Most successful instant camera

Edwin Land (US), founder of the Polaroid Corporation, in 1947 created a system of one-step photography that used the principle of diffusion transfer to reproduce the image recorded by the camera lens directly onto a photosensitive surface. In 1998, the Polaroid Corporation generated $1.86 billion (£1.12 billion) in revenue, with sales peaking at $3 billion (£2.04 billion) in 1991. The company stopped making the film used in their cameras in 2008 after the digital age took over the market. Land first demonstrated the Polaroid Camera at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in February 1947. Colour Polaroids followed in 1963. In 1998, the Polaroid Corporation generated $1.86 billion (£1.12 billion) in revenue. Polaroid stopped making the film used for its technology in 2008. There was enough film in stock to last until 2009.