How Polaroid Went From Celebrity Favorite To Bankruptcy | Rise And Fall 

It's a great way to improve the quality of your photographs, since you naturally will evaluate more of what to and what not to shoot. Most people spray away with digital cameras simply because you can delete the files. It creates bad habits, because you automatically will care less and less about each capture simply because you rely so heavily on the fact you can delete any file you feel like. It's irrelevant how many captures you can create, because with photography you only got 1 frame to add in what you wish to express. Make it count. The most important time of any photograph is the time spent before the shutter is pressed.

@@Perception_ I find the 'instant-ness' of the instant camera both its novelty and its drawback. Being a photographer by trade, I'm trained to find or wait for the perfect shot, but I'm also inclined to take as much as I need as a lot of moments happen in just a split second, which is something that's hard to do with an instant camera. I find that I can only use it in certain scenarios, like when I purposefully take artistic photos or in highlights of special events. I'm still inclined to use my digital cameras because I can control all the aspects of it (SS, F-stop, etc) unlike most instant cameras where it's mostly automatic (so in some conditions you just hope for the best 🤞🏽).

@@lunalovegood30 If you did have the experience then you would know less is more, and would pratice it. That's what experience is. For most people a Polaroid camera is just a simple creative tool to goof around with, and not a main go to setup for business purposes. That's pretty self explanatory when you look at its functionality.

@@Perception_ yea, and that's what I use it for - only a supplement to my photography. Which is why I found the guy in the video who said 'digital is fad' ridiculous. I feel like he only said that to make himself edgy. Doing film doesn't make anyone better, the same way that using digital also doesn't.

Exactly. If it was less expensive I would've used it as much as digital ; same for color analog

What is a zoomer?

@@Nutty... i think he meant "boomers"

@@tommylodhia7480 what is a boomer? Is it a boomerang?

@@Nutty... zoomer means a member of gen z. Boomer means baby boomer. Two different generations using “Polaroids”

Ikr, they all have instax and keep calling em polas or polaroids kinda sad that fujifilm overtook polaroid

Just like band-aid and chap stick

kleenex too. that's how you know you have an iconic brand.

Porsche... It's not a car 😏🤣

Q-Tips

Escalator as well..

The internet is just a fad

@@bobr9207 ur watching this video from the internet :-|

It’s incredible you can’t grasp the difference between technology and aesthetics. 🤦‍♂️

Robert R Nah, even in terms of the debate vs film cameras and digital, many people like Tarantino still say things like “film is just better” despite the fact that digital can create the exact same look as film (including grain and all) and is just much less expensive and time consuming. Sentimentality towards a medium may keep it around and kicking for a while, but it certainly isn’t enough to keep it on top forever. Digital’s here to stay.

@@watsonxox7145 exactly, an example of a great film would be the original BenHur movie which was shot in the 1959, it still looks amazing. People moved to digital though because it's more efficient and less time consuming.

idk what to say

Lol cringe.

I love polaroid

Same! Took a trip to Miami with my Polaroid this weekend. Took 16 photos total!

@@mishumishu8813 you must love alot

And at :20 the voice over is Gene Wilder.

Try watching some old episodes of The Electric Company. Easy Reader is very young Morgan Freeman. "top to bottom, left to right / Read'n stuff is outta sight!"

He was on Sesame Street.

They still make instant film cameras. Take a look at their website

i am twice your age and i did not either. I am a new grand father and realized when my grand son was born that most of my photos since the age of 14 have been digital.

@@jordenconrad8827 Hehe thanks, that day i realize that, still is not so cheap for me, so someone must keep working 😅

@@PHlophe wow congratulations gradpa! Mmm so you are 40 approx... My dad is 60 hehe so his photos are not digital at all when he was a child; and the final thing, my whole family is from places that were far away from the capital city of Peru, and didn't have the access to them until 10 or 5 years later the popularity of that artifact in the USA.

​@@lincheers8818 OMG thank a lots i'm 41 . Peru is actually on list of countries to visit, i don't want to be 60 and retired and then think of traveling . 2 of my colleagues are from a little town called PUerto maldonado, they'd gone to visit their family down and there i saw the pictures and its where i want to be. One in particular, her grand father is 104 years old. he beat the covit TWICE and he can still drive his own truck and unload bananas from it. i speak a bit of spanish but i understand 80% ish of the language. My dad was born in Argentina it helps a little.

I also agree with your last statement. Imagine that with our phones, we all take countless digital photos and just hoard them and almost never look at each one, we know that those files are just going to be there if ever we need them. But with analog, there’s something about being limited to only a number of shots when taking a picture of a special moment and being able to hold it in your hands, placing it next to your bedside table or putting it in a physical album, that just make the whole experience more special.

I personally studied digital photography. Our professor was ADIMENT on learning how to shoot properly in camera, through the viewfinder, as if it were film and each image costs you. That really helped solidify thinking before taking photos, composing and exposing properly. Film & instant cameras can definitely help slow you down and help you learn the basics, for sure. I remember being a kid carrying around disposable cameras all the time before digital cameras became affordable, with a limit of like 30-50 photos LOL

Me looking at my 12 color printer that took me 30 hours to learn and close to 1000$ dollar in paper and ink in experimentation: You lied to me you are not special!😢

Electronic music, ironically, deffinitly agrees with you, with so many new and old analog synthesizers, effects, and ect showing up all the time. Heck my PC's audio runs threw a small hybrid Vacuum tube amp before it gets to my headphones just because I love how it sounds (and the switch to turn it on has a deeply satisfying "clunk" so that's also a win)

Unless you can't tell whether what you're listening to is analog or digital. You're demonstrating confirmation bias.

nobody cares ! 🤷‍♂

@@sanimsyed6262 if you didnt care you wouldnt have commented saying that, so you do care mr weak man

@@sanimsyed6262 i do

my pro pack camera whit fuji fp 100c peel apart film take best instant pictures possible,but unfortunately film is discontinued

Anything sold under the name of Polaroid is of terrible quality.

What did the last CEO do wrong that caused the fall of Polaroid?

And not only that, in my design classes (I'm studying industrial design) my teacher and other professors of my career have the thought that Apple took "inspiration" for their electronic devices of other designers, like Braun, an example of this is is Braun's Radio and the Ipod or Braun's lei speaker and the Apple Mac. My opinion here is, not only the iphone shouldn't ve on a pedestal, the whole apple company, the one who is creating a toxic habit of selling stealth ideas.

iphones stand on the shoulders of giants. Apple users need to accept they are often buying repackaged features.

What can you expect from a polaroid enthusiast? He himself puts "polaroid" brand in a pedestal.

I'm also tired of so and so "envisioning ____ before there was a _____". Everybody had dreams of a portable whatever. Thinking of an idea is a very small part of inventing/implementing it.

The comparison to iPhone is probably because like most US people, is ignorant of Nokia (who's engineers basically invented the GSM standard) and their various camera feature-phones dating back to the late 1990's. Because of the balkanised nature of US cellphone networks, Nokia never bothered with doing distribution deals with hundreds of little cellphone telcos, that it would have taken to get a decent foothold in the USA. For the rest of The World, Nokia was king (at least until that Microsoft mole Stephen Elop became CEO and screwed up the company by forcing Windows Mobile onto Nokia phones).

IKR!!! I only ever see him as an old guy in the movies

@@bugboy491 he looked old in this very add too

I’ve grown up watching Morgan Freeman He was on the Electric Company that came on right after Sesame Street.

Digital is not here to stay, no more then electricity. Sharpen your carving tools fellow future stone agers🤗🤗🤗

@@keithh.2624 ther o could be the worst nuclear war imaginable and as long as there are human electricity as a thing Is not going any where. fancy tech maybe but you can make batteries by hand. and the primary way of generating electricity is still the dynamo that is 190 years old. for how to use the dynamo steam boilers are also still used in nuclear,coal,gas plants and are really old

@Richelle Noble-Taitua Jesus….

Lucky girlfriend

@@DiscentG More like I’m the lucky boyfriend haha

@A H Thats what I do a few times a year. We’ve just passed our 3rd year anniversary a couple months ago

@A H Hahahaha

yeah 20$ for a 8 sheets is scam , that why i am more into fujifilm

Yeah, it's like the quality and lighting gives it the old fashioned style sort of

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@@daoistsaintmasterofthenasc6220 3:30

There are practical reasons for instabt film. Mostly for the same reasons photobooths still exist. Sometimes you just want a physical photograph quick.

true theres something heartwarming about an actual physical photo then one in a gallery.

Disgusting. Take my like.

This made me feel the annoyed. Take my like too.

There's the door, you degenerate punner! Dont let my like hit you when get out too!

Safety razor users: Cartridge razor are fad.

In the UK automatic transmission is still kind of a fad.

Honestly I think a lot of the nostalgia people get from looking at film images is more down to the optics than the medium, and especially since a lot of people mainly see images taken on smartphones with very small sensors. If you stick a nice vintage lens with a lot of character on a digital camera with a larger sensor and then get it printed, it's going to have more of that aesthetic. Even just sticking an old Helios 44-2 on my Canon M50, the resulting images look an awful lot like they might be decades old

Agreed. I hate that the film costs so much, but on the other hand, I kinda like having to be more "perfect" in taking a photo rather than just haphazardly taking a bunch of them that I can delete.

Yep. Just some absurd hipster nonsense. And tbf, the guy is either an idiot or knows he's full of nonsense too. Digital is not going to be replaced by older technology.

Guys leave him alone he's just quirky and kawai af. Someone should tell him that he's being recorded on a digital camera.

And then describes the wonders of learning how to use an instant film camera, while sounding like he could be speaking about a digital camera as well.

Everything he said was cringe. "take a quick picture...its like Instagram for the analog age"

Same. I was like "um no you dumbass"

It's like the modern "buy cheap instant printer, but pay out the wazoo for the ink" thing. Make money on the supplies. Which in theory sounds good, but they could have made the film a LOT cheaper and would have helped them stay in business longer. Instead of 60% markup, 25% would have been fine.

yea it's not a fad

Now it's only 8 :(

My dad had, now I do, where you had to pull the photo out of the camera, peal it, and wait. Wonder if I can get film. Be cool to shoot the next time I'm over at my sister's.

The Fuji film cartridges are only 10 photos as well.

@@okok72277 The Instax line still has 10 per cartridge.

Ebay has a ton of cheap Polaroids, mostly sx70s or 600

I'd say take a photo of every dog turd you encounter and be the niche collector of crap.

a sub water kit existed for reflex sx 70 cameras

Archie , if you lived in Kwazu natal Durban or Keptown you would have been able to afford one.

Wow that's something to think about..for some reason I took this indepth in a philosophical standpoint and I can see lots of lessons and ideas up for grabs..

I know, right?!! I think about the same thing.. I wanna print the digital photos but too lazy to pick the best pictures. I miss those times where only limited number of pictures I could take.

Hell of a lot easier, and quicker, to post to Facebook and Instagram with digital than analog.

They didn’t pay Outkast a dime for that lol

Umm I’m sorry but I think I’ve seen you before I think you commented something about your dad how are you doing now ?:D

Re: "Digital is a fad" - Obviously this is likely not the case, but I can instantly see at least couple of scenarios where perhaps Digital photo viability and sharing our lives online becomes more seriously problematic: 1. There's no such thing as anonymity on the Internet. Currently most of us can live out our digitally connected lives freely but were a totalitarian government or time of war to arise, this freedom (past & present) could easily be used against us. This could be seen with the recent rise of the Taliban, who are now using data collection technology once used by the Americans to perform background checks on the populace to now hunt down and kill people who sided with the Americans or their values. People in the general Afghan public are desperately trying to delete their Internet data histories but they are now up against military grade software. Were everything you had used software-wise suddenly used against you, would you have any much idea on how to delete everything down to the bone? Do you really think VPN technology offers true anonymity? Etc. Everything is hackable and this is why even in the 21st century, the Russian secret services still use old fashioned type writers and non-digital cameras to perform their work. But whereas they do it to elude detection in their illicit activities, were the vibe & freedoms of society to significantly change for us, we may have to adapt to a similar environment (reverting back to old technologies for only they are truly safe/anonymous). 2. Many people say that they loved using Polaroid cameras but the cost of the film was a significant expense & downfall. As it currently stands, it costs virtually nothing (if anything at all) to take and store endless Digital photos. And data storage has significant (and often hidden) environmental impacts because of the massive energy consumption of storing the trillions of files etc that we do online. At the moment, we aren't being charged much for this, but as the energy costs and environmental impacts of data storage continue to boom, in the future these costs may have to translated more direct to us in the form of taxes and charges. And were you to re-enter a world where you started being charged for "Digital Film", where would that leave you as a consumer in terms of feeling the benefits of digital over instant film? Right now we still live in a world where Digital comes free and few people are that clued up on things like data accessibility, dangers and environmental costs. But I could see all of this being set to change a lot over the next couple of decades and with that, possibly a new dawn in society for old technologies which can't be digitally accessed and hacked.

Try instant photo printer for mobile, it lets you choose which picture to print from your phone

@@Coram_D30 you have a good memory. My dad is doing better

@@AllenHanPR great to hear

Right lol 😂

you were an only Chile. Back then

@@PHlophe do what now?

@@PHlophe go home Lechiffresix, you're drunk.

maybe try the fujifilm instax camera. they have a lot of varieties and their films is a lot more cheaper than polaroid.

there are so many places to print out digital prints everywhere