[kotaKat]

I think the worst, most damning thing they did was gutting and destroying the Spectra equipment to make Polaroid Go film and cameras.

I wish they'd work on getting film costs down rather than releasing overpriced toys. Instax is still kicking their ass for prices long-term.

Zink was a mistake that should have never been made. I've never had a quality print off a Zink printer.

[mkoryak]

I recently bought a cheap zink camera and some not-so-cheap zink paper.

People said the quality wasn't good but I thought, "how bad can it really be?"

Pretty terrible!

I don't understand how zink can be a thing that people buy, unless they are all people like me who will never buy it again.

[vr46]

I have a Polaroid-branded Zink printer from around 2008 and a Polaroid-branded Zink printer from more recent years and the quality has always been rubbish. BUT, I still bought a Brother Zink-on-a-roll printer that I use to print out small pictures as stickers to stick into my journal as a photo diary.

Ultra-niche use, of course, but there you go, there's nothing as zero-config as this thing.

[vr46]

It was criminal, wasn't it. The Impossible Project deserve kudos for reviving things but having to reinvent it from scratch has proven to be actually impossible.

As for One Instant film, sheesh, a labour of love. Mine are stashed away along with the last of my peel-apart, I should just use them all.

At this confluence of money-time-effort, I hope we would recognize a black hole when we encounter it on earth and find a better way, but it apparently requires EVEN MORE money to fix, thanks to the destruction.