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I know it is the Impossible Company. AFAIK the issue is not so much with patents, as with process and chemicals. Even Polaroid themselves could not produce it a
by jacobush 8y ago
I know it is the Impossible Company. AFAIK the issue is not so much with patents, as with process and chemicals. Even Polaroid themselves could not produce it at the end - they had a big batch of some critical chemicals they expected to last for many years, but people didn't stop buying Polaroid film as fast as Polaroid had projected, so they had to announce an abrupt halt. (Whenever it was, 2010?)
The Impossible Project had to do a lot of research and find alternative recipes to get the thing going again.
As for expensive, you can get single packs of 8 images for under $20. Not exactly cheap, but not prohibitive. If you compare price per image area with Instax, it's not bad.
Both come in at around 30 cents per square inch.
- tecleandor 8y agoYou can get a 20pack of Instax Wide for 17USD, and it's almost the same area than a Polaroid. A B&W 10pack (I haven't tested, so I don't know the quality) is around 14USD. I think it's pretty good value. I still haven't bought a Wide camera, but even with all the Polaroid 600 cameras I have around, I think I'll buy one...
- jacobush 8y agoBut here it's not nested so deep - I can actually answer here. :) Thanks for pointing that out. I might get an Instax Wide. But I will try out at least one new formulation Polaroid pack in my 600 camera. I am curious about the colors. It's fun to not have only one formulation to choose from. There's also the issue about lens quality. Some Polaroid cameras have very sharp glass lenses, while the Instax cameras have so-so optics.
- jacobush 8y agoAnother point to bring up - now in this day when digital cameras have quite thoroughly succeeded in capturing "perfect" colors, there is something to be said for the slightly more "grungy" colors of current Polaroid stock. The Instax film, while I adore it, is almost too good at times. The colors are natural and spot on, of course there's always a fraction of the market that wants something else.
- tecleandor 8y agoOps, I see I answered you in two different comments, didn't check the username . Sorry!
- shiftpgdn 8y agoWould those impossible cartridges work in a Hasselblad polaroid back?
- jacobush 8y agoIndeed! It's all the same - the colors are a bit different, that's all. https://www.polaroid.com/news/polaroid-celebrates-the-return-of-the-original-at-ces https://www.polaroid.com/news/polaroid-celebrates-the-return...