The Death of Polaroid: a Not-so-Instant Development

Despite dominating the instant photography market it had created for more than five decades, in 2001 the Polaroid Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and within a few years ceased to exist. Polaroid’s final decades were marked by a slow decline, with the company releasing a line of increasingly cheap products in a desperate attempt to raise its profit margins. In this video, we look at four of the last cameras the once mighty company ever released.

History of Polaroid Series:

Part I:    • Polaroid Cameras Part 1: The Dawn of Insta...  
Part II:    • Polaroid Cameras Part 2: The Colour Era  
Part III:    • Polaroid Cameras Part 3: Integral Film and...  

0:00 Introduction
2:21 Captiva/Vision SLR
6:39 PopShots
9:11 JoyCam
10:48 iZone
12:59 Outro

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