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Instant cameras have been around for a long time, but what has changed in 40 years of electronics to keep them going?

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  • There is a date reference to the 5000 SE as being a 1978 model:

    SX 70

    Camera Museum, Netherlands

     

    The SE may stand for 'special edition' as opposed to 'second edition' ?

     

    I seem to recall that the shaking of Polaroids stems back to the original 'peel apart' film, which after separating the negative from the positive, left the print still wet from the reagent gel, and the shaking helped speed up the drying process by exposing the reagent to moving air. In comparison, modern instant film is all self-contained.

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  • There is a date reference to the 5000 SE as being a 1978 model:

    SX 70

    Camera Museum, Netherlands

     

    The SE may stand for 'special edition' as opposed to 'second edition' ?

     

    I seem to recall that the shaking of Polaroids stems back to the original 'peel apart' film, which after separating the negative from the positive, left the print still wet from the reagent gel, and the shaking helped speed up the drying process by exposing the reagent to moving air. In comparison, modern instant film is all self-contained.

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