polaroid news

Great news ... Polaroid have released a new instant camera, the 300!  We stumbled across an update on the mrjasongrant blog, and are happy to hear.

She's a different looking camera to the classic SX-70 and 600 series we have been collecting, and produces a smaller picture, but good to see nonetheless!

Meanwhile, after years of picking up films for our old Polaroids from US sellers on ebay (and having to curtail our snap-happy ways due to the cost-per-shot factor), we were pretty excited to find that the Impossible Project have released films that are good for both the (easier to find) 600's AND for the SX-70's from a local seller on ebay ...

Could this spell the end of digital photography?

YAY!

It's been an up-an-down couple of years for all of us Poalroid fans ... but it appears 2010 brings glad tidings.  Looks like the comeback is well and truly on the rails.

It's called the PIC-1000, made by the reborn Polaroid company, and is set to be released later this year.

Compatible with the classic 600 film as well as Polaroid 100 film, and will be released in silver metallic finish, AND in the super-classy faux timber that we could never say no to.  We're really glad to have read the news on gizmodo (more product photos on electricpig), and are guessing that the best bit will be that access to 600 films will improve for those of us who have held on to our 70's and 80's instant cameras.

It's a golden age we're living in.