Polaroid Instant Pictures - Now Just A Memory
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Anyone older than 30 has had at least one experience with a Polaroid Instamatic Camera - maybe only seeing it used in a movie, but many more of us had one in the house. In many houses these were passed down from father to son, as a treasured item. These were once the only way to quickly take a picture and see the results.
A moment of silence.
The Polaroid Instamatic is there still, but the film on which those great, and candid, pictures were taken, is no more. Polaroid has stopped making it due to lessening demand and increased cost. Polaroid is not the only company to become a white elephant like this - can you remember the last time you saw anything with the word, Kodak, on it?
On a happier note, ireport.com has a website devoted to the pictures taken over the years with the Polaroid Land Camera ( another name for the same device), and is asking everyone to send in the pictures, along with a story about the picture itself.
Ah, memories!
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Quote of the day:
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. - Anais Nin
[tags] Polaroid Land Camera, Polaroid, Instant pictures, photographic film, Kodak, ireport.com [/tags]
2 Comments
Sergei
May 27th, 2008
at 10:31am
My baby pictures were taken by this camera. We haven’t really used one since 2001. I was my birthday and I was very sick, I am actually looking at it right now. It was a convenience that there was always a space below the picture to write down the title and date. It is a great invention and has been used a lot though out the years, but unfortunately Polaroid has not been keeping up with the technology. Ever since digital pictures came many camera companies have fallen and new ones rose up, or even all around electronic companies. Polaroid, thanks for the great memories.
the oracle
May 27th, 2008
at 12:14pm
Sergei, a great many pictures in my family were Polaroid ‘test shots”. If the Polaroid instant came out ok, it was then alright to bring the ‘big’ camera to bear. That way many more pictures weren’t ‘wasted’ and the knowledge of good pics coming from the developer was in hand (at least that was the theory at my house)