However, Land was, by our definition, a hacker, and while you probably correctly associate him with the Polaroid camera, that turns out to be only part of the story. Land in 1977 It was obvious ...

[Nicholas Morganti] has just such a camera, a Polaroid Big Shot, a 1970s instant camera designed for portrait work, for which the Polaroid 100 film packs are sadly a distant memory. Leave it on ...

For a lot of people, these cameras have become synonymous with the company Polaroid. People call those little photographs that get printed Polaroids, just as people call tissues Kleenex.