Polaroid stops making instant film

Jim Williams tipped me off last week that Polaroid is halting its instant film business. Jim and many of my old-school analog buddies are concerned because they use Polaroid film in oscilloscope cameras. Jim still submits his article to EDN with Polaroid scope shots. Ah traditions. Now Jim, being Jim, has adapted. He has found a couple of digital cameras with nice flat fronts. Then he takes an old scope camera and guts the optics, making it into a simple light-tight box. Then he uses copper-clad to cobble the digital scope to the back of the camera, right were the Polaroid film back used to mount. I will try and get some pictures of this for you to check out.

Now Jim is not too worried about Polaroid dropping out since he points out that Fuji makes the same film it is just they don’t yet export it to the USA. At least not yet. Jim anticipates Fuji or some importer bringing the film to the USA next year and we will be OK for a decade or so. The article linked to above also points out the Fuji film connection but apparently Fuji does not make some of the large-format artist-size packs. The operative words for those artists are: “lifetime buy”.