A retro movement nearly a decade in the making has finally reached its culmination. While Polaroid has been busy staying alive by lending their name to digital instant cameras, the Impossible Project has been loyal to the analog ideal, preserving and selling original Polaroid film and cameras. This week, the two movements came together. The […]
Instant photography is in the middle of a resurgence. Polaroid is playing its part, but it’s got a lot of other competitors — perhaps most notably, Fujifilm. The camera company has created a successful line of smartphone photo printers — tiny wireless printers that use zero-ink printing to pump out smartphone photos on the go. But, today […]
Polaroid is getting a little more hands-on with digital photography this year. Following in the footsteps of the first generation Polaroid Snap, Snap Touch combines the digital camera and instant printer of the original with a 3.5″ LCD touchscreen for framing shots. It’s instant photography, but a little less instant. The Snap Touch has all the […]
In 2008, the Impossible Project salvaged a Polaroid factory in Germany. Since then, they’ve been working to spruce up and sell old models of Polaroid cameras, including the Sun 600, the Spectra, and the limited edition Barbie model of the 600. But, to now, they’ve only been in the business of reviving old, existing models […]
