How do instant cameras work? The cameras are about as simple as cameras can get – it’s the instant film that’s the key ...

[Nicholas Morganti] has just such a camera, a Polaroid Big Shot, a 1970s instant camera designed for portrait work, for which the Polaroid 100 film packs are sadly a distant memory. Leave it on ...

For a while, Kodak offered an instant camera but was forced to stop production after Polaroid filed a patent infringement lawsuit. In the early 1980s, Fujifilm entered the instant camera market ...

Previously a prom photographer at the Copacabana, shooting teenagers on a bulky press camera (her technician boss would be holed up in the basement downstairs, processing images in real time), for the ...