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Polaroid dead? Not yet! Urban Outfitters has teamed up with The Impossible Project to sell "a limited edition 700 hand-numbered deadstock Polaroid camera kits," which will include the much sought after and nearly extinct Polaroid Instant Film, and the Polaroid ONE600 Classic. These are the last of what's left, and it all goes on sale tomorrow (price is still unknown). The Williamsburgsters are not happy about this. Vintage Polaroid is their thing, Urban Outfitters; you can't just co-opt hipster style and sell it off to the masses. Anyway, one poster says, "I do not think anyone will buy a Polaroid at UO and do anything meaningful with it. There, I said it." Alright, Polaroid is so over, everyone get Lomos now. FML!
Last Polaroids Sold Off at Urban Outfitters, Obvs
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I never used a Polaroid and where would I buy the film from if I buy it?
Ebay would be your best bet.
thanks, I saw a vendor use a Polaroid at Time Square and I loved the sound it made.
My friend just bought some polaroid film on ebay but even on ebay its becoming less and less common.
I'm really hoping we discover an unknown warehouse very soon.
Oh yeah. There are a lot of stashes and hoards of these supplies I know a guy that bought an entire inventory from a camera shop and is just sitting on it. I do wonder if that 'six foot' polaroid camera that artists used is still at their headquarters.
polapremium.com sells polaroid film (they're the same folks behind The Impossible Project) http://polapremium.com/
Amazon sells it. So does Adorama on W 18th. I stocked up this Spring to do a wedding scrap book.
But honestly, there's some neat photo-editing software and programs to "polaroid" your regular pics so you can have the same result, just without the "experience" of the instant print.
is film really that hard to find? i feel like there's actually a surplus at the moment, but its a matter of it all expiring.
http://www.savepolaroid.com/filmtypes
Instant Film Types & Info
The following is a list of Polaroid and Fuji instant film that has been available in the last decade or so. All of the Polaroid films are now discontinued.
It's like CD's now. After Tower Records, Virgin and some mom and pop store closed, finding the CD's you want is getting harder. Seems like everyone is either buying it off iTunes or Amazon. Practically no one carries CD's anymore.
pffft its all about the holga now anyway...
http://www.lomography.com/
@the edge lomography doesn't sell polaroid film
I've never heard of this company before, but the cameras look great!
There's at least a few people that will re-load old Polaroid cartridges for you. I have a friend that actually buys the paper and loads his own. Granted he's a photographer, but said it isn't all that hard to do if you have some dark room experience. I know you can load your own for the Brownie, and some older models, but I'm not certain if it works with the newer ones.
i dont mean to be dramatic but i'd rather be shot in the face than have to read another williamsboard thread
Drat! No more instant naughty pictures?
Um?....... Digital?
A+ to Urban Outfitters for taking money from hipsters. Someone has to do it...
C'mon dudes, welcome to the new millenium. Here's iphone polaroid emulation for all you sentimentalists.
http://iphoneoverdose.com/2008/iphone-polaroid-effects-apps-roundup/
http://shakeitphoto.com/
I'm still pissed that daguerreotypes went out of fashion.
And the Stereopticons.
Somewhere in storage is an old Polaroid Spectra camera I bought right after it was introduced in 1986. Wonder if it's worth anything as a collector's item? Although I suspect the old folding SX-70 would be worth more.
Check ebay for specific models and what they are going for. I sold two SX-70's a few years back and they got about $25 a piece.
I sure wish they came out with a really small eight track cassette player that I can wear while I'm jogging or working out at the gym or a bar.
Did I ever post my link to the ektachrome slides I took of my fishing trip to Branson, MO?
If you're too young to remember, you probably don't get it.
Polaroids were really fun. Digital has taken the fun out of everything. And no, a camera-phone is no substitute for the Polaroid experience.
Those were the days ...
How hard would it be for someone in Taiwan or China to buy the license and make after-market Polaroid film? With a little re-equipping in Guangzhou, nothing ever really dies :)
Probably no prob at all, but would you like to be portrayed and remembered by a fading beige image going to totally "what am I looking at?"
The process made them money, it served it's time and fortunately the brainiacs at the corporation realized, "Hey you dumb fucks, it's over."
Fortunately for you, your image appears to be in the gray scale so you won't fade away in the slanted glowing light of the soon approaching autumnal illumination.