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|i_want: Polaroid PoGo™|

Polaroid launches today the Polaroid PoGo™ Instant Digital Camera, the first digital camera and instant printer combination that is portable enough to take anywhere. With the push of a button, consumers can select from among the digital photos on the camera, crop or edit them and in less than 60 seconds, print full-color, 2×3-inch prints – all with a single device.

The Polaroid PoGo™ Instant Digital Camera uses the same ZINK Photo Paper™ and ZINK™ Zero Ink™ Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging used in the Polaroid PoGo™ Instant Mobile Printer. ZINK™ Zero Ink™ is an ink-free printing technology which replaces ink cartridges or ribbons with ZINK Photo Paper™ – a composite material that has embedded, heat-activated dye crystals. Before printing, ZINK Photo Paper™ appears white like regular photo paper. Once the pictures are printed, they are immediately dry to the touch, durable and smudge and water resistant.

The Polaroid PoGo™ Instant Digital Camera offers a full-feature digital camera with 100 percent inkless printing, 2×3-inch sticky-backed photos with or without fun borders and the advantage of reviewing the captured photos on a three-inch color LCD screen before printing. The instant digital camera measures 4.7-inches wide by 3-inches tall and weighs only 10 ounces.

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Greetings and Salutations

It is with great respect and fond goodwill that we, the Lomographic Society International, present to you the incredible Holga. To give due credit, we are neither the inventors nor original creative users of this amazing instrument. In fact, we came pretty late to the party. The Holga was actually created in Hong Kong way back in 1982 - so it was no spring chicken. However, our tardiness has in no way affected our true admiration and raucous passion for this clumsy looking camera and its absolutely beautiful results.
We received our first batch of Holgas quite a few years ago. After some careful loading and hearty shooting, we quickly and forcefully fell deep into infatuation. Okay, maybe it wasn’t that quick. Certainly, we cursed and swore like Alabama truck drivers when we first tried to load the damn thing. And, we all shared that nervous feeling of "Is it actually working or not?" when we first used it. Truth be told, the Holga is not an easy camera to get used to, and it can be a real pain in the ass.
The infatuation came later, when we received our images back from the photo lab.
They were breathtaking in every sense of the word. Every picture displayed an other-worldly presence, with soft-focus tones, misty colors, and streaming lights. The ugly duckling matures into a radiant swan. Surely a clichéd story, but in the Holga’s case, the folk tale is 100% true. Feeding off this initial encouragement, we furiously worked to fill our Holga archives, and discover the full range of this instrument.
In 2001, we launched a new competition called the "Lomographic Sampling Games." This global project invited our members and everyone else to submit their best photos as taken by our collection of Lomographic cameras. Given our intense fascination, we also included the Holga as a permissible tool for the competition.
The submissions were mind-blowing. Really devastating. The Holga images jumped out as some of the most gorgeous photographs that we have ever seen produced from any camera. Bold words to be sure, but there is no exaggeration here. After a painstaking process, we finally chose an exceptional selection of Holga shots from Richard Hernandez (USA), Lisa Knowles (USA), and Courtney Utt (USA) to be published in our Lomographic photography compendium "Don’t Think, Just Shoot" (2002, Booth Clibborn Editions UK). Via

***Holga sample pictures here.

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