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When The Impossible Project got started, its focus was on reviving standard-issue integral film for consumer cameras. That was the purpose of the machinery in the Enschede plant, and that was, of course, the stuff most photographers were interested in. The professional-format Polaroid film had been made in Waltham, and the machines that produced […]
Had the great pleasure, last night, to meet up with a slice of the Polaroid community: Grant Hamilton, director of Time Zero, screened his film at New York’s VisionFest 2012. Most of the Impossible Project’s key players turned up, as did a scattering of Pola-enthusiasts—cameras in hand, of course—and the theater, at Tribeca Cinemas, was […]
My depressing visit to Waltham last week resulted in photos of a half-demolished plant that once made Polaroid film. In the latest installment of curios from The Polaroid Newsletter, I’ve got photos of a factory that had a considerably happier turn in the 21st century. It’s the plant in Enschede, the Netherlands, that supplied Europe with […]
A special treat at the opening of “Momentum,” the Impossible Project’s latest exhibit, this past evening: I finally met Dr. Florian Kaps, the man who (with his business partner, André Bosman) saved Polaroid’s last instant-film factory from the scrapyard. We had spoken via Skype but never in the flesh. Tonight, we chatted, we joked, […]
Since I started using an SX-70 camera, I’ve found one thing particularly frustrating: the flash situation. SX-70s were designed to use disposable Flashbars, which are long out of production. If you want to shoot indoors, you have three choices: (a) find vintage Flashbars, probably on eBay, for something like $10 apiece once you factor […]
The very last batches of Polaroid instant film passed their expiration date in late 2009, and even if you’ve kept some in the fridge, it has begun to go sour. As instant film gets old, it first shifts in color, generally toward a pinkish-yellow, then to brown; then it starts to get erratic, failing […]
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