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Today, most of us carry supercomputers in our pockets that happen to also take instantly-viewable pictures.This is something that even the dumbest phones do, meaning that we can reasonably draw …read more Continue reading Will We Ever Shake the Polaroid Picture?
Polaroid instant cameras of old were big, blocky snappers with one-press simplicity and the ability to throw out square photos that developed in front of your eyes. The latest addition to the family follows the same design aesthetic, but the Go is a fr… Continue reading Polaroid launches world’s smallest instant analog camera
Although many photographers like experimenting with old instant film cameras, the things typically lack the manual controls that are integral to serious photography. That’s where the InstantKon SF70 Instant Camera is designed to come in.Continue Readin… Continue reading Retro-inspired instant camera features full manual control
There’s nothing like a little diversion project to clear the cobwebs — something to carry one through the summer doldrums and charge you up for the rest of the hacking year. At least that’s what we think was up with [Sam Zeloof]’s printing Polaroid retro-conversion project.
Normally occupied with the …read more
Polaroid has today launched the Hi-Print, a pocket-friendly photo printer that can turn smartphone snaps into 2.3 x 3.4-inch prints in less than a minute, which can then be stuck on lockers, laptop lids, backpacks, or scrapbooks.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Pocket printer makes stickers of smartphone photos
With a quarter-century of more of consumer digital cameras behind us, it’s easy to forget that there was once another way to see your photos without waiting for them to be developed. Polaroid Land cameras and their special film could give the impatient photographer a print in about a minute, …read more
In an age where instant photography means whipping out a smartphone and immediately sharing the digital image with friends online, a boxy camera that produces self-developing prints seems like a huge backward step. But that’s exactly what instant film … Continue reading Instant photography comes home with the Polaroid Now
What do you do if you own an iconic and unusual camera from decades past? Do you love it and cherish it, buy small quantities of its expensive remanufactured film and take arty photographs? Or do you rip it apart and remake it as a modern-day digital camera in a …read more
Professional or amateur, doing things the hard way doesn’t always make for better results. Take photography as an example. Once upon a time, the success or failure of what happened during the instant that the camera’s shutter was open was only known hours or days later after processing the film. Ruin the shot with bad exposure or suboptimal composition? Too bad. Miss a once-in-a-lifetime moment as a result? Ouch.
Once instant photography came along, pros were quick to adopt it as a quick and dirty way to check everything before committing the shot to higher-quality film. Camera manufacturers made special …read more
Continue reading Swedish Front Plus Japanese Back Makes For Useful Hybrid Camera
A DIY Polaroid camera prints what a neural network thinks it sees. Continue reading This DIY Polaroid Camera Draws Cartoons Using Machine Learning