Approx. original price: $200
Approx. street value: None
As I was saying on the page for the Model 210, Polaroid liked to make a slew of models which were all just small variations of each other. According to The Land List website, this model 360 is a 350 with a couple of tweaks, namely it has an electronic flash unit. The 350 was a 250 with the automatic development timer on it (which was basically an egg timer you used to determine how long to wait before you could peel-apart the photo), and the 250 was the model 100 with a flip-up Zeiss rangefinder box. That's the one thing on this beast that I think is a huge step ahead of the rest. Once you see the rangefinder fold down and out of the way, you wonder why the others don't.
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This was my father's Polaroid, though he also had a
Big Shot. I have no idea how or where he got it,
it just was there. All I remember is that film was expensive and it almost never got used; he preferred his old
Graflex Century 35, and a
Canon
AE-1 later on. My mother was more partial to
Polaroids, but she liked the 600-series One Steps.
Camera manual: Orphan Cameras.com
Modern Photography magazine camera test: July 1969