Digital Cameras Mean Polaroid is not Instant Enough

It could depend upon your actual age, but I certainly am old enough to bear in mind how thrilling it was to huddle around a Polaroid snapshot whilst it had been establishing. There is a constant actually knew the actual way it would prove until the image had taken shape immediately in front of the eyes. When the procedure was total, you had been left with a photo, often with slightly varied colours, which in fact had no negative, and was, let's face it, a bit about the pricey side.

Right now, because of the rise of digital cameras, Polaroid is no longer instant enough. The cameras ceased production some time ago and the last films rolled out in January of 2009. It's not hard to see why if you look at the following statistics?

2000 Sales

Polaroid cameras 4.2 million Digital cameras 4.5 million

2007 Sales

Polaroid cameras 240 thousand Digital camera models 28.2 million

With sales figures like this it is no wonder the Polaroid camera has been withdrawn.

Even so, the Polaroid had achieved a legendary status over the years, so it is not surprising to discover that categories of enthusiasts have create campaigns to "save Polaroid". You will find hopes that somebody else will take over the output of the film making this under licence. For the time being, in a slightly ironic twist, both films and cameras are changing practical eBay at hugely inflated prices. Potentially if Polaroid themselves have been capable to command these kinds of prices levels they wouldn't have had to file for Chapter 11 not too long ago.

Searching forward, Polaroid have entered the digital age by creating a combined digital camera and printer which works on the heat activated dye to generate a printed image in about a minute. The camera, referred to as PoGo, has a 3" LCD screen for checking your pictures ahead of printing.

Considering that the special printer paper will surely cost around $13 for enough to produce 30 photos you need to be sure that you have a "keeper" just before you hit the print button. Polaroid feel that it will interest law enforcement officers and customs staff and also require a will need for an instantaneous hard copy of identity photographs. Time will tell.