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Polaroid Workshop
by @PolaWalk
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. History of Polaroid & Overview
Film and Cameras
3. Hands-On: Polaroid-Cameras &
Film
4. Buying Tips
5. Hands-On: Lifting
Introduction
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Polaroid Workshop
Polaroid Workshop
Polaroid Workshop
PolaWalk
Vienna | Graz | Warsaw
Polaroid Photo Tours
Shop
Instant-Safari
Wedding | Birthday | Event
Services
Your turn!
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Experience with Polaroid?
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Interest in Photography?
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History of Instant-Photography
1937
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Edwin
H.
Land
Edwin H. Land
• Harvard drop-out (studied
Chemics)
• 535 Patents
• 1957: Honorable degree from
Harvard
Polarizer
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Polaroid Workshop
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WWII
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1943 - Idea for the Instant-Camaera
"Daddy, why can't I see the picture right away?"
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Video
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The First Polaroid Camera
• Presentation: 1947
• In Stores: 1948
• Rollfilm: 1948 - 1993
Peel-Apart Film
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Peel-Apart Film
• 1963: Land 100 Camera
• Type 100: Produced by Fuji
until 2016
Large Format
• 8x10 - Impossible Project
• 4x5 - New 55
• 20x24 - Supersense
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Picture-Time!
Peel-Apart Film
Integral Film
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Integral Film
• 1972: SX-70 Camera
• Land's dream: One-Step
Photography
• If you think of Polaroid you
probably think of this format
1976 - 1986
Infringement-Lawsuit
• 1976-1986
• 5 patents infringed
• Kodak had to stop selling
instant products & recall of all
cameras and film
• Fine: 925 Million USD
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1978
Polavision
1982
Land steps down
Art & Science | Art & Technology
Land & Jobs
Polaroid Workshop
1986
Spectra
2001 Bankruptcy - New Owner - 2008 Bankruptcy
The End
PLR IP Holdings
Polaroid Today
2008
Impossible
Founder Impossible | Ex-Polaroid Merchant & Marketing at Lomography
Florian "Doc" Kaps
Juli 2010
Silver Shade
Film Production
2013
The Instant Lab
2016
I-1 - Impossible Camera
Picture-Time!
Instant Lab - Create the Polaroid for the Lifting
Picture-Time!
Polaroid 600
Photo-Tips
Overexposure
Shield from Light
Sky
Low Temperatures
High Temperatures
Blur
Getting the Exposure right
Colors
Flash
Go Closer!
Fuji Instax
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Lomography
Picture-Time!
Fuji Instax
Film
• Impossible (8): from 20 EUR
• I-1 (8): 18 EUR
• Instax Mini (20): 19 EUR
• Instax Wide (20): 20 EUR
• FP-100C (10): 20 EUR
Camera
• PolaWalk Polaroid-Package: 119€
• Instax 210 (Wide): 99€
• Lomo Mini: from 99€
• Lomo Wide: from 199 €
• I-1: 299€
• Instant Lab: 149€
• SX-70: 299€
• I-1: 299€
• SX-70: 299€
Buying Tips - Polaroid 600
• Empty film pack
• Close-up lens or Autofocus
• eBay or Craig's List
• Flash
Buying Tips - SX-70
• Empty film cassette filled with old
Polaroids (motor, ejection cycle)
• Mirror
• Exposure
• Bellows
• Tip: Buy a tested and working cam
Film & Photos
Storage
Creative Ideas
cc: Andrew Bartram (WarboysSnapper) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/29964558@N03
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