Pull the blue tab to remove the fi lm pack. Push the fi lm door release down to open the film door. Zero and three chim es sound to remind you to The flash on top as shown in picture 8 to get the bestĪfter you take the tenth picture, the picture countersets to For vertical pictures, posit ion the camera with The camera as you would a pair of binoculars.įor horizontal pictures, hold the camera as shown in Take the picture Slide your left hand through the hand strap and Outdoors:Your subject should be at least 2 feet (0.6m) away For best results, your subject shouldalso Indoors:Your subject should be within the 2 to 15 foot (0.6m Indoors and outdoors, when they are 3 to 5 feet (0.9m to You can take the most pleasing pictures of people, both Hold the fi lm pack by its edges only and slide it all the Load the film Use only Polaroid Spectra color fi lm. There is a red m ark (or green symbol for the self-timer) Note:When the switches are not in the automatic mode, Swi tches are in a row as shown in p icture 2. When you w ant the camera to be fully automatic, be sureall the Sides of the cover down unt il i t locks. Using the camera, close it to protect the lens. To close the camera (picture 4): When you have finished Release latch back.The camera wi ll open automatically. Open the camera Place both hands under the camera as shown. Tor: Green / gM (meansthe flash is ready to fi re The tip of a ball-pointpen, and the distance The control panel a Feet or meters selec. I Patented Quint ic lens(three element, 125mm To m easure the distanceto your subject).Į Photocell-silicon photo-diodes (measures light Take the picture 5To remove an empty film pack 5 SAFEGUARDSAs with any battery-operated equipm ent, observe El texto hate referencia a las figuras deįlash: apagado sombras en la cara (p. 2.) The text refers to pictureson these fold-outĭe operation de la camara Polaroid Spectra AF It's such a shame to see all of it thrown away now so the new company could make what is essentially just a clone of the cheap, point & shoot Instax models.This book contains operating instructions
I consider them to be Polaroid's last great milestone before their innovation really began to stagnate and the company eventually declared bankruptcy. It's not surprising since Spectras involved some pretty incredible engineering, both in the camera itself and improvements to the film at the time. These were marketed as a very advanced, premium instant camera line.
That $329.00 price tag would have been roughly more than $800 today, adjusted for inflation. SE or "Special Edition" models usually just offered extended warranties or accessory bundles. The Spectra System SE was probably released closer to 1987, but it's essentially the same camera. They also had more setting options/features and offered more accessories than other models of the era.
These cameras featured Polaroid's unique, previously developed sonar autofocus system (which detects objects with sound rather than light) combined with a revolutionary free-form lens design (which Polaroid called a "Quintic lens") that allowed for an impressive 10 focus zones in a very small unit and without having to extend or contract the lens itself. The decision to make a wide format film was most likely to fill a hole in the market after they successfully sued Kodak for patent infringement and forced them to discontinue their own instant camera line (Kodak instant film had been a wide frame picture, instead of Polaroid's square frame, with dimensions nearly identical to what Spectra would be). Polaroid introduced the Spectra line in 1986 with the original Spectra System camera. Personally I’ve always loved the spectra cameras and so even now that you won’t feasibly be able to shoot with it as easily as you can with a vintage 600 or SX-70 model, they still look very cool on a shelf. So currently today, the only way to get film for it is to either modify your camera to shoot Instax wide (which I have no experience doing) or buying expired film from places like eBay but this is both expensive and a dice roll on efficacy. They cited a lack of reliability on the hardware of existing cameras and their longevity as reasons for discontinuing it and then made that change permanent by retooling their manufacturing equipment from spectra to Polaroid Go film. However, Spectra film is currently discontinued. It was discontinued along with every Polaroid film in 2008 but the Impossible Project did revive it.
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The spectra system was a series of Polaroid cameras that shot in larger format instant film called “Spectra Film”.
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