{"id":697,"date":"2017-10-24T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/return-of-the-original-polaroid-week-2017\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:12:01","slug":"return-of-the-original-polaroid-week-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/return-of-the-original-polaroid-week-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Original &#8211; Polaroid Week 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Polaroid is dead, long live Polaroid<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A rather morbid way to start this whole celebration of Instant Photography. Polaroid week and I are a bit hit and miss. And yet I&#8217;ve managed to join in on it several times. But this year I thought that it would be at an end for me. See, I had ditched all my instant photography gear between the end of last year&#8217;s Polaroid Week and the early spring of this year. And as the quote says, I tried to get out, but they just pulled me back in.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37139690473\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4506\/37139690473_3fe5b6bef4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" width=\"836\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37139691013\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4506\/37139691013_38ff3c1ea4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I guess you can say at the last recording session for the 2017 season of Classic Camera Revival; co-host James Lee had a Polaroid Spectra with the latest batch of Impossible Project Black &amp; White film. Well, that was that I had to get back in after seeing the quality of the newest batch. And I had just received as a gift, a Polaroid One from a friend, Marcia Cook. What made the Polaroid One different from all other 600-Type Polaroids is that it had a manufacture date of 2001, one of the last cameras to be produced by Polaroid.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37139690433\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4448\/37139690433_26bf2c2f9e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37139690623\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4460\/37139690623_9d20c19c8b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Polaroid Week - Fall 2017\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a gamble with Polaroid Cameras, but I invested in a couple of packs of film, and bam, it worked. Beautifully! The black &amp; white film, stunning, and the colour stock held that typical charm I had come to expect from instant film. And then the big news hit, and man, what news! The Impossible Project was no more; they were now Polaroid Originals. Yes, the original is back!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37845834492\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"SCAET\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4463\/37845834492_035790c9f6_b.jpg\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"SCAET\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/24024571538\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Toys\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4494\/24024571538_e29ef9b6e0_b.jpg\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Toys\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Polaroid has always been attached to &#8220;Instant&#8221; photography at least more me. I&#8217;m sure more people these days attach it to Fuji Instax. I went on a hunt, eventually getting some film packs from Henry&#8217;s in Oakville and Hamilton and then I saved them up for Polaroid Week. And all I can say is I&#8217;m impressed the colour is spot on, gone is the faded yellow I had come to expect from Impossible. And then there&#8217;s the black &amp; white, I already am impressed with the stock, and under the new name, it&#8217;s even better! Which I never thought possible. Of course, this might all be a placebo effect, even if it is, I&#8217;m good with it.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37845833142\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Building On Up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4459\/37845833142_6d62e3a12d_b.jpg\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Building On Up\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/37845832522\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Burlington Camera\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4496\/37845832522_b978bf7993_b.jpg\" width=\"832\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Burlington Camera\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For us in Canada, the price remains at thirty dollars a pack for eight shots so not exactly something I&#8217;ll be shooting on a regular basis. However, for something special, I think it&#8217;ll be worth the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polaroid is dead, long live Polaroid A rather morbid way to start this whole celebration of Instant Photography. Polaroid week and I are a bit hit and miss. And yet I&#8217;ve managed to join in on it several times. But this year I thought that it would be at an end for me. See, I had ditched all my instant photography gear between the end of last year&#8217;s Polaroid Week and the early spring of this year. And as the quote says, I tried to get out, but they just pulled me back in. I guess you can say at the last recording session for<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/return-of-the-original-polaroid-week-2017\/\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[72,22,1211,1364,686,57,20,29,17,954,956,953,620],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}