Lo-Fi and DIY

Cigar box guitars are a tradition that stretches back to the 1830 when cigars first became available in small wooden boxes. Inspired by the...

It began with an innocent inquiry by a 3 year old girl in 1943. While Doctor Land was snapping pictures on the beach in Santa Fe, his dau...

Dr Land and Polaroid came up with a million ways to use instant photography, much of it in professional fields. From dentistry and forens...

Somewhere along the line the transition occurred- maybe the early nineties. Entertainment centers were out, and a reinvented version of...

We have entered a new era of creation. Scrapbooking tools like Crikut and Silhouette replace jobs normally done by commercial vinyl cutters,...

I, like many Polaroid nuts, love the style of the Automatic Land Camera pack cameras from the sixties, but need more control. Though the ...

This rather small collection within a collection is of the 500 series film cameras. The flagship of the line is the Captiva or Vision camer...

Perhaps the most popular Polaroid camera today, the folding SX-70 was a design miracle at it's inception. It was the first folding slr,...

In the back of our crabgrass choked lot there is a small cement pad-nine foot by nine foot. Originally the home of a hot tub, it became a...

When you have the D.I.Y. Bug, sometimes you do things just to see if they will work. No true major goal, just will it work. I do a lot of...

The Polaroid Spectra line was made with the high end in mind. The film is the largest film they sold, wider by 5/8 inch. It could still f...

How does one become a collector? Though there are many ways to rationalize collecting (preserving, sharing, specializing in, investing in...