Did old passport photos use Polaroid type film ?

[BADGER.BRAD]

Hello all,

I came across an old passport photo of my mother today and decided to copy it using an old smart phone but this got me thinking did old style photo booths that everyone used for passports ( and when I was younger prating about) use Polaroid type film or did they have the complete standard film process built in ?

 

[Mostly Vintage Cameras]

The photo me booths I don't know but the strip of photos came out wet. Many shops and photographs studios had specialist Polaroid cameras with four lenses that very much used Polaroid film. If the customer didn't like the pic the camera operator could keep it and save them up. When there were the same number of dud photos as were in a film pack you could send them to Polaroid for a free replacement film pack. The most retakes I ever saw someone ask for was eight. She was a little bit vain.

 

[Ham]

Photobooths defo had process built in.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

There were various types of Polaroid passport cameras, some made by Polaroid corporation and others made by independent manufacturers such as the British Shackman company: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Shackman

 

[BADGER.BRAD]

Thanks for the replies everyone, sometimes you forget about all the other uses for cameras as listed in Andrews link .

 

[Sky]

I used to take passport photos in a friend's studio where I used to help out back in the eighties.

It was a Polaroid Studio Express camera that we used: Link

There was also a set of cutters: Link

It was such a good money spinner, he had a corner in the studio set up for just this purpose because it was being used several times an hour every day.