"How to Make Good Pictures with Your Polaroid" Manual
Historical artifact -- Instruction Book
Identifier:
1988.72.2.1Description
"How To Make Good Pictures with Your Polaroid(R)" Instruction booklet.Front cover of the book has a picture of a man and woman looking at the photograph produced by their camera. Front cover is black & white with the exception of the red bubble reading, "How to Male Good Pictures with Your Polaroid(R) Speedliner Land Camera, Model 95B"
The back of the booklet is red and white. On the red portion is multiple photographs stacked on top of each other, a black & white photograph of a small girl smiling, a puppy in her wooden, toy stroller. On the white portion is a wall of text reading,
"Use Polaroid's Speedy Copy and Enlargement Service
..you'll want extra coping and enlargements to give your friends and relatives. These sparkling coping, which match the quality of your original print, can be obtained easily, quickly and inexpensively, directly from Polaroid Corporation.
Or, if you prefer, you can order your own regular film negatives for use in your darkroom or by your photo finisher.
Enlargements, either in black and white or hand-colored are also available at low cost. You will find instructions, prices and a handy order blank packed with every Polaroid Land Picture Roll.
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge 39k Massachusetts.
F1414H, Printed in U.S.A."
Inside of the book, "How to Use This Book
A: How to load the Camera, Pgs 2-5
B: How to take a picture, Pgs 6-9"
C" How to develop a picture, Pgs 10-11
How to load the Camera
- First, Open Up the Back
- Stop, A Moment and Look at the Other Parts
- To Open the Camera
- To Close the Camera
- How to Hold the Camera
- Set the Shutter
- Focus Your Camera
- Aim Through the Viewfinder
- Coat Each Print Immediately
- Store Prints in Either of These Ways:
- Don't Write
- Don't Bend
- Don't Use Paste or Rubber Cement
- Incorrect Exposure
- Blurred or Fuzzy Image
- Loading or Developing Errors Can Cause These
- How the Process Works
- Conversion Table For Lens Openings and Shutter Speeds
- How to Take Flash Pictures
- For Regular Flash Bulbs
- Electronic Flash
- Indoor Shots and Time Exposures
- Speedliner Accessories Designed for Your Camera - Matched to Your Camera... Results are Better... Easier... Quicker
- Care of Camera