Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a leather carrying strap and usually retails for around $70. Film is exposed manually, in comparison to other Polaroid automatic cameras. It has a Rodenstock Ysarex 127 mm f4.7 lens and is constructed from steel. The camera also has a Prontor SVS shutter, a self timer, a hinged pinhole lens cap and a couple rangefinder viewfinder system with parallax correction. It is a folding camera and part of the Land Camera family. Polaroid produced between 27,000 and 35,000 of these cameras and viewed the Pathfinder series as its professional line. As a result, the company marketed these cameras towards more advanced photographers. Serial number is LA424366.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a leather carrying strap and a high qulity 3-element all-glass coated 1300mm F8.8 lens. Usually retails for around $25. It comes with a manual(also same manual for Polaroid 160, placed in box VV3). Serial number is S755160

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a leather carrying strap and a manually controlled shutter speed. Appraisal value is around $65.

Item is a battery-powered Partytime instant camera with an option for exposure control. It comes with a manual.

Item is a battery-powered Handle II instant camera with an option for exposure control and crank handle ejection. Flash is a Kodak Instant Flash Model A attachment; lens is 100 mm, f/12.7; shutter is an electronic 2-1/300. Due to a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement, which the company lost, Kodak was forced to pay a large settlement fee and stop producing instant cameras and film.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 350 instant camera with an electronic flash and close-up lens. It retailed for $96.50 USD when it came on the market.
Camera has faceplate attached; rare, as in 1976 Polaroid launched a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement. After a fifteen year legal battle, Polaroid won and Kodak wrote them a check for $925 million, which was the largest settlement ever paid in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel barred the company from the instant-photo business. Due a class-action suit, Kodak then had to buy back the cameras for as it could no longer supply film so it offered a refund for customers if they mailed in the faceplate.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 200 instant camera. The camera was produced by Kodak to replace the EK6 and was priced to compete with the Polaroid Pronto! series. It has a tiny electric motor powered by one J‐size battery that is good for a minimum of 10 packs of film. This model also has a low‐light signal that indicates when you should switch to flash, as well as a battery check light.
Colorburst cameras offer a focusing scale around the lens, and a zooming circle in the finder as a focusing aid. This model has an automatic electronic shutters, focus‐linked flash automation, and a sensor that prevents the flash from firing if the safety cover is in place or the film pack is empty

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 100 instant camera with a Magicflash. The camera was produced by Kodak to replace the EK4 and was priced to compete with the Polaroid Pronto! series. It has a tiny electric motor powered by one J‐size battery that is good for a minimum of 10 packs of film. This model also has a low‐light signal that indicates when you should switch to flash.
Colorburst cameras offer a focusing scale around the lens, and a zooming circle in the finder as a focusing aid. This model has an automatic electronic shutters, focus‐linked flash automation, and a sensor that prevents the flash from firing if the safety cover is in place or the film pack is empty.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is a Kodomatic instant camera with an electronic flash. It comes with a manual. Has faceplate attached; rare, as in 1976 Polaroid launched a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement. After a fifteen year legal battle, Polaroid won and Kodak wrote them a check for $925 million, which was the largest settlement ever paid in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel barred the company from the instant-photo business. Due a class-action suit, Kodak then had to buy back the cameras for as it could no longer supply film so it offered a refund for customers if they mailed in the faceplate.

Item is a Kodomatic instant camera with an electronic flash. Has faceplate attached; rare, as in 1976 Polaroid launched a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement. After a fifteen year legal battle, Polaroid won and Kodak wrote them a check for $925 million, which was the largest settlement ever paid in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel barred the company from the instant-photo business. Due a class-action suit, Kodak then had to buy back the cameras for as it could no longer supply film so it offered a refund for customers if they mailed in the faceplate.

The collection contains Polaroid cameras and accessories. Material includes a variety of cameras, containers, parts and ephemera relating to Polaroid photography

This is a battery driven Super 8 instant movie camera. It took special super 8 film in a Polaroid cartidge that held about 42 minutes. The lens in a Polaroid F1.8/12.5 - 24mm manual zoom lens. It has two flood lights attached - Polavision TWI light.

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Super Colorpack instant film camera. Similar to the Polaroid Super Shooter, the Super Colorpack has a rigid plastic body and a manual finder on the lens and uses peel-apart Land Pack Films.

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Model 150 with hard leather case, Polaroid flash model 281, 3 developing vials, leather strap, manual, and 7 loose papers. It used 40 series Polaroid Picture Roll Land film.

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 104 outfit case. It is in a black hard leather case lined with red curduroy also containing the Polaroid flash model 268, 2 packs of Polaroid print mounts and 3 Polaroid envelopes for ordering prints, enlargements, and accessories. The camera is a folding bellows instand camera with automatic exposure that used 100-series Packfilm. It has a 2 element plastic lens and a non-folding zone focusing system. It retailed for $60 when it was first released.

Item is a variant of the Polaroid Land Camera model 95, and features a 3 element, 135mm f/11 lens, a 4 speed rotary-leaf shutter system with speeds 1/8 to 1/60 seconds. Used black & white 40 series 100 ISO instant roll film with a sepia tone.

Item is a large grey plastic rangefinder camera with elongated body between viewfinder and lens. Pictograms indicated adjustments for light or dark conditions. Instructions printed onto a metal plate on the back for loading Type 108 colour film and magicubes (for flash - not present). No batteries necessary for operation.

The 1200si auto focus polaroid camera for instant photos. Silver body with black hand strap. Flash and tripod mount. Uses Spectra, 990, and 1200 film packs.

Item is a folding, rangefinder snapshot camera for instant photographs using Polaroid proprietary 100-series Packfilm. Includes leather strap, instruction manual and other brochures, cold clip, and soft plastic cover. This camera Is still loaded with film.

Series consists of cameras that combine exposure and development in one step to create photographs instantaneously.
While Polaroid is by far the most well known of these cameras, the first patent for instant photography was for the Dubroni, a French wet plate camera, designed so that the glass plate could be sensitized and developed by pouring the chemicals over the plate through a tube in the camera. Later cameras were developed so small tintypes (1895) and direct paper positives (1913) could be made quickly for tourists on busy streets.
But it was the Polaroid Corporation that made instant photography a household item, beginning in 1937 when Edwin Land's young daughter's desire to see her photograph immediately, inspired him to develop the Polaroid's first instant camera: the Land Camera.

The Heritage Collection also contains Kodak Instant Cameras; produced in the late 1970's, they spawned a patent infringement lawsuit from the Polaroid corporation that resulted in the recall all of instant Kodak models sold and the discontinuation of their production.

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Source: <a href="http://www.shutterbug.com/content/it%E2%80%99s-instant%E2%80%94-it%E2%80%99s-not-polaroid-pre-and-post-polaroids-1864-1976">Wade, John. "It's Instant - But It's Not Polaroid: Pre- And-PostPolaroids, From 1864 to 1976." Shutterbug : Published May 1, 2012.</a>