| Polaroid cameras a technology of the past! Digital takes over. | | I've forgotten about the Polaroid camera until I ran across an article in our Boston Globe online this morning. I know their film is still sold at a couple of stores in my area and whenever I noticed it I wondered why since most people use digital cameras today. What I didn't know was that Polaroid played a big part in helping our police departments.How can a digital picture be transmitted immediately from areas with poor cellphone and radio reception? Police could be 60 miles from a police statation and we have to take a picture of a car accident or a farm accident or a gunshot wound, and you're a good distance from a computer hookup."In a shooting involving a death with polaroids the medical examiner slips the picture into an envelope along with the corpse. But with Polaroid's announcement this month that it is halting production of instant film. Now thousands of police forces are forced to hunt for alternatives.
Polaroid sold thousands of cameras to police organizations during its heyday; a Massachusetts company had a separate business unit devoted to law enforcement photography.
Polaroid also makes large film sheets for giant cameras used by portrait and landscape... | |
| | Did anyone ever use the Kodak instant camera? | | I was wondering if anyone used the Kodak instant camera that came out in the 80's? It was similar to the Polaroid Instant camera. The picture that came out were rectangular shapes instead of the square shape with the huge white tab on the bottom. The Kodak pictures did have a white border but it was even all around.I got a Kodak Trimfit 940 for Christmas in the mid 80's and loved it. I took lots of pictures with it. Kodak stopped selling them in the late 80's because of a lawsuit from Polaroid. They actually offered reimbursements to customers who owned them because the film was no longer sold. Too bad I never got my money back.ed to hunt for alternatives.
Polaroid sold thousands of cameras to police organizations during its heyday; a Massachusetts company had a separate business unit devoted to law enforcement photography.
Polaroid also makes large film sheets for giant cameras used by portrait and landscape photographers, and fine-grained, black-and-white films used by scientists to capture images from their electron microscopes.
What are you or did you do with your old Polaroid Camera? Did you use it often and find it convenient to... | |
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