by Kesha Coggins

Created on: July 16, 2009   Last Updated: January 22, 2010

Expect the return of the Polaroid Camera in 2010 to be a time for all who have not forgotten the fun this camera brings to a day for photo escapades to rejoice. In the day of the digital camera there is nothing wrong with going back to the basics of the Polaroid as it makes a big come back into main stream use. Back in the days of flare trousers and frilly shirts, the photographic industry had struck gold with the then latest photographic machinery called the Polaroid.

The decades was the 70's and the snap shots from the nifty black large by today's standard box that spat out instant images taking only seconds before had customers lined up at the local electronics shop to get their hands on one of their very own. Unfortunately, years of struggling sales and fearsome technological advances in the realm of photographic competition saw Polaroid close their doors for the final time leaving the photographic world somewhat stunned.

Those who remember their first Polaroid experience sighed in compete and utter disbelief as an end of era within the photographic world had truly occurred. The instantaneous production of modern photographic technology going completely digital with the capacity to upload and download photographic images to print was bound to cause some sort of shake in the Polaroid camp.

However, no one really took on board the possibility that the instant snap shop company would be forced out of business entirely. In the raving 70's-80's, the famous faces of Polaroid commercial ads were James Garner and Mariette Hartley armed with charm and the ability to convince every consumer that they simply had to get the Polaroid camera immediately.

While it has only been a year since Polaroid sadly went out of business renowned and amateur photographers alike are rising to the crisis of what to do if the world continues to exist without the Polaroid camera capabilities. These avid admirers of the beloved camera were not going to sit back and allow the Polaroid to become a thing of archives and mere documentaries.

One Vienna, Austria based follower of the camera has gone so far as to set a Polaroid revival style company which is experimenting with the Polaroid film technologies to create a more efficient production line to bring the camera back from the consumer grave. Investing as much as 1.5 million Euros, the optimistic Polaroid camera fan expects to have his new Polaroid film products in a shop near you by 2010.

For those of you hanging onto to your old Polaroid camera while new film is no longer in production by the original Polaroid company old film stock is still available for consumer purchase. It may be something of a collectors item in the decades to come so if you are the proud owner of one of the Polaroid relic camera do hold onto it just in case.

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