Did you start out with a Polaroid camera? Was it special to you?  

I remember my mom and dad having one and it was cool watching the pictures come out. I had a regular film camera after getting married, and then we got our own polaroid. We never really used it much, but as a kid it was cool to watch the film process.

Oh do I remember Poloroid Instant cameras. My mom had one, and it gave her so much joy. She loved taking photos with it. She even let me try it. It was the first camera I ever used. She later gave me her Brownie camera to use as my own. I loved it too. It's too bad about them discontinuing the film, but no hard to believe. With nearly everything digital now I imagine there will be other companies that follow in the future (like the old 110 film).

Remember the Snapper? It came in different colors - I was 13 or 14 when I got mine - a white one. It was a pretty big deal in our family, too, since my dad worked for Kodak - delivering developed film to stores! (I still remember the horrible company car that he drove - bright Kodak yellow with red pinstriping). If those things caught on, according to him, his company would go out of business. It's 35 years later... when Kodak closed down its courier division, he and the guys that he worked with got together, bought the facilities and the cars, and took over the company. He worked for it until he retired a few years ago. My sister-in-law stepped in and worked with and for him for years, too - and it's still going strong. Lots of people still like to have their film developed in a lab and delivered.

But I agree with you - watching the pictures develop is a special kind of magic that you just don't get from digital cameras. I'll bet my mother still has mine hanging around somewhere.

hi friends...i haven't even seen a polaroid camera yet in my life....the maximum i have seen is a digital camera of various manufacturers of different models...

No I never had one. I didn't have a camera until my first child was born and it was 35mm. I liked the instant picture when I was a child but, I like the ability now of being able to delete bad pictures

Hey spalladino! I still have my Polaroid camera and how dare
they stop making the film! That is the only camera I can work!
I love that camera! It is the coolest camera around! Now I
have to go buy a digital camera and I know I will never figure
out how to download it to the computer and do all that stuff!
I can barely work any camera and take decent pictures. Oh
why do they want to discontinue that wonderful film? I used
to love to take pictures of my cats when they would do something
silly and be able to look at the pictures right away! I am so
disappointed now!

It was one of my best days when my parents gave me my polaroid camera. I will never forget how excited I was that day. I used my all the time for years to come and it will probably be my favorite camera of all time no matter what new fancy ones come out. I still have mine packed away and you have made me want to get it out again. Thanks