As long as we’re taking one trip down memory lane, we might as well continue the theme. People today just have no patience, you know: everything’s about instant gratification. When I was a kid, when we took pictures, we had to wait. None of this looking at them instantly. Well, unless you had a Polaroid camera, and even then, there was an arcane ritual that had to be completed first.
If you miss those days of shaking and waiting for photos to develop, check out the free Poladroid. It recreates all the fun of Polaroid pictures with any digital photos you’ve got handy. Just drag and drop your pics onto the camera icon and it’ll convert them—in authentic brown-colored slow-mo revelation—into Polaroid snapshots that you can print, upload, or do whatever your heart desires—once they’ve finished developing, of course. And yes, before you ask, you can shake the pictures to get them to develop faster.
It’s a fun and silly little application, that can potentially produce some pretty cool images. Best of all it’s simple and free, so give it a look, especially if you’re a vintage photo-nut.
[via Lifehacker]
You're not supposed to shake polarois pictures! It makes the ink run and the pictures aren't as clear! Does that happen on the virtual ones too?
Incidentally, shaking Polaroid pictures never made them develop any faster, or had any effect on them whatsoever.
I hear John McCain loves it.