RETRO TECH: POLAROID

Way before cell phone cameras, we took selfies with Polaroids. I explore how the first Polaroid camera, the Polaroid SX-70, turned us all into amateur photographers and paved the way for our social media-obsessed culture. Fellow YouTube creator and model Karlie Kloss teams up with me to make photo filters the retro way — with bleach. And Peter Mckinnon stops by to play “Dope or Nope.”

0:00 The Polaroid
1:01 Unboxing A Polaroid
3:28 Talking Polaroids
7:12 Shooting With PV
10:21 History of Polaroid
11:49 Dope or Nope
16:35 Shake It
18:48 Karlie Kloss
22:57 Lasting Tech Legacy

[Amruth]

Not to forget, Instagram is so heavily inspired from the Polaroid that IG's original logo was a Polaroid too!

[FM.PHOTOGRAPHY]

“What are the 8 things you want to remember forever?” That question made me appreciate photography nowadays even more.

[iugdjrjgte]

Me: oh cool! A video about vintage cameras!

Marques: D R O P T E S T

[musishoon]

I am absolutely in love with this documentary style. The fact that it’s not behind a paywall is baffling

[bernhardneumueller]

more like a documentary than a youtube video, the quality and effort spent is insane here :) love it

[enderprodigy]

My grandma was obsessed with photographs. When she passed away this exact camera was the keepsake I took and still have to this day to remember her by. She had about 10 boxes full of nothing but Polaroid photos without frames. Her fridge had no blank spots ever. She held the family together. Photography was apart of making those memories special and gave us a way to reflect. This was state of the art in her day.

[brandongill]

This series is just Marques telling boomers how young he is.

[smortboi]

I like how everyone is like “DONT SHAKE IT” and the last dude was like “... I was today years old when I learned you don’t shake it”

[mathewmho]

I appreciate how much Marques loves his technology, no matter how old. You can tell by the way he hesitated at the drop test proposal @13:55

[abraar_baquery]

6:40
"Has anyone taken a selfie with a Polaroid?"

Mr. BEAN !!!!

[swirlandtwirl]

The person who made and designed it s a genius

[FranVianzon]

I wish Polaroid Originals (previously "The Impossible Project", the group/company that resurrected the polaroid film as seen in the video) got a shout out. The original Polaroid company died and Polaroid Originals is a whole different team who got Polaroid back into the modern market.

[aaronoutdoors]

I’d still use a Polaroid camera if the film wasn’t so expensive

[wertywerrtyson]

Even in the 90s as a kid when you met someone with a Polaroid camera it blew my mind as I was used to mom sending in the film by mail to be developed and you had to wait a week. Little did I know the technology was much older than me yet it felt futuristic even then.

[srushtikulkarni]

This series made me want to have a Polaroid so bad

[ezravdl]

20:40 "Oh wow, that's hot"
*Marques having flashbacks*

[frontlinebreakthrough]

I'm really sad that there's only one more episode of this series left. I've really, really enjoyed it. Thank you Marques and team

[grodan]

Karlie Kloss: is 6 ft tall

Marques: "Finally, a worthy opponent"

[abbasulemuhammad]

4:33 "That's why every photo from back in the day, nobody's smiling" 😂😂

[Asistne]

It's so crazy how all of these tech items are in one single device that fits in our pocket.