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Rumor has it that Impossible, a Dutch company that has been working on reviving the instant film world will begin shipping film starting on March 25th. They managed to do this by buying up the last Polaroid film production line in the Netherlands.

I find it really interesting that the death of film as a mass market product has allowed smaller boutique operations (by comparison to the old firms anyway) are releasing great new film products as well as the unmolested classic emulsions. Ilford is another excellent example of this with the 2005 acquisition of its black and white division as the rest of the company folded tents.

PDN article here

Impossible website

Ilford website





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"The next few months will end an era that began six decades ago with a contraption called the Model 95 camera. That accordion-style machine delivered instant photography at a price tag equivalent to some $850 today. The SX-70, which spit out color prints, arrived in 1972. American life during the late 20th century had found its Boswell."

Here's a good read at the New York Times with some thoughts on instant photography and the move to digital.





This is cool. A company called Canditto came out with a little box that lets your guests dump their memory cards on a hard drive at the reception.

Hopefully Uncle Jack will remember to delete the photos of him and Aunt Gretta at the nude beach.





Apple has announced new pricing at the iTunes store and that they have decided to remove DRM from all songs in the store:

"Apple also said it is dropping digital rights management, or copy protection, from eight million songs in its catalog effective immediately, and from the remaining two million in its catalog by the end of March."

This move opens up a huge number of non-iPod mp3 players that hadnt been able to use iTunes up until now.

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