When I was a kid, my grandparents gave me a beautiful pink and grey Polaroid Cool Cam. I loved it. I was also terrified of using it, because at that age I couldn’t really afford the film…so it became a very precious commodity to be rationed and used, well, very infrequently.
But I loved the immediate gratification of instant photography, which I think still has an edge over digital photos…because with an instant photograph, not only is it instant (!), it’s instantly tangible.
So….this week’s Friday I’m in Love is dedicated to the instant photo.
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Once upon a time, I was the proud owner of one of these (somewhat cumbersome) Polaroid Cool Cams…truth be told…it was kind of huge.
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Which is why I’m loving the 21st century’s answer to instant cameras: the Instax Mini by Fujifilm (there are non-mini versions, too…but I like the idea of “mini”). This cute little camera remains small and portable (unlike some of its early predecessors…see above), and ups the cute factor by taking adorable credit card sized photos – instantly!
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Gratuitous beerfest photo taken by Norbert Hohmann at this years’ Oktoberfest in Munich:
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Over at Smile and Wave, Rachel Denbow has an ever changing wall of clipboards that she tries to update monthly…I caught the following photo on one of her guest posts on Under the Sycamore where…you guessed it…she’s ingeniously incorporated mini instax photos into her collage of clippings. Love the shot in the top left corner, where she’s got her instax face on top of someone else’s body.
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If you love the look, but don’t have an instant camera, nor the inclination to buy film…then you need to get Maxmilian Jaenicke (a.k.a. rawimage)’s polaroid generator Photoshop actions…then all your digital photos can at least look like instant photos. Grab version one, or his most recent version two on Deviant Art.
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One last instax mini photo entitled Red Slide, by Andreina Schoeberlein:
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