Antique Cameras: Polaroid

Video Transcript

"I'm going to talk about Polaroid right now. Polaroid is a very, Polaroid cameras is a very subject because there are a lot of them out there and they're incredible cameras to make, incredible art and incredible photographs with. But there is a lot of drawbacks and a lot of things you need to know about Polaroid cameras before you really start getting into the wonderful world of Polaroid. A lot of what Polaroid has made, there's no more film that can actually work in some of these cameras anymore. But that doesn't mean to say that you can't use them. Again, it's back to your imagination. You can find Polaroid cameras at garage sales again, they're all over the Internet, they're everywhere. Once you get a little knowledge about what you can do with them and what you can't do, I think you'll begin to feel a little bit more confident about, okay, I can buy film for this. The one thing about Polaroid is that the film is not cheap. Film tends to be sort of on the expensive side so you always want to use a little bit of caution about what camera you decide to invest in."