Has (New) Polaroid gotten any better?

[Ariston]

I apologize if anyone has asked this recently, but I am wondering if Polaroid film has gotten any better over the past year or so. I got tired of paying the high price for the results I was getting, and I don't know if it will ever get any better...

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I've only been using their SX-70 colour and B/W films. I just went through a B/W....fresh batch... and they look great. I'm waiting for a fresh box of colour to come in, as the couple of boxes I shot last summer were expired... the yellows were very, very weak. I'm putting that down to expiration date...

 

[mshchem]

What about the 8x10 peel apart film that they are NOW offering? Is this really a new development? Maybe the SX-70 and the new film for the Polaroid camera (battery in camera not the film pack) is better?
I bought a Instax Share 2 printer that takes Instax mini film. I can print any digital image from my Android devices. Also super cool, I can make "almost" instant pictures directly from my Fuji X Pro3 to the printer, anywhere via Bluetooth.

The Share printer uses OLED to expose the film, not sure, but I think it's exposed as it exits the printer? Man I wish someone could make an exposure unit like that for ordinary darkroom paper.

The Instax market is huge and growing. It's so easy to use the printer and the prints are AMAZING.

 

[Mackinaw]

Their newest B&W instant film is great. Real nice tones. I haven't shot any color, but another Polaroid shooter I know has and says the newest color stuff is starting to rival the original Polaroid of many years back.

Jim B.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Maybe the SX-70 and the new film for the Polaroid camera (battery in camera not the film pack) is better?

That's the same film (600 speed B&W or color) as the regular 600 packs, just without the battery. The One Step 2 and the other one with Bluetooth controls accept regular 600 film as well, just in case you're stuck buying it at WalMart -- might even take the 150 speed SX-70 variety (only block-out is some little nubs on the pack shell, in the past I've clipped the nubs on 600 film to use it in my SX-70 Model 2 -- works the other way too, often the lighten-darken dial has enough compensation, otherwise you might need a filter over the metering lens to use 150 film in the 600 cameras -- and there used to be a market for ND filters to load into SX-70 on top of the film to use 600).