The History of Camera with Polaroid Camera

The History polaroid camera and Magic of Instant Photography

In the digital age, there is a demand for instant gratification. however, is it possible that the perfect solution for the modern individual is an analog camera ? the Instant film was a product introduced during the late 1940s and remains a popular option for instant physical prints to this day. Hold up your camera, press a shutter button, and minutes later you have a fully processed physical image.

The Birth of Polaroid

The Polaroid Camera

Scientist and inventor Edwin Land was on holiday when he decided to snap a photograph of his three-year-old daughter. Land’s daughter asked why she couldn’t see the photo right away. Having a loss of words for the reason, Land set out to create a system that could accomplish the task. In 1948, the Polaroid Land Model 95 camera was born — a phenomenon was about to hit the world.

Polaroid cameras or better known as instant cameras are camera models that can process their own photos inside the camera body after taking a photo or taking pictures from the camera. This polaroid camera uses a special film called a polaroid film. Polaroid films that can produce color images are called polacolor films. Historically, the polaroid camera or instant camera was designed for the first time by the inventor of the polaroid camera, Edwin Land, from the Polaroid company and marketed since 1947. The name Polaroid was actually a trademark.

Edwin Land with the Polaroid Camera

Polaroid  film is a film discovered by a scientist named Edwin Land. Polaroid cameras can produce photos / images in a short amount of time, but unfortunately don't have negative film.

The first shot using a polaroid camera was done by Dr. Edwind Land in 1944, while the first shots on this earth (with cameras at the time) were carried out by Joseph-Nicéphore Niépc, who photographed a warehouse in the backyard of a visit in France in 1826.

Polaroid and Edwin Land his team continued to improve upon the idea of instant photography with six different types of film. Modern manufacturers of instant film use the integral film model, which features a film envelope containing different chemical layers to expose, develop, and fix the photograph.

The remaining two layers on top of the picture layer are also working hard while the photo itself is developing. The acid layer reacts with the reagent layer to dissolve the opacifiers that previously protect the film from additional exposure. A timing layer that sits between the acid layer prevents the acid from working too quickly.

This magical process of chemical reactions occur in only a few minutes, and before you know it, the fully developed photograph is fully exposed and protected by a piece of clear top plastic. A common misnomer is that when you watch the image turn from ghostly white into a full blown image, you are watching the photograph develop. In fact, the picture has already been developed and you are actually watching the film’s acid layer remove the white opacifiers.

release of the polaroid cameras was highly anticipated many people, but edwin Land and his team weren’t ready. It took them almost two years to mass produce the polaroid cameras. Edwin Land turned to his friends at Kodak camera, who he had worked with before, as well as borrowed the processing chemicals for his prototype from his friend. They agreed to manufacture the negative film, that Polaroid would then integrate with its own image-receiving sheets.