OK, here are a couple of things. The first is a mention of the new set of photograph ecards in the Focus on India section of Quillcards.
The second has nothing to do with ecards, but it does have to do with photographs.
The Famous Polaroid Stripe
Specifically it is that an auction of Polaroid images fetched $12.5m today, but if you want to see all the Polaroid cameras and the films that fit them, there is no more enticing website than this one called the Land List – named after Edwin Land, the inventor of the instant camera.
The site was put together by a gentleman named Marty Kuhn and it is a great resource and I heartily recommend it for a good read.
I have owned one or two Polaroid cameras and I may still have one somewhere in storage. I bought old peel-apart film and made image transfers on to art paper. Great fun! If you can find any old Polaroid film and get a camera that can handle it, I recommend this halfway house between photography and freehand art.
We are used to thinking of these cameras and the instant film they used, and putting them in a different category to Polaroid sunglasses. Well it was the same Edwin Land who invented these glasses also.
He was not the first to understand the benefits of polarized light but it was he who embedded crystals in a plastic lens and made the glasses that are so good at transmitting light in only one plane and so cutting down glare.
By the way, if you have a pair of Polaroid glasses, don’t leave them in the heat of the sun – perhaps on your car dashboard. The reason is that the plastic is laminated and it can drift apart if it gets hot for too long.
Finally, you may want to take a look at this article on the Pogo digital instant printer made by the company before it collapsed.
