Comments on: Save Polaroid http://londonphotobloggers.org/2008/03/19/save-polaroid/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:29:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: DICKSDAILY http://londonphotobloggers.org/2008/03/19/save-polaroid/#comment-6167 DICKSDAILY Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:50:45 +0000 http://londonphotobloggers.org/2008/03/19/save-polaroid/#comment-6167 It was a very sad - if not unexpected - day when this news came through. I hate to think that my little lad will grow up in a world where he'll never see a polaroid in action - here that clunk-wizz and wait to see whether you've got the shot - then find out there's a big blurry, splodge somewhere ...... very sad ...... I'm no film evangelist but over the last few years of using film rather than digital my love of photography has grown ten fold. The fact that you have no immediate feedback as to what you've taken means you spend much longer composing the shot and also looking for the 'right' shot. For me photography is as much about getting out and looking at things as it is taking a picture of it and with film I never get any of those 'oh i'm just taking sh*t photos today - why bother' days ..... Anyway - RIP Polaroid - at least i've a large stash of film for my holgaroid stacked away in the fridge...... It was a very sad - if not unexpected - day when this news came through. I hate to think that my little lad will grow up in a world where he’ll never see a polaroid in action - here that clunk-wizz and wait to see whether you’ve got the shot - then find out there’s a big blurry, splodge somewhere …… very sad ……

I’m no film evangelist but over the last few years of using film rather than digital my love of photography has grown ten fold. The fact that you have no immediate feedback as to what you’ve taken means you spend much longer composing the shot and also looking for the ‘right’ shot. For me photography is as much about getting out and looking at things as it is taking a picture of it and with film I never get any of those ‘oh i’m just taking sh*t photos today - why bother’ days …..

Anyway - RIP Polaroid - at least i’ve a large stash of film for my holgaroid stacked away in the fridge……

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