Topic: oh dear... impossible may have taken the cake this time...

[Thom Stone]

ok, as some of you may  well know, I love polaroid, especially my SX-70. I therefore love the impossible project for keeping my wonderful folding beauty alive...

If you know me even better you may know that I have... what you could call... a slight aversion to apple.... I'm really not a huge fan, I think their products are over priced fashion accessories that people get FAR too excited about and attatched to.... (oh the irony I hear you all cry)

ah well, this is Impossibles latest "exciting announcement" personally I couldn't be more dissapointed... verging on disgusted.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-instant-lab-turn-iphone-images-into-rea


Discuss....

[Paul Mitchell]

It's just an updated Daylab printer thats all... more hipster fodder. They do say that if there's enough interest they'll make cradles for Android phone's too.

[Thom Stone]

yeah, i can understand why they would do it, essentially to try and get more hipster interest... just think they would be much better off spending the time and the money on making a camera, which they have mentioned in the past. just cant understand why this would take priority over a new camera. it also seems kind of pointless turning digital photos taken on a phone into a polaroid.

[sapata]

It is another daylab as Paul mentioned and fair to say much better thatn that zinc printer Polaroid released few time ago.

Through the promotional video you can see is that clearly marketed to the younger mobile phone photographers generation, it's far to say that some youngsters never had a camera before in their lives apart form the ones on their mobile phone. Florian is a marketing expert and his targeting another group of people to buy their film...

What I don't get is why they need people's money for doing this?

Don't want to start another thread in here but it's been almost a year since I've been using my iMac and I cringe everytime I have to use my wife's Windows laptop

[hookstrapped]

Hipsterism is all about being ironic, so yeah.

[jojonas~]

I find this page much more interesting: http://www.the-impossible-project.com/projects/camera/fpu

make a new camera instead? this is one step on the way~ atleast that's what I think when I read "modular platform".
check the links on the bottom right of that page; "pinhole camera" "viewfinder camera"?? I'm thinking photokina will be interesting

[Chalky]

yeah when I first saw this I was dissapointed as I am not an iPhone user and not so keen on the idea of 'instantising' digital photos...

which I guess is relatively hipocritical as I digitise all my instant pics.

anyway... the email they sent about the impossible camera says that the processing unit which is the base of this, is designed so it can be used with other cameras, quote:

"The FPU will serve as the basis for a range of new analog instant gear to be introduced in 2013"

so, I'm just watching this space for the time being...

[Francois]

Just imagine: analog pixels

Actually, in the old Apple ][ days, people would do the color separation on the computer and photograph the screen three times through different filters to get a color image... same thing, just a smaller computer.

[Thom Stone]

I did post this before getting the email update about the camera.... I will let the hipsters have there fun now. :-P

[gothamtomato]

I ordered one. Does this make me a hipster?

Actually, what this seems like to me is just a great marketing idea; a way to have enough pre-orders in your pocket before you manufacture the item. I saw this when they announced it on Twitter yesterday and watched the 'pledges' tick up all day. They're now at $197,000. I wish I could come up with a kickstarter project that raised $197,000 in a day!

I still have a bunch of real Polaroid SX-70 in my fridge and I figure I'll be able to use it to make manipulated SX-70 px from my iPhone.

[Late Developer]

All this reminded me of a photo I saw years ago entitled "blonde copying a Word document" 

I think that the iP daylab is probably right up there at the top of the list of items I'm least likely to buy - ever.

The only benefit for TiP film users is that if the Hipsterati cause an increase in use of film, that might help reduce the cost of the film and, perhaps, fund further R&D into producing new films that are stable and permanent.

[Alan]

The only benefit for TiP film users is that if the Hipsterati cause an increase in use of film, that might help reduce the cost of the film and, perhaps, fund further R&D into producing new films that are stable and permanent.

yup i agree.

impossible are just trying to expand the useage of the product.

[jojonas~]

I found this possible jimmy rig interesting:

though I guess it would need some help in pushing the focus back that far.

[Francois]

There are three ways to do this from simple to complex.
-Take a picture of a groundglass.
-Add a series of lenses to move focus backwards.
-Use a series of prisms like in the old NPC Nikkor backs.

[gary m]

I used to take a digi picture and upload it to my computer. I then used my SX70 camera loaded with Time Zero film and photograph the monitor. Kinda like a poormans Daylab. I then manipped the actual Polaroid print. Made all these doing that method, except the Coke can sample. http://www.filmwasters.com/guests/v/guestgallery45/

[gary m]

Actually found an old video I made of the process years ago. http://youtu.be/WwF4tiyZq2U

[Dave Dunne]

I used to take a digi picture and upload it to my computer. I then used my SX70 camera loaded with Time Zero film and photograph the monitor. Kinda like a poormans Daylab. I then manipped the actual Polaroid print. Made all these doing that method, except the Coke can sample. http://www.filmwasters.com/guests/v/guestgallery45/

Hmmm... now I am inspired.

[tani.P]

This whole things seems like maybe it should have been an attachment for existing cameras rather than a dedicated unit. My guess is they'll build off of this base to make a new camera eventually. I think I'll stick to my Sun 660 for the time being....