{"id":512,"date":"2008-02-14T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advancedmedialab.wordpress.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:10:51","slug":"end-of-life-polaroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"End of life&#8230; Polaroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Polaroid Gallery\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-491\" href=\"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/?attachment_id=491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/picture-18.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polaroid Gallery\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"175\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>So 1st quarter 2009 will be the end of an era in instant gratification photography (<em>ala film<\/em>)&#8230;  Polaroid is discontinuing this remarkable little product and selling off the remaining inventory of film and cameras. Considering how bad their previous line of digital cameras are I am not sure why they thought it was a good idea to discontinue this niche product line completely and rely on digital cameras&#8230;  However, consumers aren&#8217;t remaining silent &#8211;  a Facebook group dubbed &#8220;<a title=\"Polaroids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=8693976895&amp;ref=nf\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Polaroids<\/a>&#8221; cropped up and it&#8217;s growing in number.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully someone will pick up the instant film license and reinvigorate this great film medium for future designers and photographers. Who hasn&#8217;t taken a shot and peeled back the film to transfer the image to something else!? With luck excess inventory might still be available from niche producers &#8230; similar to how <a title=\"Gocco\" href=\"http:\/\/savegocco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gocco<\/a> was <em>handed off <\/em>after the parent company discontinued that series of personal screenprinters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fear not nostalgia buff&#8230;<\/strong> If you&#8217;re interested integrating Polaroid images in your digital world there is a host of flickr, wordpress and flash resources available. For a great example of open source flash Polaroid gallery  (creative commons license) check out <a title=\"Flash Polaroid Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.no3dfx.com\/polaroid\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Polaroid Gallery v.1.0.1<\/strong><\/a> from Norwegian designer Christopher Einarsrud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pcworld.com\/techlog\/archives\/006464.html\">PC World&#8217;s look at many of the great Polaroid commercials over the years.<\/a> httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uw_d5o6ocEU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So 1st quarter 2009 will be the end of an era in instant gratification photography (ala film)&#8230; Polaroid is discontinuing this remarkable little product and selling off the remaining inventory of film and cameras. Considering how bad their previous line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,30,37],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actionscript","tag-artdesign","tag-flickr","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}