Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark,This is only observational, but, many people used polaroids during the middle sixties as you could get color in a few minutes instead of days. When I am scanning peoples family memories there is usually a five year or so block of Polaroid pictures before they go to now faded C-22 images. The Polaroid's held up better color wise than the newer stuff(60's into the 80's). I would expect our archivist from La to have comments on numbers of Polaroid vs neg/print images in the University collection. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Few people really ever owned a Polaroid. > > I'd like to see the stats on how much Polaroid photography was done by > amateurs vs. Leica. > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@san.rr.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:50:32 -0800 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace > > > > Larry and Rei, > > > > No! They would not prepare the same sort of EULOGY, because Polaroid > > had far more influence on > > the hoi-poloi than did Leica. Most people have never heard of > Leitz/Leica. > > > > They will die "not with a bang, but a whimper". > > > > Jerry > > > > > > Rei Shinozuka wrote: > >> another one of the nifty fifty bites the dust: > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty > >> > >> > >> On Dec28 10:44, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > >> > >>> Read the lyrical and nostalgic account of the passing of Polaroid in > >>> today's New York Times. > >>> > >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28kimmelman.html?hp > >>> > >>> I wonder if some editorial writer is preparing the same sort of elegy > >>> for Leica? > >>> > >>> Larry Z > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com