#SilentSunday
#Polaroid

Remember that sound when you take a #photograph with a #Polaroid camera?

Last night, PBS showed an episode of American Experience featuring the story of Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera. Very interesting. You can watch the episode on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2XVoJDS_0

Here is a film by Charles and Ray Eames about the most famous Polaroid camera, the SX-70:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_1pyQ7xvc

Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey

Having some fun with a newly acquired classic — a Polaroid ‘1000 SE’ Land Camera, first produced in 1977. This beauty came in its original box and looks brand new!

Oh no, Polaroid, y u have to release a new camera, now I want iiiitttttttt

I’ve got Polaroids and Polaroids.

#InstantFilm #Polaroid #Petaluma #Photography #BelieveInFilm

https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/114405237868180750

Sonar instant photography across two millenniums…

#Polaroid
#Photography
#Learning

So I am still learning on my New/Old Impulse AF camera. I got a couple of shots that were blueish and had almost no detail so I tried just shooting my car door with as much shade as possible and blocking the flash. It seemed to come out, not focused but not extremely bright.

Went to the square to get a shot of the Courthouse in Daylight. Still overexposed some due to the fact the Courthouse is made of highly reflective stone. And I cut off the top of the clock tower which I was focusing on personally.

But steps taken.

Trying out a round Polaroid

"That instant film could live on as both image and object...made it an ideal future archive. A message in a bottle. This was it, it said. This was the end for me."

Mike Scalise for The Georgia Review: https://longreads.com/2025/04/09/polaroid-death-machine/

There’s something magical about watching a picture develop right after you take it—like with a Polaroid. But recently, I tried an old Sony Mavica, and the moment I heard and felt the tiny whir of the floppy drive saving the image right after pressing the shutter… it was a whole other kind of magic.