Pulled these out of the attic at my folks house!

[-]

DameKitty@reddit

I had one, my parents did not. I used to buy the film for it. I used it to take pictures of my friends.

[-]

RoastedPickledGoose@reddit

Note to any Xennials cleaning out their parents’ house. If you find these cameras, just know there is a very solid chance of stumbling across photos you can’t unsee.

[-]

Emergency_Air_1548@reddit

Some dudes reverse engineered the film. It's real but not OG polaroid

[-]

LLPhotog@reddit

Sort of.

Polaroid, as a company, was essentially sold for scrap to an offshore company in the early/mid 2000s. That company discontinued original Polaroid film.

The Impossible Project attempted to replicate the film in the 2010s but had a lot of trouble because the chemistry was patented along with several other processes.

Eventually they were able to acquire the intellectual property and produce the film correctly. It’s still not Polaroid as we knew it then but it’s definitely not the total crap shoot Impossible Project film was. It’s like a third wave.

[-]

timara69@reddit (OP)

Seen it at Walmart!!!!

[-]

Lensgoggler@reddit

I had a friend ask me lately in advice what new camera to buy. Apparently small compact cameras are a thing again. She sent me links with prices 50-200 euros. FOR A COMPACT CAMERA. I scoffed to myself as I have a degree in photography and I know a thing or two, and headed over to eBat. And my jaw dropped even further. This is insane. These are not the vintage cameras worth their salt. I can understand getting a vintage actual camera with changable lenses etc. But a compact?! I advised to go and rummage through the drawers at her parents' house. Everyone had these compact cameras, there is no need to buy a new one for stupid amount of money.

On a different note - you could make a decent amout by selling these.

[-]

timara69@reddit (OP)

Hmmm ..there's a thought...it have to be a collector, I presume..

[-]

Wingkongexpress@reddit

Ahh the original gremlin deterrent! Until I was about 11 and me cousin and I found some Polaroids under a bridge that changed our lives forever

[-]

IncredibleBulk2@reddit

Do tell

[-]

Wingkongexpress@reddit

lol, it was a lady ( probably early twenties probably ) being lifted up in the air by two dudes each holding a leg. She was nude. It was a pretty clear shot. We were in kid glory.

[-]

Seven22am@reddit

Hey uhhh… this is awkward but do you think we could that back? Been looking for that for a while now.

[-]

IncredibleBulk2@reddit

That's amazing. New life goal unlocked.

[-]

graveybrains@reddit

Do you want to find the bridge porn, or get lifted by two dudes?

[-]

IncredibleBulk2@reddit

Lifted in the nude by two people of any gender.

[-]

Jakes-buddy-1307@reddit

My day was a tech guy…he had one

[-]

jdw1977@reddit

I used to have one of those! The film was expensive

[-]

OriginalLock6562@reddit

*folks’

[-]

Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

The black and white Polaroid film makes for some amazing decoupage when you peel off the black coating on the back

[-]

rjcpl@reddit

I don’t remember the first time using one. But the last was to take some nudes, scan them, then share with someone I regularly cybered with on IRC. 🙃

[-]

e4evie@reddit

Just link the only fans account and be done with it…ha jk

[-]

rjcpl@reddit

Don’t make me slap you around with a large trout.

[-]

Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

... is that content on your page? Asking for a friend.

[-]

jambr380@reddit

They have new Polaroid Go cameras that produce smaller pictures. I got one for Xmas. It is neat, but the film expires so quickly so the pictures are already a little muddy.

It did remind me that I like having actual pictures, though, so maybe I’ll actually go to CVS or whatever and have some pictures developed

[-]

mrs_hippiequeen@reddit

totally! ours even had the ice cube tray on top

[-]

tinylumpia@reddit

Some of us still use these 😊

[-]

That1Master@reddit

For what? 😉

[-]

stereoscopic_@reddit

One step beyond!

[-]

Spartan04@reddit

My mom had one but it’s long gone. I thought it was really cool but we hardly ever used it because the cost per picture was higher than 35mm and the quality of 35mm prints was better. Plus it was a pretty bulky camera for carrying around on family vacations and other things like that.

So for the most part it was unused unless we had something we wanted to be able to have pictures of right away.

[-]