MIT gets the picture - and the Polaroid cameras that took it
By adamg on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 4:44pm
Joel Brown reports the owner of what's left of the once proud Cambridge company has donated tons of Polaroid equipment to MIT, including old SX-70 cameras (yes, people who grew up with those, you are now old):
... The collection includes every make and model of commercially produced Polaroid cameras, and myriad experimental models and prototypes that never made it to the marketplace. Potentially most interesting: sketchpads used by Land, who died in 1991. The museum plans to get Polaroid alums involved in cataloging the collection, and a major exhibit is under discussion. ...
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Instant memories!
My uncle worked at Polaroid back in the early '70s, and brought a brand-spanking-new SX-70 to our house to show it off. It seemed miraculous that a picture would just appear before us out of nothing.
When I went for a Jeopardy audition recently, the producer used a newer model to photograph our faces. It seemed so quaint, and we all marveled that there was even one still in operation.