Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: Polaroid

  • Photographic holiday memories: A story from my book, A Place to Start

    A story of a Polaroid camera for Christmas.

  • The finest Polaroid photograph I’ve ever seen came from a photo booth

    The finest Polaroid photograph I’ve ever seen came from a photo booth. On this spring day in 1985, the year my friends John and Jim and I all graduated high school, we were out being silly together and came upon photo booths at a mall. One was a traditional four-photo-strip booth, but the other promised…

  • Photographic holiday memories

    A rerun, from 2008 and 2012, as this Christmas nears. Now with new photos. My grandparents always owned the latest Polaroid cameras, and they passed on that tradition in 1977 when they bought my brother and me Polaroid Super Shooter cameras for Christmas. When I unwrapped the gift, I remember thinking how cool the box…

  • Goodbye Fujifilm FP-100C

    The last instant pack film is dead. Fujifilm has discontinued FP-100C, a color film. I’m sure this is old news to some of you, as Fujifilm announced this at the end of February. Prices immediately jumped on remaining inventory. I bought three packs before prices shot into the stratosphere. I’ve shot Polaroid packfilm cameras off…

  • Captured: Through the viewfinder

    When I wrote about my Polaroid SX-70 last year, I criticized its viewfinder for the very narrow angle at which it allowed a subject to be fully viewed. But when your eye finds that angle, it is amply rewarded. The view is large and bright. Monday’s post about the cameras from my collection that I photographed with my Nikon…

  • Goodbye Fujifilm FP-3000B

    We are in the post-film shakeout era, a time when the world’s film manufacturers figure out what films will continue to be made now that most people shoot digital. I argue that this era kicked off in 2009 when Kodak canned its seminal Kodachrome color slide film. Kodak has been the leader in film discontinuation,…

  • Photographic holiday memories

    This Christmas memory was originally posted in 2008. My grandparents always owned the latest Polaroid cameras, and they passed on that tradition in 1977 when they bought my brother and me Polaroid Super Shooter cameras for Christmas. When I unwrapped the gift, I remember thinking how cool the box was. I liked the box so…

  • Captured: Instant parking lot

    I’ve bought and shot with a lot of old cameras this year. I used to always look for new subjects to shoot with each camera, but at some point this year I started running out of ideas. So I’ve been returning to familiar places, sometimes shooting the same old things but just as often noticing…

  • Photographic holiday memories

    My grandparents always owned the latest Polaroid cameras, and they passed on that tradition in 1977 when they bought my brother and me Polaroid Super Shooter cameras for Christmas. When I unwrapped the gift, I remember thinking how cool the box was. I liked the box so much that I kept my camera in it…

  • I like cameras

    My parents were sure I was headed toward a career in engineering because I liked figuring out how things worked. I could hardly keep my fingers off anything with buttons or knobs. I messed up a few things as a kid by pushing buttons and turning knobs. My great grandmother had a very old TV,…