He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. So if you’re going to make it seem like you’re breaking the news about this stuff from Polaroid, guess again.Ĭhris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. That also means that the Phoblographer is the one to break this news as most folks typically sit there hanging out on R/Photography and not care about the rest of Reddit. Am I plugging one of the subreddits that I run? Yes. And if Polaroid really, truly makes those analog dreams come true you can sure as hell imagine that I’ll be the first one on the line to sign up for all the film.įull disclosure and Editor’s Note: I’m a moderator for R/Polaroid. It’s overall fantastic to know that there may be another big company that can take on Fujifilm with the power of Instax. The ski goggles thing I’m not sure about.Īnd then there’s this last message. Film is an organic material and just like the food that you consume, it goes bad after a while. Ohhhhhhhh!!!!! Oh man! For people that don’t know, you’re supposed to store Polaroid film in your fridge so that it doesn’t expire as quickly. Oh man! Be still my beating heart! Analog dreams coming from Polaroid again? As I type this we’re literally in the middle of production of a number of other pieces that I needed to stop in order to write this blog post. The company is turning 80? Wow, quite a big time to announce something, right? Those chemicals then go through the entire image and develop it. When you shoot a photo, the rollers pop a pod that stores the chemicals. I hope that that isn’t really the case, but let’s delve further into this.įor those that aren’t totally of the understanding of what happens with a Polaroid photo creation, it’s literally film development. But if it’s on Polaroid’s website, then maybe it means that they’ll be producing the film now? It could also maybe mean that Impossible Project will just be called Polaroid. SX-70, OS, 600, Spectra and 8×10 are all film formats that Polaroid used to produce that Impossible took over. These teasers are live on the company’s website. This would be incredibly interesting as they’re working so hard right now on trying to push the Polaroid Pop quite a bit–which is essentially a square shaped Zink spitting camera. Update: One possibility according to comments is that the new beta film being made and tested could be under the Polaroid name!Īccording to a scoop found on R/Polaroid the company seems to be hinting that something big is coming that will hopefully return it to the roots that Doctor Land originally focused on. So it was only a matter of time until some sort of return was being talked about–and I didn’t think that we’d be hearing news as early as September 13th, but it seems we are. But earlier this year, one of the owners of the Impossible Project also acquired a large portion of Polaroid. The Impossible Project has been working for years on resurrecting their film and can only get so far due to environmental standards and Fujifilm has been the only other big manufacturer of instant film using chemicals and a full process to develop a photo. Polaroid for many years now has been created a poor excuse for Instant Film in the form of Zink paper and prints with options borders, but a recent update from the company is teasing the return to their roots as an analog instant film based company.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |