Antique_Camera_Guy
Polaroid Joycam
This is the "Polaroid Joycam". It s a simple, plastic, point-and-shoot instant camera which was produced by Polaroid from 1999 to 2004. The camera would have originally retailed for about $20 USD, and was available in silver, purple, dark grey (shown above) or gold.
In the 1990s, Polaroid was looking to diversify its line of instant photography products. The main idea behind the Joycam was to market a simple and inexpensive camera to get young people interested in instant photography.
The camera features an unusually shaped, all-plastic body, with a fixed focus lens, selectable aperture (for outdoors or indoors with flash), and a pull tab which manually ejects exposed prints and doubles as a carrying ring. The camera would have originally used Polaroid Type 500 film, which was first introduced with the ill-fated Polaroid Captiva in 1994.
The Joycam is probably one of the worst designed and poorly made products that Polaroid ever produced. For starters, the camera features a very thin plastic body which gives the camera an ultra-light, but flimsy feel. The film compartment door which is located on the bottom of the camera is attached to the body of the camera not by a hinge, but rather a large sticker which displays instructions on how to use the camera. Not to mention that the film door itself locks with a small flimsy plastic tab. Earlier models of the Joycam did not have a lock on the print ejection tab. If the camera was suddenly jerked or if the tab was tugged too hard it could result in the user ejecting and unexposed print by accident.
Despite its shortcomings, the Joycam was one of the last successful products that Polaroid released before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008.
A downloadable PDF of the manual for the Polaroid Joycam can be found at:
www.manualslib.com/manual/544546/Polaroid-Joycam.html#manual
Polaroid Joycam
This is the "Polaroid Joycam". It s a simple, plastic, point-and-shoot instant camera which was produced by Polaroid from 1999 to 2004. The camera would have originally retailed for about $20 USD, and was available in silver, purple, dark grey (shown above) or gold.
In the 1990s, Polaroid was looking to diversify its line of instant photography products. The main idea behind the Joycam was to market a simple and inexpensive camera to get young people interested in instant photography.
The camera features an unusually shaped, all-plastic body, with a fixed focus lens, selectable aperture (for outdoors or indoors with flash), and a pull tab which manually ejects exposed prints and doubles as a carrying ring. The camera would have originally used Polaroid Type 500 film, which was first introduced with the ill-fated Polaroid Captiva in 1994.
The Joycam is probably one of the worst designed and poorly made products that Polaroid ever produced. For starters, the camera features a very thin plastic body which gives the camera an ultra-light, but flimsy feel. The film compartment door which is located on the bottom of the camera is attached to the body of the camera not by a hinge, but rather a large sticker which displays instructions on how to use the camera. Not to mention that the film door itself locks with a small flimsy plastic tab. Earlier models of the Joycam did not have a lock on the print ejection tab. If the camera was suddenly jerked or if the tab was tugged too hard it could result in the user ejecting and unexposed print by accident.
Despite its shortcomings, the Joycam was one of the last successful products that Polaroid released before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008.
A downloadable PDF of the manual for the Polaroid Joycam can be found at:
www.manualslib.com/manual/544546/Polaroid-Joycam.html#manual