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Polaroid or film photography: the old trend of making photos is back

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Photos are a reflection of the moment and are part of our everyday lives. Cameras have been replaced by mobile phones and we can capture every moment, post it on social networks or send it to our loved ones.

But sometimes we get lost in a sea of photos, which we take in just one day, and perhaps this saturation has caused us to somehow nostalgically return to the past when we developed the picture, held it in our hand and saved it in the album. All this is the reason for its increasing popularity analog photos and instant camera – polaroids.

The history of Polaroids

Polaroid cameras were at their peak in the late 1970s, and their popularity lasted well into the 1990s. The first models appeared in stores in 1948 and a world gone completely mad. It was a revolutionary discovery that changed the world of photography.

 

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One of the charms of Polaroid photography was that you never really knew what kind of photo will be created. Will the image be blurred or hit in full. The Polaroid camera as we know it today was constructed by an American scientist and inventor Edwin Land. At the end of the thirties of the 20th century, he founded the company Polaroid, which in 1948 sent the first cameras to the market, which automatically develop photos. It was made in a flat box that contained a battery, the user just pushed the device under the photographic lens. When the shutter opened, the film was exposed to light and a photo was developed inside the camera, which automatically peeked out.

Although it did Kodak soon became interested in such cameras, the company Polaroids had a license to manufacture appliances. Z the boom of digitization but they are polaroids fell into oblivion. Until today, when they are becoming more and more popular and many of the world's largest camera manufacturers have their own version of this type of device. No doubt it has at popularization Fingers crossed also the web application Instagram, where users imitate Polaroid photos in a square.

 

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Photo on film

Analogue photography is also coming back to the fore. If you still have the device at home, all you have to do is buy only the movie and begin to explore the magic of photography on film. If you don't have the device, you can buy it online. But you should know that there are differences, both among analog films and among analog cameras. Some cameras use 35mm film, others use 110 film, and some use medium format 120 film. The most common is 35mm film, which you can still find in almost all photographic equipment stores today. Some photographers and lovers of this kind of photography use this type of painting with love even today, because the charm of this kind of painting is completely different, and they can also develop the images at home, and that's exactly what the charm of this art.

The best Polaroid cameras

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Fujifilm instax SQ 6 EX D Sofortbildkamera, Aqua Blau
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INSTAX Mini 90 Neo Classic Kamera, Braun
INSTAX Mini 90 Neo Classic Camera, Braun
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