From Polaroid to Impossible by Achim Heine

All it is short of now is the money to finish development. The design is in conjunction with Professor Achim Heine, the industrial designer who designed the Leica Digilux 1, so it has some weight behind it. Select an image from your app, place your iPhone in the cradle, slide the shutter and your phone add-on prints it. The finished product will instantly transform your digital iPhone images unto 'real' photos, just like an old school Polaroid. Which the Impossible Instant Lab certainly is. Kickstarter is a way to get public funding for a project, usually by way of offering incentives for bigger donations, but ultimately being a way of getting funding for something interesting. Now it has gone a step further, launching a Kickstarter fund to create the Impossible Instant Lab. We have encountered Impossible Project before, with its efforts to keep the classic Polaroid camera in production. However, if you buy via one of the links it may be an affiliate and I may earn a small commission. While being there, we will try to get a look at them and maybe get the one or other question answered.Note all articles are independently researched and written by myself. However, first concept studies will be presented at this year’s photokina in Cologne, Germany. It’s unclear yet when we will actually see new IMPOSSIBLE branded instant cameras featuring the new FPU. Sounds awesome? Visit the campaign’s Kickstarter page to learn more (and to help fund it.) The first item to feature the new IMPOSSIBLE FPU is the IMPOSSIBLE INSTANT LAB - a Kickstarter campaign that promises to create instant prints from your digital iPhone pictures. And unlike the old Polaroid models, the new FPU comes with a modern and ecologically-conscious rechargeable battery. Achim Heine, designer of the new FPU, explains.Īccording to the press release, all the components of the new FPU have been newly developed. This new FPU was built from scratch, as “classic Polaroid cameras were not much help when facing the challenge of developing a new instant camera concept,” Prof. After introducing newly developed instant films, the project has now succeeded to build a new film processing unit - the very component that sits at the heart of every instant camera. In their latest press release, the IMPOSSIBLE project announces the next logical step to reviving Polaroid instant photography.

In the meantime, the IMPOSSIBLE project has been made possible, and a number of new instant film emulations have been marketed - black-and-white as well as color - that can be fed to various of the no longer made Polaroid instant cameras. Quite a while ago, some fans of the then-deceased Polaroid instant films announced that thy were going to re-develop and re-introduce these films for all those out there who weren’t quite ready to give up their beloved instant cameras yet.

From Polaroid to Impossible by Achim Heine