Instant Photo Enthusiasts Worry About Post-Polaroid Era
By Ryan • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Mark Jewell, AP Business Writer featured on NYDailyNews.com:
“BOSTON (AP) — When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies.
Conlogue uses Polaroid film when he travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to take X-ray photographs of ancient mummies so he doesn’t have to lug cumbersome developing chemicals. Now he and other enthusiasts who use the film for art or specialized industrial photography are left wondering where they’ll go to stay stocked.
“We’re incredibly despondent,” said Conlogue, co-director of the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., where researchers frequently visit remote sites to capture X-ray images of mummies. “I don’t really feel that there is going to be a replacement for it, which is a real problem.”
Concord, Mass.-based Polaroid Corp. announced last week that it plans to close factories in Massachusetts as well as Mexico and the Netherlands that make film formats for industrial and consumer uses.“
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