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This series of [[Polaroid]] cameras, starting with the Automatic Land Camera 100 and finishing at the Automatic Land Camera 450, all share:
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*Folding bellows
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*Automatic exposure, with an external 'Electric Eye' light-meter beside the lens
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*A design for Polaroid 100-series Packfilm  (3¼×4¼-inch peel-apart [[instant film]])
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There is a very large variety within this vast range of essentially similar folding Polaroid models. The best 'standard' models are the '''[[Polaroid Land Model 100|100]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 250|250]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 350|350]]''', and 450 variants of the line.
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These feature a coupled rangefinder designed by the German firm [[Zeiss Ikon]], rigid metal bodies and 3 element glass lenses. Most other models, such as the '''[[Polaroid Land Model 103|103]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 220|220]]''' or '''[[Polaroid Land Model 430|430]]''' have a much cheaper build quality and features including plastic lenses, rigid viewfinders, moulded plastic bodies and many lack a tripod socket.
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All these cameras produce 7.2×9.5cm prints on Polaroid 100-series packfilm, and the more expensively produced models can be capable of very good results. Many accessories were made for these cameras including, but not limited to, portrait kits, close-up kits, and electric external flashes.
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A few models to be aware of are the 180, 185, 190, and 195 cameras. These professional-model Polaroid Land Cameras are among the best cameras Polaroid has ever produced, and are vastly superior to the rest of the 100-400 line as they include much faster glass lenses, fully mechanical leaf shutters, and manual exposure functionality. These models lack the built-in light-meter the other models use to calculate exposure, and are capable of excellent results, on par with the best professional Polaroid cameras ever made - like the [[Polaroid_600/600_SE|600 SE]].
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There are several main types of view and range finder used throughout the folding land camera series, the most common being a two-window split system (as featured on the Automatic [[Polaroid_Land_Model_100|100]]) whereby the user first makes focus using a small window with a circular (or, more commonly, square) shifting ranged image, and then moves the eye to a larger non-[[parallax]] corrected viewfinder with marked frame-lines for composing the shot.
  
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This type of viewfinder was on all the very early models in the series, and continued to be used on many of the mid- and low-tier models over the life cycle of the folding packfilm camera series. Both folding and non-folding models of this viewfinder type exist; the folding type is more common on early models with higher quality lenses.
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This series of [[Polaroid]] cameras, starting with the Automatic Land Camera 100 and finishing at the Automatic Land Camera 450, all share a common set of features:
 
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*Folding bellows
 
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*Automatic exposure, with an external 'Electric Eye' lightmeter beside the lens
 
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*Designed for Polaroid 100-series Packfilm
 
  
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There is a very large variety within this vast range of essentially similar folding Polaroid models. The best 'standard' models are the '''[[Polaroid Land Model 100|100]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 250|250]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 350|350]]''', and 450 variants of the line. These feature a coupled rangefinder designed by the German firm [[Zeiss Ikon]], rigid metal bodies and 3 element glass lenses. Most other models, such as the '''[[Polaroid Land Model 103|103]]''', '''[[Polaroid Land Model 220|220]]''' or '''[[Polaroid Land Model 430|430]]''' have a much cheaper build quality and features including plastic lenses, rigid viewfinders, moulded plastic bodies and many lack a tripod socket.
 
  
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All these cameras produce 7.2&times;9.5cm prints on Polaroid 100-series packfilm, and the more expensively produced models can be capable of very good results. Many accessories were made for these cameras including, but not limited to, portrait kits, close-up kits, and electric external flashes.
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The second, and one of the more uncommon types of viewfinder used was a single window non-rangefinder  variant. This type of viewfinder was used on the [[Polaroid_Land_Model_104|104]], and used a type of zone-focusing system, with subject distance selectable within the viewfinder, and two vertically travelling lines designed to be used to mark the top of a subject's forehead and their chin, to ensure correct focusing for portraiture.
  
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A few models to be aware of are the 180, 185, 190, and 195 cameras. These professional-model Polaroid Land Cameras are among the best cameras Polaroid has ever produced, and are vastly superior to the rest of the 100-400 line as they include much faster glass lenses, fully mechanical leaf shutters, and manual exposure functionality. These models lack the built-in lightmeter the other models use to calculate exposure, and are capable of excellent results, on par with the best professional Polaroid cameras ever made - like the [[Polaroid_600/600_SE|600 SE]].
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This zone-focusing viewfinder also features [[parallax|parallax-corrected]] marks for judging correct subject framing at different focal distances. In the instruction manual for the 104, Polaroid includes several illustrated tips on how to ensure correct use of the focusing system on varied subjects. This viewfinder type is non-folding, and so camera models with this type of viewfinder have a slightly different case design to those with folding optics.
  
  
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The third type of viewfinder common in the series is that used on the [[Polaroid_Land_Model_250|250]], [[Polaroid_Land_Model_350|350]] and other 3-element glass lens models: a high quality Zeiss-Ikon designed, single-window, parallax-corrected combination range and viewfinder.
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There are several main types of view and range finder used throughout the folding land camera series, the most common being a two-window split system (as featured on the Automatic [[Polaroid_Land_Model_100|100]]) whereby the user first makes focus using a small window with a circular (or, more commonly, square) shifting ranged image, and then moves the eye to a larger non-[[parallax]] corrected viewfinder with marked frame-lines for composing the shot.
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This type of viewfinder was on all the very early models in the series, and continued to be used on many of the mid- and low-tier models over the life cycle of the folding packfilm camera series. Both folding and non-folding models of this viewfinder type exist; the folding type is more common on early models with higher quality lenses.
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==Models==
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=== 100 Series ===
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 100|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100]] (1963-1966)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 101 (1964-1967)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 102 (1964-1967)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 103|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 103]] (1965-1967)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 104|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 104]] (1965-1966)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 125 (1965-1967)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 135 (1965-1967)
  
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=== 200 Series ===
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 210 (1967-1969)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 215 (1968-1970)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 220|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 220]] (1967-1969)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 225 (1968-1970)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 230|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 230]] (1967-1969)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 240|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 240]] (1967-1970)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 250|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 250]] (1967-1969)
  
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The second, and one of the more uncommon types of viewfinder used was a single window non-rangefinder  variant. This type of viewfinder was used on the [[Polaroid_Land_Model_104|104]], and used a type of zone-focusing system, with subject distance selectable within the viewfinder, and two vertically travelling lines designed to be used to mark the top of a subject's forehead and their chin, to ensure correct focusing for portraiture.
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=== 300 Series ===
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 315 (1969-1971)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 320 (1969-1971)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 325 (1969-1971)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 330 (1969-1971)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 335 (1969-1971)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 340|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 340]] (1969-1971)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 350|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 350]] (1969-1971)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 355|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 355]]
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 360 Electronic Flash]] (1969-1972)
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* Polaroid Countdown M60 Land Camera Automatic (1970-197?)
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* Polaroid Countdown M80 Land Camera Automatic (1970)
  
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This zone-focusing viewfinder also features [[parallax|parallax-corrected]] marks for judging correct subject framing at different focal distances. In the instruction manual for the 104, Polaroid includes several illustrated tips on how to ensure correct use of the focusing system on varied subjects. This viewfinder type is non-folding, and so camera models with this type of viewfinder have a slightly different case design to those with folding optics.
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=== 400 Series ===
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 420 (1972-1977)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 430|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 430]] (1971-1977)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 440 (1971-1977)
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 450|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 450]] (1971-1975)
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 455 (1975-1976)
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* Polaroid Countdown M70 Land Camera Automatic (1971-1973)
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* Polaroid Countdown M90 Land Camera Automatic (1971-1973)
  
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=== 100 Series Manual ===
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 180]] (1965-1969) - Zeiss viewfinder, Tominon 114mm f4.5 lens
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 190]] (1974-1977)- Zeiss vf, Tominon 114mm f3.8 lens.
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 195]] (1974-1976) - 2 window viewfinder, Tominon 114mm f3.8 lens.
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 185]] - Zeiss vewifinder, Mamiya Sekor 127mm f5.6 lens
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* [[Polaroid Land Camera 185 (2000)]] - Polaroid Japan, rigid finder, Tominon 114mm f/F4.5 lens
  
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* #126 Development timer
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* #193 Cold Clip
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* [[Polaroid Flashgun 268|#268 Flashgun]]
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 100|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100]]
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* #280 Flashgun
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* #471 Portrait Kit
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 103|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 103]]
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* #490 Flashgun
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 104|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 104]]
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* #516 Cloud Filter
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* #541 Portrait Kit
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 210
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* #543 Close-Up Kit for  [[Polaroid Land Model 430|430]] and  440
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 220|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 220]]
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* #561 Portrait Kit for [[Polaroid Land Model 450|450]]
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* Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 225
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* #563 Close-Up Kit for [[Polaroid Land Model 450|450]]
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 230|Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 230]]
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* #581 Portrait Kit
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* Polaroid Automatic 240 Land Camera
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* #581A Portrait Kit
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 250|Polaroid Automatic 250 Land Camera]]
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* #583 Close-Up Kit
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* Polaroid Automatic 315 Land Camera
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* #583 Close-Up Kit
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* Polaroid Automatic 320 Land Camera
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* #583A Close-Up Kit
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* Polaroid Automatic 330 Land Camera
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* #585 UV Filter
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 340|Polaroid Automatic 340 Land Camera]]
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* #591 Portrait Kit for [[Polaroid Land Camera 180|180]]
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 350|Polaroid Automatic 350 Land Camera]]
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* #593 Close-Up Kit for  [[Polaroid Land Camera 180|180]]
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 355|Polaroid Automatic 355 Land Camera]]
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* #595 Filter Kit with lens shade
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* Polaroid Land Camera 360 Electronic Flash
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* #596 Orange Filter
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* Polaroid Automatic Land Camera 420
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* #597 UV Filter
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* [[Polaroid Land Model 430|Polaroid Automatic Land Camera 430]]
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* #628 Exposure meter
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* Polaroid Automatic Land Camera 440
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* #1952 Portrait Kit for  [[Polaroid Land Camera 195|195]]
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* Polaroid Automatic Land Camera 450
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* #1951 Close-Up Kit for  [[Polaroid Land Camera 195|195]]
  
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== Film ==
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For film see the [[Polaroid instant film]] page.
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
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* [http://www.rwhirled.com/landlist/landhome.htm The Land List] - An Ongoing Project in Cataloging Polaroid Cameras
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* [http://www.landlist.ch The Land List] - An Ongoing Project in Cataloging Polaroid Cameras
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* [http://www.polaroid.com/media/com/pdfs/userguides/photographic/packfilms_guide_v2_m56577569830476845.pdf Polaroid.com] - Polaroid's User Guide for folding packfilm cameras (.pdf)
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* [http://en.polaroid-passion.com/format-type-100-cameras.php Type 100 cameras] at [http://en.polaroid-passion.com/ Polaroid-Passion.com]
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* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeP_imagettes.php#Polaroid Polaroid cameras and manuals] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand
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* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeP_imagettes.php#Polaroid Polaroid cameras and manuals] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
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* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_100.php 100], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_101.php 101], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_automatic_104.php 104], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_195.php 195], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_210.php 210], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_225.php 225], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_230.php 230], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_315.php 315], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_320.php 320], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_330.php 330], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_340.php 340], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_350.php 350], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_355.php 355], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/polaroid/html/polaroid_440.php 440] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand
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* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=10253 100], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=10244 104], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=1130 230], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=718 340], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=714 350], [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=717 355] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
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* [http://www.picturenoise.com/landpage.html Picture Gallery using Polaroid 100 series] www.picturenoise.com
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Latest revision as of 06:59, 18 September 2021

This series of Polaroid cameras, starting with the Automatic Land Camera 100 and finishing at the Automatic Land Camera 450, all share:

  • Folding bellows
  • Automatic exposure, with an external 'Electric Eye' light-meter beside the lens
  • A design for Polaroid 100-series Packfilm (3¼×4¼-inch peel-apart instant film)

There is a very large variety within this vast range of essentially similar folding Polaroid models. The best 'standard' models are the 100, 250, 350, and 450 variants of the line.

These feature a coupled rangefinder designed by the German firm Zeiss Ikon, rigid metal bodies and 3 element glass lenses. Most other models, such as the 103, 220 or 430 have a much cheaper build quality and features including plastic lenses, rigid viewfinders, moulded plastic bodies and many lack a tripod socket.

All these cameras produce 7.2×9.5cm prints on Polaroid 100-series packfilm, and the more expensively produced models can be capable of very good results. Many accessories were made for these cameras including, but not limited to, portrait kits, close-up kits, and electric external flashes.

A few models to be aware of are the 180, 185, 190, and 195 cameras. These professional-model Polaroid Land Cameras are among the best cameras Polaroid has ever produced, and are vastly superior to the rest of the 100-400 line as they include much faster glass lenses, fully mechanical leaf shutters, and manual exposure functionality. These models lack the built-in light-meter the other models use to calculate exposure, and are capable of excellent results, on par with the best professional Polaroid cameras ever made - like the 600 SE.

Models 220, 360 and 420
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Viewfinder & Rangefinder variants

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Model 100
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Model 104
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Model 350
viewfinder images by Tim Williams (Image rights)

There are several main types of view and range finder used throughout the folding land camera series, the most common being a two-window split system (as featured on the Automatic 100) whereby the user first makes focus using a small window with a circular (or, more commonly, square) shifting ranged image, and then moves the eye to a larger non-parallax corrected viewfinder with marked frame-lines for composing the shot.

This type of viewfinder was on all the very early models in the series, and continued to be used on many of the mid- and low-tier models over the life cycle of the folding packfilm camera series. Both folding and non-folding models of this viewfinder type exist; the folding type is more common on early models with higher quality lenses.


The second, and one of the more uncommon types of viewfinder used was a single window non-rangefinder variant. This type of viewfinder was used on the 104, and used a type of zone-focusing system, with subject distance selectable within the viewfinder, and two vertically travelling lines designed to be used to mark the top of a subject's forehead and their chin, to ensure correct focusing for portraiture.

This zone-focusing viewfinder also features parallax-corrected marks for judging correct subject framing at different focal distances. In the instruction manual for the 104, Polaroid includes several illustrated tips on how to ensure correct use of the focusing system on varied subjects. This viewfinder type is non-folding, and so camera models with this type of viewfinder have a slightly different case design to those with folding optics.


The third type of viewfinder common in the series is that used on the 250, 350 and other 3-element glass lens models: a high quality Zeiss-Ikon designed, single-window, parallax-corrected combination range and viewfinder.

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Zeiss Ikon single-window rangefinder-viewfinder
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)
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Zeiss finders
Top: Rev 1; Bottom: Rev 2
image by joanseda (Image rights)


Models

100 Series

200 Series

300 Series

400 Series

  • Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 420 (1972-1977)
  • Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 430 (1971-1977)
  • Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 440 (1971-1977)
  • Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 450 (1971-1975)
  • Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 455 (1975-1976)
  • Polaroid Countdown M70 Land Camera Automatic (1971-1973)
  • Polaroid Countdown M90 Land Camera Automatic (1971-1973)

100 Series Manual

accessories

  • #126 Development timer
  • #127 Development time
  • #128 Development timer
  • #191 Cable Release
  • #192 Self timer
  • #193 Cold Clip
  • #268 Flashgun
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Model 350 with external flash #268
image by Erich Z (Image rights)
  • #280 Flashgun
  • #471 Portrait Kit
  • #473 Close-Up Kit
  • #490 Flashgun
  • #516 Cloud Filter
  • #541 Portrait Kit
  • #543 Close-Up Kit for 430 and 440
  • #561 Portrait Kit for 450
  • #563 Close-Up Kit for 450
  • #581 Portrait Kit
  • #581A Portrait Kit
  • #583 Close-Up Kit
  • #583 Close-Up Kit
  • #583A Close-Up Kit
  • #585 UV Filter
  • #591 Portrait Kit for 180
  • #593 Close-Up Kit for 180
  • #595 Filter Kit with lens shade
  • #596 Orange Filter
  • #597 UV Filter
  • #628 Exposure meter
  • #1952 Portrait Kit for 195
  • #1951 Close-Up Kit for 195

Film

For film see the Polaroid instant film page.

Links

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