Polaroid Land Camera Model 80B with Wink Light
Polaroid Model 80B (aka Highlander) was manufactured from 1959-61 and is the third and final version in the Model 80 series of cameras. It retains all the other advancements and changes of the first two models except it has a different cutter bar and film release switch.
The is old Polaroid Land Camera is in Very good condition, all dials, levers, buttons and knobs turn and make their normal sounds, shutter clicks. Includes the rare wink light and due to this cameras age, sold as is.
The Polaroid Corporation was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company’s flagship product line. The company’s original dominant market was in polarized sunglasses, an outgrowth of Land’s self-guided research in polarization after leaving Harvard University at the age of 17, he later returned to Harvard to continue his research. After Polaroid defeated Kodak in a patent battle, Kodak left the instant camera business on January 9, 1986.
Polaroid Highlander are Polaroid cameras that used Type 30 instant roll-film.
There were three models in the series.
Specifications
- Lens: 100mm f/8.8, 3-element glass
- Shutter: 2-speed rotary-leaf design with speeds of 1/25s and 1/100s, plus Bulb
- Flash: M-sync via Polaroid “hot shoe”
- Exposure set by Polaroid Light Value scale. (Standard EV scale on 80A and 80B).
- Rigid viewfinder on top of camera.
- Distance focus by rotating lens front-element.
- Self-erecting bellows design.
- Steel body painted brown.
