Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30

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Subject: [Leica] Polaroid - Still in Business - Not really Leica stuff
From: fkh1950 at frontiernet.net (Fred Holzapfel)
Date: Tue Dec 30 16:34:38 2008
 
Hi gang,  Odd how things become stories.  Polaroid was purchased by a
Minnesota investor named Tom Petters.  He took it private.  It is still in
business, transforming itself from an instant camera/film company to an
electronics company.  Petters was recently arrested and locked up with out
bail for a "ponzi" investment fraud taking some $3 Billion or so from
people.  Polaroid has filed chapter 11 for protection from the fraud and
continues in business.   See the web link:

http://www.polaroid.com/products/product_list.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534
374302028649
<http://www.polaroid.com/products/product_list.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=253
4374302028649&sc> &sc=

 

You can still get film for those SX-70 as well as many film backs for other
formats of cameras.

 

Fred Holzapfel