Polaroid comeback ?!?! tease

I'm all for anything analog ... but I'm not paying $2 for a single Impossible instant photo. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
 
I am finally using my Land 250 camera after not feeling ready for Polaroid film for many months. It is a lot of fun to play with such a camera. The Polaroid camera brings out some extra creativity (hopefully!) as the film is expensive, and I am hoping that new types of film will be available soon.
 
I've been a little disappointed with the contrastiness and slow developing of Impossible film, so if Polaroid opened its engineering archives to provide better technical solutions, I'm all for it. There is nothing like the charm of watching a good color photo develop in your hand. I'd love to use my Land camera or Spectra again, since they were head and shoulders better than my old 600.

Scott
 
This obviously is about (some kind of) a marriage between Polaroid and Impossible Project (Impossible Project online store will be closed from 10-13th of Sept.).

I hope the hype invasion by Polaroid is too big to be just about branding (putting Polaroid name on existing Impossible films). I expect at least one new film that will be a significant improvement to Impossible and a further plan to get to something close to old Polaroid films.

Anyway, I can't wait the 13th of September (I hope Polaroid gives me a nice birthday present)!
 
I shoot film, I shoot digital, I shoot Impossible...

Yes Impossible is expensive but the satisfaction is great...there is something magical in it and you do not need a many thousands EUR (or $) camera...

robert
 
FujiLove said:
As everything seems to be over-hyped, under-delivered and endlessly delayed these days (Film Ferrania anyone?) I won't be holding my breath.

Let's hope I'm proved wrong about this one.
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yes, it's possible we'll get interesting exciting news and it's possible there will be nothing interesting and we'll be disappointed...let's dream a little now :)

robert
 
I beta tested a new color film for them earlier this year, so at the very least, I suspect that film will be introduced.
 
time-zero, time-zero, time-zero...please, please, please.

impossible project film is just...not good.
 
Anything further will be great. I never had a chance to shoot with much instant Film and it's now incredibly expensive... tIP Film is also the best you can get, but not great.

I got a good deal on a Polaroid 330 with 2 Packs of FP100C and have been enjoying it (though nervous to shoot at, at £2/exposure...) and shoot much of Fuji's Instax.
 
Polaroid has the marketing hype going...let's see if they can deliver anything better than the mainstream Fuji Instax and impossibly expensive niche market.
 
Sorry to disappoint you all folks, but this is definitely just rebranded Impossible (albeit, possibly next gen) film.

Impossible own the Polaroid brand now and have been running their Impossible branded stocks down for months.

Someone on a subReddit has already leaked the new packaging - looks like it was designed by someone who had probably designed the newest IG logo (ironically enough).

Shame they didn't go with more classic Polaroid design, but there you go.

Don't expect anything earth shattering / game changing / deal breaking & you won't be too disappointed.
 
With all the whining and complaining I read in this thread, it's a wonder that any of you call yourselves "film enthusiasts" at all.

The Impossible Project has done what no one else did: They brought Polaroid integral instant film back from the dead. At $2.30 per exposure, the price isn't cheap but it's not all that far out of bounds compared to original Polaroid integral film ... It used to cost $.70-$.85 per exposure when it was last made and, accounting for inflation, if it had stayed in production it would have been $1.25-$1.50 now. So a dollar premium for having to completely re-invent it in a ridiculously short period of time and then sell it in volumes barely approaching 1/20th of what Polaroid film sold in back in the day isn't all that bad.

Quality and consistency could certainly be a lot better, but not even Polaroid could make the original film any more ... the materials to do so are no longer available even if you had all the formulations, etc. The Impossible Project's B&W films (a product never even made by Polaroid for integral film cameras, btw) are really quite good and very consistent as of two-three years ago, and their latest color films are passably good quality and consistent. Lots of work yet to do, but remember it took Polaroid 20 years to devise integral films (and $2B dollars) where TIP has struggled with doing the same job in a quarter the time and at 20% of that funding.

While I fight with the TIP films occasionally and have to work hard to get results I'm after sometimes, I don't see any point to saying that TIP is a failure or not producing the goods. I've worked through close to 2000 exposures now and gotten many many excellent photographs from these films with my original and upgraded Polaroid cameras, and with the Impossible I-1 camera as well, so I laud their efforts and integrity.

Frankly, if I wanted excellent photographs and no struggles at all, I'd dump all this old film junk completely and concentrate exclusively on any good modern digital camera for my picture taking. But I enjoy working with film, with all its diverse expressions, inconsistencies, inherent weaknesses, and defects. In many ways, it's those things which make film photography still worth pursuing.
 
Godfrey said:
With all the whining and complaining I read in this thread, it's a wonder that any of you call yourselves "film enthusiasts" at all.

The Impossible Project has done what no one else did: They brought Polaroid integral instant film back from the dead. At $2.30 per exposure, the price isn't cheap but it's not all that far out of bounds compared to original Polaroid integral film ... It used to cost $.70-$.85 per exposure when it was last made and, accounting for inflation, if it had stayed in production it would have been $1.25-$1.50 now. So a dollar premium for having to completely re-invent it in a ridiculously short period of time and then sell it in volumes barely approaching 1/20th of what Polaroid film sold in back in the day isn't all that bad.

Quality and consistency could certainly be a lot better, but not even Polaroid could make the original film any more ... the materials to do so are no longer available even if you had all the formulations, etc. The Impossible Project's B&W films (a product never even made by Polaroid for integral film cameras, btw) are really quite good and very consistent as of two-three years ago, and their latest color films are passably good quality and consistent. Lots of work yet to do, but remember it took Polaroid 20 years to devise integral films (and $2B dollars) where TIP has struggled with doing the same job in a quarter the time and at 20% of that funding.

While I fight with the TIP films occasionally and have to work hard to get results I'm after sometimes, I don't see any point to saying that TIP is a failure or not producing the goods. I've worked through close to 2000 exposures now and gotten many many excellent photographs from these films with my original and upgraded Polaroid cameras, and with the Impossible I-1 camera as well, so I laud their efforts and integrity.

Frankly, if I wanted excellent photographs and no struggles at all, I'd dump all this old film junk completely and concentrate exclusively on any good modern digital camera for my picture taking. But I enjoy working with film, with all its diverse expressions, inconsistencies, inherent weaknesses, and defects. In many ways, it's those things which make film photography still worth pursuing.
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Yes, I agree 100 %

robert
 
I love Impossible Film in both color and B/W. I loved Polaroid 669 for it's inaccurate sky rendering (atomic sky) and Impossible though different than Polaroids rendering is also quiet nice. I don't always care about reality or absolute naturalism Impossible and Polaroid give me that. There also isn't any film that defines organic look as well as Impossible B/W film it's not super sharp, it's not without its fault just like life itself. I also believe that the film is on the expensive side but one has to take into account that one doesn't need to make a print, and getting the perfect darkroom print isn't cheap either. GoPolaroid
 
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