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Originally Posted by ridetheworld
Backofbeyond; Polaroids are amazing, travelled with one throughout Central America, they haven't lost any of their magic and are maybe even more impressive since the advent of the smartphone. Fujifilm still make an instant camera system called INSTAX, which are brilliant.
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I've used them a few times on trips - years back when photography was still a black art and it seemed easier than a real camera, to take pictures of ourselves and in recent decades to give pictures to people who'd helped us.
I took one of the two guys in this pic after they finished nailing my bike onto the train and gave it to them. They were so pleased - it was the first time they'd ever had or seen a picture of themselves. It really does (or did anyway) open doors / make friends (I think I even got a slight reduction in their fee!)
This one was one of my early efforts back at the dawn of time - we'd bought a "proper" Instamatic camera, complete with colour film for the trip and two days in managed to put the bike side stand down on it in a campsite. That, as you can imagine, didn't do the film much good. The B/W Polaroid we had with us was some early tech where you had to wipe the pics over with some kind of acetic acid sponge to stop them fading. I'm not sure it was all that successful in this case.
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