Polaroid may launch a ?bridge? camera with a built-in printer following the launch of its first digital compact camera to use such technology later this year. <\/p>\n
The news comes just days after the firm announced plans to axe instant film production.<\/p>\n
Until now Polaroid had been only planning to launch a lower-end compact camera with built-in printer ? expected out later this year with a seven-million-pixel imaging sensor.<\/p>\n
?If the prosumer users say we want something which is closer to a bridge [camera] with a very high zoom and different features, we are ready to do that,? revealed Philippe Kalmbach, senior vice president and general manager of Polaroid Europe. <\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview with Amateur Photographer<\/em> Kalmbach said that Polaroid is likely to launch such a product if the demand warrants it and is monitoring the market closely.<\/p>\n The first camera in the range will accept 2x3in paper, fed into the camera via a paper tray. The paper will come in packs of five or ten sheets.<\/p>\n It uses Zero Ink (ZINK) technology, which Polaroid hails as the digital equivalent of instant film.<\/p>\n Similar to dye-sublimation printing, ZINK uses heat to produce an image on special paper.<\/p>\n ?ZINK Paper is an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals, activated with 200 million heat pulses, in 30 seconds, in a single pass,? states the technology?s marketing material. ?With 100 billion crystals in a 2x3in print, the paper is 100% inkless.?<\/p>\n The first product to use the system will be a printer (pictured), scheduled for UK launch in June priced \u00a379-99. <\/p>\n Initially, ZINK Paper will come in three sizes: 2x3in, 6x4in and 10x8in.<\/p>\n A launch date for the first of the ZINK-enabled cameras is yet to be finalised, as has the specification. It is expected to cost between \u00a3149-199, according to Kalmbach.<\/p>\n Kalmbach said that future cameras may accept larger paper sizes but, this year at least, paper for its first generation cameras will not exceed 6x4in.<\/p>\n ?ZINK technology has almost no limitation in size, as the technology lies in the paper itself and is being produced on very large sheets,? Kalmbach told us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Polaroid may launch a \u2018bridge\u2019 camera with a built-in printer following the launch of its first digital compact camera to use such technology later this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":26499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-26498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"\n