Polaroid - The new Polaroid PoGo

sNarah

Hi everyone, being a Polaroid fan myself -just for the sake of them being vintage mainly :-)- I'm not sure what to think of the new "digital" one, called Polaroid PoGo. http://www.polaroid.com/pogo/ie/

Basicly, you snap your shot, then edit it on the camera and print it directly from the camera, same way the old ones did it. But now you can print them from your mobile phone!!!

I believe they have a "real" camera, the new polaroid coming out later this year, and for now you can get the ones that you somehow integrate in your mobile phone...

I don't think I'm a fan, I'll stick with the old one!

Any other thoughts?

af_thefragile

Its pretty cool i'ld say. Especially with mobile phone cameras getting reasonably good now days...
And its not that expensive either at like £90 on amazon.

But its a little small, reminds you of the old days of postcard sized photographs. But still, as you don't need ink, its pretty instant so that should be cool for anyone who's sick of seeing their photographs on LCD screens.

DaireQuinlan

From the POV of being a small portable printer its probably reasonable enough. Although I reckon the paper probably costs a bomb, and the battery only lasts long enough for 10 or 20 prints reportedly. Also the prints fade after a few months, so not the best. Its a gimmick more than anything else.

As a replacement for polaroid its just a joke. Kodak actually have a crummy digital P&S stuck awkwardly onto the printer at the moment for some wierd frankenstein product that I see getting discounted more and more until its available for next to nothing in the bargain baskets of camera stores. I have no idea why anyone in their right mind would buy a dodgy thermal printer mated to a crummy digital camera.

Its sad really. Any 600 or spectra pola camera from the last 30 years, from the very first SX-70, is infinitely superior to these muppety gadgets. Its totally a case of technology going backward. Plus there are questions raised about whether or not the product line will even be around for much longer, given that polaroid has gone into receivership...

elven

Is this actually a real film camera like the old polaroids?

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/cameras/instax_mini_7/index.html

DaireQuinlan

elven wrote: »

Is this actually a real film camera like the old polaroids?

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/cameras/instax_mini_7/index.html

Yeah the fuji instax cameras use very similar technology to polaroids 600/spectra. So similar that up until now they were forbidden to sell them in the US. There's one difference in that they expose through the back of the emulsion apparently so they don't need the mirror in the image path that polaroids need to get the correct orientation of the print. There's been some speculation that fuji was actually bidding to get a license to keep on producing 600 film. No legs in it though if there aren't any more 600 cameras ...

elven

aye it looks like you can't manipulate the shots as they develop either. It might be something to waste/spend a spare hundred quid on if i'm bored someday...

DaireQuinlan

elven wrote: »

aye it looks like you can't manipulate the shots as they develop either. It might be something to waste/spend a spare hundred quid on if i'm bored someday...

I don't think you could really manipulate 600 film either. The only really manipulable (manipulatable ? malinuperateral ??!?!??!) polaroid film was the original sx-70 film, the emulsion stayed soft for some time after it was exposed. Ironically enough this was originally one of the biggest complaints about it, which led polaroid to introduce the 'time-zero' film which didn't have that problem, and led to 600 proper a few years later.