Polaroid JoyCam Film Camera
- Zoom Lens: Without Zoom Lens
- Zoom Range: 92 mm
- Camera Type: Point and Shoot
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Pocket-sized mall photo booth
Pros
Instant pictures, a stunning technological advancement for the year 2000
Cons
Absolutely horrifying cost
Recommended it?
No
This is a brilliant little Hollywood hipster toy --
(items in bold are taken from the Polaroid official description)
Whether you're
out having fun or just
hanging out,
-- tons of fun at parties and all, and somehow just that much cuter than a regular Polaroid camera: you can jam it in a purse, and jam the result in a wallet.
great
pictures are just a
push-button away.
You will also look absolutely lovely in the pictures, thanks to exceptionally low film quality. For whatever reason, I now have a lot of pocket-sized pictures of Drew Barrymore, even though I'm pretty sure I've never met her. This is perhaps the greatest advantage to any Polaroid photograph, and surely the reason for the 'JoyCam's' popularity with the H-wood anorexic crowd: it is really, really hard to end up looking ugly in a print like that. (My skin came out looking flawless and porcelain rather than porous. What's not to like there?)
It's simple to use -- out of all the heaps of pictures, we didn't really get an unusable one in the bunch -- but
Best of all, you
don't need a lot of cash to get plenty of Polaroid 500 Instant Film
the stupid things cost a fortune. The consensus was that it was not unlike having one of those mall photo booths in your pocket: iffy pictures for too much money, but still fun. I'm fence-sitting on whether or not this is actually worth it for anybody, given the price of lower-end digital cameras. Anyone accustomed to digital cameras will sneer cruelly at the 'JoyCam,' and not just because of its insipid name or desperate attempt to free itself from the usual horribly ugly Polaroid styling. These things run about a buck a picture! Ugh!
I can't figure out the target market for this product -- "spoiled teen-ager" is the only demographic that comes to mind. There are too many other glaringly obvious substitutes for this sort of pseudo-photo-booth fun for the 'JoyCam' to be of much use -- unless you happen to be a retailer of the JoyCam's film, steer clear.
(items in bold are taken from the Polaroid official description)
Whether you're
out having fun or just
hanging out,
-- tons of fun at parties and all, and somehow just that much cuter than a regular Polaroid camera: you can jam it in a purse, and jam the result in a wallet.
great
pictures are just a
push-button away.
You will also look absolutely lovely in the pictures, thanks to exceptionally low film quality. For whatever reason, I now have a lot of pocket-sized pictures of Drew Barrymore, even though I'm pretty sure I've never met her. This is perhaps the greatest advantage to any Polaroid photograph, and surely the reason for the 'JoyCam's' popularity with the H-wood anorexic crowd: it is really, really hard to end up looking ugly in a print like that. (My skin came out looking flawless and porcelain rather than porous. What's not to like there?)
It's simple to use -- out of all the heaps of pictures, we didn't really get an unusable one in the bunch -- but
Best of all, you
don't need a lot of cash to get plenty of Polaroid 500 Instant Film
the stupid things cost a fortune. The consensus was that it was not unlike having one of those mall photo booths in your pocket: iffy pictures for too much money, but still fun. I'm fence-sitting on whether or not this is actually worth it for anybody, given the price of lower-end digital cameras. Anyone accustomed to digital cameras will sneer cruelly at the 'JoyCam,' and not just because of its insipid name or desperate attempt to free itself from the usual horribly ugly Polaroid styling. These things run about a buck a picture! Ugh!
I can't figure out the target market for this product -- "spoiled teen-ager" is the only demographic that comes to mind. There are too many other glaringly obvious substitutes for this sort of pseudo-photo-booth fun for the 'JoyCam' to be of much use -- unless you happen to be a retailer of the JoyCam's film, steer clear.
