![]() What did they do with it?they changed the opacifier from blue to great and decided the film was good enough.TIP wanted to recreate GOOD film, the new polaroid wants it to look hip and vintage, because people today think that's what polaroid is supposed to look isn't They fired kaps, brought in the new guys and bought back the polaroid name and ip. It was being improved at an amazing pace and then boom. You see, at the beginning I was happy to shoot the largely flawed film without an opacification layer. I bought literally THOUSANDS of packs if film. I'm disgusted by the company that exists now.I invested in the impossible project. It took Polaroid years to perfect their film, and they had many more resources at their disposal. This is why it’s been so hard for them to improve the film and why I think they’ve done a phenomenal job, even if the progress has been slow. So they had to source a negative from a third party, and start experimenting with chemicals to try and create the same instant process, in a time of vast regulations and bureaucracy. It was like buying a fully-stocked bakery, but in a world where flour, sugar, etc. But these daring individuals had to start completely from scratch. Then the Impossible Project stepped in and bought the last factory, barely saving the machines from the scrapper. ![]() When in all actuality, they had stopped the process several years before. This is why in 2008, Polaroid announced they would stop making film. ![]() To their surprise, they sold more than expected and ran out around the 3 year mark. A final shipment of components were sent to the integral film plant in the Netherlands and the clock started on how long it would take them to run out. The chemical suppliers then shut down the supply lines of those chemicals that only Polaroid used.Īnd that was it. They shutdown factories and sold/destroyed the manufacturing equipment. After acquiring enough of these components, Polaroid dismantled their supply chains. So Polaroid put together a strategy to purchase enough film components to last 5 years. Around 2005, when Tom Petters acquired the company, he decided that instant film wasn’t financially worth the trouble anymore and decided to start winding the production down. Sales got so low that Polaroid was having trouble keeping their chemical suppliers motivated to continue making these special chemicals just for them. For example, Du Pont made a special grade of titanium dioxide, solely for Polaroid’s instant film.įast forward to the early 2000s, instant film had nearly bottomed out in the market. What they didn’t make themselves they obtained from other chemical suppliers. ![]() Among those were plants in the Boston area that made only proprietary negatives and certain pack films, a plant in Mexico that made pack films, and a plant in the Netherlands that made most integral films (SX-70, 600, Spectra, etc.). Because of this lengthy history, Polaroid had built up their own manufacturing and supply chain over those many years. See Polaroid had been in business for a long time and had been making instant film (in one format or another) since the 1940s. Most thought this was a reversible decision, they thought “Well maybe if we beg enough and show enough support they’ll change their minds and keep making film…” Unfortunately, as we came to find out later, it wasn’t nearly that simple. ![]() Back in 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced they were going to stop making instant film. ![]()
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