Polaroid Mod instant camera launches with four creative shooting modes

The Mod is designed to let photographers experiment beyond changing aperture or shutter speed. It has a Brightness dial on the front for adjusting exposure and a dial around the lens for switching between four “creative shooting modes.” All of the analog effects are captured in-camera.

Double Exposure and Split Shot both combine multiple exposures into one image through a process that involves capturing two separate exposures, one after the other, when prompted by the camera. Double Exposure layers two images atop each other to blend subjects or scenes together. Split Shot divides images into two halves using a rotating accessory that blocks half the lens at a time.

Light Painting uses a long exposure to capture light trails from a flashlight, sparkler or other bright source. The camera is meant to be placed on a stable tripod to keep other static elements in the frame from becoming blurred. Motion Freeze uses a slower shutter speed to capture motion trails of a moving subject and combines them with a sharp image captured by firing the Mod’s flash at the end of the exposure. The Verge described Motion Freeze as Polaroid’s name for second curtain sync, or rear curtain flash, found in other cameras.

The camera works with Polaroid i-Type and 600 film stocks in color or black and white. On a full charge of its 750mAh battery, it can shoot up to 15 packs of film, or up to 120 exposures. It uses a fixed-focus two-lens system with a 103mm standard lens and a 95mm portrait lens that can be swapped as needed depending on the subject.