I have one and i love it. Now i’m not able to use it anymore, because the brand Polaroid it’s over, but i still have it on my room with the same love.
It’s the only fotograph machine that i’ve created a relation with.
I like the fact that it’s foldable and that i have the pleasure of seeing the photo immediatly after taking it! You save so much time by doing this!
All the buttons are really buttons – there is no touch screens ou slide buttons, it’s all very mechanical and it has a magic for that reason.
It communicates its genius. I derive pleasure from occasionally opening and closing it. The patient imagination and engineering evoke higher human powers, perhaps lost to this generation. The Eames film on its develepment is a “must see” for design students.
an engineering marvel. takes photographs that look like no other. inner luminance. i have a stock pile of film. will continue using it with dedication.
Charles Eames was commissioned by Dr. Land to make a film about the camera and Charles gave me a prototype to test. I took it on a trip to Morocco and photographed camera shy Berber women and children. when they saw the wonder of the instant photo they wanted so many that I ran out of film. Eames loved this feedback it now resides in my collection of “Good Design”.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am
R.I.P., you will be missed.
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I have one and i love it. Now i’m not able to use it anymore, because the brand Polaroid it’s over, but i still have it on my room with the same love.
It’s the only fotograph machine that i’ve created a relation with.
I like the fact that it’s foldable and that i have the pleasure of seeing the photo immediatly after taking it! You save so much time by doing this!
All the buttons are really buttons – there is no touch screens ou slide buttons, it’s all very mechanical and it has a magic for that reason.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:30 am
It communicates its genius. I derive pleasure from occasionally opening and closing it. The patient imagination and engineering evoke higher human powers, perhaps lost to this generation. The Eames film on its develepment is a “must see” for design students.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:58 am
“development” typo
June 26th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Clunky and angular, it wasn’t the camera but the photo. Instant gratification but with a touch of artistic flair.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
an engineering marvel. takes photographs that look like no other. inner luminance. i have a stock pile of film. will continue using it with dedication.
July 11th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
For those who still want to make photographs with this camera, a group is attempting to restart production of film packs…
August 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Charles Eames was commissioned by Dr. Land to make a film about the camera and Charles gave me a prototype to test. I took it on a trip to Morocco and photographed camera shy Berber women and children. when they saw the wonder of the instant photo they wanted so many that I ran out of film. Eames loved this feedback it now resides in my collection of “Good Design”.