Polaroid OneStep 2 Camera is an ’80s Throwback

Any child of the ’80s has used a Polaroid instant camera. These things were everywhere back in the day and are the cameras that spit the photos out the front of the camera that started off looking like thick white squares with nothing but gray in the picture. Then you had to shake that picture and you would watch the image develop right in front of your eyes.

Nothign would make a grandma angrier than trying to take your picture at Christmas and finding out once the image developed that you had moved and the picture was blurry or you had your eyes closed. Polaroid is back with a new instant camera called the OneStep 2. This is a big deal for people who don’t want a digital photo because production of instant film ended in 2008.
The new camera and the fact that instant film is back is thanks to the folks in The Impossible Project who purchased the Polaroid brand, intellectual property and the last Polaroid factory in the Netherlands reports PetaPixel.

This new camera is fully analog and is compatible with 600 film and the new i-Type film. It has a lens that is good for 2-foot to infinity and the internal battery is good for 60-days. Features include integrated flash, self-timer, and that battery is a rechargeable 1100mAh unit charged via USB.

Using these cameras is dead simple, you turn it on and press the red button and a photo slides out the front. Film is offered in color, black and white, and other special versions. The Polaroid OneStep 2 will land on October 16 in white or graphite colors for $100. The film is available now for $16 for eight pictures. If you have grandma’s old polaroid camera lying around, you can buy film for it again too with SX-70, 600, and Spectra for $19 and up.