R.I.P.
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This is a sad day.
An essential part of our childhood is going into extinction.
Polaroid has announced that they will stop making Polaroid instant cameras and film.
For reals!
Instead, the company is going to focus on making digital cameras and manufacturing TVs.
Buy your Polaroids and film on eBay. They're gonna be a thing of the past real soon!
Such a bummer.
Posted: February 12, 2008 at 6:11 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANTED ONE FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHY would they do that??? people are always fuc*ing good things up!
i thought about getting one a few years back but the film was way too expensive. no wonder they're not selling.
Another part of my teen years bite the dust.Back in the grooving 70s half baked,we took some pretty awesome pictures.Best part about it we could see the shot right away.Thanks for the fun memories Polaroid
The future will then never experience such a great thing such as polaroids. Gah.
ohhhh :”'(((((((
haha how sad… commercial casting agencies need to all jump into the digital age asap as polaroids were essential to their business!!
i am a photographer and polaroid's film as always been awesome. film is a dying art and digital is taking over. (i am fighting on the film side). polaroid as added fuel to the fire. why does everyone have to sale out to follow mainstream?????
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! i mean seriously i am disappointed because pictures arent going to be accessible anymore (like good family photos,good memories) because dig cams are so popular now adays, no one bothers printing pics, what happens if your comp dies all of a sudden or if all the comps in the world shut down at some time?! how will we pass these memories down?! ahhh! someone plz bring back the old school fotos bac into style!!! lol ps im not a gramma i am a teen aiight!!!
OH yeah ps polaroid dig cams DO SUCK i suggest you guys try another brand i bought one and was totally ripped off =/ tried selling it no one would even buy it
how's the fashion industry going to survive without polaroids?
OMG this si soo bad,it's like Heath Ledger & Anna Nicole Smith death combined but this is way worse…
Polaroids maded into everybody's homes,everybody but me…
I hate this shitty world…& people are wondering why is EMO existing…well here's the answer,from this kind of fucked up things …
oh darn…
i am livid!!! they can't discontinue them now….
WO HO! I already have one…left over from the good 'ol days! Now all I need to do is get some film…
noooo i neeed the films!
HOW AM I GOING TO TAKE PICTURES!
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sad sad sad sad day
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…………seriously, some pics are not ever meant to be shown in more than a polaroid fashion. This news makes me sad kinda.
Oh, and I guess this is the death of homemade porn circa 1970s.
my money's on a printer/digital combo .. that will be the size of the first digitals .. you know the 1 mega pixel type.
Such Bull Shit.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well my grandma is going to be pissed thats the only camera she knows how to use
Re: carrothead – I know…soo sad…
American Idol was using Polaroids of the contestants tonight, did anyone notice that at the end?
Aww! That is kind of sad! I still remember when Polaroid cameras were the greatest thing! To be able to get a picture instantly without having to send off your 35mm film was great!
OMFG NO!!! i loved those things… now i can tell my children "when i was your age, pluto was a planet and there were these nifty things called polaroids…." so sad!!
this is an outrage!!!!
doesn't anybody appreciate the value of film anymore?
these days it's all about digital digital digital
how can you create true art with crappy pixelated computerized images?
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god this pisses me off!!!!
and i thought polaroids were making a comeback
i love taking polaroids with my friends
and a lot of people at my school do too
i mean, even younger generations are into polaroids
so why the fuck did they discontinue making polaroid film
when it's becoming so popular again?
These kids don't even know what that is.
This is the worst move they've made EVER. No one is buying their stuff because they're not advertising, and the digital cameras they make are shit. The instant cameras are unique. I still use Polaroid. This is shit.
PEREZ—- this is awful!!!!!!!!!! please do something to stop it! i LOVE polaroids!
WHHAAAAA????????..NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..WWWHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
OH YEAH—– how the hell is the fashion industry going to survive w/o POLAROIDS? LC uses them all the time! please help perez!
I'm a *real life photographer* and this news is nothing new.
Each year film sales go down by 30% or some outrageous number. The only people keeping the market open are professional photographers– a niche market. Polaroid is shopping around for someone to buy the rights to make their film… IE: They're hoping Kodak/Fujifilm/Illford will pick it up and produce it.
NOOOOOOO!!!! shit i have to go buy some film before i can't anymore!
Actually "Duh," they have stopped creating the cameras a long time ago. They will only continue production of the FILM until they have enough to sell through 2009. But they are willing to sell the "instant film" to other companies and of course they will snatch it right up.
Blame your even-20-seconds-to-develop-a-photo-is-too-long digital camera using myspace obsessed selves if you are really upset about this! Almost NO one uses film cameras anymore.
Oh that's terrible I always wanted one.
but i thought the hipsters were bringing them back!
That really is sad! I got married in July and we set up a Polaroid guest book. I bought it through an online wedding site, it came with a camera and a special book that had pockets to slide the pictures into with space underneath for people to write their regards. We had our attendants take pictures of our guests as they arrived.
Everyone seriously LOVED it! They thought it was so unique and kept commenting about what a cute idea it was. It made our guests feel special having their picture taken, plus, it assured we would have a picture of every guest that was out our wedding.
I realize they are kind of obsolete now, but it's small things like that that people will miss out on.
There ought to be a law that says, when you buy ANY product from ANY company that has a consumable property attached to it (like a camera needing film or replacement parts) that they should be required to make the film or replacement parts available for the duration of the lifetime of the purchaser. If they go out of business, they should be required to either show that they have transferred that obligation to another company, or pay a huge fine as a deterrent.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
That's really a shame. I think one of my first cameras was a polaroid instant. I liked it so much that I bought a lot of other models throughout the years. The instant camera was an innovative idea that came in handy for so many people. They were always good at the scene of an accident, and one could take a pic of friends w/o worrying if it came out, etc. It's really a shame that they feel they have to jump on the digital camera bandwagon. Their instant camera products were so unique. This seriously may be their downfail.
This is just awful!!!!!
I love my polaroid cameras and this just plain sucks.
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Late much?
PEREZ!
THIS IS THE WORST THING YOU HAVE EVER REPORTED. HAHA
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MY POLAROID IS MY LIFE.
NOT COOOL!
ALL the big stars in Hollywood right now need to donate 10 % of theyr net value to this dying companyes that can't survive longer in the world,although they'r a part of our culture,of our history & of our present!
They need to do this ASAP cose it's one of the ways they could give back to the world for they'r outrages profits
Awww…i'm sad. These used to be my life when I was ten. I'd take stupid-ass pictures of everything and everyone. I still have them all. I love digital cameras too, but nothing beats watching your picture develop in front of your very eyes…so goddamn deck…
thats bulll shit! we need to start a protest asap!
WHAT?
what if theyre doing this to up the sales a little bit?
or a lottabit?
jeez, i should stock up.
What's next? 8-track tapes?
This sucks! I love Polaroids! I guess we're lucky they didn't get extinct sooner.
I shoot SX-70 film as part of my art. It was the coolest camera ever made. There is a company in the Netherlands that makes SX-70 film if you need it. Excellent stuff. Everyone should flood Proid with calls and emails to bring the classic SX-70 back!
Nooooooooo :'((
NO OOOO SOME OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES WERE ON A POLOROID OH AND SOME OF MY FREAKIEST TOO!
Sad sad sad, no more polaroid transfer prints.
you idiot…theyre not going extinct. fuji's buying the rights and they're just going to be made by a differeny company. duh
this saddens me to the core…
there's this really cool old dude who wonders around the lower east side of nyc and takes Polaroids of people out and about… he's been doing it for over 30 years and has this kick ass old school camera…
he's now out of business and it makes me sad.
*tear*
Pumpkin, you always get the story wrong. Polaroid already stopped making cameras over a year ago, commercial ones the year before that. Polaroid film is expensive and produced pictures with a strange world of colors that only exist in…well, the world of Polaroid film. Not exactly a “green” product - every ten pictures you throw away a cartridge that contains a battery pack that ends up in a land fill. Be all romantic if you must, but you’re really five years too late. The Polaroid of days gone past really ceased to be when they went bankrupt and left their long time employees who had saved in their retirement plan with nothing. The real story is that Polaroid is the Enron of the photography world who really only survives today by way of putting the old Polaroid name on otherwise junky electronic stuff.
Noooo! can't we sign a petition or something! Polariod is the shit!!
This is so fucking sad… I literally cried when I heard this.
love you, perez!
Boo Hoo!!!! I freakin' love those cameras!
ANDY WARHOL is looking down from heaven and shaking his head in disbelief!
FORGET ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS AND MODELING HEAD SHOTS………………………………..THEY WERE THE CORNERSTONE OF AMATUER PORN…….YOU COULD HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH YOUR PARTNER WITH ONE OF THESE…..THIS IS SO SAD!!!!!!
So terrible…I still have mine from back in the day.
THIS IS HORRIBLE!
I bought a poloroid from Salvation Army over this past summer, and it has become my baby. I still have 9 pictures left in it. Why would they do this? Their regular cameras suck, keep to what you're good at.
how in god's name will we take pics of our naughty bits now!!!??????
its sad how some of this stuff is going off the market like you mentioned FILM everythings going digital but film is where photography started how can they take it away =(
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO…!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Stick to poloroids!!!! Everyone else is doing digital. I don't want to say good bye to my poloroid camera!!!!!!
NOOOOO WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!! ;s
Now we can't shake it like a Polaroid picture!!
http://bluews.polaroid.com/onthego/home.html
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NO EFFEN WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No freakin' way!