Category: polaroid

Transfer your Polaroid photos onto other materials using Emulsion Lift techniques

John Aldred

Thanks to companies like the Impossible Project, Polaroids have seen a massive resurgence in popularity. While Fuji and others have come out with other forms of “instant film” in recent years, Polaroid still seem to see the most demand. One advantage of using Polaroids, is that you can actually lift the emulsion from the backing and […]

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Polaroid Pop – an instant digital camera that will produce 3×4″ prints

Dunja Djudjic

This year’s CES has brought us some interesting news. Polaroid is one of the brands that launched a new product at CES 2017. After Snap and Snap Touch, they bring another instant camera that combines analog and digital technique. Only this one produces 3 x 4“ prints, unlike the previous two models which produce smaller, […]

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The Spirit of Ironman large format Polaroid project

John Aldred

The Ironman Kona Championship is one of the toughest races on the planet. With over 200km of swimming, cycling and running, it’s pretty challenging. The strong wind, lava, and high temperatures add extra risks. Some people just like to really push themselves, I suppose. The same is true of photographers. Like Czech photographer Dan Vojtech. Working with […]

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Polaroid SX-70 vs Canon Rebel T5 (1200D) – the state of camera technology

John Aldred

I like shooting with older, more limited cameras. There’s less for me to think about, it’s more relaxing. I get more selective in my shots when it costs money every time I hit the shutter. But it does make you think just how far the cameras in our hands have changed today from what they […]

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Fujifilm refreshes Instax with new monochrome instant film packs

John Aldred

Fujifilm have today announced a new monochrome instant film for its Instax mini cameras. According to the press release, “The “instax mini film Monochrome” responds to the increasingly sophisticated demands of users, enabling them to expand the artistic potential of their photographic expression and adding a further dimension of fun to using instax cameras and […]

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45 Frames of Polaroid 4×5 Film at the Indy 500

Andrew Hancock

I make my living photographing things and people that move. I do that  with a Nikon camera in my hands. Currently my D810 and D5 bodies take 95% of those frames. I am very OCD when it comes to details of the scene, the lighting and how my subject fits within that rectangle. However, for […]

The Impossible Project announces an instant camera with built in ring flash

John Aldred

When it comes to the unlikely and improbable, few overcome it better than The Impossible Project.  It seems hard to imagine that we’d be seeing the launch of a new film camera in 2016, but that’s exactly what’s happened. Of course, the new I-1 camera does contain some very handy and modern features, not found in the other […]

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Lab2Cam turns Impossible Project’s Instant Lab into a manual SX-70 instant camera

Gannon Burgett

In 2012, the Impossible Project launched the Instant Lab, a contraption that turns your iPhone snapshots into Impossible instant prints. While awesome on its own, analog aficionados SUPERSENSE decided to further improve the usefulness of the Impossible Instant Lab by creating the Lab2Cam Conversion Kit, a manual Polaroid SX–70 lens lens attached to a mounting […]

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Polaroid further plunges into irrelevancy with sad, white-labelled 360º pocket tripod

Gannon Burgett

Polaroid has devolved from one of the most commanding photography companies in the world to a label that gets slapped on third party accessories in an attempt to sell at least something. Proving this further is the release of a brand new portable Polaroid Panorama Eyeball Head, designed to simplify the process of taking panoramic […]

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