My experience with Polaroid was with both the type that you peel (camera had a timer on the back to let you know when to peel off the picture) and the “SX-70” type film in a Polaroid One-Step in the 1980’s. In both cases, the images looked great for about 10 years, then faded away.
Lost a lot of good memories to Polaroid film.
I’ve got polaroid pics 40 years old that still look great. If you keep them in a photo album, they don’t fade. Its the light that fades them.
Interestingly (or not,) I have an album of Polaroid Swinger pictures that look as good today as the day I shot them as a boy (1968-69.) The process was messy, but the pictures are as archival as the ones I shot with a Kodak, paid for processing and waited 3-7 days to see.
Very strange.My Dad worked for Polaroid for almost 40 years and one of his responsibilities was to test new film and cameras.As a result,we have *thousands* of Polaroid prints (family pictures) from the 50's,60's and 70's and most of them (not all,mind you) still look darn good.
All photos fade with age.
They need to be scanned pronto.
some last 100 years, some 10, depends on the lab that did your processing, but they will all fade.