Polaroid Camera
Polaroid Camera
Camera
Polaroid still
camera
Polaroid cameras are also known as instant
cameras. It is a small and compact device that
takes pictures and develops hardcopy instantly.
Photographic films are used to produce images
in these cameras. Polaroid cameras give you
little creative control and are designed to point,
shoot and print straight away, with photos
developing in a couple of minutes.
Edwin H. Land
The inventor and founder of the Polaroid
Corporation. He developed the first
instant camera as a hobby during World
War II. After the war, the growth of the
American economy made it possible for
new industries to flourish. One of these
industries was instant photography.
1947
In this year Instant
Photography is Born.
Land wows the science
world with the first
public demonstration of
“pictures in a minute”.
1948
The craze begins, the first
Polaroid Land Camera, the Model
95, went on sale the day after
Thanksgiving 1948 at Jordan
Marsh in downtown Boston.
1. Mechanics 2. Optics
The film pack containing plastic This deal with the direction and
negative sheets covered with reactive reflected patterns of light. When you
chemicals is loaded into the camera. take a shot, the camera aperture
How does
Rollers are inside the camera that opens, and the reflected light from
removes one negative from the pack the photographed object enters
and places it in front of the lens inside. Many other light technicalities