Polaroid alternatives.

First of all, let me say, nothing quite beats Polaroid, the 'magic' in that film is undeniable, and the process revolutionary.

On that note though, and following my last post on how  readily available legacy Polaroid equipment is and its needed film and batteries are around as well. I also wanted to highlight many of the modern day alternatives.

First, there is the infamous app POLADROID that is great to use on your actual computer (for all of you non iPhone owners) The quality is pretty great, and you can save at various stages of the development to get different effects of exposures.

Here is their pool on Flickr...




The next alternative is for the iPhone owners, and future iTouch 4 owners, ShakeitPhoto, is one of the earliest Polaroid apps. Imho it has the best quality in color, saturation, and exposure of all the faux Polaroid apps.(side note, there are LOTS of apps called shake it, this one has a rainbow on the icon). Definitely an Essential iPhone App.

Here is the website for it..

Next, is the app Camera Bag. It is a bit more at $1.99, but includes many other effects, so it is well worth it. The Polaroid effect is good, not the best, but nice to use on any of your existing pictures, plus the waiting and shaking thing can get old sometimes.

There are a few more (actually lots more) 'Fauxlaroid' apps in the store, but with these two you can definitely fulfill your mobile Polaroid needs.

For real world, physical media replacements, you really need to look no further than Fuji, as I have mentioned before, they have the instant film thing down with various models to choose from as seen below.







Instant joy.