25 Facts About Polaroid film

The Polaroid film contains the chemicals needed for developing and fixing the photograph, and the camera exposes and initiates the developing process after a photo has been taken.

In 1972, Polaroid introduced integral film, which incorporated timing and receiving layers to automatically develop and fix the photo without any intervention from the photographer.

Instant Polaroid film is used by artists to achieve effects that are impossible to accomplish with traditional photography, by manipulating the emulsion during the developing process, or separating the image emulsion from the Polaroid film base.

Instant Polaroid film has been supplanted for most purposes by digital photography, which allows the result to be viewed immediately on a display screen or printed with dye sublimation, inkjet, or laser home or professional printers.

Instant positive Polaroid film uses diffusion transfer to move the dyes from the negative to the positive via a reagent.

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Color Polaroid film is much more complex due to multiple layers of emulsion and dye.

Additive Polaroid film uses a color mask of microscopically thin transparent red, green, and blue lines (3000 lines per inch) and a black and white emulsion layer to reproduce color images in transparency Polaroid film.

Roll Polaroid film was distributed in two separate negative and positive rolls and developed inside the camera.

Pack Polaroid film was distributed in a Polaroid film pack which contained both negative and positive sheets and was developed outside the camera.

Each roll of Polaroid film came with a cartridge containing developing chemicals which were pressed between the Polaroid film and a developing strip by a hand-cranked machine called the AutoProcessor.

An example of this is the Polaroid film 300 camera, which is a Polaroid film branded Fuji Instax.

In February 2008, Polaroid announced it would cease production of all instant film; the company shut down three factories and laid off 450 workers.

Kodak instant film was exposed from the back without a mirror, the opposite of Polaroid's film which was exposed from the front with a mirror to reverse the image.

Polaroid film filed suit against Eastman Kodak in April 1976 for the infringement of ten patents held by Edwin Land and others on his development team relating to instant photography.

In Japan, FujiPolaroid film introduced their own line of instant photographic products in 1981 starting with the Fotorama line of cameras.

When Kodak lost, Fujifilm was able to work with Polaroid to allow their cameras and films to remain in the market, provided that they have a technology sharing agreement.

Polaroid film was interested in branching out to magnetic media in the boom of the videotape era and had acquired a company called MagMedia Ltd.

FujiPolaroid film has a long history in magnetic media dating to the mid-1950s.

FujiPolaroid film makes pack Polaroid film for their passport camera systems, and had been available outside Japan since the mid-1980s.

In 2000, Fuji decided to change the way they manufacture pack Polaroid film, making the entire pack out of plastic instead of a metal and plastic combination.

FujiPolaroid film announced at PMA 2003 that pack Polaroid film would be made available to the North American market.

FujiPolaroid film's FP-100b45 was announced in Sept of 2009 for the US market.

The FP-3000b45 arrived in the North American market in Jan 2011, after FujiPolaroid film Japan stopped manufacturing FP-100b, but was discontinued in 2012.

In late 2012 FujiPolaroid film discontinued FP-3000B, followed by the discontinuation of FP-100C in spring 2016.

Summit Global Group, using the Polaroid brand, produced an instant photography camera and film starting with the Polaroid PIC 300, based on Fujifilm's Instax Mini 7.

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