Goldeneye Gadgets
Instant Print Camera
Popular in the late 1970s, Polaroid brought out an instant print camera that was essential party equipment.
James Bond gets to use one in Goldeneye. Although technology has certainly moved apace, as this features an impressive +1,000 zoom lens. Incredible.
It actually looks like a monocular, which is a refracting telescope which magnifies images in the same fashion as binoculars, but in two dimensions.
It may also be based upon a Rangefinder, which would provide similar results.
Unfortunately there are no cameras of similar power on the market nearly two decades later, but we live in hope.
James Bond gets to use one in Goldeneye. Although technology has certainly moved apace, as this features an impressive +1,000 zoom lens. Incredible.
It actually looks like a monocular, which is a refracting telescope which magnifies images in the same fashion as binoculars, but in two dimensions.
It may also be based upon a Rangefinder, which would provide similar results.
Unfortunately there are no cameras of similar power on the market nearly two decades later, but we live in hope.
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Instant Print Cameras have made a dramatic comeback. The Polaroid 300 Instant Camera has everything that was popular when it was first introduced, but the technology has moved on significantly. It has four lighting settings and auto-flash. Unfortunately it does not have a +1,000 zoom lens, but no Instant Print Camera has. The best price we could find was at Play.com
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