end photographers use it still. The film made money.
Like losing a family member.]]>Feb 9th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 9th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 9th 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 11th 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 10th 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/why did you share with the class?]]>Feb 8th 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/
Truly the end of an era.]]>Feb 8th 2008 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-no-longer-does-polaroids/Feb 8th 2008 9:09PM