[Nicholas Morganti] has just such a camera, a Polaroid Big Shot, a 1970s instant camera designed for portrait work, for which the Polaroid 100 film packs are sadly a distant memory. Leave it on ...

For a lot of people, these cameras have become synonymous with the company Polaroid. People call those little photographs that get printed Polaroids, just as people call tissues Kleenex.

The donor camera was a Polaroid Pronto from eBay, in good shape on the outside and mostly complete on the inside. A Dremel took care of the latter, freeing up space occupied by all the plastic ...