For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas - NYTimes.com

[w3qx at qsl.net]

REALLY? Well, maybe, and maybe not so much.

After seeing film specs on the Fujifilm Web site with wrong sizes, 
this SX-70 owner phoned the retailer an hour ago to see what they 
meant last week by "replacement".  I was right:  the retailer were 
misrepresenting.  Further, the Fujifilm product is for Fujifilm's own 
new line of instant cameras.

So the preservationist http://www.the-impossible-project.com/about/ 
is the answer to 600-series and other material for existing Polaroid 
hardware.  Well, maybe...

The following bait is from the holding company's January 2010 CES press release

http://www.polaroid.com/en/news/2010/1/7/polaroid-unveils-new-product-line-ces 
contains
>[...]
>The Return of Polaroid Instant Classics
>Supported by a strategic relationship with Summit Global Group, a 
>longtime Polaroid partner, and The Impossible Project, the 
>manufacturer of classic film for Polaroid film cameras, Polaroid 
>will offer a completely redesigned, modern version of the Polaroid 
>OneStep camera, the PIC 1000.  The PIC 1000 will be available in a 
>range of fun colors and use classic Polaroid Color 600 Instant Film 
>to produce the brand's classic white border instant pictures.  The 
>Polaroid Color 600 Instant Film will work with both classic and new 
>Polaroid cameras and will be offered in packs of 10 pictures. The 
>new classic PIC 1000 camera and instant color film will be available 
>at national retailers in 2010.
>[...]


For more about the Polaroid brand over the last decade, a good start 
is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation.

"Polaroid"--at least for now, anyway--is the registered trademark of 
PLR IP Holdings, LLC, Minnetonka, Minnesota.




At 7:45 PM -0500 1/1/11, Chip Fetrow wrote:
>REALLY?  Can you provide a link?  I have some legacy test equipment 
>that use Polaroid cameras and text backs for both Nikon and 
>Hasselblad, which I would love to be able to feed.
>
>I do know they make three instax cameras which use their own 
>(nearly) instant film packs.  I wonder if it is makes overly green 
>prints, like their standard film.
>
>--chip
>
>On Jan 1, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:
>
>>Message: 3
>>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:02:27 -0500
>>From: w3qx at qsl.net
>>Subject: Re: For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas 
>>- NYTimes.com
>>
>>Fuji also makes the Polaroid film products now
>>
>>At 12:30 PM -0500 12/31/10, wb5mmb wrote:
>>>Film is not dead yet. It is like some of us AMRADers slowly fading away. At
>>[...]
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