iPhone: The New Polaroid Camera?

7:16 am, February 26th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli

Photographer Lisa Wiseman , who describes herself as “addicted to Polaroid film,” snapped a series of pics with her iPhone in everyday settings she called “the new Polaroid.”

About them she says,”These images are the evolution of the Polaroid: they were all taken with my iPhone camera. Because the iPhone is becoming a ubiquitous and trendy accessory, on-the-go picture taking is now the norm.

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I see people using their iPhones to take spontaneous photos in the same carefree way that cheap Polaroid has been used in the past…Just like Polaroids had a specific size and look, iPhone photos are unmistakable because the technology limits them to a fixed size and resolution.” (NB: we’ve resized them here).

Complete album on her site.

Images Ã¢“’Lisa Wiseman

Via Notcot

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7 comments

ummm, its called a cameraphone and has been around for a few years

Chris, on February 26th, 2009 at 8:36 am

Hopefully someday we can find a way marry the iPhone with the new Polaroid Pogo mobile printer so that you can not only enjoy capturing images on your iPhone, but print and share virtually anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2B-W5hD4s8

Sincerely,
Andy from Polaroid

Andy, on February 26th, 2009 at 9:02 am

I must agree with the first comment. What a lot of people don’t know is how to get their pictures off of their (any old camera / cell, not necessarily iphone) phone to see the true size of the digital file in pixel height and width. Resolution is a fractionally foreign word to many that aren’t by nature designers or digital media people. Most people understand card readers, but some low end phones won’t use cards… then what? The answer… (for those of you that do not know already) is to send the pics to your e-mail by setting up an e-mail contact in your phone, rather than a number. Send the pic to your e-mail by placing a “call” to the e-mail address and attaching the photo. You’d be suprised how large those images can actually be and you can see them a lot better on a screen.

If you have a printer… viola! If not, get an account at any old online photo printer or forward the ones you want printed to a local printer. Boo-Ya!

Tyson, on February 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

If only the Polaroid pogo could work with the Apple phone then it would be ideal.

Emile, on February 27th, 2009 at 12:21 am

“I see people using their iPhones to take spontaneous photos in the same carefree way that cheap Polaroid has been used in the past”.

err. sort of, except an iphone ain’t cheap and it doesn’t even come close to reproducing the “polariod quality” of an SX-70.

spontaneity, yes. just like on any camera phone.

shipwrecked, on February 27th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

[...] credit Lisa Wiseman (and CultofMac.com) with watering the seed in my brain that had previously been planted when they labeled the iPhone [...]

iPhone: The New Polaroid. « iloveFlyCasual, on March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am

“… cheap Polaroid …”

You’ve never shot Polaroids, obviously.