It’s quite a bit off from what you’re actually going to get from the lens in the middle. The viewfinder is typical of Polaroid 600 cameras. Unlike the Polaroid Spectra System, there is no indicator of focus distance. I used to just mash down the button, but I tend to get better results if I press down halfway first. Press down halfway to focus (there’s nothing indicating its doing anything, so you just have to trust the camera), and all the way to take the image. This camera has a great fat shutter button on the back. Use a few note cards or even your hand, but be warned, these flashes fire hot. The only way to work around the flash is to tape something over it. There’s no option to turn off the flash, which is par for the course with old Polaroid cameras. You turn the camera on and off by popping up the flash. This camera features the familiar exposure compensation dial that is an nearly every Polaroid camera ever made. Since it is a 600 model camera, it works with expired and new Polaroid 600 film. However, it has the best viewfinder I’ve seen on a consumer 600 camera and excellent autofocus capabilities. It doesn’t collapse down to a smaller size and it has almost no custom controls. The Polaroid Impulse AF is a fairly simplistic, rather cheap looking 600 camera. But now that we got my own history out of the way, let’s look at the camera itself and see how it stacks up against the other Polaroid cameras of the world. It was the one I grew up with and the first one I used to dive into the analog photography world. So you can say I have bit of a nostalgic connection with this camera. I purchased some expired Polaroid film from the Impossible Project (they hadn’t released any of their own yet) and ever since I’ve been hooked. The Polaroid Impulse AF was that camera.ĭuring my sophomore year of college, as I was teaching myself photography, I decided to dig up our family’s old camera and finally use it for myself. Film was relatively expensive (incredibly cheap by today’s prices though), so my parents always neglected to get any film and certainly wouldn’t let me use it. He would take a photo, hand it to me, and I would watch the gray developer fade into an image. I remember spending many days watching jealously as my dad used it to take snapshots of the family and of the house. Growing up, like most, my family had a Polaroid camera lying around. Get a refurbished Polaroid Impulse AF directly from Polaroid. Thanks! Get the Polaroid Impulse AF on Amazon. Please use the following links when purchasing, as it helps me keep writing and costs you nothing. The absolute best place to find Polaroid cameras like the Sun 600 for cheap (besides your parents’ attic) is through eBay and Amazon. To clarify, ‘Polaroid Originals’ are the films and cameras developed by the Impossible Project, while just ‘Polaroid’ refers to the original instant film line that was discontinued in 2008. The film itself is still the same, so for our purposes in this article the Impossible Project and Polaroid Originals are the same. Update September 2017: The Impossible Project has renamed itself ‘Polaroid Originals’ as part of a major rebranding effort. New February 2018: I now have a complete guide to how to use the Polaroid Impulse AF! I’ve also updated the review to reflect nearly three decades’ worth of use between me and my family. Update April 2020: To keep everyone confused, Polaroid Originals has rebranded itself as Polaroid.
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