Polaroid Corporation’s ‘Land Camera’, invented by Edwin H. Land, is the world’s first instant camera. The Land Camera takes 60 seconds to deliver the finished dry print.



How does it work:

The Land camera takes its pictures in the conventional way, but inside it, in addition to the film roll, there is a roll of positive paper with a pod of developing chemicals at the top of each frame. Turning the knob forces the exposed negative and the paper together through rollers, breaking the pod and spreading the reagents evenly between the two layers as they emerge from the rear of the camera. Clipped off, they can be peeled apart a minute later.

Modern Mechanix has published a wonderful clipping on the Land Camera from Popular Science’s 1947 edition. The world’s first instant camera also allowed users to re-photograph the print by making additional exposures.



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