Camera Overview: Polaroid Sun 660 50th Anniversary Auto Focus Special Edition

Polaroid 660 50th Anniversary Edition

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For a measly five dollars I picked up an awesome camera (at least to me it is) at my local Salvation Army store. It's a Polaroid Sun 660 with Auto focus, but what sets this apart from other Sun 660 cameras is that it's a special edition version. Polaroids 50 year anniversary edition to be specific. It has a gold and black color scheme, not real gold unfortunately, but pretty just the same. Along with the color it comes with badging that signifies it as the 50th year anniversary. The camera still works and takes 600 type film. The film is no longer made by polaroid themselves so many people including my self must resort to film produced the Impossible Project. I purchased a a pack via their page on Amazon, I actually bought the film with colored background by accident. It also comes with a white background like the old fashioned Polaroids. The film ranges from 25-28 dollars depending on where you purchase it, but it only comes with eight photos per cartridge, compared to the ten photos from the original Polaroid film cartridge.

This is the camera bag I received with the camera. It's a flimsy nylon bag with a fixed strap and the Polaroid 50 year anniversary on it.

Stowed inside the bag along with the camera was this, a beautiful leather case  about 4"x1.5" 

Inside this little leather case are these three glass filters for a Polaroid Land Camera. It has holds three filters, yellow, polarizing, and orange. Unfortunately they are in bad shape and I don't have a land camera so these are of no use to me for the time being.

This is the view of the compartments. The main is for the camera and the this secondary is made for a pack of film. The film pictured is that of an expired pack of original 600 film I used to test that the camera was working before I invested in the expensive Impossible Project film.

Side view of the camera showing the red main shutter button and the lever behind it is the shutter to bypass the flash. Directly below that is the lever to open the film door.

This is the rear view with the eye piece on the left hand side and the red and green flash readiness indicators on the right hand side.

The beautiful gold face of the special edition Polaroid. The gold disk on the left is the sonar auto focus which uses sonar waves to focus on subjects. The middle square  above the two  arrows pointing away from the camera is the taking lens. It is where the photos is taken. The two arrows allow you to change the exposure to make a photo darker or brighter. on the very right the other glass lens is the viewing lens. It allows the user to get an approximate framing of what the photo will look like. Directly above the viewing lens is the large flash that flips up to turn on the camera.

To the left if is a box of Polaroid film from the 90's and to the right is film currently made by impossible project. They are a company who is reverse engineering the film with old machines they purchased from the Polaroid company after they ceased production of instant film.