Polaroid lasts
Polaroid fans must be aching all over the world. I am sure many have been buying the over-prized (twice the original price) film quickly and the sources will be extinguished soon, only to appear with higher prices, once people are used to the change. This technique has been repeated once an again with success with each increase in gas prices and many other items of daily use. We always protest, pay the increases and then the price never goes down when the “cause” for the increase is removed . Then the process is repeated every 5 years. It’s manipulation, not a “free” economy.
As for me, I do not submit to the generally believed principle that prize should increase with scarcity. I an ideal world, corporations should respect the
customer, or is it the distributors??? Even if it this process works, it works because we continue buying, so I firmly believe we should not give in–whenever we can afford it. I am shooting my last film during Spring, to have nice memories in my last Polaroids. The SX-70 model of Polaroid was particularly thought out by fans because people liked the colors, blurriness and perceived “quality” of the photos. This was one of the most loved Polaroids during the 70’s, a classic still with great commercial value today, commanding very good prices at auctions all over the world. The first instant SLR camera. I will have to say good bye to the Polaroids and send them to sleep to their cases. I have two Spectras, one SX-70 and two one600s.
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you touch on an interesting theme Yolanda. “built -in obsolescence” is also the scourge of musicians electronic equipment, forcing people to buy new stuff becuase they purposely make the old stuff redundant, or incompatible with newer add-ons. its outrageous!
I have a heart for traditional Yolanda like you and I presume you do.
Agree. This taste for “old” comes with “age”, meaning our age. Nostalgia perhaps. I look back and find life was so easy and things were so pure then — from the perspective of a young person that is what life is, always. Thanks for your comment.
Kevin, they do that with eveyrthing. I assume your guitars and all your equipment is very expensive so it must be a pain in the neck to change gears when companies decide you have to.
Yolanda- at least with the bass guitar (my main instrument) we can thank Leo Fender for getting it almost completely right in the 50’s. Its the studio equipment that is continually updated, and drives you crazy. Also, keyboards. i feel sorry for keyboard players, they’ve barely got round to reading the manual, when some guy from the music shop will call them and say: “you should try the NEW one!”