JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 17, 2019

Remember those old cameras and how you had to flap the picture back and forth until it developed!

Shake it like a Polaroid picture, hey-ya! (Now all you OutKast fans know what it looks like.)

Hard copy color photo in 45-60 seconds. Try that with a Samsung. Old tech had it’s good points. Of course shaking/waving it around does nothing for the developing process. I just shoot and then toss the print on a table to do it’s thing. Is Outkast spreading fake photography news? For shame!

Before i phones and i pads came along, that’s what I had to use!

About 25 years ago, my youngest saw my 1982 top notch Polaroid camera and took it for his own. Film was a little tough to find by then but all his Beanie Babies posed for photos with all his trucks. I wish we’d made an album of the silly photos. Now, the under 10 crowd seems to have the same fascination and the cameras are making a comeback.

Stone Age tech.

I would remove the batteries from the film paks ,afterward, and use them to power my model boats and airplanes.

Of course, today’s tech is far more advanced (it’d be pretty embarrassing if it wasn’t!), but some of the old stuff was pretty cool, IMO.

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I remember selling polaroid and instax cameras to people, I kind of thought of them as hipsters who wanted to brag that they used a camera that had actual film, but I ALWAYS made certain to tell them if they intended to give it to their kids to remind them that they have limited exposures and each picture they took basically cost $1 so y’know, selfie responsibly.

we had one of those fold up polaroid cameras at one point. closes almost flat the open it when you take a picture

Polaroid….For a child is almost Magic.

We used Polaroid cameras at work for years. Two problems caused us to switch to 35mm, and then to digital. Polaroid film stopped being made (black &white was best for showing details) and the pictures faded away after a few years of storage.

Having the camera is fine, but where did the film come from. I don’t think that stuff has a very long shelf life and I suspect it’s impossible to find these days. Does anyone still make it?

According to Polaroid, flapping it around lowered the quality of the picture. Giving it time gave a better picture.

You’re not supposed to shake it