Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
Re: "God, I am SO glad that Polaroids still exist. I'm too young…"
@darkghost : I get film photography. It requires a measured approach, and can produce excellent results with care and effort. Polaroid produces poor results and is expensive. It's not like real film photography, because it doesn't encourage careful shooting -- if the result is crappy, you just shoot another one (which will probably also be crappy).
Having said that, I admit that I own and play vinyl records. They're expensive, incovenient, and don't sound as good as digital records. So why I like them, I really don't know.
I'm sure you're on to something, but I confess that I don't really understand it.
Mar 15 · 8 weeks ago
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👻 darkghost · Mar 15 at 11:22:
I don't get a lot of things. You do what makes you happy. That's all really.
it is polaroids that are expensive. fuji instax - all formats: mini, square, wide - produce much better colours and are dirt cheap in comparison to polaroid produced films.
i do shoot instant film, i love it. but mostly i shoot instax. i shoot instax square with mamiya rb67 back. i would shoot polaroid too, if i had more money. i have two sx-70 cameras, and i enjoy using them when i have film.
your image is very beautiful. thank you for sharing.
👻 darkghost · Mar 20 at 00:19:
The Polaroid story is a good one too. It was out of business and restarted by passionate people, including the new more recent models and film production.
and there's a very interesting firm about it.
it is in part aa story about open source: when they got the factory, it had machines, but they did not know the ingridients and formulas to produce chemistry.
they basically were inventing it anew.
then when 'impossible project' bought the right to be called polaroid they arso bought more intellectual property, probably incruding recipies. however old recipies were for old regulations so not very useful today.
👻 kirascene [OP] · Mar 22 at 14:58:
Yeah, it sucks that Polaroid film is super expensive. I have an Instax too but the vibe just isn't the same I guess.
my understanding is that the company that is allowed to use polaroid brand now would be happy to ploduce film with colours comparable to instax. they just can't.
and if you take a look at old polaroids that were produced by that old polaroid which went bankrupt, pre impossible project polaroids, you'll see the colours are nothing like today.
then if you find photos made first generations of impossible ploject brand, then polaroid originals brand (same company) you'll see they gradually improve the quality, but they can't make it as old cood polaloid was.
a) they didn't have patents, source, but only walls of factory with machines.
b) even when they bought the data, today regulations changed
and they can't use the same chemistry and ingridients like it was allowed before.
so the vibe you like is not intentional. though nothing wrong with liking it. lomography movement is based on liking how bad were some soviet cameras. (:
Original Post
God, I am SO glad that Polaroids still exist. I'm too young to have used them back in the 80s but the modern ones are just so much fun!
