Articles about Polaroid cameras

1997, many people suddenly became addicted to cameras. The hand of everyone who calls himself a hipster? There will be one. Ku Kuiji's album cover has appeared, and Lin Haifeng and Eric Kot also have one. That year on Christmas Eve, I received the first instant camera in my life from others. This is a polaroid 600FF model. It is very heavy, and its surface is grayish black, like a cut marble. I don't know if it's of any special significance that everyone took one photo after another with their cameras crazy that year. I only know that collective behavior will cause collective memories, even if photos are such a unique and unrepeatable carrier.

I suspect that the reason why we bought Polaroid crazily is because it is reported that it will stop producing movies soon. In other words, the time is about to erase the memory we once had and let it become history? . Perhaps the deadline and despair give us a sense of intimacy, which is why we are so eager to find and shoot. A few years later, I realized that we used to call it Polaroid, and Taiwan Province province called it Polaroid. Everyone translated from Polaroid English. Taiwanese translation often has both text and meaning, and it is obtained immediately after filming. But we can't call these photos precious, can we? In these trivial matters, we Hong Kong people often fail to live up to expectations, alas!

Anyone who has used Polaroid knows that every photo is unique, because the time difference of exposure and the uniformity of medicine are different, so even if it is taken with the same posture and expression, there is a difference of several seconds, which is different from ordinary film. Unless it is a sunny day in broad daylight, even if you press the spotlight at that moment, only your face is as white as a ghost, and people or things farther away are black and unrecognizable. People who love beauty wholeheartedly are not suitable for Polaroid, because the film is expensive and cannot be deleted. Nowadays, young people who like taking selfies are still suitable for using digital cameras, because they can be deleted continuously and corrected in time until they take satisfactory photos. I like Polaroid because its film is two thick boxes, or because the film that has been left for a long time will feel faded, like moss, and it will be finished if it is engraved in the photo.