Last Polaroid film kits head to Urban Outfitters

runwithskizzers

#1 – 7:26 AM August 20, 2009

This whole getting rid of polaroid film thing really sucks. I got a pink & gray polaroid camera for my 9th birthday - it still works and i've kept it with with me every time I moved. I almost want to buy a shit ton of film, and just keep using my 16 year old camera.

Sweater Meat

#2 – 8:46 AM August 20, 2009

I now what your saying...did you ever fart so hard you ended up in another zip code?

Clay

#3 – 11:09 AM August 20, 2009

Oh, mark my words, this is not the death of Polaroid instants.

This is the beginning of a hibernation lasting probably about a decade.

In 2019, when everyone's cell phone shoots 1080p, the iPhone has licensed RED Digital Cinema technology, and the few print magazines still in production occasionally feature ads with built-in cameras, the time for the Polaroid's return will be nigh.

It'll be back like freakin' Lomos.

However, you'll still buy it in an Urban Outfitters.

IWood

#4 – 11:44 AM August 20, 2009

All is not lost. Only bits of it.

HeatherB

#5 – 3:22 PM August 20, 2009

While working in casting for Dreamworks last year I remember our casting director not wanting to believe me that polaroid was finishing up. Even in this digital world, casting directors still love it.

acb

#6 – 4:17 PM August 20, 2009

By the time it shows up in Urban Outfitters, the hip kids have moved on. Urban Outfitters channels their hand-me-downs to suburban teenagers and wannabe hipsters (and, apprently, channels part of the proceeds to the Republican Party).

dculberson

#7 – 7:55 AM August 21, 2009

Urban Outfitters is to hip what Hot Topic is to goth.

MadMolecule

#8 – 9:14 AM August 21, 2009

Some Austrian guy has licensed the technology and is planning to sell Polaroid film by December. At $30 for a 12-shot pack. Speaking of Lomos...

martyingels

#9 – 12:35 PM August 21, 2009

I say the hell with Polaroid. They friggin abandon us. Fuji, on the other hand, still makes an instant camera and film. Let's support them!

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/films/instax/

joe

#10 – 8:03 PM August 21, 2009

I think anyone wanting polaroid film should be excited about www.theimpossibleproject.com

univac

#11 – 9:35 PM August 21, 2009

doesn't the logo on that pack of film look kinda like MSoft's new Windows store logo?

RDOT

#12 – 6:21 AM August 28, 2009

Ah ha ha ha ha ha. Jesus. Or you could buy exactly the same camera for less than 10 bucks on ebay.