Polaroid PIC-300P Instant Film Analog Camera

[alayne]

In my research for all things Disney World/Disney Cruise I saw where someone had taken Polaroid pictures at Character greetings and had the characters sign on the printed photo right then. I didn't even know they still made Polaroid cameras but I quickly saw on Amazon that they are for sale and you can still get the paper.

Now my question is - are they worth the money? I think my DS9 would love the fact that he could take pictures and see them right then.

Does anyone have one of these? What do you think?

Thanks so much!
Allison

 

[photo_chick]

Fuji makes instant film for it's cameras and The Impossible Project bought the Polaroid factory and makes film there for old Polaroid cameras.

It's not cheap ($25 for 8 shots). Kids run through Polaroid film fast. An under $50 digital camera would be a better bet financially and yield better quality images. The people who shoot Polaroid these days do it for the aesthetic of the medium.

Edited to add.... We used to get the autograph book for my daughter that had an autograph page on one side and a picture sleeve on the other.

 

[zackiedawg]

Nowadays, the digital revolution can provide another idea - you'd be a bit of a pioneer now, but the future is likely to be leaning this way: Combine digital camera connected to iPad or tablet via Wifi, or a high-grade tablet/smartphone camera if you're not as much of a photography buff...and use a stylus pen to have the characters autograph the photo right on the screen (most tablets have some form of digitizer, or will in the future, like Wacom, allowing pens to write on the screen).

I've actually seen this done by one person at Disney, and it struck me as a neat idea. Even DSLRs are beginning to see Wifi creeping in as an option, and all have access to Wifi memory cards, mirrorless cameras and high-end P&S cameras for enthusiasts also are beginning to widely offer Wifi with NFC wireless linking and control from tablets & smartphones, and for regular consumers not as into cameras, most tablets, smartphones, etc are coming with ever better cameras built in. The 'autograph' done digitally will apply directly to the photo in basic photo editors on tablets, or as a separate layer in more advanced tablets, allowing the photo to be printed with the autograph already applied (or without the signature on the more advanced editors if you really like the photo and don't want the signature to mar the result).

 

[photo_chick]

zackiedawg that's a great idea. And I'm stealing it to use with my 6D and iPad this trip. I've been working with film so long I forget some of the possibilities we have now with digital.