Flash Back
Retro cameras will make you fall in love with film...again
The Scoop
Instant cameras are hot again! After Polaroid closed its last factory in 2008, former employees founded The Impossible Project, to resell existing film. Now the group has created its own high-quality instant film, and competitor Fujifilm is producing in- stant cameras and film. Plus, Polaroid is working with—wait for it—Lady Gaga to devel- op new products, including a camera that lets you photograph,
UrbanOutfitters.com, or Walmart.com, or check them
out in specialty photo stores. —Nicole Crowder
FAT CHANCE!
Now you can win money
by dropping a few pounds
The limited edition Polaroid SX- 70
is the real deal: an instant camera
built in the 1970s but restored and
hand-inspected. It folds for easy
storage ($350; photojojo.com).
In less than 60 seconds,
Polaroid’s Z340 prints
3- by 4-inch images onto
paper embedded with
dye crystals; no ink need-
ed ($299; polaroid.com).
The sleek
Fujifilm
Instax
Mini 7S
produces
credit card–
size images
that appear
in seconds
($69; amazon
.com).
The Fuji Instax 210 Instant Camera
lets you easily capture your
grandkids’ graduations with
4-inch-wide photos ($60;
amazon.com). ;
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In general, people lose
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money on the line, a recent
analysis of research from
Cornell University found.
Take Nat Walker, 50, who
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lost more than 10 pounds
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there,” says the project
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needed to be in 28 days,
and it was extremely moti-
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