Polaroid: more than a glimmer of hope!

[Peter de Groot]

Yeah sorry 'bout that. I was too excited to do a search first. Mea culpa. Wasn't into polaroid until I bought a Cambo last year. And since then I started flirting with analogue photography.

 

[JBrunner]

No biggie dude. We're all excited about this possibility...

 

[AgX]

However, a new Polaroid can't really get away with this business model of charging whatever they feel like because Fuji IS making comparable products. I am more inclined to go with Polaroid than knock-offs from Fuji if the prices are in the ball-park, but what I've read here indicate there's something like a 60% or greater increase in price over what Fuji already offers.

`Impossible´:

„Not for the masses but for creative people such as artists who will like to spare that money for it.”

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

`Impossible´:

„Not for the masses but for creative people such as artists who will like to spare that money for it.”

Artists don't have any money except the ones who were born into wealth (and few of us were!). So this is a dead deal if the prices are silly.

 

[JBrunner]

Prices at this point are sheer speculation. Nobody knows.

 

[AgX]

In a report on Impossible it was stated that the price of a pack of ten should be around 25€, followed by that quotation from Impossible I posted above.

 

[JBrunner]

I can't find that. Is it in the press reports?

 

[AgX]

It's in Dutch from a dutch newspaper, available on the net only as pdf.

 

[JBrunner]

It's in Dutch from a dutch newspaper, available on the net only as pdf.

Perhaps you could post the link.

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

In a report on Impossible it was stated that the price of a pack of ten should be around 25€, followed by that quotation from Impossible I posted above.

Jesus, that's $50, just like i predicted in my first post on this thread. NO THANKS. The stuff costs $14 a ten pack now.

 

[AgX]

Did the dollar fall that deep??


I looked it up, it's 1.27$ per € today. Though, nobody knows what the exchange rates will be when that film will be out...

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

It was almost $2 to the Euro a while back. If it is $1.27 now then the film is still vastly overpriced. Walmart still sells Polaroid 600 for $14.99 for a 10 pack.

 

[kraker]

News or hype, or a bit of both? The Dead Link Removed now shows "ENTERING PHASE II".

 

[Aurelien]

WHat does PHASE II means?

 

[kraker]

Who knows? They have passed phase 1 of their project, or they want us to believe so?

I guess the website will be updated within a few days. My guess is that it is at least partly a marketing trick, instead of updating the website immediately, they give us some time to start rumours: "Ohh, they have finished phase 1! What could that mean?" etc. etc.

I hope there is some real news too. Wait and see.