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Impossible Mission
Exciting news, A group called The Impossible Mission have bought the Polaroid factory and equipment and aim to start mass production in early 2010. Does anyone else have any information to add to this page on the matter? The website is [|http://www.the-impossible-project.com/] George5210 (talk) 21:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

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FTA: "Some modern film packs also contain a flat electrical battery to drive motors in the camera.", I presume it means physically flat, not dis-charged, is this correct? If so I shall re-word it less confusingly. Boffy b 10:14, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

Perhaps we can just replace the word "flat" with "thin"? Brianjd 10:16, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

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 * As an interesting side note, Mr. Land approached Kodak with his film and camera idea and was turned down before approaching the Polaroid company. The issue was his insistence on using his name on his camera, hence the name "Polaroid Land Camera." Kodak was unwilling to deal, to their later regret.

Since Mr. Land founded the Polaroid Corporation, I find it hard to believe he went to Kodak before approaching the Polaroid Company. -- Egil 19:07, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How did Polaroid manage to hang on to the patent for 50+ years?
I'm amazed that I've never been able to find any info about this. Polaroid sued Kodak for infringing on a 30 year old patent. And won. Patents only last 17 years, right? Does anyone know anything about this? -- Richfife 19:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The usual way is to keep patenting new things, new improvements. As well as I know it, the integral (no peeling needed) film was the important one. Polaroid started designing it after learning about how many of the peel off tabs and negatives were littering popular tourist locations.
 * The usual way is to keep patenting new things, new improvements. As well as I know it, the integral (no peeling needed) film was the important one. Polaroid started designing it after learning about how many of the peel off tabs and negatives were littering popular tourist locations.

The Polaroid integral film is exposed from the front (viewing side), which means it needs a mirror to reverse the image. The Kodak (and very similar Fuji) version is exposed from the back. Kodak thought that would be a big enough improvement to satisfy patent courts that it was not infringing. In any case, it was less than 17 years from SX-70 and its film. Gah4 (talk) 05:24, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

17 years unless stared otherwise i thought —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.209.83.146 (talk) 11:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Joe McNally and Life-Size Polaroids
While the article mentions 8" x 10" being the maximum size of Polaroid film, and this is probably true in a retail sense, there were 40" x 80" prints made by LIFE photographer Joe McNally, exhibited as Faces of Ground Zero. The exhibit was sponsored by Morgan Stanley and an external article about the exhibit can be found here:. Dj69 02:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC) POLAROID FILM WORKS FROM MAGIC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.244.35 (talk) 06:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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The first image is a bit odd
This might just be me, but I feel like the thumbnail with the picture examples looks weird. Are they cut-outs of someone? What are the images even of? WinterWarp (talk) 15:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * It looks like they are actually photos of cardboard cutouts shaped like a person. TooManyFingers (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Lowest speed in instant film
the article right now says instant film was made in speeds as slow as iso 4, but i believe this to be a typo because the lowest iso i could find for instant film was iso 40 here: https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx8_7xbot7cC&pg=PA60&dq=iso+40+instant+film&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3psj45ayGAxXhRTABHdJfDzgQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=iso%2040%20instant%20film&f=false should the article lead be changed to say the lowest speed in instant films is iso 40? Pancho507 (talk) 02:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

"Packfilm"
The average person has no idea what "packfilm" means. If you want to use the word in an article, please first clearly explain what it is. TooManyFingers (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)