Who used old Polaroid cameras (clicked and immediately received a printed photo) - tell us?

Question

Cameras

Recently, the idea came to my mind - to buy an old but working Polaroid on ebay. I really like his “click and get a printed photo” principle, but I have never used such gadgets (there was a small one when they were in vogue).
Who used them - tell us what side effects do such cameras have? After all, only paper is needed there, no paint is usually needed? And in general, how is the quality of their pictures?

Answer 1

This device is easier to buy in Russia through ads: both faster and cheaper, and these devices in our country have been up to the fig since the 90s.
The problem will be with the purchase of consumables.

Answer 2

>> There, after all, only paper is needed, no paint is usually needed?
If interested, read how it works: http://otvet.mail.ru/question/50393107/ .
And the Polaroid now has a significant drawback - it is impossible to buy cartridges for it.
On the other hand, Fujifilm “sucked away the trick” and made this garbage: http://fujifilm.ru/products/instax/ is already on sale in Russia (at least in Moscow). The cost of one picture is “only” 25 rubles.

Answer 3

After all, only paper is needed there, no paint is usually needed?
There were special cassettes in which there were paper blanks for several dozen frames.
Plus a separate cartridge with some chemicals (now it will be difficult to find, I think they don’t produce it anymore, most likely). There is something quite caustic, I picked one of these together with a classmate as a child, he burned his hands pretty badly.
Of the side effects - the pictures will always be of only one size (that is, it will not work out normally to make 10x15, say, like from a regular film). Well, even such pictures fade faster than with ordinary filmmakers. It doesn’t happen once at a time - I have a few photos lying around from the 94th year, approximately, so there some have faded to the most not indulge, and some are completely nothing.

Answer 4

There is something like disposable cartridges for several photos. The quality, it seems, was considered worse than that of film soap dishes, but I don’t remember a clear rejection, except that the size is small. Now it's only good to be nostalgic about it.

Answer 5

PS
Why is it old? Order a new one for 6000r, at the same time take a set of consumables.

Answer 6

Somewhere under the bed lay the carcass of a palaloid. In Moscow, for about 10 years, if not more, I have not seen cartridges for Palaroids, and even when the price of a photo was sold, it turned out to be quite high. So the issue of budget is rather doubtful, the carcass itself costs a penny, a couple of cartridges of 10 shots and the cost of the carcass itself turns out. I remember the battery in these cartridges was good, I opened the cartridge and attached it to a radio-controlled typewriter, the speed increased by 3-4 times compared to conventional finger-type ones, and surprisingly the typewriters did not burn. With peers, when the race suited everyone, their eyes climbed on their foreheads. :)

Answer 7

What do you think of canon's portable photo printer? Runs on batteries and prints well.

Answer 8

At that time, articles still warned that the lifetime of Polaroid photographs would be much shorter - colors would fade over time due to the difficulties in selecting chemicals in the technology. As experience shows, they do swim over the years, although in one example - not so bad. It is not known how arbitrary cartridges of different series, different prescriptions will behave. Therefore, it is better to come up with something more durable or do not forget to digitize the pictures.

Answer 9

Regarding film (cassettes) - there is a good option from www.the-impossible-project.com - they are engaged in the fact that they "recreated" cassettes for old Polaroids. The cost of a cassette is about $ 25 - in general, it is cheaper than buying old cassettes from hand.
But shipping is another $50. Therefore, ordering cassettes one at a time ... is expensive.

Answer 10

This is an old thread, but I'll put in my two cents. Retro is retro, modern "analogues" are a little different. I shoot on instax and classic polaroid. Of course, you don’t often wear retro because it’s much more expensive