{"id":7195,"date":"2013-11-28T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/polaroid-instant-camera-goes-on-sale\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:16:53","slug":"polaroid-instant-camera-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/polaroid-instant-camera-goes-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-3957\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2Fpolaroid-land-camera-model-95.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3957]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3958\" alt=\"polaroid land camera model 95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/6f4bb__polaroid-land-camera-model-95-255x300.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>November 28, 1948<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for the Christmas shopping season,\u00a057 units of the first commercial instant camera, the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rwhirled.com%2Flandlist%2Flanddcam-roll.htm%2395\" target=\"_blank\">Polaroid Land Camera Model 95<\/a>, go on sale\u00a0at the\u00a0<a title=\"Jordan Marsh\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJordan_Marsh\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Marsh<\/a>\u00a0department store in\u00a0<a title=\"Boston\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoston\" target=\"_blank\">Boston<\/a>. Producing sepia toned photographs in about one minute, the Model 95 became a hit almost as quickly. Polaroid believed that 57 units would be enough last through Christmas. All 57 units and all the film available were sold on the first day. It was simple to use, portable, and the instant gratification that came from the self-developing film made the camera very popular.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPolaroid_Land_Camera\" target=\"_blank\">The name \u201cLand\u201d<\/a> came from the camera\u2019s inventor, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEdwin_Land\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin H. Land<\/a>, who was also the company\u2019s founder. Nearly one million Model 95\u2032s were produced, setting the stage for Polaroid\u2019s flagship product line, making the company\u2019s name synonymous with instant film and the cameras that used them. True black-and-white instant film was released in 1950, but Polaroid didn\u2019t create color film until 1963.\u00a0Polaroid produced their instant film cameras until 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/6f4bb__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/28\/polaroid-instant-camera-goes-on-sale\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 28, 1948 Just in time for the Christmas shopping season,\u00a057 units of the first commercial instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, go on sale\u00a0at the\u00a0Jordan Marsh\u00a0department store in\u00a0Boston. Producing sepia toned photographs in about one minute, the Model 95 became a hit almost as quickly. Polaroid believed that 57 units would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1223,758,2873,2872,1078],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-camera-2","tag-goes","tag-instant","tag-polaroid","tag-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}