I have just bought a Polaroid 600 camera off ebay, but can't seem to find any film that is under 拢55! And if it is under 拢55, it has about 20 bids on it so I have no chance! Please tell me how I can get cheap film for it because otherwise it's abit pointless :P thanks!|||Sorry, but cheap film and Polaroid do not go together, and it never has. It is pointless when a 10 picture pack of film approaches the value of the camera. On top of that, the quality of the pictures have much to be desired. We really should be thankful that this old technology is going away. (Who knows, the next fad technology may be tintype?)|||And it will cost more and more.
They have stopped making it. read on.... Sorry LOL !!
Page last updated at 23:24 GMT, Friday, 8 February 2008
Polaroid, the company behind the instant camera, is to stop making the film used in its iconic technology.
The firm is to close factories in Massachusetts in the US, Mexico and the Netherlands after the digital age left almost no market for the film.
Polaroid stopped making the instant cameras themselves about a year ago.
It now focuses on other ventures which include a portable printer for mobile phone images, and Polaroid-branded digital cameras.
"We're trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years," the firm's president, Tom Beaudoin, told the Associated Press.
Enthusiasts
The firm was founded in 1937, making polarised lenses for the science world, introducing its first instant camera in 1948.
Polaroid peaked in popularity in 1991 when its sales - mainly instant cameras and film - hit close to $3bn.
However it failed to embrace the digital photography revolution and went bankrupt in 2001, before being bought, four years later by a Minnesota-based consumer products firm, Petters Group Worldwide.
It says there is enough film in stock to last until 2009, and it hopes to sell licensing rights to another firm to continue supplying enthusiasts who still use their Polaroid cameras.
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