|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Polaroid Film is Back!
|
« Back
|
|
|
I got great news to day from Chuck Majewski; Polaroid film is back in production! A group decided to start producing Polaroid film and I'm trhilled!
Here's part of the article from Time:
When the Polaroid film factory in the Dutch town of Enschede shut down in June 2008, it seemed to signal the end for one of the most ingenious and iconic innovations of the 20th century. Almost 60 years after American inventor Edwin H. Land sold the first Model 95 of his new instant-picture camera in Boston in November 1948, the troubled Polaroid Corp. halted its cassette-film production for good. Demand was still relatively high - the plant churned out 30 million cassettes in 2007 and 24 million in the first half of 2008 - but the plant had run out of its allocated amount of the chemical components needed to make its famous instant film, and Polaroid's decision to move to digital meant there was no point in ordering more. The film stocks will last a little while longer. When they run out, though, the Polaroid camera - once the world's most popular, with about 1 billion sold - could be history.
But two men attending the factory's closing ceremony had other ideas. Florian Kaps, an Austrian entrepreneur and Polaroid enthusiast, and AndrÉ Bosman, until then the engineering manager of the Enschede plant, met by chance on that fateful day. Together they decided to find a way to bring instant photography back to life.
Click Here to read the whole story
Click here to visit the film web site
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|