First of all, a big thank you goes out to Chris of Perennial Media who kindly purchased a pack of Polaroid 600 for me to play with after I had mentioned that I had received a Polaroid Sun 600 camera.
I had to wait a bit to receive the pack because apparently (and I didn’t know this) the price of a pack of Polaroid fluctuates like mad. One day it’ll be about $30 and the next it will literally jump to about $80. I’ve never seen a product go through so many price changes in one week. But thankfully, it’s finally here, and I’ll say that it’s a bit fun and challenging to try and find 10 things to shoot without feeling like you’re wasting the film. It’s been so long since I’ve shot any sort of film that this feeling is once again new to me.
While I imagine that this is good news to some, I have a feeling that this limited edition relaunch of the Polaroid One Step camera is just a good reason for Polaroid and The Impossible Project to make the Polaroid format completely unaffordable for most people. I can pretty much bet that the relaunch of the Polaroid One Step camera is going to come with a jacked up price just for collector’s sake. I’m thinking in the $100’s. I hope I’m wrong.
A Polaroid Sun 600 LMS camera was gifted to me today. I don’t have any film for it and prices are eye-gouging to say the least, so for now, I’ll just keep it around to stare at (because it looks nice).
Here’s a cute story directed by Edward Styles about a girl who takes Polaroids of all of the things she likes and a boy who comes across the box in which she keeps all of her images. The beautiful soundtrack is by Stephen Wright.
