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FILM STARS Snappy days are here again

Good news for instant photography fans: Polaroid is back. Well, actually it’s been sort of back for a few years now, since The Impossible Project company began making instant film in 2010. But last year the Impossible people reunited with the original brand name. So the new instant films really can be called Polaroid films. You can buy new designs and refurbished older types of Polaroid instant cameras as well. But – and here’s the good bit – you can use the latest films to breathe new life into a fabulous selection of old cameras. First, a little history.

The earliest instant picture camera, launched by its inventor Edwin Land in

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