{"id":17432,"date":"2012-04-27T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2012-04-27T04:19:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:19:53","slug":"sx-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/04\/27\/sx-70\/","title":{"rendered":"SX-70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The invention of an American genius.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This wonderful advertisement for Edwin Land&#8217;s Polaroid SX-70 instant camera is thrilling to watch.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jaiq_ZZ_eM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><i>Click to play.  Refresh browser if not visible.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Almost eleven minutes long, and reveling for a considerable part in the fabulous technology of the machine, there is no better way, other than using one, of appreciating what Dr. Land had accomplished with his magic machine.  The sheer simplicity of the SX-70&#8217;s user interface would not be rivaled until the iPad came along forty years later, and having used both, I can assure you only one is magic, and it&#8217;s not the product designed in Cupertino.<\/p>\n<p>The film was made by Charles and Ray Eames, whose other accomplishments include architectural and furniture design.  Talent is seldom evenly distributed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Film for the SX-70:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of criminally insane people in Holland got together, bought out the old Polaroid film making hardware and got down to making film for the SX-70, and you can still buy it <a href=http:\/\/shop.the-impossible-project.com\/shop\/film target=_blank>here<\/a>.  Bless them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invention of an American genius. This wonderful advertisement for Edwin Land&#8217;s Polaroid SX-70 instant camera is thrilling to watch. Click to play. Refresh browser if not visible. Almost eleven minutes long, and reveling for a considerable part in the fabulous technology of the machine, there is no better way, other than using one, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/04\/27\/sx-70\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SX-70<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17440,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions\/17440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}