Jim Henderson at makeuseof.com reviews Poladroid for Windows, a software aimed at transforming your photos with the charm of Polaroid photographies (full article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/have-fun-polarizing-your-images-with-poladroid-for-windows/).
The software is simple but funny and You can get the installer at http://www.poladroid.net/
Priya Ganapati at Wired (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/pganapati/), reports that “[...] Last month, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based MIT Museum announced that PLR Holdings has donated a massive collection from Polaroid’s archives. The archive has some fascinating objects. There are boxes of rare Polarized glasses dating from the 1939 World’s Fair, original newsprint sketches by Polaroid founder Edwin Land, a historic bellows camera the size of a filing cabinet and the SX-70 cameras that defined the instant-photography era. Overall, the collection has more than 1,800 boxes containing 10,000 items [...]” (full article at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/gallery-polaroid-archives/).
Either if you are in the 40′s or not, Polaroid has been at least once part of our lives.
I think is like an old granny being always there, and I find very interesting seing a little of the evolution that shaped it.
As I said many times (for example when Kodak stopped producing film), I think that “old styled” photography has many good points I’m missing (immediatness, warmth,…) if compared to digital one. And Polaroid has a great part of this, including the soft colors I really liked.
This post as a comment also at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/gallery-polaroid-archives/#comments
Charlie Sorrel (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/mistercharlie/) at Wired Gadget ad Dvice lab informs us that polaroid is back with a brand new camera using istant developing film (full story at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/polaroid-lives-new-camera-uses-real-instant-film/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29 and at http://dvice.com/archives/2010/04/polaroid-finall.php. Polaroid announcement at http://www.polaroid.com/products/0/353900/Instant_Cameras).
“[...] The PIC-300 has the familiar snap-and-wait action, spitting a photo from a slot in its top whereupon the internal chemical pack goes to work to develop the image. The camera itself has four exposure settings and an automatic flash built into its ugly, bulbous and toy-like exterior, and runs on four AA batteries or a rechargeable li-ion (all included).
The crying shame is that the photos are smaller than the originals, although they do have that classic shape with the fat (chemical-containing) bottom-border. Similar in size to a business card, the print is 2.1 x 3.4-inches (with a 1.8 x 2.4-inch image) versus the old 3.5 x 4.25 (3 x 3.1 image size) [...]”
I’m curious to see the photo quality, but happy that a small part of my childhood comes back.
I’ve nothing personal against digital photos, but how “sexy” and “human” is to feel the photo paper under the fingers…
How is tasty to find those old photos after some time a little more yellow….
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