{"id":187,"date":"2013-06-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.208.228.216\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:10:47","slug":"polaroid-800-land-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/camera-gear\/product\/polaroid-800-land-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid 800 Land Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polaroid 800 Land Camera, or simply &#8220;The 800&#8221; as it is sometimes called, is an instant film camera produced by Polaroid from 1957-1962.&nbsp; It is very similar to the Polaroid 150 in that it has a coupled rangefinder, parallax correction and a hot shoe.&nbsp; The 800 also features a carefully selected, high precision 130mm f8.8 three element glass lens, an electronically tested shutter and permanently lubricated roller bearings.&nbsp; The camera also has a polished steel body with a light tan textured coating, and bellows that collapse for compact storage when not in use. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/keh.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/q=100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Polaroid-800-Land-Camera.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/keh.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/q=80,fit=scale-down,format=auto\/expert-advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Polaroid-800-Land-Camera.jpg\" width=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Polaroid 800 has both a viewfinder window, and a rangefinder window on the back of the camera.&nbsp; The shooter must look through the rangefinder window to focus the camera, and then through the viewfinder window to compose the image.&nbsp; Unlike many Polaroid cameras that utilized pack film, the 800 model used instant roll film.&nbsp; Roll film came in two rolls with a positive and negative, and was exposed inside the camera.&nbsp; This was different from pack film that develops outside the camera.&nbsp; Unfortunately instant roll film is no longer made for this type of camera.&nbsp; However, this great vintage find would make a handsome decorative piece, or be perfect for those looking for a conversion project.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Polaroid-The-800-Land-Camera-Tan-Beige-AUCTION-20727-\/121119328793?pt=US_Vintage_Cameras&amp;hash=item1c33464a19\">HERE<\/a> to view the Polaroid 800 Land Camera on the KEH Camera Outlet on eBay.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>~L.M.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polaroid 800 Land Camera, or simply &#8220;The 800&#8221; as it is sometimes called, is an instant film camera produced by Polaroid from 1957-1962.&nbsp; It is very similar to the Polaroid 150 in that it has a coupled rangefinder, parallax correction and a hot shoe.&nbsp; The 800 also features a carefully selected, high precision 130mm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149],"tags":[10,9,53,27,68],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product","tag-cameras","tag-collectibles","tag-film","tag-for-sale","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}