polaroids

After investing large sums of money throughout the year on professional-grade digital camera equipment, the one camera I end up using the most on holiday break is my Polaroid One600 Classic. There's just something fiercely personal about snapping a Polaroid shot and hearing the haphazardly built mechanism inside the plastic camera shell eject a picture. It's also kind of fun to tell people that you're actually not supposed to shake the picture to "dry" it or help accelerate the development process - according to Polaroid.com, shaking or waving the photo can actually damage the image. Writing on the picture with a sharpie also gives the picture an intimate quality that you can't so easily obtain with digital. I am a little skeptical about the longevity of Polaroid film, but that's a problem that can be easily remedied with a scanner.