The Polaroid Experience

When you are starting to get into analog photography, it’s good to experiment with some simple film cameras, like 35mm point and shoots and even Polaroid cameras. Shooting Polaroid cameras, can really give you instant satisfaction, when the you aim and the camera, and zip! The print pops right out for you to see. Keep reading and find out what the Polaroid Experience is all about..

Coming up at the Second Hand Saturday event in the Outer Sunset of San Francisco, Frank’s Vintage Camera is popping up so we can sell our latest cameras and film. We’re going to featuring several different kinds of Polaroids & Polaroid Land Cameras, and even taking a few insta shots ourselves to give customers a taste of what’s cool about shooting Polaroid 600s.

Shooting with Instamatic cameras can be such a personal experience: my mom gave me my first camera which was a Polaroid 600. I spent hours and hours, pretending to be a National Geo photographer, covering ‘cats in the wild’, in my backyard!

Years later, when the Swing Dance craze hit the states by storm, I took up shooting the Polaroid 600 again, and shot around San Francisco, and later in Durham, North Carolina, where I was interacting with the college crowd. I was managing my creative, by working at Elmo’s Diner by day, and by night, shooting southern cuisine at aspiring restaurants, down on 9th street.

So when you’re shooting with the famed Polaroid Instamatic camera, you’re grabbing your own piece of Americana, and sharing the print with your friends & family as well!