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Originally Posted by 53kk
More vintage color pics from the 60s. I really like the bordered pictures. For me the borders give the picture a clearer sense of authenticity with wrinkles and all. The same way with Polaroids. I like to see the whole thing. I wish more people wouldn't crop the borders off their pictures. If anyone has any comments on this I would love to hear them.
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We agree 100%. I believe it was the early 60's when we discovered a Polaroid camera.
To me a Polaroid photo must have the border to look right. I remember some of our oldest black and whites being wrinkled right from the start and having streaks from not rubbing the wax coat on right. Even Polaroids got better when the auto color film came out.
Still at around $5 for a pack of 10 pictures averaged $1 a photo most times because so many came out too bright or dark. With the old cameras there was a BRIGHTNESS knob and I believe a FOCUS. Seems like we were on a light colored beach, in the snow, or in the shadows in woods. The knob was always turned wrong when trying to get a quick booby photo.
A $1 doesn't sound like much today. But I only made $1 or so an hour! Didn't take dozens of the same photo like with digital. In fact a two pack in a day was more than I usually took. Then I fell back with the 110 film camera and hoped our subjects would pose.
Anyway we love these old photos of all kinds. Maybe more will now leave on the boarders and flaws.