polaroid land camera
11Polaroid — For the Polaroid instant camera, see instant camera. For the company, see Polaroid Corporation. For the Phantom Planet album, see Polaroid (Phantom Planet) Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarize… …
12Polaroid Swinger — The Polaroid Model 20 Swinger was a popular Land Camera produced by the Polaroid Corporation between 1965 and 1970. At $19.95 USD it was the first truly inexpensive instant camera, a fact that helped fuel its enormous popularity and made it one… …
13LAND, EDWIN H. — LAND, EDWIN H. (1909–1991), U.S. inventor of the Polaroid cameras and films that revolutionized the whole conception of negative positive photography. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., Land s work with light began when he was a freshman at Harvard… …
14photographic camera — noun equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light sensitive film at the other) • Syn: ↑camera • Hypernyms: ↑photographic equipment • Hyponyms: ↑box camera, ↑box Kodak, ↑ …
15Land — Land, Ed|win Her|bert (1909 91) a US scientist who invented ↑polaroid (=a special substance that is put on glass to make the sun seem less bright) , which is used on ↑sunglasses and car windows. He also invented the Polaroid camera, which uses a… …
16Land — /land/, n. Edwin Herbert, 1909 91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera. * * * I In economics, the resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production… …
17Polaroid Corporation — Infobox Company company name = Polaroid Corporation company company type = slogan = foundation = 1937 founder = Edwin H. Land location = Concord, Massachusetts, USA area served = Worldwide key people = industry = Photography market c revenue =… …
18Land , Edwin Herbert — (1909–1991) American inventor Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Land began his education at Harvard but left to develop a number of commercial ideas. His first success was a method of producing a relatively cheap filter that would transmit… …
19Polaroid — Po•lar•oid [[t]ˈpoʊ ləˌrɔɪd[/t]] Trademark. 1) opt trm a brand of glare reducing material that produces polarized light by dichroism, consisting typically of an iodine treated sheet of clear plastic 2) pht trm the first brand of instant camera,… …
20Land — I. /lænd/ (say land) noun Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, US scientist; inventor of the polaroid camera. II. /lant/ (say lahnt) noun (plural Länder /ˈlɛndə/ (say lenduh)) one of the territorial districts into which Germany is divided …
