Polaroid's First Camera Caused
customer rush 65 Years Ago !!
Polaroid is a non-entity these days, but instant photography
lives on in the digital photos we produce at dazzling speeds. We're addicted,
and that's what made Polaroid the hottest tech company in the world when its
first blockbuster consumer product, the Model 95 Land Camera, went on sale.
That was 65 years ago on Black Friday, November 26th, 1948.
At $89.75 each, the
Model 95 wasn't cheap—that's roughly the equivalent of $1130 in 2013. This was
also back before "Polaroid" was a generic name for these types of
cameras, and nobody had ever seen anything like it before. (For ages, the
instant shooters were named "Land Cameras" after the company's
founder-genius Edwin Land.) And yet, the product's runaway success was an early
indicator of how a cutting edge gadget could capture the imagination of a huge
audience
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