Polaroid PoGo
 

Polaroid is back with a digital that also prints photos. Small pics and a few drawbacks, not for a serious photo snapper, but it's a beginning. If it takes off they will probably get better and cheaper, plus it will probably take better pics than your phone.

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Ohhhh. Awww. My first camera was a Polaroid. An 'Instamatik' with a set of flash cubes and a pack of film. I was seven years old. Camera was damn near bigger'n me.

Check, check, well kinda.

I think we have led a parallel life DanaC (with the Civilization on an Amiga and all). Did you ever have a Space 1999 T shirt?

Inkless printing technology, interesting, I wonder how much it will cost per shot, well I suppose you won't have to print them all instantly.

Hang on, is this one of them insta-phop-shop ones?
Because that's what I'm after. Better yet, one that comes with automatic airbrushing!

At least in the US, Instamatic was a Kodak trademark ...

I had the one pictured on the top, with the pop up flash that you had to put a bulb in. I remember when the flashcube ones came out.

Despite my attempt to buy her several other cameras, my mother still has a Pocket Instamatic 110, which used the "flipflash." Does anybody know where you can get 110 film developed? I've struck out with three supermarkets and two chain drugstores.

I also remember my first Polaroid Land Camera, which was the Swinger. Very 70s. Went great with my ToodleLoop Radio.

that is so flippin awesome...i cant wait til they make it better

Ditto here, Wolf. I lost that first one that used the AG individual bulbs. My next one had flash cubes. I never owned a 110 camera, as the picture quality sucked. Just not enough film area to render a decent quality 3x5 print, let alone 4 x 6.

I had a Swinger as well, then an SX70.

Promising technology though. I'll wait for better, faster and cheaper units. The print quality is just ok it seems, but this is definitely not for everyone.

49 cents each for 2x3 prints. It says that this is the paper cost, so I wonder if there are also ink costs or if that is included in the paper cartridge.

No ink Rich, it's all chemicals in the paper.

If it's basically next generation thermal paper, it makes you wonder how long they last and how resistant they are to heat and sunlight.

Regular inkjet ink might fade a little, but you don't have to worry about it going to black if you leave it on a windowsill in the summer.