1950 - Photography

Photography

Polaroid replaces its sepia print of 1947 with a black-and-white print, but the new print fades and a crisis develops until company chemists come up with a new film. The company introduces a new "electric eye" shutter that will automatically select shutter speeds between 1/10th and 1/1,000th of a second for the camera's fixed F/5.4 lens. Polaroid contracts with U.S. Time Corp. to produce Polaroid Land Cameras (see everyday life [Timex], 1946; high-speed film, 1960).