Polaroid Flip: Your quick start guide.

Open the box and you'll find your camera, a quick start guide, and strap. If the battery's low, plug it in with a USB-C cable. Check the battery level indicator on your cameras LED screen. If it shows it being low, it’s time to charge. 

For extra information on warranty, additional guides and manuals scan the QR code found on your quick start guide.

The Flip uses a 4-lens system, autofocus, scene analysis, and a strong flash to take nice pictures.

You'll need i-Type film. Order it online or grab it from a shop. Store your film in the fridge, lying flat, and let it warm up to room temperature for about an hour before using it. To insert: press the side button, open the film door, and slide it in, belly up, sticker out, until it clicks. Close the film door, let the dark slide eject and flick it out from under the film shield. And be gentle! Use your film within a month for the best quality. Check how many you have left in a film pack via the counter on the far right of your LED screen. To remove an empty cartridge, reverse the loading instructions and pull the sticker. Clean the rollers with a cotton bud every 2-3 packs.

Open your Flip camera’s lid to turn it on. Place the camera on a table, hold the back of the camera with one hand, lift the lid of the camera with the other. Don't block the front of the camera.Hold the camera in your left hand and look through the viewfinder. Hold it still. If it looks dark, make sure your eyes are open. Use your right index finger to half-press the red shutter button on the front of the camera to focus your picture, then fully press the red shutter button to take the picture. Let the photo develop under the film shield for 10 seconds, then keep it away from direct light.

Important: Do not shake your picture! And store it in a dry environment, away from direct sunlight for safe keeping.

The Flip's Scene Analysis Feature will warn you when your pictures will be bad. Either with a red light that flashes through the viewfinder when you’re taking a picture, or the letter "C" to be found on your LED screen. At that moment in time your camera then gives you a chance to adjust your picture before taking it so you don’t waste your precious Polaroid Film. Or walk on the wild side of life and take it anyway.

The red light means your lighting conditions are off. So if it's too dark: use the flash or find better lighting. And if it’s too bright: enact the opposite. Alternatively, you can adjust the exposure compensation (EV) settings. To do that long press the mode button and short tap again and again to cycle between-1/2, 0, and +1/2 EV. Use -1/2 for too bright pictures or +1/2 for too dark pictures. Once you think you have the right settings long press the mode button again to stay in that EV on your next shot. 

Here's a handy acronym: FLIP. (It's also the name of the camera. Clever, right?)

Flash: Use it indoors or at night. Keep your subject near a wall within 4 meters.

Light: In daylight, keep the sun behind you.

Imagination: Be creative!

Parallax: When taking close-ups, adjust the camera slightly to the left.

Try the self-timer (one press of the mode button) or double exposure (two presses). Use the Polaroid App for manual mode, program mode, long exposure, or to scan and share your photos.

Give yourself a round of applause. You've completed the Polaroid Flip orientation.

Watch Polaroid 101: How to use the Flip for more visual instructions. Or Polaroid 101: Beginner’s guide for more tips on setting up, taking a picture or troubleshooting. 

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