Children of the 60s and 70s will feel a surge of rose-tinted nostalgia when they think of the best cameras for instant snaps available back then. It was an age without digital cameras and personal photo printers were still decades away. The ability to take colour snaps and have them develop before your eyes made its way into homes across the world. And we were hooked.
The Polaroid brand became synonymous with 'instant camera' - and it probably still is. They developed the first colour self-developing photo technology in the 60s, ushering in an age of affordable entry-level cameras for beginners. But why, in this Instagram age, are instant cameras making a comeback? They have a novelty value, sure, but most fads are short-lived. Instant cameras, however, have been back for several years now and show no sign of going extinct for a second time.
