Legacy Still Lives On

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The Legacy still Lives On

‘’Shake it like a polaroid picture’’ a lyric quote from Outkast ‘’Hey Ya’’.The Polaroid revolutionized photography, and it has definitely changed the way we think about pictures forever.Today’s society uses Polaroid cameras for a lot of things.Especially for taking Polaroid pictures.These special cameras are used just to take pictures.We use Ordinary cameras for Vlogging, Photography, capturing memories etc.Cameras are especially used if you are a YouTuber, for recording your video’s and such.The difference between the first Polaroid camera and the most recent one is... The color, The Style

The size, the weight and of course the color Polaroids are astonishing.Today on the Polaroid website you can buy the original version; how cool is that?They have decided to call it ‘’One Step 2’’.’’One step 2 is a new Polaroid camera that blends classic design with contemporary style’’ (History).These Cameras are commonly used; Mostly because these cameras produce the little pocket-sized pictures, I mean isn’t that cool.These little pictures are called polaroids.They are used frequently and come in all different sizes and have gotten smaller since the 1940’s.
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Back then polaroid produced more than just camera’s.’’They produced ski glasses, and dark adapter goggles for the Army and Navy’’ ( History)

Sold for almost $90.00 in Boston, the first Polaroid camera was sold Jordan department store. ‘’The one-millionth polaroid camera, a Model 95A, comes off the assembly line on September 27’’

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