Polaroid... gone in an instant.

Polaroid :( As many of you may know, polaroid is going extinct. They stopped production of all instant film as of December 2008. The last of it will expire in Dec 09. I remember hearing about this whole thing in passing a few months back but it just clicked with me the other day. I immediately went to a few local store searching for some of the last supply of 600 film, and spent a couple hundred dollars stocking up for the summer. I will begin to post photos soon.

Apparently fuji bought some of the patents for the instant film but it's unclear when/if they will begin production on a replacement for 600 and Sx-70 film (probably what most of you use, if you have a polaroid camera.) Currently they make replacement for medium format polaroid back cameras, which is useless to the general non-film enthused public. (Personally, I'm thinking about buying some polaroid backs for my cameras.) Anyway... I think Fuji is more interested in promoting and pushing there own instant camera and less interested in appeasing the polaroid enthusiasts.

Some good news, a group of polaroid crazed Europeans bought an old polaroid factory and are determined to re-engineer polaroid film and have it in production by 2010. Crossing my fingers.