Polaroid Originals

[spathiphyllum]

Does anyone have any experience with them? Looking to get the Ms one at Christmas but i know Polaroids can be annoying, sometimes they don't work or you print a blank photo etc..

I was wondering if anyone had one of the originals they could recommend

https://uk.polaroidoriginals.com/

[bhg481]

A bit on the expensive side for mediocre pictures. My experience of Polaroids dates back 50 years, so they might have improved, but £50 for 24 pictures is a bit over the top.

[gingejbee]

bhg beat me to it.....I wouldn't even consider paying over £2 per picture, even if the quality was exceptional....and it's not!

[bednobs]

get a printer instead. The cameras on smart phones are far superior quality, and pictures can be printed again and again.
in the olden days, if you had a polaroid it raised a few eyebrows as it sort of implied you wanted to take photos of things you wouldnt want the developers to see. Nowadays of course if you want to take dick pics spath, you don't need a polaroid. Just turn off automatic uploads to the cloud!

[spathiphyllum]

I would like to get a Polaroid for the style, and the literal, instant printing aspect. The Ms loves the style and thinks it would make city breaks more fun.

Yes they are on the prices side.. But you can get refills, once you have the camera you have the camera

[spathiphyllum]

especially now that boots rarely do the disposable cameras anymore.. Sometimes they say yes, other times they tell me they've stopped doing it. It is very odd.

[Guilbert53]

Use your phone, everyone else does.

You would not buy someone a cassette tape for Christmas would you?

Use modern technology.

[scorpiojo]

Very helpful, Guilbert.

[spathiphyllum]

guillbert, rest assured that i do use my phone, and i have many pictures of holidays. However, the Ms would like a Polaroid camera for the occasion also. My phone has limited storage, and pictures printed from phones are always blury in my experience. Polaroids give a vibe, that's what i'm after.

[Mamyalynne]

If she is into retro style and it suits, then go for it - I can remember the joy when they first came out.

It seemed like magic to us. :-)

[spathiphyllum]

I just know the Instax Mini 9 often (1 in 3) will print a blank photo / it won't work, the nit does it's OK..

I wonder if the pricier, more official looking ones would work much better and produce better quality photos. I know some of them have auto focus

[Eleena]

Hi spath, review ...
https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/digital-cameras/1407254/polaroid-originals-onestep-2-review-a-big-hit-of-nostalgia-that-works-well

[Eleena]

YouTube ..
https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=polaroid+originals

[spathiphyllum]

Thank you eleena.

Its important to remember photography is, and always has been, on the expensive side

[spathiphyllum]

"So far, technology hasn't produced a digital equivalent. You could take pictures on your phone and print them to an HP Sprocket, which works out four times cheaper, but the prints don't have that flattened Polaroid colour. Or you could try a Polaroid Snap camera, with a built-in printer using the same Zink technology, but its prints are tiny. No, the OneStep 2 is, unmistakably, the real thing."

Nice

[Eleena]

Very cool, I'd love to feel one in operation. I can understand limit the look of them.

[Eleena]

*liking*

[Ken4155]

Polaroid cameras. Wow, that takes me back! As one of 3 Regimental Photographers on my final tour of Northern Ireland, one of my jobs was to take mug-shots of arrestees. Before taking profile photographs with the Pentax (which we would later develop in the darkroom) we would take a polaroid mug-shot which could be instantly attached to the arrestees file. Very useful tools, back in the day. Hope your Mrs has hours and hours of fun with it, spath.

[Hopkirk]

The original Polaroid company went bankrupt in 2001.

A new company was formed to continue the business. Bankrupt in 2008.

Presumably this is another attempt to market out of date technology.

[Eleena]

I had one .... years ago!

[bhg481]

Spath // My phone has limited storage //
and the polaroid takes 8 photos before a new pack is needed. A new memory card for your phone costs a few pounds and will hold thousands of photos; 24 more photos on the Polaroid will cost you £50. Also bear in mind you'll be carrying round a "brick" on your weekent breaks, as well as a spare pack of photos. I'll give you about 3 weekends before you're a) fed up carrying it round or b) find out that you can't afford both the weekend break AND the Polaroids.