Why do polaroids have a distinctive colour palette?

Question:Why do photos taken with a polaroid camera have such a distinctive, muted colour palette and why is it not possible to acheive this with a regular camera???

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You can't achieve this effect with a current camera because cameras have moved on and offer a wider more accurate colour gamut. The quality of Polaroid was pretty bad. (still is if you can find the film)

It's fairly easy (by reducing quality) to mimic this in Photoshop.

Here are a couple of tutorials;-

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pseleme...

http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/polaroid.a...

but there are loads just do a search in Google.

Chris

The negative reacts to different colour lights, and different light frequencies. The lens is set A Little different however also works at a different speed.