The Thrasher edition is undeniably the coolest Polaroid camera I’ve seen. This is no easy feat as their cameras already had an appealing, iconic design. No two are exactly the same because the graphics are manually applied through hydro dipping. Despite that hand touch they are priced the same as their standard Gen 3 cameras. You might be thinking that you can’t really take skate photos with a Polaroid camera, but there’s sort of a workaround for that.
A the time of publication , Thrasher imagery features on the mast of the Polaroid web site.
It’s gallery time! What a beauty.
They’re selling a Thrasher film pack as well:
Total mystery. Total mayhem. In each pack you get 8 frames from a lineup of 11 but you won’t know which until the photo develops. That’s the Color i-Type Film – Thrasher Edition. Flames, chaos, and the occasional Neckface fever dream. Do you need them? Not really. Do you want them? Obviously. Because life’s too short for boring gear.
While scrolling through the set I saw an action photo and immediately thought “Hold on, that’s fake,” because the film speed of these cameras is not high enough for fast action. I was simultaneously right and wrong though. They sell a thing called the Polaroid Lab which is more or less one of their cameras designed to focus on the screen of your smartphone and turn that into a Polaroid picture. Sure, it seems like that might have been a good job for some sort of adapter to a standard camera, but maybe they couldn’t get ti work properly. It’s the same price as a regular camera but it only takes pics of your phone screen. The free app also allows you make cleaner (although less interesting) versions of David Hockney style Polaroid composites. They sell a bundle of the Lab with Thrasher film set.
While it lasts, here’s a video of the hydro dipping process for the camera.
This is the point in the post where I remind the manufacturer that they should send me something to review. I’m not begging at all.
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