[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Username1

Got a little more interested so I went to ebay to look for the old Polaroid cameras
the one I have is the Square Shooter 2, a really dull looking all plastic body
with pull starter and wrist strap permanently attached to the camera body.
I bought it new when I was a really little kid for around $21.89 at Korvettes, it was
on sale, and for $24.88 I could have got the Square Shooter Plus, but didn't have
the extra money.... The Square Shooter Plus, and that may not have been the name,
but that one had a built in mechanical wind up timer on the side of the bellows part
of the body..... On ebay they have a Square Shooter 4 with the timer on the side, so
who knows, there may have been a plus, or there may not. One day I gotta pull mine
out, I don't remember the 2, or 4, being on my camera..... I guess my brain is getting old.....

I remember the news story when Polaroid stopped making their film, I remember one of
my early drivers licenses was made using a Polaroid, it did either 2 or 4 at a time.
We had to wait till the did the 2 or 4 people to get ours.

I really liked that camera, it took great pictures, it had a focus on it, and adjustment for light,
I remember taking good pictures in all light levels, really a good camera.

My dad still has a SX-70 at the house, that was a really sweet camera too.... I use to make
all kinds of stuff with the old batteries. Popular Science I think did a piece on the batteries,
they were exceptionally strong for their size, and weight.....

A lot of very cool innovations came out of Polaroid.....


http://en.polaroid-passion.com/polar...ilms.php?id=55

Found another website, this lists a Super Shooter, and Super Shooter Plus, so now I
think Mine must be a Super Shooter..... And the blue writing on the front seems to
bring back a faded memory, and the Super Shooter Plus has the timer.... They can be seen
on ebay.....

I bet each time sales dipped a bit, they redid the graphics and re named the camera and
that was it.... Look at all the camera's that took that 88 film, they look the names up on
ebay, and they all look pretty much the same..... Still a dam good camera.

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The Impulse AF was my first instant camera, it cost me just over 90 bucks I think in 1993 from a camera shop in what turned into a dead mall and is now an office/medical building. I recently bought a NOS unit. My first one was a display model with two shots left on the film. I got the optional carrying case made just for that type of camera, no idea why that was thrown in. Pretty hard to come by these days, picture of one attached.

Oh yeah, I recall my Impulse AF being an exceptional performer in low light, which is more than can be said about today's lower-cost digital cameras, even my Canon with its "high sensitivity" image sensor. Darn thing is much harder to get good pictures with in any light level.

I had a Super Shooter Plus that was given to me at one point, never used it though.

I have noticed all the differently-named Polaroid pack film cameras on eBay that looked pretty much the same aside from the labeling. Marketing scheme for sure.