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Polaroid Swinger + Big Swinger
The plastic Model 20 "Swinger", with its catchy commercial featuring a Barry Manilow-sung jingle playing against Ali MacGraw walking on a beach with one, and el-cheapo $19.95 price tag was Polaroid's most-successful camera at its 1965 launch, and its "go-to gift" status for teens/grads/etc. made it one of the most popular point and shoot cameras of all-time. I picked it up at Goodwill for $4 out of pity... with Type-20 film loooong out of production, it's as good as a display piece.
The $24.95 Big Swinger was released in 1968, grafting the Swinger's simple shutter mechanism and "YES" light meter/aperture adjustment to a plastic type-100 packfilm body that served as the baseline for Polaroid's future rigid-packfilm cameras. I've talked about this camera before - I just wanted to shoot it alongside its older, smaller sibling.
Polaroid Swinger + Big Swinger
The plastic Model 20 "Swinger", with its catchy commercial featuring a Barry Manilow-sung jingle playing against Ali MacGraw walking on a beach with one, and el-cheapo $19.95 price tag was Polaroid's most-successful camera at its 1965 launch, and its "go-to gift" status for teens/grads/etc. made it one of the most popular point and shoot cameras of all-time. I picked it up at Goodwill for $4 out of pity... with Type-20 film loooong out of production, it's as good as a display piece.
The $24.95 Big Swinger was released in 1968, grafting the Swinger's simple shutter mechanism and "YES" light meter/aperture adjustment to a plastic type-100 packfilm body that served as the baseline for Polaroid's future rigid-packfilm cameras. I've talked about this camera before - I just wanted to shoot it alongside its older, smaller sibling.