I belive this a refurbed sx70 polaroid gg so its instant pics no developing needed.

Its a refurbished SX70 Polaroid alright, I think I bought the last one out of the fifty reconditioned ones at 15:00hrs today. Sold out in less than two minutes.

I always associated Polaroids with my down syndrome great aunt who had one and would bring out at family events in the 1970's. But The Impossible Project people have bought the last Polaroid film factory in Holland and teamed up with Ilford in the UK to make amazing B&W and sepia toned instant film.

They're marketing themselves like a more artistic Lomography and we shall see. I'm a big fan of B&W film, there's nothing like silver halide photographs. Digital doesn't come close, although there are software packages available to recreate film effect. But why recreate, when you can have the real deal?

Polaroid were an amazingly successful American company, millions of Polaroid cameras made. The colour film has a distinctive stylistic palate, once considered a throw away item, now a coveted photographic style. 

Polaroids are an essential piece of Americana, an artifact in the ongoing case of Ivy vs Prep, Trad vs Humanity, Classicism vs Stylised Deviancy.

Polaroid won two lawsuits against Kodak in the Seventies and Eighties.  Still didn't save Polaroid who filed for Chapter 11 and have now reinvented themselves as the maker of bling instant photos for chav girls.  I kid you not. Kodak are still around and are involved in cinematrography film, amongst digital and other technologies.

Minox has gone the same way as Polaroid, well not quite, the're not bankrupt, but they have no commitment to the 8x11 format and have brought out an obvious toy digital spy camera for pre-pubescent boys. This is a shame, there's enough real artists and gentlemen amateurs out there to keep the 8x11 film format expanding and alive.