Polaroid's licensed 35mm compact — Concord-made c.2002, fixed-focus 28mm f/9.5 lens, manual flash, single AA.
The Polaroid 170BV is a 35mm film compact rather than an instant camera: it was made in China around 2002 by Concord Camera Corp, which licensed the Polaroid name for a range of cheap film cameras. The same camera was also marketed as the Concord Le Clic LC17 BV, and it trades mainly on the familiar Polaroid badge.
Specification is fixed-everything: a two-element 28mm plastic lens at a fixed f/9.5 aperture, a single shutter speed of about 1/100s, and fixed focus with no metering of any kind. The built-in flash is manually triggered rather than automatic, includes a red-eye reduction lamp, and runs from a single AA battery; film advance and rewind are mechanical.
It appeals to the lomography crowd and to buyers curious about a Polaroid that shoots 35mm. The wide 28mm lens is unusual at this price point and works for casual street and daylight snapshots, but the slow fixed aperture demands 400 ISO film, and results are soft-edged and unpredictable by design.
These sell for very little, so condition expectations should be modest. Check the shutter fires, the advance and rewind wheels turn smoothly, and the flash charges from a fresh AA cell. The all-plastic shell scratches and cracks easily and the battery door hinge is a known weak point; boxed examples fetch slightly more from collectors of the Polaroid name.