I'm surprised none of you serious p-bloggers have blogged this yet. Anyway it looks like Polaroid might come back, a group of Dutch folks have signed a 10-year lease for the factory in the Netherlands and intend to start making film for old Polaroid cameras again.
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/
Got this from Peter
Was it inevitable? Here's Poladroid, a program you can download which will take a photo and degrade the color + add slight vignetting + add fake fingerprints + "mount" it in a Polaroid-sized white frame. Note that this is only available for Mac users (of course).
I've never had a Polaroid camera before, so this doesn't make me sad/nostalgic or anything like that. I just want to know when can I get a Lomo version of this! I know I know, it already exists for Photoshop or something... But how about a Golden Half version? IN SHORT: who needs that silly film anyway, when our computars [NB: not a misspelling] can simulate it for us?
At the end of the day, digital is the way of the world. As an amateur, analog is a matter of choosing a different experience of taking pictures—not necessarily a "better" one, you geeks—and, yes, choosing to pay a premium for it.
[from Monika]