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The End of Something Beautiful

By On 23 February 2014 · Leave a Comment

The news leaked out of Japan a couple of months ago, but the official announcement appeared online just last week, and can be seen here (non-Japanese-speakers, click Google Translate).  Fujifilm is discontinuing FP-3000B, its last black-and-white instant film. Final orders for the U.S. will apparently be shipped in the spring, and the last Japanese deliveries will […]

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Instant Artifact: Remembering Meroë Morse

By On 21 October 2012 · 2 Comments

I had a surprise come my way on my trip up to Massachusetts last week. While I was at the Cambridge Historical Society, an audience member introduced herself: Nancy Bellows Woods, who’d been a chemist at Polaroid from 1968 to 1971.  (She was, back then, married to Al Bellows, who appears in the book for […]

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Instant Artifact: Type 41

By On 10 January 2012 · 6 Comments

Each week here, I’ll be posting photos of, and discussing, a Polaroid product from way-back-when. Many, but not all, will be coming from the deep recesses of a storage closet in my apartment. (Yes, I have a very tolerant wife.)

Today’s artifact is a fun one: A case of Polaroid roll film, unopened. “Use by […]

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