Land Camera Model 95

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Polaroid Corp.
INVENTOR: Land, Edwin Herbert
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, MA, Cambridge
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Polaroid 95
INTRODUCTION DATE: Feb 21, 1947
PRODUCTION DATES: 1948-1953
FILM TYPE: Type 40 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 3¼ x 4¼ in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $89.75 (2/1/49)
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: instant
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 135mm f/11
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Upright-style folding camera for 3¼x4¼ inch images; Images on Polaroid
  type 40 rollfilm; First model has flexiable spring post finder.
  Roll film contains large roll of specially treated paper and a smaller
  paper negative roll connected together by a paper leader. Roll film
  is loaded in the top of the camera, leader is threaded through
  rollers and out a slot at the bottom of the camera. After exposure,
  leader is pulled down drawing together the negative paper and
  print paper through the rollers. As the paper passes through the
  rollers, a chemistry pod of developer/fixer is broken and spread
  across the paper. The image develops outside of the camera after about
  a minute; negative paper is peeled off revealing a sepia toned image.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: P7621.00002
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 108

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. p185.//
McKeown, Jim & McKeown, Joan. --McKeown's Price Guide to Antique & Classic Cameras: 1995-1996.-- Grantsburg, WI: Centennial Photo, 1994. pp 356-7.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection.//