On one hand, the current excellent quality of the film with bright, accurate well-saturated colors and consistencly from shot to shot, is a throwback to Polaroid's glory days when Polaroid's were everywhere, being used with the same purpose phone cameras are now used. On the other hand, Polaroid has identified a rather nice sized niche of amateurs, semi-pros and professionals who are photographers and artists of all types and has developed new tools along with the film to produce unique, creative original images that were unattainable with most Polaroid cameras of the past. Success cannot occur if risk isn't taken. The current Polaroid started as the aptly named Impossible Project. This was a huge risk and it was indeed a virtually impossible task. But they accomplished it and never thought of stopping their improvement of it. I believe Dr. Land would approve.
I just got this camera and im trying to figure it out but all the pictures I take look really bad, blurry, dark and it keeps getting worse each picture I take
It's also possible that you're pulling the photo out from the protective roll back tongue before 5 seconds have elapsed. I wasted 8 shots this way yesterday; before you remove the photo you need to count to 5 Mississippi or they'll all be blurry, dark and poorly developed. Polaroid should immediately go into a dark place or dark box if you have it to develop.
Okay so I have a question for the double exposure mode. Now how do I do it while having a self timer on? Cause I don’t want to have to take the photos with my phone in my had. I’ve already had two failures and any help would be nice
For the double exposure photographs you have to have been relatively close to your subject. What is the minimum distance you have to be from your subject because mine keep turning out blurry
Imo it still sucks to have no option to select a mode from the app and press the shutter button on the camera, not on the phone. I think it's time to step further from the days of the Impossible I-1 and the Polaroid Originals OneStep+ and give the photographer the opportunity to select modes and settings on the phone and then use the camera to finish taking your shot. Holding both your phone and the camera in your hands at the same time is kinda uncomfortable. This is just my opinion though.
With the Polaroid Now+, we designed custom shortcut to make it easier to create. Choose your favorite tool from the app and send it directly to your Polaroid Now+ camera - without needing to connect to your phone. Check out the Polaroid Now+ User Manual for more information. If you're feeling fancy and want to try out a feature not saved with the +Button, we generally hold the camera in our non-dominant hand and make sure we’ve got our thumb lined up and ready over the phone’s shutter button before we frame the shot. (You can get creative with how you hold the camera, since you don’t have to push the shutter button on it.) We also like to give the phone to a friend and tell them when to press the shutter; it’s how the pro photographers do it. Or place it on a tripod using the handy mount on the bottom of the camera.
@@PolaroidOfficial Wait, did you remove the feature where you can just press the volume button and use it as a shutter? That's still not as nice as just uploading the settings and pressing the button on the camera would be (and there's no reason the microcontroller in your camera wouldn't be able to hold those 15 bytes or so in its memory, so tell your engineers to start engineering stuff, there's no need to save every click to flash, which you're doing with the photo log and mileage counters anyway), but at least it's way better than hovering vaguely over a touch input.
@@PolaroidOfficial The manual that I saw looked very bare bones, could you verify for me whether I can just use the camera alone to take a photo after I have somehow saved a mode from the app to the camera?
Does this camera finally have faster ranging? That's been my biggest gripe with all the i-Types, you go and try to capture a moment and the camera just freezes up, waiting about half a second to take the photo. You can feel this especially on the Now, after the half-press it takes a bit for the lens to click in place and during that time the shutter is inhibited. It's so much slower than an Impulse AF, for example. I understand that this could very well be a hardware limitation with the ranging unit, but even then, if the camera could just keep measuring range whenever it charges the flash, and then keep the last known measurement on the half-press to keep the AE-lock feature, that would pretty much fix it. Haven't had a chance to try the Now+ yet though, I really hope it has this exact fix or something equivalent.
Not sure if you bought the cam but I've had it for about 9 months and used it for the first time yesterday. The delay is massive. It also disconnects from the phone every few seconds. I'm a self shooter. So I'll place myself, set the lense, get prepared to shoot, and it disconnects and I have to reset everything. I was soaked in sweat and tears yesterday. Still managed 8 good shots out of 16. Ugh.
I'll stick to Polaroid now.... In my opinion it's more fun keeping it more original with taking simple old-school snaps not knowing how it's going to come out. Good updates but it takes away that classic.. original feeling. If I wanted to edit pictures so much I might as well stick to my phone or get a Nikon or Canon.
See this is the issue they're trying to come across like they're helping you but in reality this is a terrible product would not recommend buying it I hear way more complaints about it than actual you know positive feedback and Polaroid does not care about how you feel they will tell you how it's something wrong with your camera or you did something to it or maybe just return it or return it will give you a new one and the new one ends up doing the same exact thing and instead of giving you your money back they're like well we're sorry you are unhappy with your product hopefully next time you'll have a better experience with our product basically saying fuck you we keep your money you keep the shitty product we make they don't want to help you and I tried reaching out to them before they don't give me help they gave me a reach around and said hey go to this place instead of just you know answer my simple fucking question to help me instead they leave me a paragraph pretty much telling me where to go instead basically saying fuck you we don't care
Instead of fix the overexposure bug in the Polaroid Now+ with a firmware update, they just released Generation 2. The same hardware, only new colors and fixed exposure. My 3 weeks old Now+ Gen 1 is broken by design. Shame on your greed!
