Fuji has made instant film for several years. I can't say I'm too surprised at Polaroid's announcement - but maybe a little bit. Businesses have to make money, and maybe having one producer of it instead of two will allow the one surviving company to make money on it. I don't know what formats Fuji makes, but I know they make instant film that will work with 4x5 large format cameras (not sure if it uses a Polaroid film holder or what...).

I think this is as big of an announcement as if Kodak were to stop making Tri-X (fortunately that hasn't happened, and I doubt that will happen anytime soon). It's kind of the end of an era, but how many boxes of Polaroid film have anyone here bought in the last year? Some day I'd still love to have a 4x5 field camera, but I don't think I've ever bought any of it myself.