“Looking at Polaroid pictures and touching traditional Polaroid cameras can only sow the seeds of eternal love into anybody who cares about visual seduction. Totally bored by four million digital images stored on your hard drive? It feels so incredibly good to taste, smell and touch real pictures without losing the instant effect. Polaroid simply changed our lives bringing back the fun to our photographic thinking and we believe it can and should do the same for you.” MORE ➲

“While searching the web for Holga related sites, galleries, auctions, sales, mods, tips and tricks, I discovered the Holgaroid—a Holga camera body equipped with a type 80 polaroid back. This Polaroid back has been modified to replace the Holga Film back.” MORE ➲

“The first gallery project strictly dedicated to the immortal power of polaroid photography… Polaroids tell stories in an inimitable way. Stories so intense and intimate that upon viewing, the photographeroften isn’t the only one struck with this feeling of being (or having been) part of a scene. And chance leads the way.” MORE ➲

“Peter Jones and longtime business partner Dennis Purcell, who met at Polaroid, over the years have developed technology for color meters for commercial photography and film, and invented an architectural model camera that Polaroid, once a leading player in the photography business, licensed and produced. Now at Boston-based Tenebraex–where Jones is president and Purcell is senior scientist–the two have taken their color technology knowledge into both the dark night and the digital world of color-coded data.” MORE ➲

“Here’s a quick list of Polaroid cameras separated into categories to denote which battery type(s) they use. This may be of particular use for those of you who may have a classic Polaroid folding pack camera, as it’s difficult to keep straight which battery type goes with which camera models.” MORE ➲

“Legend has it that sometime in the mid-1960s one of Polaroid’s research photographers inadvertenly left a Polaroid negative face down on a countertop, later picked it up, and found an image had transferred to the counter. He and several of his colleagues began to play with the process until Polaroid founder Dr. Edwin Land found out about it and sternly discouraged this deviant activity. And so Pandora’s box was closed …. for the time being.” MORE ➲

“Polaroid Corp. announced [November 7, 2006] the instant film and electronics manufacturer donated 1.5 million items of their corporate archives to the Harvard Business School Baker Library (HBS), according to an Oct. 24 Polaroid press release. The Polaroid collection is the single largest collection at the Harvard Business School Library. If all the shelves that house the Polaroid archives were placed next to each other, the collection would measure 4000 linear feet, equivalent to over 13 football fields.” MORE ➲

“This personal collection encompasses Polaroid Land cameras which incorporate a bellows in their design. Take time to discover these cameras from a unique era of instant photography.” MORE ➲

“With version 02 of the New York City Polaroid Project I have distilled the past few months of NYC Polaroid trolling to 36 original and unaltered images. –Andrew Faris” MORE ➲

Warning! NSFW! “We collect DIRTY FOUND stuff: pervy Polaroids, sleazy birthday cards, raunchy to-do lists, nasty poetry on napkins, illustrations–anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s sex life. It’s just like our sister, FOUND Magazine, only sleazier. ” MORE ➲

“This last weekend, we popped into Hanger Bar in the East Village for a quick drink and noticed a little sign behind the bar informing customers that they can rent a polaroid camera. What a genius idea. For $15 bucks you can rent the camera loaded with film, $10 for each additional roll.” (Thanks Coudal!) MORE ➲

Requires subscription (or bugmenot.com) to read the full text: “The October 27, 1972, cover of Life magazine presented the revolutionary Polaroid SX-70 system — the first fully automatic, motorized folding single-lens reflex camera that ejects self-developing, self-timing color prints — with an image of Dr. Edwin Land using his ‘magic camera.’” MORE ➲

Check out the most recent photos on Flickr tagged with “Polaroid.” Can occasionally be NSFW. MORE ➲

“We are building the biggest Polaroid picture collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. So please seach your archives and attics and reactivate your Instant Cameras. This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.” MORE ➲

“One day I was scanning a Polaroid 667 negative which was still wet and I was to lazy to let it dry. In order not to get chemicals on my scanner, I placed the negative onto a pane of glass and scanned it through the glass. I promptly forgot about it and it sat in my scanner overnight. When I found it the next day, and peeled the negative from the glass, I noticed that the negative was really gooey with pigment….” MORE ➲

“Instant camera film is remarkable because it has its own built-in developing studio. To understand how this works, you need to understand the basics of traditional photographic film. Film is a plastic base coated with particles of silver compound that are sensitive to light.” LEARN ➲

“I picked up a Polaroid camera for $1 at a garage sale thinking I could add a pinhole and have a pinholaroid. I didn’t find any good online tutorials, and feeling confident after building my digital pinhole camera, I decided to figure it out as I went. Keep reading to learn how to turn a cheap Polaroid camera into a cheap polaroid pinhole camera…” MORE ➲

Maybe NSFW!

“We collect DIRTY FOUND stuff: pervy Polaroids, sleazy birthday cards, raunchy to-do lists, nasty poetry on napkins, illustrations–anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s sex life. It’s just like our sister, FOUND Magazine, only sleazier.” MORE ➲

Features work by Ansel Adams, William Wegman, Chuck Close, Anna Tomczak, Dawoud Bey and others. VIEW ➲

“This timeline is not complete or exhaustive (especially in listing SX-70 cameras and newer). But it does attempt to highlight some interesting events, as well as to show the procession of cameras which were produced by Polaroid.” MORE ➲

“On 21 February 1947, Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid Corporation, demonstrated instant photography to the Optical Society of America. The first commercially-available instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, was in the shops before Christmas of the following year. ” MORE ➲