The last few months I’ve found a new love of Instant photography, I think it has to do with all these camera phone apps taking over the world. Though I do take tons of pictures on my phone and really love Instagram, “if you use it wisely people”. I’ve recently bought a few vintage Polaroid cameras, all made within the 1960′s and 70′s. Though Polaroid does not make film anymore, Fuji Film makes pack film for all of them, I’ve recently acquired 4 Land Cameras and just now a Polaroid Passport id camera. I’ve just begun to play with this thing but it’s pretty awesome so far! Pictures of it are at the bottom. Taken with my iphone, go figure.
I love the resurgence of these cameras, they were made to last! If you find a Land Camera and it’s atleast been somewhat taken care of then it’s bound to still work. You can’t say that for many products being made today. I just had this conversation with my mom about DVD player’s only having a certain lifespan, I bet you can’t find one of those around that would last for 10 years, let along 50! The whole resurgence does fit along with the whole Mad Men phenomenon, but I can see why. That generation was a generation of style, the beginning of a lot of products and the machine age taking over in a way. The Polaroid Company’s heyday was the 1960′s.
Well so far I have only explored taking normal pictures with these guys. Lot’s of trips to the dog park, pictures of the Eastern Prom in Portland and pictures of tree’s have taken up most of the shots. also a ton of blank white pictures from trial and error trying to get some of them to work. But I think that’s kind of fun, these are simple but not as simple as the iphone apps. You need to think about your picture taking a bit more.
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Above picture is taken with the Passport camera with the dividers taken out to blend all 4 of the pictures it takes together.
Above is one of my Polaroid 100 Land Cameras.
This is the beast. Passport id photo camera.
