While exploring flickr, I found this fantastic photo! I had this very same camera many, many years ago! I was so excited to take pictures and I still have a few of them.
If I remember correctly you had to buy a flash bar to put in the slot on the top. The film came in packs of 10. You didn't need to shake the pictures, but we all thought it helped them to develop faster and did it anyway. How ironic that I'm exploring the latest web technologies for use in my teaching and I come across this antique. Actually Polaroid had a program when I was first teaching in which they sent cameras and film (the flash was built in by then) and lesson plans for engaging students in photography. Their photos could inspire poetry or essays, geometry lessons, the possibilities were endless--at least until the film ran out! Now, of course, students can use their phones to take pictures and the film never runs out! It really does open up a whole new world of expression...
If I remember correctly you had to buy a flash bar to put in the slot on the top. The film came in packs of 10. You didn't need to shake the pictures, but we all thought it helped them to develop faster and did it anyway. How ironic that I'm exploring the latest web technologies for use in my teaching and I come across this antique. Actually Polaroid had a program when I was first teaching in which they sent cameras and film (the flash was built in by then) and lesson plans for engaging students in photography. Their photos could inspire poetry or essays, geometry lessons, the possibilities were endless--at least until the film ran out! Now, of course, students can use their phones to take pictures and the film never runs out! It really does open up a whole new world of expression... 
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