I always wanted to do something like this, but at a buck a photo (in 1980 dollars!), there's no way I could splash the hundreds or thousands of dollars necessary.
A decade and a half later I was more or less off on a tangent, using cheap digital cameras and Photoshop and coming up with a style of my own.
https://mltshp.com/p/1RO0A
Interestingly one of my early post-college jobs in the late 80s involved stints as a temp at several different offices at Polaroid, at one of them I managed to take home a few dozen packs (that a sales rep was going to throw out) of near-expiration ID photo cartridges. Same as the consumer product except with different color and gamma balance, meant to be paired with either electronic strobe or the proprietary ID photo flashbars they also sold. The film gave everything a kind of metallic hue when I would take street photos, was never totally sure whether that was intentional or because of their age.
A decade and a half later I was more or less off on a tangent, using cheap digital cameras and Photoshop and coming up with a style of my own.
https://mltshp.com/p/1RO0A
Interestingly one of my early post-college jobs in the late 80s involved stints as a temp at several different offices at Polaroid, at one of them I managed to take home a few dozen packs (that a sales rep was going to throw out) of near-expiration ID photo cartridges. Same as the consumer product except with different color and gamma balance, meant to be paired with either electronic strobe or the proprietary ID photo flashbars they also sold. The film gave everything a kind of metallic hue when I would take street photos, was never totally sure whether that was intentional or because of their age.