Why? Even in the day these were mostly used as novelty, party cameras or for shots you didn't want the photo finishing shop to see.
The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am looking for an SLR. My best photography related memory is from a Nikon FM3A that I borrowed from a relative as a teenager for some time. Where I live there isn't an active used SLR market in a way that can be trusted and purchased. Maybe I will try my luck with one of the trusted sellers in the USA once someone from here is coming back. No, Leica is not an option - both on the price front and that not being an S…
I bought a Nikon FE2 recently from keh.com. There are plenty of manual focus film SLR cameras available. You may also want to try your local camera store. Mine has a good selection of used cameras and lenses. Things are more expensive than they used to be but there are still plenty of options available.
I would try to order online next time someone is coming from USA. KEH is one of the sites I planned check to order from.
(Local scene isn’t really great where I live. I tried.)
Re: The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
#93It would be good if it was "dual mode", capable of capturing digitally and print out too.
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#94700 euros, oh my goodness! I would honestly expect it to be able to capture digital versions of the images too for that money.
IMHO it's a feature that instant photography users are not interested at all.
You could probably say the same about a certain brand of personal computer too.
It costs an absolute fortune, then misses some of the basic features "computers do". Upgrade the RAM? No. "people don't want that". Play video games? Nah (or maybe). Have an all around dumbed down garbage UX that literally does things opposite "just because"? Yep.
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I don't think you understand the selling point of these. An ex of mine had a Polaroid, and had taken hundreds of pictures with friends and family, all cherished and passed to loved ones. There's something special and somehow human about small, candid, imperfect photos that hits just right on memory lane and evokes nostalgia. It's more than just what it presents, it's about what it represents, and about the experience…
Personally I've never had a problem re-experiencing events from digital photos. Often more so, because I take a good handful and get a sequence rather than just a single snap. Aside from that - how did your ex manage to avoid fading? Polaroids are absolutely notorious for yellow-fade. And the chemistry is weird and fragile. It takes a month or so for the photo to fix. If you do anything to it in that time - cut off t…
The fading is a feature, not a bug, if you are the type of person that relates to what I described above, but in all seriousness, I don't remember.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO it's a feature that instant photography users are not interested at all.
I know but this is a huge amount of money for a niche product. I'm not sure they're equipped to run their business like Teenage Engineering or another niche thing targeting the very wealthy
Don't bet against nostalgia though. There are loads of 30-somethings that grew up with this, have a family of their own now, and can afford this.
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#97My 600SE has been largely out for action for years, with only a trickle of film available. Results were predictable when Polaroid and Fuji peel-apart film were available. The modern Polaroid film is anything but predictable or even vaguely good, especially for the astronomical prices. Zink gives about the same qualities. Fuji Instax in all its forms won this battle and there’s a cottage industry of Instax-holding bac…
I think the worst, most damning thing they did was gutting and destroying the Spectra equipment to make Polaroid Go film and cameras. I wish they'd work on getting film costs down rather than releasing overpriced toys. Instax is still kicking their ass for prices long-term. Zink was a mistake that should have never been made. I've never had a quality print off a Zink printer.
I recently bought a cheap zink camera and some not-so-cheap zink paper.
People said the quality wasn't good but I thought, "how bad can it really be?"
Pretty terrible!
I don't understand how zink can be a thing that people buy, unless they are all people like me who will never buy it again.
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#98I recently bought Instax by Fujitsu for $70. It’s great for parties! But also $1 per photo basically
the price per photo is what deters me from buying one. You will end up thinking twice (or thrice) before snapping an instant photo, because.. "is this really worth $1?". Having that said, I've seen you can buy these in bulk and the price goes down.
thinking before shooting was the norm before digital. that's why we had great photohraphers.
Re: The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
#99My 600SE has been largely out for action for years, with only a trickle of film available. Results were predictable when Polaroid and Fuji peel-apart film were available. The modern Polaroid film is anything but predictable or even vaguely good, especially for the astronomical prices. Zink gives about the same qualities. Fuji Instax in all its forms won this battle and there’s a cottage industry of Instax-holding bac…
As a lifetime Polaroid fan, I would disagree. I think this product signals that results of their death were greatly exaggerated.
In the US, at least, Polaroid cameras and film are widely available, even at convenience and drugstores, not to mention online. This new camera is a tool for artists, which harkens back to the way Edwin Land originally conceived and marketed the product.
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#100this is clearly targeted at the segment that wants something nicer than the dwindling stock of refurb SX70s, but is too cheap for Mint's SLR670. so the only thing that surprises me is it's not an SLR. just about the only thing this could possibly beat an SX70 on is the autofocus if it's good, maybe shutter speed but they seem cagey about it, and maybe durability. the foldable sx70 is just too nice. who wants to carry…
> the foldable sx70 is just too nice. who wants to carry around a brick? Edwin Land was the Steve Jobs of that era, the SX70 was the iPod of that era. His Wikipedia page: a pathetic 3,000 words. Dieter Rams (another Jobsian figure) doesn't figure much better, but nothing he ever designed was as big as the SX70, as brilliant as he was. And Land was actual scientist, he made meaningful technologies for WW2, he's practi…
I highly recommend Edwin Land's biography, The Instant Image. The title refers not to the method of photography but how the device was invented -- conceived as a complete product in one mental flash that took years of real scientific invention to bring to technical fruition.