Sticky Photos: But That's a Good Thing
Written: Oct 07 '00 (Updated Oct 08 '00)
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Pros: Inexpensive, fun way to get yourself in photo with famous person
Cons: Pictures are very small
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| nathsmom's Full Review: Polaroid I-Zone Pocket Film Camera |
Feeling uncharacteristically "sassy" this afternoon, I find myself practically skipping through my local drugstore (which, let me tell you, for a woman in her 30s, is not a good look, but I digress). Past the sundries, past the weird drugstore food aisle, and right into the camera department where I spy a cheeky little camera called the Polaroid I-Zone hanging, so very coyly, on a rack.
It beckoned me, that cheeky little camera, just loudly enough to break my preoccupation with the Archie Comic Digest. (Why, I wondered to myself, was my girlhood idol, Veronica Lodge, so mad for Archie when Reggie was available--come on--Reggie was way better looking plus he had the cool sports car and Archie was driving around in a jalopy for God's sake. That one fact alone just blows all the Archie Comic credibility, but I am off again.)
So, a sassy little Polaroid camera, available in a variety of colors, that will allow me to take tiny little photographs (about the size of a 35 mm negative), and since the film has a sticker backing, stick them to anything I want. The back of the package suggests some places you might want to stick them <raise eyebrow>; places like your computer, or your portable CD player, or your backpack, or your braces. You don't have to tell me 11 times--this product is intended for the preeteen and/or slow-to-mature teen market. Nevertheless, I remain steadfast--that saucy li’l camera is coming home with me. Oh the color choices--lime green? Pink? Or silver?
(I did buy that little camera and took it home, and after about 45 minutes of a Star Trek-style knife fight, was finally able to get the package open.) A quick glance at the instructions and I am ready to roll. Easy to load the film, easy to take the picture. Simple to remove the picture. Totally idiot proof. I cannot go wrong. Well actually I can, but that really has nothing to do with the camera or the directions. Suffice it to say, read them first.
The picture quality is okay--it's a very tiny little picture though, but there is a sticky backing on it, and this gets me to thinking...
Flip through copy of In Style that I just happen to have lying around. Snip out celebrity photograph. Select appropriate light setting on camera, hold camera at arms length and click picture of yours truly. Stick. I now have a lovely photo of me and Matt Dillon (Oh please--he is so gone on me--you can just tell by the way he's looking at me in the picture; better get in line brother because Johnny Depp is ahead of you. Johnny Depp and me, yaw, that one is suitable for framing). Snip. Click. I think me and Senator Lieberman make a handsome couple. Click, oops. One excellent close up of my thumb. Snip. Click. Me and "Bill" Shatner, and finally one of my baby because I am not totally self-absorbed. Sheesh. That's it--just six exposures in this starter kit package, which also comes with two AA batteries.
The flash is a little much. Every pic I snapped looked overexposed to me. I’m already plenty Casperesque on my own and I certainly don’t need any help from a camera, thank you all the same. (I took a few photos and kept putting on more makeup to counter the wash-out effects of the flash. By the end, in my bathroom mirror, I looked not unlike Bette Davis as "baby Jane". Even still, looking at the photo, I could use a little more color.)
This is a fun, novelty camera, more a toy than anything else. The pictures are very small and I can't see a whole lot of use for them; although the sticker aspect might be good for people who do scrapbooks or make fridge magnets as a hobby (hey--I have heard that people do that). It’s inexpensive, and would probably be quite fun for a child. My two year old is having a great time with it right now.
The best thing about it of course is that, like any Polaroid, you don't have to wait around. In just seconds you can know that "Eww there's another one I am not keeping."
Recommended:
Yes
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