Cameras are being used worldwide. The purpose of cameras is to capture those moment that wish to remember your entire life. These moments can be captured in form of movies and in form of images. Polaroid Corporation, by introducing Polaroid instant camera, has made it easier for people to not only capture pictures but also allows you to view the taken pictures there and then.

The credit for inventing this interesting piece of technology goes to American scientist Edwin Land, who disclosed the first marketable Polaroid instant camera, the Land Camera, in the year 1947. This camera was introduced ten after Polaroid Corporation was founded.

Since this invention did not become popular among people, Polaroid decided to discontinue its manufacturing. This product resulted in a great loss for the company. This in turn resulted in closing of 3 factories and layoff of approximately 450 employees. This also affected the sale of other chemical film producers which decreased by almost 2 percent every year. All the suppliers of instant cameras have gradually vanished and the only suppliers left till date in US is Fujifilm. However, Polaroid still dint give up and decided to introduce instant film camera in stylish designs.

Types of Polaroid instant cameras

Polaroid cameras can be categorized by the type of film they use. Some of the Polaroid cameras are as follows:

Polaroid 600 series camera:

Polaroid Sun 600, Polaroid One 600 and Pronto come under the category of Polaroid 600 series camera. These utilized Polaroid 600 film and most hard to find Polaroid 770 film.

Polaroid Spectra cameras

Polaroid Spectra camera used Polaroid Spectra film which went back to a rectangular layout or format. Single use camera consisting of Popshots, Captiva and Joycam used a relatively smaller 500 series film in the same format.

Polaroid I-zone cameras

Polaroid I-zone cameras made use of a very small film format which was provided in a sticker format.

Polaroid Mio camera:

Lastly, Polaroid Mio camera used Mio film, which was a smaller film format as compared to 600, but bigger than 500 series film.

Instant movie cameras

Apart from introducing instant still image camera Polaroid also produced an instant movie camera. The unit was known as Polavision. The kit consisted of a camera, film, and a movie viewer. As soon as the movie was made, it would be taken out from the movie camera and then placed in the viewer for development, then viewed after the finish of the developmental process. This format was somewhat similar to Super eight mm film.

Polavision film was an additive film, combining red, green and blue color to produce a color picture. This make Polavision film distinctive from other ordinary films. The negative part about this film was its low film speed (ASA 40), which however, resulted in using very bright lights when making the movie, as well as needing a expert players to view and verify the developed movie. This was the reason why Polavision discontinued in a very short period from the market.

Polaroid cameras (pre-1963):

Polaroid camera were introduced in the year 1963 made use of instant roll films but was not like by the majority due to which Polaroid Company was forced to discontinue this product from its product line. Initially, these Polaroid instant cameras made us of roll film available in 2 rolls and then later made use of "pack film”.