Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Despite dominating the instant photography market it had created for more than five decades, in 2001 the Polaroid Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and within a few years ceased to exist. Polaroid’s final decades were marked by a slow decline, with the company releasing a line of increasingly cheap products in a desperate attempt to raise its profit margins. In this video, we look at four of the last cameras the once mighty company ever released.

History of Polaroid Series:

Part I: youtu.be/AVZA-4saKt0
Part II: youtu.be/rCcJIVoqYbg
Part III: youtu.be/f6LaqckayBo

0:00 Introduction
2:21 Captiva/Vision SLR
6:39 PopShots
9:11 JoyCam
10:48 iZone
12:59 Outro

SOURCES:

camera-wiki.org/wiki/Polaroid_Captiva/Vision
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=10248
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=436
polaroid-passion.com/manuel/manuel-polaroid-captiva-vision.pdf
http://www.landlist.ch/landlist/landdcam-spec.htm
manualslib.com/manual/544540/Polaroid-I-Zone-Pocket-Camera.html?page=2#manual
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=281
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Polaroid_I-Zone
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Polaroid_JoyCam
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Polaroid_Pop_Shots