The polaroid




Fuck this shit is baller. Instant pictures. All you have to do is shake that shit and wait like a few minutes. Years of research and human design ingenuity all wraped into a little greyish black box. This thread goes out to you.

8/6/2009 12:57:48 AM

Just when we can start to afford this amazing technology, they stop making film

8/6/2009 1:01:59 AM

Fuck digital camera's. Analog.

[Edited on August 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM. Reason : wow how could i have not posted this in Tech Talk... fail]

8/6/2009 1:02:48 AM

WAT

8/6/2009 1:03:21 AM

Fuck Cameras. Paint.

8/6/2009 1:03:22 AM

Mods, please move to tech talk.

8/6/2009 1:03:41 AM

you don't, and have never had to, shake it.

You're NOT supposed to shake it, if anything.

8/6/2009 1:19:54 AM

do you have a bibliography for that tall statement?

8/6/2009 1:41:44 AM

lol

8/6/2009 1:43:38 AM

I keep wondering what all those restaurants are going to do when people have a birthday and wear the funny hat or eat the 4LB burger & fries in under 30 minutes.

8/6/2009 2:05:48 AM

^ digital camera, print out on the printer that is in the office...probably takes the same amount of time

i agree, though...the loss of the polaroid is tragic...it was (is!) iconic

[Edited on August 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM. Reason : .]

8/6/2009 7:47:32 AM

Andre2000 says I need to, and I quote, "...shake it like a polaroid..."

8/6/2009 8:29:38 AM

^ you're short 1000....

8/6/2009 8:32:52 AM

^Is there a reason your name is sweetdick?

8/6/2009 8:43:19 AM

fuck paint, charcoal on cave walls.

8/6/2009 8:46:15 AM

I want a polaroid camera.

8/6/2009 9:30:09 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/polaroid.warns.reut/index.html
Polaroid warns buyers not to 'shake it'

8/6/2009 10:21:22 AM

^About 30 years too late.

8/6/2009 10:24:04 AM

Polaroid film captured many oscilloscope traces that would have been lost in time otherwise.

<3 scope cameras.

8/6/2009 10:25:07 AM

http://products.polaroid.com/index/1848.0.61264.0.0.0.0



they have a digital polaroid camera now... so you can preview and then instant print. I think that is pretty neat, but i wonder how much the ink/paper for it costs

8/6/2009 10:28:49 AM

^^^

Quote :

"the company says that shaking photos, which once helped them to dry, is not necessary since the modern version of Polaroid film dries behind a clear plastic window. "

8/6/2009 10:29:00 AM

that's pretty cool

8/6/2009 10:29:21 AM

http://tinyurl.com/m3go75

Paper at ~33 cents per sheet.

8/6/2009 10:33:40 AM

The camera is a "foe-to-graphic-art"

8/6/2009 10:35:35 AM

Quote :

"Is there a reason your name is sweetdick?"

haha, why am I LOLing???

8/6/2009 10:36:57 AM

I feel the way about this those kids in tight pants feel about vinyl.

The music just aint the same.

8/6/2009 10:41:38 AM

I really like the way a polaroid picture looks. I bet the digital version looks quite a bit more crisp.

8/6/2009 10:43:42 AM

hmm those same kids still use Polaroids though. nevertheless i'm not one of them.

8/6/2009 10:44:42 AM

sigh, since they are discontinuing production themselves makes you wonder why they don't license the format out to smaller companies that would continue to make small amounts of the film

8/6/2009 10:55:38 AM

can y'all believe this shit? i know i can't.

[Edited on August 6, 2009 at 9:23 PM. Reason : no more huddling in dark caves with that silver nitrate shit.]

8/6/2009 9:23:17 PM

There are small companies still making it. Probably expensive though due to poor economy of scale.

8/6/2009 9:30:47 PM

no one would believe a digital picture in this day and age. However show someone a Polaroid and everyone would believe it.

8/6/2009 9:30:57 PM

you can still find old school film but its not cheap

8/6/2009 9:33:10 PM

i turned part of my office into a technology museum. trs-80s, sparc servers, tape drives, polaroid cameras with film carts, you name it i got it

except really big stuff, no tube driven shit

8/6/2009 9:35:39 PM

Polaroid? pinnacle of modern technology?


I beg to differ

8/7/2009 1:02:22 AM