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Posted: **Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:19 pm**

Wait...no you can't in November, 2019...or November, 2009, for that matter. Polaroid has given up on instant photography. That distinctive whirr of the Esper unit spitting out an SX-70 hard copy photo...it will be history in 2009. That is, unless another company buys the technology from what is left of Polaroid.

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:05 am**

msgeek wrote:That distinctive whirr of the Esper unit spitting out an SX-70 hard copy photo...it will be history in 2009.

Only the sound of it that is... ;-)

As we all know it takes technology much more advanced than from Polaroid or anybody else for that matter to store three-dimensional photographs on glossy paper (I know, it's not the Esper print-out but the input so to speak, indulge me) with enough resolution to zoom in manifold times...

Have a better one,
Martin

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:41 am**

msgeek wrote:Wait...no you can't in November, 2019...or November, 2009, for that matter. Polaroid has given up on instant photography. That distinctive whirr of the Esper unit spitting out an SX-70 hard copy photo...it will be history in 2009. That is, unless another company buys the technology from what is left of Polaroid.

Printers won't be obsolete in 2019.

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:59 pm**

deleted wrote:Printers won't be obsolete in 2019.

Yes, but Polaroid cameras certainly will be. And the Esper in Blade Runner used a Polaroid camera's guts to spit out the "hard copy." Which was clearly an SX-70 photo, probably taken by someone in the prop department.

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:21 am**

msgeek wrote:
deleted wrote:Printers won't be obsolete in 2019.

Yes, but Polaroid cameras certainly will be. And the Esper in Blade Runner used a Polaroid camera's guts to spit out the "hard copy." Which was clearly an SX-70 photo, probably taken by someone in the prop department.

Wow, alright, you win. ;-)

It's been ages since I've last seen a real Polaroid being taken.
But I've seen it. It's cool when the colors start to develop...
At least I remember having seen them.
Hm.
Memories.
Polaroids.
Which fade faster??
;-)

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:15 am**

msgeek wrote:unless another company buys the technology from what is left of Polaroid.

that's the point. don't worry, people :wink:

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:13 pm**

It's BR's curse I tell you.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:51 am**

With the advent of digital photography, "Instant" Polaroid pictures aren't really instant anymore, or as crisp and clear.

I have an old polaroid and my kids still love it when I get a film pack for it and snap a few pics, even when they're grainy or dull, they love to wave the pictures to "help them develop".

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