Talk:Instant film

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FTA: "Some modern film packs also contain a flat electrical battery to drive motors in the camera.", I presume it means physically flat, not dis-charged, is this correct? If so I shall re-word it less confusingly. Boffy b 10:14, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

Perhaps we can just replace the word "flat" with "thin"? Brianjd 10:16, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

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I removed the following statement:

As an interesting side note, Mr. Land approached Kodak with his film and camera idea and was turned down before approaching the Polaroid company. The issue was his insistence on using his name on his camera, hence the name "Polaroid Land Camera." Kodak was unwilling to deal, to their later regret.

Since Mr. Land founded the Polaroid Corporation, I find it hard to believe he went to Kodak before approaching the Polaroid Company. -- Egil 19:07, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How did Polaroid manage to hang on to the patent for 50+ years?

I'm amazed that I've never been able to find any info about this. Polaroid sued Kodak for infringing on a 30 year old patent. And won. Patents only last 17 years, right? Does anyone know anything about this? -- Richfife 19:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

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17 years unless stared otherwise i thought —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.209.83.146 (talk) 11:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joe McNally and Life-Size Polaroids

While the article mentions 8" x 10" being the maximum size of Polaroid film, and this is probably true in a retail sense, there were 40" x 80" prints made by LIFE photographer Joe McNally, exhibited as Faces of Ground Zero. The exhibit was sponsored by Morgan Stanley and an external article about the exhibit can be found here: [1]. Dj69 02:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

POLAROID FILM WORKS FROM MAGIC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.244.35 (talk) 06:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)