Polaroid's latest move to revive the field of instant photography (and Polaroid itself) is the Z2300 instant digital camera.
Going by ratings on Amazon, the $160 camera seems popular indeed. Suspiciously so – with five-star reviews like the one from "Chomakala," who wrote: "Camera color (black) is so affluent that, it has made me easy to differentiate it from other cameras. It's wonderful not less than a piece of cake." Other five-star reviews say: "its' not so biggie," and "It needs only 2×3 full color prints splotch corroboration."
Personally, I was not so impressed with the splotch corroboration.
The Z2300 is essentially a digital camera with a printer built in. You take photos, which it stores for you to see on the three-inch LCD screen on the camera's back. When you have a shot you like, you can make a 2- by 3-inch print. Print paper costs $15 for a 30-sheet pack (that's 50 cents per shot), available online and in camera stores, as is the camera itself.
The prints are smudge-proof, tear-resistant and adhesive (if you can peel off the stubborn paper backing). They are also generally low quality. The hand-held photos I took were a tad blurry. The shutter speed must be glacial; even shots in full sunlight were soft unless I steadied the camera on a wall or used a tripod. The prints were a bit washed out, but cool in an "Instagram with a low-fi filter" way.
With a size of roughly 5 by 3 by 1.5 inches, it's not quite pocket-size, nor is it lightweight. The controls are pretty easy to figure out, but there are a lot of them spread around the camera, some on the back, some on the side. It's not elegant.
At this point you may be wondering who this camera would appeal to. Testing it at a coffee shop, one woman was very taken with it. "This would be so much fun to use with my granddaughter!" she said. I'd suspect it would also be good for scrapbookers, and the sticky-back photos might make fun party favors.
But I also suspect that the Z2300 works better as a novelty than as an everyday camera unless, of course, you value splotch corroboration.
By DAVID CARR 20 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/polaroid-develops-a-new-instant-camera/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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