I just read on the Flickr Blog that Polaroid will be ceasing its production of instant film. The company (now 150 employees compared to 21,000 in its 1978 hay day) will continue working on its Polaroid branded digital cameras & cell phone camera printers.
I switched to digital last year. And, I love the power that digital gives me (picture preview, digital darkroom, unlimited # of exposures)… but I do still miss the texture and tone of my film prints. I never used polaroids that much, but there’s definitely a “beginning of the end of film” feeling with this announcement.
Polaroid film is still expected to be on the shelf for the next year.
Published on
February 7, 2008 in
life.
Tags: random.
I’ve had my thinkpad for about 6 months, and I like it a lot. (Although, it wouldn’t kill Lenovo to make them a bit cooler looking – would it??)
The one thing that has bugged me, though, is that the screen *always* dims when I unplugged & go onto battery. This was especially irritating when trying to work on the bus or edit photos on the plane.
I tried all the Windows settings magic (power options, display brightness, etc) to no avail. I finally found the trick to making it work today: you have to update your bios.
If you have a lenovo thinkpad & want to have full brightness while on battery, you need to change the “Brightness” bios setting from “Normal” to “High.”
Thought I’d share the wealth. 