Gone are the days when we took photos with a Polaroid, a camera that instantly printed our photo. Although its days seem to have passed, Polaroid is making a comeback. At the consumer electronics and household appliances fair IFA in Berlin, it was recently presented as a digital camera with a built-in photo printer that prints a photo instantly, but does not use ink! It sounds like the name Polaroid Snap.
Polaroids never really left. With the advent of digital cameras, its popularity, which was at its peak in the 1980s, declined sharply, but in the 21st century it moved mainly to filters/effects on applications. Now it has announced its grand return to the real world with a compact digital camera Polaroid Snap, which, like the classic model, shows language (read prints a photo instantly) but for that does not use ink. The secret lies in the technology "Zero Ink" (no ink) developed by it ZINK company. Thus, instead of ink, he uses a special one durable polymer paper in the matrix of which three layers of crystals are embedded, which inter heat treatment from the side, the camera changes to red, yellow or blue.
This "toaster camera" boasts resolution 10 million pixels and spits out photos of the big one 7.5 x 5 centimeters (once it was called "wallet size" size), and later you can print even bigger ones, as it saves all recordings on a memory card microSD (up to 32 GB of space).
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The Polaroid Snap digital camera has a little more than a microSD card slot and ZINK paper treats of the 21st century. It has also become familiar with the selfie phenomenon, which is why it has a built-in timer for self-portraiture and the mode that records six photos in 10 seconds. And there are filters to recreate the look of Polaroid photos from the last century. Polaroid "2.0" is here in four different colors (black, white, red and blue) is expected once before the end of 2015 and will be sold for a pittance 90 euros. "Annoyance" will only be ZINK paper. You will have to pay a little over 20 euros for 30 sheets.
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