The $599 I-2 is Polaroid’s newest camera. | Image: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
Polaroid cameras are notoriously finicky. If you buy one of the 37,000 vintage Polaroid cameras , the likelihood of it working properly is slim. And if you can get it working, the likelihood of a photo being properly exposed is even slimmer. Enter the $599.99 Polaroid I-2.
The I-2 is a brand-new instant camera from Polaroid. But the big difference between it and most instant cameras is its ability to be manually controlled via a lens ring and a single button under the camera’s tiny digital display.
For this episode of Full Frame, I spent two interesting, and at times frustrating, weeks with the Polaroid I-2. And I quickly learned that where its manual controls allow for a much higher success rate, its automatic mode leaves…
by #AI September 7, 2023 · Automatic
