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A Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s SX-70 Camera (1989)
- riffic 4y agoI love sharing this Eames promo film for the SX-70: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_1pyQ7xvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_1pyQ7xvc
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- sydthrowaway 4y agoOne of the greatest cameras of all time, seems to be infinitely moddable too. Check out the OpenSX70 project. Unfortunately Polaroid film is a ripoff. I wish we could 3d print lenses one day. This would be a gamechanger.
- jetrink 4y ago> Unfortunately Polaroid film is a ripoff. It's certainly expensive, but have you seen what it takes to produce photographic film, let alone instant film? My guess is that there isn't much of a profit margin for them, even at over $2 per photo. Another thing: adjusted for inflation, SX-70 film is actually slightly cheaper now than it was in the 70s and 80s, despite the massive drop in market size.
- iancmceachern 4y ago> I wish we could 3d print lenses. We can today: https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereolithography/ https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereo...
- mateo1 4y agoThese lenses are awful and still need sanding.
- iancmceachern 4y agoSo is literally every lens made by literally every other manufacturing method. Glass lenses look pretty awful before they're ground also.
- mateo1 4y agoWhy in the world would you need to 3d print a lens and what would it change?
- wimagguc 4y agoFor anybody interested in this era of photography, the book "A Triumph of Genius" by Ronald K. Fierstein is such a brilliant documentation of the history around the Kodak vs Polaroid patent war.
- kwatsonafter 4y agoThank you for the suggestion!
- lisper 4y agoEven today the sx70 is an impressive bit of engineering. A foldable camera! How cool is that?
- ginko 4y agoA foldable _SLR_ camera.