Don't shake polaroids!

[OLEM]

On polaroids own website, they state that modern polaroid pictures have a transparent film over the picture itself, so shaking does not makes it dry more quickly. They even say it could ruin parts of the picture if shook hard enough. Best way to dry a polaroid is to lay it face up on a flat surface.

Please tell Max about this so she doesn't ruin her pictures. I'm worried.

[Sleazy]

Originally posted by 'l|l' HaZes 'l|l':

modern polaroids

That's an old camera, as she clearly states. Joke failed. BB.

[Squall]

Well, Max' camera is about 10 years old. Maybe she isn't using "modern polaroid pictures".

[Dan]

Originally posted by 'l|l' HaZes 'l|l':

modern polaroid pictures have a transparent film.

I don't know much about Polaroid cameras, but couldn't Max be using an old fashion one? As the thing you said is that only 'modern' Polaroid pictures have this transparent film.

[PrideTheBest]

Hers is the old one.

[OLEM]

Originally posted by Sleazy:

Originally posted by 'l|l' HaZes 'l|l':

modern polaroids

That's an old camera, as she clearly states. Joke failed. BB.

So her camera is old and she's using expired film, is that it?

[bukkie661]

She has an early 90's polaroid there, the model is around the time the spicegirls were a phenomenon. There was a model just like it that had spicegirls plastered allover it. the pictures from that might still even have the protection-sheet on the face.
I say this because I had a much older polaroid like that. The film that came out it had a protective sheet you had to peel off and then you had to shake the photo quickly a few times to have the emulsion spread and vaporize. After that, you had to leave the picture alone for a minute or three before handling it further.

I'm frankly more surprised that Max is in an advanced photography course with a retro-polaroid camera. Courses like that consider Leika as entry-level but acceptable with Hasselblad as top of the line. There's no way that Max can produce shots with her Polaroid that are acceptable for coursework.
Mainly because with Polaroids you get only wide-angle shots that are blurry and devoid of detail. If Max is the talented and gifted student everybody says that she is, her choice of camera actually works against her showing off her talent.
Most of my searches of Max' room has been in the hope that I would find her 'study'-camera and gear. It does however seem that she got into the advanced course with only a Polaroid-camera. I thought, especially because of Max' hipster attitude, that she schlepped the Polaroid around as some ironic joke.

[OLEM]

Originally posted by Merdakah:

I'm frankly more surprised that Max is in an advanced photography course with a retro-polaroid camera.

Great point. I think I remember seeing a Hasselblad on her teachers desk. I guess the polaroids are a big part of the story-telling. The photos have to be physical for them to inherit the memories and time-travel-connections to the past etc.