Polaroid Time-Zero One Step Camera

Q: I am hoping you can give me the value of a vintage Polaroid Time-Zero One Step camera. Also wondering, do you know if film for it is still available?

A: In 1972 the Polaroid Corp. introduced its revolutionary SX-70 Land Camera. It was a single lens reflex camera in a folding metal case with leather-trim. It used a new kind of film in a cassette with its own battery that instantly developed and produced a print. A later model, the Polaroid OneStep, was made from 1977 to 1980. It used the same SX-70 film pack, but had a non-folding white plastic body with Polaroid’s signature rainbow stripe. It was replaced in 1981 with the Time-Zero OneStep. The body was black plastic body with the rainbow stripe and it, too, used the SX-70 film pack. Polaroid stopped making the film for these cameras in 2008, but a group of investors, said to include some former Polaroid employees, organized the Impossible Project (TIP) and began producing new instant black-and-white and color film in 2010. It is available in online shops. A Polaroid Time-Zero OneStep camera sells today from $35 to $50, but the film is pricey.