Private Group Reviving Polaroid Film

I'm also not quite happy with their new stuff, but I'd also like to support them as much as I can. I recently purchased tested older 600 films. I ordered several packs for myself and more for friends at once so the shipping cost per unit came down to very small.
 
I'll buy some of this stuff at some point even if its that expensive. I've been saving my last pack for that "special" occasion. it's always magical to have some polaroid around.
 
edit: how can you rate a new product like this with ONE pack???? calm down people, give it some time
 
The original SX70 film wasn't worth $3 a pop. This stuff is junk. A cynical bid to suck money from the art crowd.
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You don't introduce junk and hope folks will buy it until you can fix it. That's the kiss of death for a product.
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There are threads talking about the death of films. Large manufactures giving up and discontinuing films because they can't make enough profit.

And here is this tiny organization trying to bring back beloved films to life, and some of the comments are just plain mean. Sure if you don't like it, that's fine. I'm not happy with what they've shown myself. But what is this tone, type of comments like this over and over?

I understand I'm just a new, inexperienced member compared to someone like you, but with all due respect, I'm just plain sad to see the tone of voice like your comments regarding this project.

Can't we just be a bit more supportive to fellow photographers trying to bring back / support film photography? Constructive criticism is very important, but your comments are, at least to me, just giving them a cold laugh.

It's just sad to see comments like this on RFF.
 
If this is the best they could do, it seems to me the impossible project failed. I guess the Lomo crowd will gladly pay $3 a shot for it, though. A sucker born every minute.
 
OK, why you have to be cynical and stereotyped like that? Why can't they make hope to make profit while bring the film they (and many people in the world) like? Do you think they'll just sell their houses to bring this film back purely for the good cause or purely because they think they can make big bucks?
 
Alright. I'm done with this topic. I don't come to RFF for something like this, and I don't see this is going anywhere.

Sorry Pickett and everyone else. I guess I should have just ignored the comments in the first place.
 
DanOnRoute66 said:
There's a difference between profitable and "profitable enough." Many large companies won't sell some products not because they can't make money on them but because they can't make enough money. Smaller companies may be willing to make a smaller return or margin on exactly the same product or a similar product.
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Yes this is a very insightful remark. It's also one reason why small and nimble businesses occasionally rise up seemingly out of nowhere and topple the giants. They are less hide-bound by their own attitudes towards markets.
 
julianphotoart said:
Excellent news.

A short story. My daughter's Bday party was the Sunday before last. We had bought some 600 film just before Polaroid folded and planned to use it one day to show kids. We forgot the last two years but remembered this year.

WOW was the reaction.

These kids, who are 100% blase about digital photos and have no interest in seeing the photos their parents take on their dime-a-dozen various diticams, were lining up and awe-struck about Polaroids. They were beside themselves with excitement to see the images "magically" appear from nothing. And they weren't just excited about their own photo, but each one that came noisily out of the front of the camera.

It appeared that it was the combination of a little bit of waiting plus the magic of the image slowly emerging that had them hooked.

I tell you, they left the party each TREASURING their one-of-a-kind Polaroid.
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Polaroid cameras were also fantastic presents for children, although one often needs to teach them not to shoot indiscriminately since it's expensive of course. A Polaroid camera will liven-up just about any festive situation - kids or adults.
 
Have you tried it Pickett? I've not yet, but have some on the way. I'll see what it can and can't do before passing judgement. The SX-70 camera was the first camera I shot seriously with, coming to photography from painting. Was it as versatile then as a Nikon F2? No. Is it as versatile today as a Digital Pen? No. But the SX-70 was always a camera that allowed for pleasant surprises- for it was what passed for 'instant' at the time. Each image influenced the next in a way I've never seen happen with any other medium. I'm really looking forward to shooting this camera again. If you're not (and I don't get the impression you are) why not just fill threads about the latest digital marvel you do like rather than gumming up this one with more of your tired spoutings?
 
I had a dealer friend who drove an SX-70 and some film to my house the day the camera and film became available, way back when. Somewhere I have a photo of a much younger and thinner me that he shot of me holding the camera and looking in amazement at the image developing. I knew the SX-70 and film, and this stuff is no Polaroid. I also realize that the developers of this new stuff said that they weren't trying to recreate the look of Polaroid film, noting that it was impossible to do so.

Still, the photos I've seen, both on the web in general and on the IP site suck, IMHO. Even evaluating them fairly as a completely new film, with no intent to replicate Polaroid films, that happens to fit into an SX-70 camera, I can't image many people paying $3 a pop for it. But who knows. Crappy photos are popular these days.
 
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