instant love

Polaroid lovers unite each year on flickr for 'Roid Week.

That time is here.

5 days celebrating instant film.

Do you have a polaroid camera?  And if you answered yes,  are you lucky enough to have some film?  I sure hope you do.  Click on over to flickr and join the group.  You can add 2 polaroid images a day, each day.  It started yesterday and continues through Friday.

Polaroid enthusiasts LOVE their cameras.  Which polaroid camera is your favorite?  My dream polaroid is the  SX-70 model,  the one my parents shot with back in the day.  I still remember that feeling as a kid when the photo would pop out the front of the camera and i would hold it in my hands and watch it develop right before my eyes.  It always felt like magic, it still does.  Now I get to share that magic with my own children, and watch as they get that same giddy anticipation I so remember getting when I was little.

Need film?  the IMPOSSIBLE project has what you need. When the Polaroid company decided to close shop a passionate movement began. Click on over and read their inspiring story and check out the goods now available thanks to them.

And an extra bonus of 'Roid Week 2010, the IMPOSSIBLE project is giving away 2 packs of their new PX 600 film a day to 2 random members of the group.  Who knows, you could be a lucky winner!  

Show us your instant images today.  What? No instant camera you say... Well you may not be able to join 'Roid Week, but you can still have fun with your digital images by making a poladroid and sharing it with us here.

Comments

[Marcie]

Your guess. Polaroid..or Poladroid:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=1160

[Jen at Cabin Fever]

'roid week. That made me giggle :)
Sadly I don't have a Polaroid so I can't play this time.

http://www.cabinfeververmont.com

http://www.nekphotography.blogspot.com

[xanthe]

i haven't had film for years : (

so i'm faking it!!

big smiles - http://www.flickr.com/photos/xantheberkeley/4577919884/

[Vanessa]

i could spend forever perusing the 'Roid week pool. so much quirky beauty in there. i heart polaroid.

alas, i do not own an instant camera. i did, however, have tons of fun making these "pola-fakeys" a while back:
http://risingtothechallenge.blogspot.com/2009/09/best-shots-monday-4-lets-pretend.html

<3

[sarah]

'Roid week actually happens twice a year, once in the Spring and once in the Fall.

My dream camera would probably be a Hasselblad with a Polaroid back. A Mamiya would be sweet too. Until the camera fairy drops one or the other in my lap, I use two cameras, an sx-70 and a slr 680 se. Love both.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51674556@N00/4576723208/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51674556@N00/4575331356/in/photostream/

[Becky Sue]

I had a Polaroid camera when I was a kid... I'm sure it went into a yard sale... for shame.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rslaflam/4577657863/

[Jessica]

I can't post this in the group pool because it's not new...but my polaroid spectra died, so I won't have anything new until I get a new (old) camera. Though it looks like Impossible Project may be coming out with a camera, too? Anyway, here is my favorite polaroid, taken in Maine on the beach!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27982366@N06/4096578103/in/set-72157622661848949/

[Aimee]

you can use any instant film.

i have no polaroid film and the impossible project film is so expensive.

but i love my instax 210 and my instax mini 7s!

[cinco_mom]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37719283@N04/4574111997/
i'm totally faking it.
dreaming of a polaroid.
:)

[Alli (One Pearl Button)]

Yay for Polaroid week! I'm participating with my SX-70 and Sun 600. I would love to get my hands on an SLR 680 someday, but I'm not sure that any camera could ever eclipse my love for the SX-70.

[jodi]

hooray for 'roid week! it makes me so very, very happy. i shoot with my grandfather's SX-70.

here are my shots from day one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodimckee/4575458171/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodimckee/4574668107/

[damiec]

I have my Popop's vintage sx-70, but no film to play along, these are poladroids.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22487105@N06/4577963577/?edited=1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22487105@N06/4578592602/

[Miriam]

I've been bitten by the Polaroid bug recently and am trying out a few different cameras. I have a Land 100, Land 340, SX-70, Spectra, One Step 600 and a 660 Close-up.

[Karyn]

faking it with my hipstamatic....

http://www.mundanedetails.com/2010/03/what-ive-been-up-to/

I heart Polaroids!

[nadine]

i was faking it until today when my new/old sx70 arrived... i think i'm in love...xxoo~nadine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42895482@N08/4578126981/

[Tina]

i love every single post of yours...this is no exception (it might even be my fave). here are my 'roids:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mageejenks/4579606854/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mageejenks/4574811677/in/photostream/

this is fun! yay polaroids!


here are some droids just for fun:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mageejenks/sets/72157622461766471/

[Gail]

...one of the first things I did when I bought an iphone was to download the app "ShakeIt"...It is so much fun.
http://picturingtheyear.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-toy.html...
..I own a One Step Polaroid Camera but have no film...I'm wondering if the PX 600 is compatible?

[Gail]

What happened? I'll try one more time...
http://picturingtheyear.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-toy.html

[Leslie]

Such a fun week! Here are my first two shots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westieluvr/4575669099/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westieluvr/4579178487/in/photostream/

[mosey]

Fun! Here is my insomnia-inspired poladroid offering.

http://moseyalong.blogspot.com/2010/05/insomnia-and-polaroids.html

[mama-pan]

thanks so much for these round-ups. Those boy details are just amazing--so understated but so beautiful.

[mama-pan]

oh, shoot--just wrote the wrong comment in the wrong blog. Soooo embarrased. To apologize, I'll share an old-but-favorite poladroid:

http://thisismarzipan.blogspot.com/2009/09/playing-with-rollip-big-boy-birthday.html

and in case you are curious, the comment above was meant for the kids' clothes week at elsiemarley.com. I am such a dunce.

[Whitney]

I just purchased a beautiful SX70 off eBay about two weeks ago and I'm patiently awaiting the arrival of my 600 film.... Okay maybe not SO patiently because I just ran out yesterday and purchased a Fuji Instax.

That too is a really fun camera and my first shot thought simple was absolutely magical!

Happy Roid Week!!

[elflyn]

A fakey but I love it....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25976646@N07/4580455409/

[Ashley]

I have a Polaroid but no film. I had no idea there was a way to track some down. They're so fun. We use then at parties to send people home with "favors." Although, really, some of those pics probably weren't doing anyone any favors, if you know what I mean.

[Leslie]

Ok, I tried this out, what do you think?
http://lesliephoto.blogspot.com/2010/04/polaroid-template.html

[px100 gordon]

http://www.bessablog.com/my-last-px100-shot/

I've had trouble with px100 but i'm sticking with it for a while.