Instant Film Archive

Remember the first Polaroid cameras? Until then, there was no real way to know how your pictures came out until you got them developed. Sure, they were a little on the bulky side and the pictures had to be left to develop for a minute or two before you could see the full exposure, but the Polaroid was really a cutting-edge camera when it first …

Back in the day, you’d need an expensive kit consisting of a high end SLR camera, an array of films and lenses, and a whole lot of photo know-how if you wanted to call yourself a photographer. After all, this was the bare minimum needed to produce great looking photos. Today, photography is a much more accessible passion. “iPhoneography” is Americas favorite hobby, and the …

In tech, we’re always fixated on what’s new. We want products that are revolutionary. We want products that change the way we live. Most importantly, we want products that do things we’ve never seen before. But there is one industry that took a different approach. Instant print cameras are, on paper, obsolete. But Polaroid proved to us that these cameras were still fun, and the …

These days, instant cameras are all the rage. What was once a popular trend back in the 70’s and 80’s, has experienced a resurgence in popularity. Some of this has to do with the similarities between the old-school Polaroid and modern social media apps like Instagram. But that’s far from the only reason. We’ve always been drawn to the medium due to the tactile nature …

Portable photo printers are all the rage these days, but what about those of us that want to print full size photos? The majority of portable photo printers use smaller than normal photo paper, with most of them no bigger than 2 inches on either side. We recently took a look at Kodak’s Mini Mobile photo printer which produced professional looking images in the standard …