The article I read was about how the company Polaroid is going out of the instant photo business. They were the original inventors of the polaroid camera, which was so popular due to it's instant photo feature where it spits out the photo moments after you take it, and is visible a while later. They filed for bankruptcy in 2001, and said that they will still be manufacturing film until the end of 2009. I think this is a pretty interesting story because it shows how old companies are having trouble keeping up with new technology, and it seems many like Polaroid are filing bankruptcy and are having to shut down.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-abandons-instant-photography/?scp=4&sq=photography&st=cse
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This is an interesting article, just like I have said before, the photography world is very important in the 21st century, but it also needs to adjust to the always improving technology. One has to understand that and I can see that the Polaroid company failed to realize that. For that reason, they have gone filed bankruptcy. This is an interesting article since it relates to our photography unit and it tells me that you have to look more into modern world technology of making things excellent then just getting what you get from the Polaroid pictures. On my opinion, that is the reason digital cameras are doing so well, there pictures can be edited so that they have deeper meaning and appeal to people more.
I didn’t even know that the Polaroid cameras were still around. They were great if you want to take a quick picture and put it on the refrigerator but otherwise they weren’t good for anything else. If u took a bad photo then you have to live with it and you waste film. But with a digital camera you can take all the pictures you want and not waste a single piece of film. Also you can make the picture bigger and edit it also. So I think that his trend in Polaroid cameras was very predictable.
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