Antique_Camera_Guy
Polaroid Swinger Sentinel
This is the "Polaroid Swinger Sentinel". It is from the popular and inexpensive line of "Swinger" Land Cameras produced by Polaroid from 1965 to 1970. Other models in the Swinger series included the original Model 20 and the Model 3000 "Big Swinger".
With an initial price of $19.95 USD it was the first true affordable instant camera. The camera's low price and ease-of-use made it popular with the young adult demographic of the 1960s and 70s, resulting in millions of units being sold.
The Sentinel is nearly identical to the original Swinger with the exception of a grey body instead of white, and the lack of a built-in flash. The camera also features a ridged all-plastic body, a plastic fixed focus single element lens, a single speed rotary shutter, and assisted exposure adjustment via a built-in photomemeter. The camera would have originally used Polaroid’s 20-Seires rollfilm, which was Polaroid's first instant film to develop outside the camera.
I don't think this particular camera was ever used, because the piece of paper warning the user to read the instructions carefully before using was still inside.
To watch the vintage TV commercial for the Polaroid Swinger:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo
A downloadable PDF of the manual for a simular camera, the original Swinger, can be found at:
Polaroid Swinger Sentinel
This is the "Polaroid Swinger Sentinel". It is from the popular and inexpensive line of "Swinger" Land Cameras produced by Polaroid from 1965 to 1970. Other models in the Swinger series included the original Model 20 and the Model 3000 "Big Swinger".
With an initial price of $19.95 USD it was the first true affordable instant camera. The camera's low price and ease-of-use made it popular with the young adult demographic of the 1960s and 70s, resulting in millions of units being sold.
The Sentinel is nearly identical to the original Swinger with the exception of a grey body instead of white, and the lack of a built-in flash. The camera also features a ridged all-plastic body, a plastic fixed focus single element lens, a single speed rotary shutter, and assisted exposure adjustment via a built-in photomemeter. The camera would have originally used Polaroid’s 20-Seires rollfilm, which was Polaroid's first instant film to develop outside the camera.
I don't think this particular camera was ever used, because the piece of paper warning the user to read the instructions carefully before using was still inside.
To watch the vintage TV commercial for the Polaroid Swinger:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo
A downloadable PDF of the manual for a simular camera, the original Swinger, can be found at: