{"id":3207,"date":"2010-01-12T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T20:47:24","slug":"polaroid-gets-smart-brings-back-classic-instant-film-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/12\/polaroid-gets-smart-brings-back-classic-instant-film-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid Gets Smart &#8211; Brings Back Classic Instant Film Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/polaroid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3206\" title=\"polaroid\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/polaroid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/polaroid.jpg 403w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/polaroid-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><em>Polaroid<\/em> has used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesweb.org\/\"><em>Consumer Electronics Show<\/em><\/a> (CES) in Las Vegas to announce a <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5442887\/new-polaroid-pic+1000-models-shown-off-and-good-newstheyll-work-with-1000-instant-film\">new line of classic instant film cameras<\/a>!\u00a0 Called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2010\/01\/polaroid-resurrects-instant-film-cameras\/\"><em>Polaroid PIC-1000<\/em><\/a>, the camera will work with 10-packs of instant film just like the great old Polaroid cameras of the past.\u00a0 This is a very smart move by a company that looked supremely dumb a few years ago when it canceled the best product it had ever created.\u00a0 It was almost as dumb as <em>Volkswagen<\/em> canceling the Bug.<\/p>\n<p>But no worries, we will have our instant pictures back.\u00a0 Not even digital cameras are instant.\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 You have to plug them into your computer or printer or something and get your files sorted out and then you may need to do a some digital color correction on them.\u00a0 But with a Polaroid, you point click and enjoy the little whirring sound for a few seconds.\u00a0 Then you hold your picture and watch it come to life!\u00a0 There&#8217;s absolutely no good reason why digital should not coexist with analog technologies.\u00a0 The main difference between working with film and working with digital, as I see it, is this &#8211;\u00a0 with digital you know pretty much exactly what you are going to get when you take a picture.\u00a0 With analog film you never know what you are going to get.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a wonderful fuzzy zone filled with error and chance that Polaroids allow you to enjoy.\u00a0 Each picture is a little surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polaroid has used the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to announce a new line of classic instant film cameras!\u00a0 Called the Polaroid PIC-1000, the camera will work with 10-packs of instant film just like the great old Polaroid cameras of the past.\u00a0 This is a very smart move by a company that looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,319],"tags":[668,2494,855,854,2507,853],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-technology","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-instant","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-polaroid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}