Polaroid Originals announced today they will no longer manufacture Spectra film.
https://magazine.polaroidoriginals.com/spectra_announcement/
https://magazine.polaroidoriginals.com/spectra_announcement/
Honestly, such a terrible response on their part. We can't manufacture Spectra because cameras are old. Well, that's up to the owner to check if their camera works? There's clearly something here, either it wasn't selling well or there were production problems. But to blame cameras is silly IMO.
I don't know enough about Polaroid and the Spectra film but I suspect that the popularity of the Fuji Instax could have a lot to do with it.
The Fuji technology does not work in Polaroid integral-film cameras.
Really? I'm curious to know the difference. They both look like they have development packs in the bottom that are squeezed across the film as it is ejected. I figured it was just different film and chemicals.
The chemistry is what I am talking about licensing. The packs are different, too. But if Polaroid could take the Fuji film and chemistry and put it in their packs, I can't think of anything that wouldn't work - except maybe there are different tensions on the bars that spread the chemicals.
Light is light.
I must not be making myself clear. All of the chemistry is in the film packs. Why would you need to swap any chemistry out? The actual cameras do not change any of the chemistry, they just transmit light to the film. They are just machines. Why could fuji not make their film to fit a Polaroid camera? Are you saying they put colored filters behind their lenses?Light is light, but you cannot use blue for red! The same is true for chemicals. You cannot use the two chemistries interchangeably!
PE
Ah, so they reverse the image. Maybe you know, is it very difficult for one of these companies to engineer the film the other way around, if they agreed on patent sharing? It seems to me the most difficult part is developing the actual film and chemistry, not the final package. In other words, is it matter of simply changing which side the emulsion is on?One works with a reversed (mirror) image and the other does not. The entire structure of the film pack would have to be redesigned. One example is that the goo used for one is white with a color changing material on the front of the image and through which the final image is viewed and the other is a black goo that goes on the back of the image.
They were designed that way to avoid patent issues, but in the final run the courts did not agree.
PE
Do you think I am lecturing you? I am asking for information. This is your opportunity to educate me. There is no need to berate me.You still do not understand. You are talking to guys involved in making such materials. This is not the place to give a lecture in the structure of these materials It is not a matter of just coating the layers the other way round. The systems are completely different.
Do you think I am lecturing you? I am asking for information. This is your opportunity to educate me. There is no need to berate me.
If you do not wish to help me understand, just skip this thread. My feelings won't be hurt, either way. I am genuinely curious, and I know there are people here who are professionals in this arena - that is the exact reason I ask the questions here. Usually people are kind enough to oblige.
Thank you PE. Indulge me one last question - if one were okay with the mirrored image, does the film function about the same?... I mean, as far as exposing the film, then spreading the chemicals across it with tensioned rollers. It always seemed to me that these cameras worked about the same in that regard.Ariston, it is not possible to make one work as if it were the other. It would take such a huge re-design that would be dubious, it would not be worth the effort.
To give you a simple answer, with chemicals it is possible to add a to b and get c but if you add b to a you get d. To be specific, if you add Concentrated Sulfuric Acid to water you get dilute acid. If you add water to Concentrated Sulfuric Acid, you get an explosion! It is possible to engineer the latter, but is very dangerous and takes a lot of work.
It this present case, it is similar to removing an appendix by way of the mouth!
PE
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?