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  1. 1st May 2014, 08:57 AM #1
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    I Dreamed a Dream

    This may seem a little weird, or perhaps I saw this somewhere and it seeped into my sub-conscious...

    Last night I had one of those vivid, detailed dreams and in one part I saw a guy at a food court somewhere taking photos with a DSLR camera, but it had an attachment rather like a battery grip - except this was a Polaroid instant photo printer. It was integrated into the DSLR so that he could print off photos immediately with the option to zoom and print parts of photos too. He was snapping shots and giving them to people as they came out.

    I was trying to work out whether the photo printer was like a small printer, or actually a Polaroid instant film canister. I think it was the latter as I'm sure I recall people watching their photos develop. I assumed the connection from the camera was to some sort of mini scanner that exposed the Polaroid film inside the attachment, then spat it out like an old school instant camera.

    My question is - do these or something like them actually exist or have I just made it up?

    If I did in fact just make it up, is it something worth pursuing? The technology exists but, like soap-on-a-rope, just hasn't been combined in this way... or has it?
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  2. 1st May 2014, 01:43 PM #2
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    From Polaroid the only one that come closer is the Polaroid Z340.
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    I suspect it would have to go down the Polaroid path, trying to get enough ink capacity in a grip sized enclosure would be a challenge...
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    It would have had to have been a Polaroid or similar analogue camera.
    Why would you want to make a DSLR camera so heavy and bulky, if the output paper didn't need to be in the optical path?
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    Quote Originally Posted by theresanothersteve View Post
    I suspect it would have to go down the Polaroid path, trying to get enough ink capacity in a grip sized enclosure would be a challenge...
    If you are happy with its limitations then is Ok.
    They do not suit me, I like to have the freedom of PP including converting to B&W, enlargements, etc.
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    The thing I thought of was more of a gimmick than a serious photographic appliance. It was the fact that you could just run off these old school Polaroids on the spot whilst still having the original image on flash memory that appealed to me.
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    Is handy for this kind of things

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