8 technology revolutions that are now relics: Polaroid instant camera
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Polaroid/Land type 600 speed instant film is being made again by a non-affiliated new company and that includes a black and white version. The project was called The Impossible Project and you should be able to find it in search.
600 speed (SX-70 types) only, no Swingers etc or original Land cameras.

The Polaroid company is no more. Its an easily recognized abandoned building along I-95 in the suburbs of Boston MA.

I still have my Big Shot Polaroid. Wish I could find film and Magicubes for it. It takes the best close-up portrait photos!

This one you show is much newer and cheaper than earlier models, possibly the originals, which were big, had a bellows and cost big bucks. And you had to smear some kind of stinky solution across the developed black and white pictures to keep them from fading. Still, an interesting and only slightly depressing article. Sigh.

















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