Comments on Be the First to Ride the Crest of Polaroid Rage

I'll just continue using Fuji instant pack film in my Polaroid backs. It's better than the Polaroid stuff anyways. I'll miss the integral stuff though. We have about 20 packs left, then it's all gone.

I wish there was an easy way to rig a digital Holga.

This could possibly be the closest that photography has come to the Flintstones in the history of its existence.

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Screw Polaroid. I've been waiting for this day since 1985, when film for my Kodamatic was lawyered out of existence by those greedy bastards.

Yeah, screw Polaroid. Before digital cameras, before everyone even had a digital camera built into their fukkin' cell phone, $10 for ten bleary instant photos might have been an acceptable price for anyone unable to wait for (or use) the local photo lab. The antiques dealer needing to make a reference photo at an auction, the retailer needing to get a mug shot of a shoplifter, the odd pedophile unable to risk a snoopy employee at the Walgreen's film lab...

But in 2008, $10 for a ten-pack of instant photos is just too damned much.

Suck it, retro-hipster-wannabes. If a viable niche market continues to exist for instamatic film, some clever person will figure out how to fill it.

Oh, now, Instamatic's a whole 'nuther thing. The last manufacturer of 126 cartridges closed up shop last year. We have a dozen or so cartridges in the freezer; when they're gone, all of our Kodak Instamatics are worthless.

Instamatic != Polaroid != all instant film.

@2: chop the lens off a Holga, cut a hole in a DSLR body cap, glue them together. You can find detailed plans on the intertubes.

Fnarf, do you need any 667? I have a fridge full of the stuff. I bought 500 exposures of it a few years ago off eBay, and haven't been using it at the rate I should be.

i was on the ave on saturday and some people tried it out by taking a picture of me. it looks pretty neat but the camera isn't attached to the printer. you plug the little battery powered printer printer into the camera and about five minutes later out pops a picture (maybe 4" x 3") that you can peel the back off and stick to things.

well at least i think thats what they're talking about. it's made by polaroid and such.

@7 Fnarf, not sure if you were referring to my post @ 5, but my Kodamatic used proprietary film; nothing would work after Polaroid won their suit in 85-86. From http://www.rwhirled.com/landlist/nonland.htm

First, a few Frequently Asked Questions:
...
There is no film currently available for your Kodak Instant camera.
The correct name for these cameras is "Kodak Instant" or (for later models) "Kodamatic" cameras. Understandably, you'll often see references to these cameras confused with the Kodak "Instamatic" camera line, but they're really two very different things. "Instamatics" are conventional cameras that use 126 cartridge film (I'd compare/contrast 126 with the other 35mm 'replacements' through history such as 828, Rapid, and APS, but that's another story).The "Insta-" prefix was apparently supposed to refer to the "instant" loading made possible by the 126 cartridge. ...However, I do wonder if the near-reference to instant photography was not entirely accidental. [NOTE: In later years, Kodak extended the "Instamatic" name for other camera lines, including their first few product cycles of Super-8 movie cameras and 110 cartridge film cameras (the latter being called "Pocket Instamatics")].

No, Emma's Bee, I was referring to Hoyt Clagwell, who used "instamatic" to mean instant film. I'm aware of your Kodamatic problem; I see those beasts all the time in thrift stores, but, as you point out, no film, not even ridiculously expired.

The "insta" in Instamatic refers to the loading -- you drop a cartridge in, and don't have to fiddle with winding the end of the film in. Pops out when you're done, too -- no rewinding. And SUCH high quality (though there were a couple of Instamatics with exposure and aperture control, and I think even an SLR. Mrs. Fnarf has a 110 SLR outfit, which is completely ridiculous, and wonderful.

Andy, I'd love to have some 667. I can use that in my Speed Magny: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancyo23/396531944/ The complex mirrors reduce that 3000 ISO FIVE STOPS, to about ISO 100 -- nice and grainy. If you contact me on my Flickr maybe we can work something out.

@2 and Fnarf, you don't have to get quite so extreme as to behead your holga. These dudes make holga lenses that fit on digi cams. I have one for my canon rebel xti and it is radical: http://www.holgamods.com/xtadjust/xtadjust.html