Polaroid i-Zone | Polaroid Cameras to AVOID
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Few cameras scream early 2000's aesthetic like the Polaroid i-Zone. These things might litter thrift store shelves now but there was a time when they were super hip and fun for everyone! I'm looking at why you should avoid these specific cameras if you're looking at getting into shooting Polaroids right now!
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Omg I still have the i-Zone with radio, I just founded it a couple months ago and it still works. I wish I could find some film 🥺
Same, that's why I'm here lol
They basically produced photographic band-aids. That's how kids used to share their pictures with each other before Instagram. The cameras themselves now make nice colorful paper weights. 1 kinda want the one with the FM radio. Not gonna lie.
The i-Zone doesn’t sound like a bad idea... although I think it might have done better had it been introduced in the early-1990s instead
It did pretty well. It was the "best selling camera of the year" in both 1999 and 2000.
My grandma bought me an i-Zone camera when I was young. I really loved that thing and remember taking it on a few school field trips. I believe the film was kind of pricey but my Grandma would always ask me if I needed more so she could pick some up for me. Unfortunately I've lost all the photos but I still have the useless camera sitting around in my collection.
That's so sweet that your grandma always wanted to make sure you had film. She sounds awesome. The camera actually sounds like it was really fun.
This camera sounds cool and fun! It's not so different from the Instax Mini or the new Polaroid Go which produces the smallest instant photos you can right now.
You forgot to mention the digital hybrid version!!! That’s right, they made an i-zone that shot Polaroid films as well as digital !
Oh, no way, I had one of these as a kid. I distinctly remember the tiny magnetic picture with the little bit of colour on the side.
Hey, just wanted to say I really appreciate how much time, effort, care and research you clearly put into these :) I’ve been shooting film for a couple t years and I only found your channel a few weeks ago but I’ve learned loads of super interesting stuff I had no idea about that’s only helped increase my love for analog photography. Recently I dug out my dad’s old Minolta 110 SLR after watching your video about 110 film and bought a roll of film for it!
Keep doing what you’re doing man :)
I had a purple Izone when i was a kid. The images were super tinny and my parents never bothered to buy me more exposure after it ran out. All and all, a disappointing experience.
Right after I went into college I found an I-Zone at a thrift store and shot a couple of packs... Cute camera. Cue many years later I picked up a Polaroid Xiao, that is a much more toy like, but gray rectangular block of a camera. Still has all of it's original paperwork in Japanese, and it's original pack of film it came with.
the 2nd i-zone is a digital combo so you could plug it into your computer to get the photos off of it. Haven't found a way to get it to work yet though.
I had the i-zone radio! I was about 12-13 y/o at the time.. at that age many kids like myself never measured our strength and over pulled the film or it just wouldn't break off (felt like pulling a number from a deli dispenser) I'd pull the shot I took and an extra negative which was exposed and a wasted lol the sticky back part never worked tbh.. and the quality was pretty bad. Radio worked great but it would drain the batteries extremely quick or they would leak. Ahh.. the memories. I'm a professional sports photographer now and I absolutely loved seeing how much technology has advanced! Thanks for the great videos!
had it as a kid. loved it. it was just affordable enough to have shot a few packs before it went out. film was so hard to get back in the day even when it was out.
I remember I had a Backstreet Boys one. I wish I still had it just to have. I lost it when my parents apartment was in a fire years back.
Oh no! Backstreet Boys one sounds amazing though. Definitely fits the time period.
A Polaroid I-zone is the first camera I ever owned. I had one when I was like four or five I think. Very fond memories of it. I only just recently remembered that I ever owned one and it brought back a wave of nostalgia.
I remember this camera! My parents bought one when they first came to the U.S., i never really got to use it cause i was to young but i for sure remember my mom using it and putting them in the photo album
I don't know if I've ever seen anything that looks so much like 1999 as the i-Zone. Every youth-oriented consumer electronic product was made of blobby transparent coloured plastic and had wacky squishy fonts and logos.
Released in 1999, easy, cheap, kinda crappy, and pretty useless. Never has a camera been more relatable to me.
Oh my word I'm def. What. A. Mood. Lol
I remember how Britney Spears promoted this exact item for her Crazy 2k tour in 2000 and the Backstreet Boys for their Black and Blue tour in 2000 😂😂 Polaroid sure wanted the teens to have these cameras 😂😂
Too bad, I like the aesthetic of these.
Oh man I LOVED my I-Zone!! I brought that thing with me everywhere. I still have all of the pictures to this day!
Very informative video I still have mine and another. Neat relic of 1999-2000 era
My sister and I had a dark purple i-zone when we were little! Took so many pictures with that thing, still have a bunch of them in a drawer.
We were really young, and I remember our parents getting upset at us for wasting film. Oops.
But yeah, I have fond memories of these. Pulling the film out as it was exposed and whatnot.
Thanks, just found my i-Zone digital combo wondering if you could still get this format film.
The video answers that exact question!
Yes, I know. That wasn’t a question at all.
If I remember correctly the Izone film cost more the normal color 600 size, it wasn't until they canceled it and put it on a huge discount that I could afford the film for it haha.
I had a joycam. Despite the fact that almost everything about it was terrible, the instant nature of it was probably what helped fire up my interest in photography. I never much liked waiting to get my film back (still don't) but as an adult that's easier to deal with. If it wasn't for the joycam I might never have picked up photography, so for that I am thankful.
I have one of these from when they came out when I was in high school. I just found it the other day. Should I throw it out? Or keep it for some reason. It's in great shape. I had an APS camera too 🤣
Holy shit I remember my cousin had one of these back in the early 2000s when we were like 6. Ultimate nostalgia!
Well... too disappointed to learn that the film has been discontinued by the company. I just found mine... and I have 1 new film but it has expired on 2007. I was hoping to get more... Thank you for the info.
This was my dream when I was a kid I wanted one so much! But sadly in my country it was not cheap 😢
Hey Noah!
Thanks a bunch for your videos, I'm learning a lot from you! :)
Cheers,
Balázs
I ☆LOVED☆ my izone!
Still have a bunch of its photos, too. ♡
I really find your videos useful and informative. Thank you for the information that you share with us. Keep it up.
Cheers.
ahhh me and my sister both had one and we loved it
OMG!!!! I had one back in the day, I regret throwing it away now.
I've never heard of the i-Zone camera or film. (Kinda looks like Fujifilm's Instax Mini in terms of print size.)
Really enjoy your videos, very informative and interesting. I would like to see the comparison between Fuji instant film and Polaroid Original film. I’m kinda debating on what kind I should get.
just found one of the digital hybrid ones at the thrift store and it works!! now to figure out how to get the images off
Would love to see more content on 16mm, like a video showing your process on shooting with it, lighting etc...
heeey brooo i see that video just before i was to buy a i-zone and i think that you save my a$$ xdd, well not in that range but it be nice ti see and know all that for my knowledge, see you soon thx from mx
Es curioso que los productos de fotografía analógica que no se pueden encontrar, son los que se lanzaron justo antes de la irrupción de la era digital.
Is significant that analog photography products that no longer exist are they were released just before digital era started.
can i get any sort of film for this now?
Oh I had an i-zone, those pictures were soooo tiny
The first time I got an i-zone Polaroid camera and film, I thought the photos were way to small!
We're can I get working film for the little izone
is there any way to get the i-zone photos enlarged?
Almost snagged one for a dollar at the goodwill... only reason I passed was the American girl doll, red/white/blue livery. Just... SO tacky...
Thank you. You saved me from wasted time and money.
I still have mine but no film 😒
Unfortunately Polaroid don’t make colour spectra anymore because they were having issues with it or something. Only B&W.
They actually no longer produce any Spectra film at all. Spectra was fully discontinued in 2019, any that you come across now is old stock.
Its funny because with a name like i zone you would expect something digital the technology was new and hip but not very cheap .and the early digital cameras were annoying to use everyone used their own media .some used floppy's some used zip discs some used flash cards .but every flash card was different back then there was no standard you needed a good recent pc just to get the picture off it and print you couldn't do it on an older late 80s or early 90s pc a lot of people still had back then. and the software was glitchy and only worked with 1 type of camera .and the quality was worse than analogue. so for something cheap and kid friendly analogue still made sense
Y'all are gonna be kicking yourselves in the pants when polaroid revives these formats and y'all are out here looking like the people who said charles Lindbergh couldn't fly a single wing airplane all the way across the Atlantic
I really doubt that
@@AnalogResurgence yeah, because then you'll look like a moron having made this video.
like the new setup
I thought we were supposed to SHAKE IT like a Polaroid picture, not Stick it like a Polaroid picture.
Lol i have one of them
What a gimmicky film
Nerd :^)