Save the Polaroids

[New Spark Films]

"On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film."

http://www.savepolaroid.com/

Sign the petition:

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/save-polaroid-film.html

[jugglingfreak]

No offense, but e-petitions carry little to no weight with anyone.

Companies generally rank complaints in this order of importance.

1) face to face meetings (Particularly if it is a public place where other customers/clients may observe)

2) Hand Written letters. (The logic is that if you took the time to write a letter by hand or print it off the PC, buy a stamp, mail it, etc. It must be important to you.)

3) Formal Petitions. (I put this after hand-written letters because the weight varies. A) a formal petition with signatures, verifiable by including addresses and or phone numbers will at least make them take notice if nothing else. B) Petition with a bunch of unverifiable signatures will be placed in the trash.)

4) Phone calls. People often call in "the heat of the moment" to complain. If the took the time to sit down and write it out they may realise that it's not that big of a deal, they could have been in the wrong, etc. This combined with the slight anonymity of the phone makes people sometime act more aggressivly thatn they would in person so complaints are taken with a grain of salt.

5) e-mail: Instant, like the phone e-mails are frequently written in "the heat of the moment" with no thought and sent. The near complete anonymity of the internet makes these types of complaints nearly worthless. I say "nearly" because occasionally there is a rational complaint in them but they a few and far between and sometime get lost in the shuffle of nonsense.

6) e-petitions: combine the cons of e-mail and a non-verifiable petition and this is what you get. Most only require an e-mail address as verification. You can make a new e-mail address in a heart beat with google, Yahoo, etc. I personally have 5 different e-mails for various reasons, so I could sign a petition 5 times. I could make up names for several more a sign again and again.

Now on this one, they actually require a name and address so it would carry a little more weight but how hard is it to pick out a name and address from a phone phone and type it in. Also, it's too easy. Yes, they actually think about that, if you went the hard route with hitting the streets collecting, it shows that you are far more serious about it. People at their houses or walking down the street that take the time to listen and interrupt what they were doing to fill out the petition will also be taken more seriously. On the internet to easy to just "click and forget".

Translation: e-petition = Unlikely that any company will pay any attention to it at all.


Sorry.

[New Spark Films]

I guess you're right.

But the main point of this thread is still to complain about the discontinuance of Polaroid instant film.

[FyceDesigns]

I signed the petition for only one reason. A few years ago, my family and I visited San Fran and a woman stopped us to take a Polaroid photo of us on the bridge. For some reason, that is one of my fondest childhood memories.

[rrh]

There's people that have childhood memories of gas lamps and horse buggies and what not.

The business is only really concerned with the question of whether people will continue buying Polaroids.

[Vaughn Whynot]

i think its a good idea
sorry i was never a fan of those damn things
and with todays camera/computer systems and insta-photo machines there is really no need for them

[New Spark Films]

there is really no need for them
Oh yeah?

http://alpha.fdu.edu/~gradford/memento-polaroid.jpg

Leonard disagrees.

[Vaughn Whynot]

lol
3/12/08 - way of the dodo bird
posted by: polar bear
for those of you that have used polaroid before, you know what a shame it would be if it was extinct. if you support the cause, clink this link (http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-polaroid-film.html) and sign the petition to save it from being nonexistent. Here's a shot of cairo from florida about 8 years ago. fond are the memories.

http://www.enjoico.com/cache/news-images/1374/m.jpg (http://www.enjoico.com/blog.php#)

yeah i found this one of my fav skate companies site
can i change my vote lol

[punkandska66]

"On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film."

that's was my birfday. i guess it wasn't happy for everyone.

[New Spark Films]

lol
http://www.enjoico.com/cache/news-images/1374/m.jpg (http://www.enjoico.com/blog.php#)

yeah i found this one of my fav skate companies site
can i change my vote lol

Sure...

[BonOfTheDead]

till they make a digital camera that can take a picture the quality of a film camera, i say shut up, and keep making them.

7 mega pixels looks like crap.

[Citrus]

Me and my mom both think there should be a camera that can take polaroids, regular film pics, and digital pictures. We like the look of the film better than the digital but we like the ease of digital. We also like to take photos to the 1 hour photo. Yeah...we're weird lol.

[BinBinProductions]

dude polaroids are old, their cool, but not good.

they are probably discontinuing because no one buys them anymore!!!

The picture is sooo small, so your saying the only company that makes polaroids is not making them anymore?

[Vaughn Whynot]

my friend that owns a photo shop (king st photo and art) says his sales have gone up since they told people of the death of the polaroid
what if its just a marketing ploy

[jay_stewart]

Polorioid have been vital for the films I have made with college. We took poloriods of our actors so we could use them as visual notes when we thought continuation was off on the actors costumes among other things. and the little white bit at the bottom of the picture was perfect for writing dates and notes about the picture/actor/costume or whatever the picture was about.

[sonnyfromda02]

I did my first cloning pic with a polaroid camera. My dad taught me how to double expose the film. Apparently, it was common to do that when he was growing up.

[BinBinProductions]

I did my first cloning pic with a polaroid camera. My dad taught me how to double expose the film. Apparently, it was common to do that when he was growing up.

what do you mean? print the photo and run it through again?

[Spleg]

Polaroid film has some unusual uses outside the normal realms of photography. It can be directly manipulated by prodding it with your fingers (like the 'liquify' tool in Photoshop) for a few minutes after development. And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTpwhhgsRI) is just amazing.

[ilikecookies]

Polaroid film has some unusual uses outside the normal realms of photography. It can be directly manipulated by prodding it with your fingers (like the 'liquify' tool in Photoshop) for a few minutes after development. And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTpwhhgsRI) is just amazing. that is amazing!

[sonnyfromda02]

what do you mean? print the photo and run it through again?

My dad showed me on the Polaroid I-Zone. You take the picture, then pull it out yourself, but he covered half of it with electrical tape, took one pic, then covered the other half without removing the picture, and took another pic. It gave the illusion of me standing beside myself. It used to blow people's minds because this was before Photoshop was so mainstream, and it was on a small Polaroid picture.