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Post by Madhatter on Feb 13, 2008 19:27:18 GMT
Polaroid have announced plans to stop production of its famous intant films in order to concentrate on it's new mobile phone printer. Polaroid, the company behind the instant camera, is to stop making the film used in its iconic technology. The firm is to close factories in Massachusetts in the US, Mexico and the Netherlands after the digital age left almost no market for the film. Polaroid stopped making the instant cameras themselves about a year ago. It now focuses on other ventures which include a portable printer for mobile phone images, and Polaroid-branded digital cameras. "We're trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years," the firm's president, Tom Beaudoin, told the Associated Press. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7236106.stmI've got a couple of old polaroid cameras, and a mini version that had sticky prints. I've got no film for the large cameras bjut got a few packets of out of date film for the sticky one, not sure if they'll still work though. I can't see normal film going out of date for a long time but I doubt anyone else will make this type. I'm not sure a phone printer will catch on either, we've all got a screen to view pictures on including blue tooth that means you can both see a slide show at the same time. (remote control on Ericsson's) so why you'd need a printer i'm not sure.
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