Could You Picture It On Polaroid?
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How about Type 55? Make your drawing in color and call it Type 58.
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Sadly enough, none of these Polaroid items will be be common, familiar image formats much longer...Polaroid has ceased manufacture of all instant films. There is a compatible Fuji-made pull-apart instant sheet in a few sizes, but the integral films like SX-70, 600, and Spectra are going, going, gone.
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James, you're welcome.
Lewis, it is sad indeed. The demise of silver-based imaging is rather depressing for me. Yes, I know you can still buy film and so on but the choices aren't there these days and clearly companies like Fuji and the "Great Yellow Father" don't have their hearts in it anymore.
And until someone makes a 24x36mm CCD for a camera, I'll find it hard to be interested in a digital SLR.
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I used to call myself a professional photographer, but it's not the 35mm stuff I miss...it really is the instant films. Aside from my Minox microfilm camera, Polaroid SX-70 cameras were about the most elegant devices I ever owned for taking photos...now they are paperweights. I do have a Polaroid 680 SE SLR based on the SX-70's, and I've noticed that the local Staples is unloading some expiring 600 film...time for a great blow-out of instant photography perhaps?
Oh, wait, I have to work for a living, supposedly...
Anyway, thanks again for the styles, David.
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thanks dave for the great styles
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Mike, you're welcome.
Lewis, I remember selling the 680SE SLR. As instant cameras go, it was a nice camera and about the best you could do.
I have a 12 0r 13 prime lenses for my old 35mm equipment from 17mm to 200mm. I'd love to be able to use them on a digital body. Well, I could but the effective focal length would be half again higher. The wide angle stuff is what I like the best.
A few years ago Pentax had a digital SLR with a 24x36mm chip. I was excited because it would take all those old lenses. About two weeks before scheduled release it was withdrawn because they had overheating problems with the chip. The salesman had even gotten his sample and we were going to hook up so I could try it out. They made him send it back.
Ah well. I'm off to hunt up some more ideas for SketchUp styles.
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My Canon EOS 5D and the new Nikon D700 have pretty much full frame sensors (CMOS). Sure it isn't film, but I sure do love my camera. I also have plenty of other film cameras and 2 Polaroid land cameras that I love to use every once in a while. It's a sad evolution, though I've been in the digital realm for quite a while. It's an ugly bleeding edge that I've spent plenty of money and time on in an effort to make "filmic" images.
Funny thing now with the release of the Red One camera my pricey old 35mm Ziess superspeeds are now worth more than what I spent on them 6 years ago.
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I actually gave up on waiting for an exact match for my SLR lenses...I don't really take photos the same way anyhow. Right now, if I need to use an SLR I have an Olympus E420 that will take my prime Olympus OM lenses and exactly double their focal length, which is at least understandable. My Zuiko f3.5 50mm Macro 1:1 is, on the digital camera, a 100mm equivalent Macro 1:1, which is simply astonishing, and my f4 200mm Zuiko is now an f4 400mm equivalent lens.
I do miss not having a wider angle lens, though...my old 2.8 24mm is now a 48mm. I may have to eventually buy a wider digital Olympus lens.
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