It's no secret that I love polaroid. Every image, good or bad, comes complete with nostalgia and novelty. It's even decent amount of fun when you (in vain) try to pull the image out of the paper faster by shaking it like, well, a polaroid picture. I love the simplicity of just shooting-there is very little to adjust on a polaroid. The shots usually work, and they usually look pretty good. You can't try too hard, like you can with an SLR camera, and the image just is what it is. The camera decides what the photo will look like, and thus, leaves its fingerprint behind.
Polaroid shots also look great at weddings. They have a retro appeal that the hip youngster crowd loves. Its part of the nostalgia, a nostalgia that may endure with today's twenty- and thirty- somethings, but that may be lost on the children of the nineties.
And when the Polaroid company announced that it would cease film production, I got a little sad. And when one of the lomography guys announced he would bring it back, I got a little happy. Its expensive stuff to shoot (as of May, 2009), but some things are worth paying money for. I happen to think prettiness and nostalgia are two of those.
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