Future of Polaroid

[Terence McDonagh]

Just got some Type 55 I ordered from Badger, and it has the dreaded discontinued sticker.

Answers the very question I asked here last week, of when does everyone think Type 55 will be discontinued. Hope I didn't jinx it into happening . . .

[Alan Davenport]

We all know the future of Polaroid and film in general. Some people are still in denial.

[BrianShaw]

It is getting much more difficult to maintain the denial, eh?

[Terence McDonagh]

I think film will be around for quite a while. It just won't be cheap. Who'd have thought in this day and age that you'd still be able to get new LP's and record players?

[Gene McCluney]

I think film will be around for quite a while. It just won't be cheap. Who'd have thought in this day and age that you'd still be able to get new LP's and record players?

Vinyl LP's and record players are a totally different kind of technology, which is easier to manufacture on a smaller scale than film coating is. Polaroid is the most complex film based product to manufacture. In vinyl LP manufacturing, there still are several record pressing plants, as well as mastering labs, and there are a wide variety of turntable and cartridge manufacturers, as high-end audiophiles never completely bought into the CD revolution. All these products can be produced (at higher cost) in small cottage industry type of plants, whereas film requires a big investment and plant.

While type 55 may be around, it will only be from stock already manufactured, as if the plants shut down, that is it...and they are in the process of being shut down, and some locations are already shut down.

Whatever type 55 is out there, or in Polaroid warehouses is it....no more.

[Juergen Sattler]

http://www.boston.com/business/techn...aying_off_150/

Bad news for all of us!

[David A. Goldfarb]

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=33055

[BrianShaw]

Not to embaras anyone, but you apparently didn't notice an existing thread.

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=33055

[Ron Bose]

I was joking about selling the 545i, I can still use them for QuickLoads.

Now I have to wonder, is my subject Polariod worthy ?

But just imagine if Fujifilm came along and started making a Type 53, 54 and 55 equivalent :-)

[alanps]

http://www.boston.com/business/techn...aying_off_150/