Poloroid Poised for Comeback With a Camera-Printer Combo

Polaroid is dead, right? The iconic supplier of anonymous photo processing to a generation of pervs effectively shut up shop back in February, closing the factories that made its instant film.

The company began its attempt to claw back some customers with the PoGo, a portable Bluetooth and USB printer, but what we really want is a digicam with a built in printer. That would be the true successor to the Land Camera, and, happily, that's what we shall soon have.

Polaroid has teamed up with UK magazine Amateur Photographer to decide on the details of a new camera which will have a built in PoGo. The only confirmed news so far is the size of the prints. At 4x3 inches, they are both bigger than the existing PoGo's 2x3 inch prints, and also exactly the same size as the old analog Polaroid pictures. AP readers are being asked to suggest other features for the new camera. We would suggest a shake-to-wake feature to develop the pictures, but seeing as that never did anything anyway, you could always shake the new ones and achieve exactly the same effect.

Personally, I reckon that Polaroid should go kind of Lomo with this camera, and load it with some odd filters and other novelties. After all, if you aren't post-processing with a PC, why not build in some fun effects like those in Apple's Photo Booth application?

Photographers to shape Polaroid History [Amateur Photographer]

by Charlie Sorrel for Wired.com