Polaroid, which brought the world instant photography before there was such a phrase, is closing its last two film manufacturing plants. To be honest, until seeing the news bit, I thought Polaroid disappeared 9 years ago when Sony and Olympus began pushing digital photography for the mass market.
Despite my oversight, I’ll never forget aiming that bread box size carton of doom at subjects who refused to sit still.
Oh, it makes sense why everyone was so jittery back then; it was the seventies. Jeans rode high and tight in the crotch. Two out of ten people snorted coke with their Cheerios. Still, because the camera lacked any aperture or film speed controls, much less a focus dial that responded to user input, the photographer rarely had the slightest idea about what the picture might look like. Not before whipping the sheets around like Shake and Bake, anyway.
Incidentally, Polaroid is still in business. They merely stopped making film for gems like these:
