Economic Research: Camera Reviews

Friday, 28 December 2012

Camera Reviews

A few years ago, I was ecstatic to find my parents’ old Polaroid 660 camera in their basement. As much as I love the features of my digital camera, I missed the Polaroid’s ability to print out an instant memento. For a brief time between 2008 and 2010, Polaroid stopped making cameras, and released the PoGo inkless printer, a portable device that produced two-inch by three-inch photos sent from a cellphone or digital camera. The PoGo was notable because it didn’t require ink. Instead, it used technology from a company called Zink, which made photo paper embedded with colored crystals that changed color when heated by the printer. Polaroid has since taken that technology and built it into a new instant camera, the Z2300, which I’ve been testing for the past week. The $160 Z2300 keeps the Polaroid tradition going by printing out pictures right from the camera, but also offers some modern-day features, such as a built-in display, photo-editing options and video-recording capabilities.