What should I do with my obsolete Polaroid cameras?

[wjlapier]

I have a 440 I use occasionally. Even though the film is discontinued it's available and so far the expiration date is 2018--on the packs I have. I'll bring mine and shoot it until the prices for color film are too high for me. $24 a box isn't too bad now.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Bury them wrapped in sheepskin and add your name to the package. Who knows what they'll make of that find 500 years from now...

 

[raid]

Send them with a rocket into outer space (maybe with the next Tesla car that will be sent "up")!

 

[Out to Lunch]

Homo Polaroidis...

 

[Rob-F]

Send them with a rocket into outer space (maybe with the next Tesla car that will be sent "up")!

I can think of a few cars that probably belonged in outer space before the Tesla does! What was the point of doing that, I wonder.

Like the Edsel, the Gremlin, my old VW square back, my old VW van with carburetor problems. That rear-engine Chevy, whatever its name was--the one that blew oil out the back.

 

[raid]

My first car was a "cousin" of the AMC Gremlin. I had a blue Hornet as my college car.

 

[rfaspen]

The Hornet is a CLASSIC!

 

[RLG]

To come back to the original question, you may decide to keep the packfilm camera.


http://savepackfilm.supersense.com/

 

[Kai-san]

And they are not alone.......



http://www.catlabs.info/we-will-make-packfilm

 

[JoeLopez]

Buy an ad and post them here.

Sell them for free on the facebook marketplace or Craigslist. Maybe even ebay to spend a little for global exposure 🙂

 

[xayraa33]

Use the camera as a pin-hole camera using paper negatives from RC print paper cut to size.

Contact print the paper negatives and Bob is your uncle.

 

[jbielikowski]

Last week I got a 350 modified with Tominon 105 and Rada rollfilm 6x9 back... and while it's not perfect, bit rough on the edges, it got me thinking- with 180/90/95 getting cheap they will be perfect for 6x9/4x5 modifications.

 

[FPjohn]

Use as single shot Instax wide back?

Back to the future, empty Polaroid 100 packs can be loaded with single sheet of Instax Wide film.

https://youtu.be/sz0xA-D1SSA

or Polaroid Originals

https://youtu.be/PrCN6EozLZ8

yours
Frank

 

[Roger Hicks]

The Hornet is a CLASSIC!

Green, of course.

Cheers,

R.

 

[raid]

Mine was blue. Some of the students in my department referred to is as "Blue Sh!t". I loved my car!

It looked like this one with a six cylinder engine and two doors.

 

[FPjohn]

One answer to the original query.

https://youtu.be/PrCN6EozLZ8

 

[BLKRCAT]

I'm sure the film will come back. I'd hold on to them. Or sell them off and keep the 250. That's all you need.

 

[Marcuza]

Instand Pack film project to launch on Kickstarter soon.

Instand Pack film project to launch on Kickstarter soon.

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/08/21/florian-doc-kaps-gears-up-kickstarter-campaign/

This appeared yesterday on The Phoblographer.
I'd hold on to the cameras to see if the project funds and produces.

 

[robert blu]

I think the peel apart film will come back...but not sure when...
Anyway I like so much my 340 (which was my father's camera) that even as paperweight is a beauty 🙂
robert