thanatoid wrote in
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bugbear wrote in
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§ñühwö£f wrote:

Polaroids were popular with the insurance industry
(adjustors)

Back in the late 1980's we had a polaroid camera
in our "Goods in" area, so that when a van opened
up and the rear was a shambles, or the packaging
on an item was beaten to hell, we had evidence.

In the (common...) case where the shipment was urgent,
this allowed us to "conditionally accept" the item,
but retain evidence about the shipping damage.

BugBear

FWIW, I should mention that I consider almost all Polaroid
consumer products useful ONLY due to their instant/private
aspects.

OTOH, the SX-70 was a brilliant development and a tool embraced
not only by insurance adjusters, but by many artists. It does
not seem many people in these photography groups have much of a
concept of art.



ok bub...I have both an art degree and experience with polaroid
instamatics of various size shape & model, unless you had some s00per
sekrit only available to you film stock to play with and a one-off
prototype camera...yer blowing smoke out yer arse. polaroid film was temp
sensitive and you could ruin a piccy by leaving it in the sun. digital is
WAY better than any polaroid.

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