Enthusiasts Worry About Post-Polaroid Era: ; Company Announced Plans to Stop Making Its Popular Instant Film

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BOSTON - When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies.

Conlogue uses Polaroid film when he travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to take X-ray photographs of ancient mummies so he doesn't have to lug cumbersome developing chemicals. Now he and other enthusiasts who use the film for art or specialized industrial photography are left wondering where they'll go to stay stocked.

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Enthusiasts Worry About Post-Polaroid Era: ; Company Announced Plans to Stop Making Its Popular Instant Film

"We're incredibly despondent," said Conlogue, co-director of the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., where researchers frequently visit remote sites to cap...

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