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Polaroid’s early instant films were pretty slow in speed, rated at ASA 100. They were also “orthochromatic,” meaning they responded to some wavelengths of light more strongly than others. (Practically speaking, that meant that red and yellow objects registered as nearly black, and only the green/blue/violet range registered as you’d expect.)
In 1955, that changed […]
Possibly the lowest-tech thing in the Polaroid arsenal: the Polaroid print mount.
It’s just a piece of thick cardboard, exactly the size of a 100-series photograph, with pressure-sensitive adhesive on one side. A big sticker, essentially. It was created as a stopgap in 1962, when Polacolor film made its debut. Polaroid’s people soon discovered […]
The earliest Polaroid cameras were, as Edwin Land once said, “grand machines for a grand purpose.” The original Model 95 weighed more than four pounds, mostly of brass and steel. (I suspect that the reason you still see a lot of them at yard sales and on eBay is that people don’t like to throw […]
We have here an ordinary pack of 600 film, expired October 1998. Probably dried up, with a dead battery too; unlikely to produce photos (though I’ll try it).
But it’s the back of the box that’s interesting. It displays an advertisement for a product known as the Polaroid PhotoPad, a little digital scanner […]
Last week, my New York magazine colleague Ben Wallace did a bangup job writing about TED—the series of conferences devoted to “technology, entertainment, and design” at which very smart people touch antennae with other very smart people. The story extensively quotes Richard Saul Wurman, TED’s founder, who made his money publishing a series of […]
Well, they weren’t all great products. This is the Polaroid JoyCam, produced in 1999.
In 1995, Polaroid got a new chairman, only its fourth in 60-odd years. His name was Gary DiCamillo, and he was the first outsider to run the company, having come in from Black & […]
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