I like Polaroid cameras.
When you take out your Polaroid friends or bystanders take interest in what you are up to. They'll want to watch the milky fog lift of developing photographs and see it give way to gradually solidifying shapes and colors. Using a Polaroid camera sends an entirely different signal to the world than using any other type of camera. Images are not captured in the depths of some roll of film to be developed at a later time. They don't disappear into a flash-ROM memory chip. Instead they instantly turn into artifacts.
A Polaroid camera invites experimentation partially because it isn't nearly as intimidating as other cameras. There's only one button you need to worry about. The release.
