Tag: Large Format

The End of the Monster Polaroid

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20×24 Studio (the home of large-format instant photography) announced this week that it will be ending production operations next year. While many might not know about it, an enormous version of the Polaroid camera was invented in the late ’70s in order to show consumers the quality of the brand’s large-format film, and while it (understandably) wasn’t a model that caught on for the mainstream—the …

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Impossible Project 8×10 Portrait

Sit down for an instant large format photo in a naturally-lit studio

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In a spirit similar to San Francisco’s masterful tintype photographer Michael Shindler and his wonderful Photobooth, the Impossible Project is giving analog portraiture new zeal through an old-school format. After realizing that not many people have the equipment on hand to shoot with 8×10 film—which they recently released after purchasing the remaining machines from Kodak—the Impossible Project team in NYC decided to set up a …