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Photo collecting
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:33 pm
by yuccahead
Polaroid found in a packrat midden 11.22.10
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:13 am
by Space Cowboy
Where? Any markings on the back to suggest film manufacture date?
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:14 am
by TradClimber
Polariod introduced their color film in 1963.
http://www.savepolaroid.com/history/
TradClimber
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:34 pm
by yuccahead
Space Cowboy wrote:Where? Any markings on the back to suggest film manufacture date?
It was out in desert scrub about 8 miles north of Moab. There wasn't any kind of printing on it that I could see, just a film of dirt.
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:15 am
by Space Cowboy
Thanks, yuccahead. There's a story there, of course. I once found a camera out on a trail to Smuggler's Cave near Jacumba. I developed the film it had loaded, and the owner had to have been a foreign college student. A large group had hit everything from the wind caves near Split Mountain to the Elliot Mine. Never could figure out how to find the owner. The electronics were shorted out, probably from sitting out in the elements, dew in the morning, that kind of thing.
Wikipedia's article on Polaroid is quite confusing. The company apparently went belly up in 2001, and even the holding company that had its assets filed bankruptcy in 2008. They stopped manufacturing cameras in 2007 and stopped making film in 2009. Despite that,you can still buy Polaroid film, and Wikipedia directs you to 'The New' Polaroid website.
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:24 am
by TradClimber
“...Working on mysteries
Without any clues...”
Night Moves
-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band-
1976
TC
Re: Photo collecting
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:29 pm
by lara
TradClimber wrote:“...Working on mysteries
Without any clues...”
Night Moves
-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band-
1976
TC
perfect lyrics for the photo.