With a self-timer, flash, and red-eye reduction, the Polaroid camera is making a comeback after almost two years later the production was closed down. The redesigned product was spotted in Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show 2010.
The Instant Cameras require a particular film to use with it, which is also being built by the Impossible Project. Reports said that the new camera and film (both color and black-and-white) is expected to go on sale in mid-2010. The Telegraph writes:
The film, meanwhile, will be created by The Impossible Project – the company rescued from the ashes of the Polaroid manufacturing plant based in Enschede, The Netherlands. Over the last year former managers of the factory have worked, as mostly a labor of love, to recreate the magic of the film on a low budget.
Besides the traditional Polaroid camera, a digital Polaroid will also go on sale in mid-2010, as expected by the manufacturers.
Digital Polaroid Camera
After manufacturing of Polaroid 1000 Instant Film (the name of the film to be used on Polaroid cameras), the product will be brought out to the markets. According to the Wikipedia. Polaroid had announced on February 2008 that it will shut down its three factories stopping the production of Polaroid films. However, on October 2009, it announced that the Polaroid is being prepared to make a comeback to the gadget world. Display at CES ‘10 was astonishing.
