365cameras.com

Well, it looks like the Impossible Project is live and they have some interesting looking film. This is exciting to have a Polaroid film available again.

Currently, they show several listings, though not all are in stock:

Zink

* Polaroid PoGo Paper 08/09

SX-70

* PX 100 FF
* Polaroid TZ Artistic
* FadeToBlack 10/09

600

* Polaroid 600

Spectra

* Polaroid Image
* Polaroid Softtone
* Polaroid Wildside
* Polaroid Image 3
* Image White

Type 80

* Choco1 07/08

Type 100

* Polaroid 664 Twin
* Polaroid 669 Twin
* Triple Dip
* Polaroid 100 Sepia
* Polaroid 100 Choco
* Polaroid 100 Blue
* Polaroid 125i SILK
* 665 Film 09/07

4×5 inch

They are also selling a few Polaroid cameras.

Check out their site for more information. I need a Polaroid camera again so I can play with the Chocolate and the Blue.

Congrats to The Impossible Project team for buying these assets from Polaroid and making them available again. I’m looking forward to trying out some film.

Here are some Polaroid supplies on the web.

I found this video of a 20×24 wood Polaroid camera made in 1978. This camera is just beautiful. So are its pictures.

Elsa Dorfman Polaroid 20×24 Camera

Here is a video of Elsa Dorfman using that camera and interacting with the group that she was photographing.

Elsa Dorfman

Here is a wikipedia article on Elsa Dorfman.

Here is Elsa Dorfman’s web site.

Here are some more Polaroid resources.

Matt Bender is my niece’s husband. So, I have to admit some bias here.

Matt is an accomplished Polaroid photographer, so he deserves mention.

His Polaroid pictures show the design skills he learned as an artist.

As an artist for the Missouri Botanical Garden, he created designs for the Japanese Festival,  Train Show, other special events, mailers, and other marketing collateral.  He produced some very memorable work there, but has moved on to private enterprise.  Simply put, if you saw ads or fliers for the Missouri Botanical Garden, you likely saw his work.

I can’t show it to you here, but as you can imagine the artwork for his own wedding was phenomenal. The importance of the occasion showed in his attention to detail.

He is a very good graphic artist and Polaroid photographer.