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Originally Posted by BaronVonPorn

The instant camera is a type of camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture.

Buy the camera and you get a pack about the size of a pack of cards but square that would slide into the camera. Take a picture and wait a few seconds and a paper photo would start to come out the front slot slowly. You had to be careful not to touch the photo until complete and not to touch the actual photo so be careful to pull it out. The user would typically hold the photo and wave it in the air for a few seconds to dry the image so it doesn't smudge. No more embarrassing situations where you take pics of your wife and the guy at the photo shop gives that knowing smile when you go to pick up your photos.

Before the Polaroid SX-70, their first automatic-developing camera that ejected the print, they produced "pack" film cameras which the user would have to first pull a tab that would then flip-out the tab of the actual film/negative from the camera. Then, time the development for 60 seconds for color or 10 seconds for black & white and peel the print from the negative portion. The emulsion of the print would then take a few moments to "cure" and become dry to the touch. Prior to that, they had "roll-type" films which were first only black & white 8-exposures. Similar "pull and peel" operation. The film package included a squeege with a fixative solution that had to be spread over the finished print to keep it from fading. Next came their first Polacolor films that only had 6 exposures due to the added thickness of the developer pod in them.

I was in the photo business back in those days and saw the evolution of Polaroid and the genre of home-made porn which was quickly underway.