Polaroid to stop making instant film

BOSTON Feb 8, 2008 (AP)

Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.
Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures such as a portable printer for images from cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.

This year's closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.


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If you like Polaroid, take a look at: http://www.savepolaroid.com/

For ways on how you can help try to save the film.


As for me I find this sad, I really do. There is just something special about Polaroids to me.

Anyone agree?

That's awful. As much as I like digital cameras and technology, it's really sad to see that people are losing jobs over it. Plus the nostalgia value of it as well.

i thought they stopped making that stuff a long time ago. I used to love my polaroid !! I better stock up on film and used it again while I can

I am kind of sad to hear this, those instant pictures had something special about them!

A petition to save the film:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-polaroid-film.html

Do sign if you like the film. Maybe it can get passed to be made by another company.

signed!!!!

I love polaroid cameras even though the one that my mother's husband has is a digital Polaroid camera. But I really love the old ones better. And it is such a damn shame that they are going to stop making them. When I think of the only picture that I like of me when I was little was done with a Polaroid. And it is going to be so sad to think when I see that picture of me. And know that those Polaroids is no longer going to around. I definitely had just signed that petition.

Spread the word. Even though it's not 100% the best thing we can do is try to save it.

this is bad news to me. i have a camera that ejects the picture as soon as i take it...and it's inexpensive. while i have a computer...i don't have all the equipment for digital phots..nor do i have the knowledge..and i'm too lazy to learn right now. one thing for sure...there was no danger of viral spreading of a polaroid pic.

i'm gunna miss this, if it goes away...so i downloaded the postcards to send. thanks for the post.

BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE


& good riddence


^_^

instant film still is around???? that's news to me

Aww man, I still have my polaroid sun 600 camera that I got as a birthday present in 1981. I use it every once in a while and it works just as good as it did when I first got it.