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Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« on: May 20, 2010, 03:18:56 PM »
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Ed Wenn

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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 02:01:42 AM »
Written by a "technology critic" not a photography person...pretty much says it all.  Weird that Instax cameras now have a Polaroid brand name in the States though.
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 04:04:08 PM »
I didn't get that when I first glanced at the article.
I think it might simply be a mistake from the reporter's part as I really don't see Fuji buying the rights to Polaroid or Polaroid buying Fuji cameras in order to re-brand them... Then again, I learned that anything is possible when it comes to the Polaroid brand...
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2010, 05:19:50 PM »
Yeah the title is slightly misleading. the author doesn't really say instant film is pointless. the biggest argument against is the price, but she seems to like polaroid film.
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2010, 09:37:28 PM »
The Polaroid 300 is a rebadged version of the Fuji Mini. I have no idea about the name usage. The whole thing seems to spin from the days when there was, and I still have, a Polaroid Mio which always used film made by Fuji. That item was a joint venture between Polaroid and Fuji.
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 11:54:03 PM »
it's interesting how minimal and cheap the rebranding looks. someone barely made an effort to stamp polaroid and 300 on the camera. almost looks like a chinese knockoff.
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2010, 05:22:33 PM »
Surely this depends on how you read it... Polaroid as a company are messing around with branding products from elsewhere so maybe it's true. However the customers who buy Instant materials, made by The Impossible Project, from me - they don't see Polaroid as 'past its time' and still refer to these instant films as 'Polaroid'
Whatever Polaroid does the name will probably always have a meaning that goes beyond the Polaroid Corporation.
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Re: Polaroid "Past its time"?? Oh please.
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2010, 11:19:37 PM »
My sister is about to have a baby and I'm giving her an instant camera as a present. I'm afraid that if I don't give her a camera that will produce an actual image she can hold in her hand, her kid will grow up without the sort of big photo album I loved looking through as a kid.
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