polaroid

    What do the Polaroid Now+ filters do to your photos?
    Oct 12, 2021 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Earlier this year, Polaroid launched the Now+, optimistically dubbed as the company’s “most creative camera yet.” It comes with a bunch of filters, and if…

    The story of Polaroid: From empire to bankruptcy and back again
    Aug 26, 2021 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Polaroid was the first manufacturer of instant cameras and film. They were so popular that we tend to call every instant camera “a Polaroid” even…

    Polaroid Go is the world’s smallest instant film camera
    Apr 21, 2021 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Polaroid has added a new, tiny camera to its line-up along with a new type of film that fits it. The new Polaroid Go is…

    How I built a digital Polaroid camera
    Apr 7, 2021 Adrian Hanft

    Today I get to tell you the story of my latest camera creation, a digital Polaroid camera that combines a receipt printer with a Raspberry…

    I built a fully manual Polaroid studio camera
    Dec 18, 2020 Haje Jan Kamps

    It turns out that shooting Polaroids in the studio isn’t impossible — it just takes a little bit of engineering and ingenuity. Here’s how I…

    This street photography experiment gives unsuspecting New Yorkers a surprise photo of themselves
    Nov 10, 2019 John Aldred

    This is an interesting take on street photography. A social experiment of sorts. Normally, when we do street photography and people are included, or even…

    Polaroid Originals announces the end of all Spectra instant films
    Oct 3, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    After 33 years, Polaroid Spectra film is about to be discontinued. Polaroid Originals has just announced that it will no longer produce it, and if…

    Polaroid Lab lets you print instant photos straight from your phone’s screen
    Sep 10, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    There are certainly more than one ways to get your photos printed: ink-jet printers, mobile printers, or using instant cameras. The latest weird product, Polaroid…

    How I turned a dead Polaroid SX-70 into a working digital camera
    Jun 26, 2019 Joshua Gross

    I wanted to see if it was possible to turn a dead SX-70 camera into a functioning digital camera without significantly modifying its outward appearance….

    This photographer shot his own wet plate passport photos
    Mar 21, 2019 John Aldred

    I love seeing the wet plate experiments of Austrian photographer Markus Hofstätter. He’s so prolific with them that when he decides to do something interesting it…