My mom probably still has the amazing Polaroid digicam that I bought on clearance around 99. It could store, like, 20 VGA images on the internal storage. It took around 5 seconds to capture an image that looked like it had been forgotten at the bottom of a half eaten bowl of ramen.
That would have been amazing, but no. In the late 90s/early 00s Polaroid was struggling and slapped their name on a bunch of shit products. Still kinda does.
It’s weird to think that 1 Hour Photo processing pretty much killed the instant camera, then digital killed 90 percent of actual film processing. Every once in a while somebody comes out with a pocket sized digital printer that can turn your phone into a convoluted Instax, but they are always shit quality or one of the consumables required for the process cost way too much.
My mom probably still has the amazing Polaroid digicam that I bought on clearance around 99. It could store, like, 20 VGA images on the internal storage. It took around 5 seconds to capture an image that looked like it had been forgotten at the bottom of a half eaten bowl of ramen.
polaroid digicam? so it stores them and prints them out for ya?
That would have been amazing, but no. In the late 90s/early 00s Polaroid was struggling and slapped their name on a bunch of shit products. Still kinda does.
It’s weird to think that 1 Hour Photo processing pretty much killed the instant camera, then digital killed 90 percent of actual film processing. Every once in a while somebody comes out with a pocket sized digital printer that can turn your phone into a convoluted Instax, but they are always shit quality or one of the consumables required for the process cost way too much.