Polaroid Cease Making Instant Film To Concentrate On Digital Imaging Solutions

Having only yesterday fallen into somewhat of a digression concerning the fate of the HD-DVD format, in which we made references to the long defunct Betamax format, we couldn’t not post concerning the passing of another iconic technology whose days are well and truly over as Polaroid announce that they are ceasing production of the film utilised by their instant cameras.

If you are of a ‘certain age’ you’ll no doubt recall with especially fond memories the first ever time you first saw one of Polaroid’s bulky instamatic cameras in action as well as the somewhat ceremonious ‘holding of photo to chest to warm it up’ pose that, depending on who owned the camera, oven proved quite enlightening (we won’t give her name here, but safe to say that I’ve never seen an instamatic photo develop quite as quickly as was the case in her ample bosom – hence the delectable space between them hitherto being referred to as the ‘dark room’).

I’m holding on to that fond memory for just a minute…

Polaroid Mini Printer

The ceasing of film production by Polaroid will result in the closing of factories in the US, Netherlands and Mexico though, with Polaroid having ceased manufacture of their instamatic camera range around a year ago the writing has been on the wall for some time.

If you still own one of Polaroid’s instamatics the good news is that apparently they apparently have enough stocks of the film left to continue supply up until 2009 and are presently in talks with another company with view to films being provided by a third party beyond that date.