Among the most familiar Polaroid cameras of them all is 1977’s rainbow-striped OneStep—the one memorably advertised on TV with a bantering James Garner and Mariette Hartley. Last fall, a company called Polaroid Originals (affiliated with Polaroid, and formerly known as the Impossible Project) introduced the OneStep 2–a modern take on the classic, and the first Polaroid-branded instant camera in a decade.
The functionality is similar to what the Impossible Project offered in a 2016 camera called the I-1, whose aesthetics resembled those of an old dial telephone more than anything Polaroid ever made. It’s nice to see it in something that is, unmistakably, a Polaroid camera.
And speaking of design, the OneStep+ restores an element that the OneStep 2, tragically, had eliminated: the rainbow stripe running down the middle of the camera, right below the lens. Long may it—and Polaroid—wave.
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