Compare $1 a photo with the current typical 35mm film experience. $15 for a roll of colour 35mm film. Plus $20 to develop and print that film. Suddenly, that instant camera doesn't seem so relatively expensive.
Exposure is tricky could take you 3-4 shots to get a balanced shot ! At asa of 800 and the extreme contrast of the films scale , it is an investment in each image , very wasteful .
If want instant prints but you're not wedded to the whole lo-fi instant camera experience, consider one of Fuji's Instax printers - they're cheaper than this camera, and the ability to preview frames on your phone or camera before printing makes for a much more economical use of expensive Instax film. In the six years I've been using Instax printers, I've wasted less than a single pack of film on unwanted shots, which would be an unbelievably high hit-rate for conventional instant photography. I can also print wide-angle, macro or telephoto shots that would be impossible to make using any instant camera.
@@GungKrisna12 I've got the Instax Mini Evo which is basically a digital camera with a printer attached, but the camera component is disappointingly poor: for my uses I'd probably have been better off just getting an Instax Mini printer
There's actually a bunch of companies that make cameras using it. The most extravagant ones are from Mint, I've been pining for the tl70+ but its too expensive for me to justify buying it.
I have to laugh a bit about expensive because it is $1 per photo. Given that people pay upto $7or some fancy coffee drink and on average $5.50 for a large cappucino, it doesn't seem that a $1 per photo is that much. The coffee is just as unnecessary as the photo. These are things that we like and value and are willing to pay the asking price. However, I would gladly give up the coffee before the photo should push come to shove.
I simply see no point to these cameras. Huge,bulky and still pretty average image quality wise. But I have owned a Fuji Instax Wide printer which is far better. Can take photos with a smartphone or digital camera and transfer certain images to the printer to get top quality prints. Much more cost effective and better quality. A win-win. People really LIKE getting a momento of a day on an old “Polaroid” print after a party etc.
Thanks for the unvarnished review as usual. This looks like an unnecessary camera. There are so many awesome old film cameras for less. I just bought a canon Elan 7 for 200!
Its an unnecessary camera until we start running out of old used cameras and so much time has passed that we forget how to build a new one. Pentax and lomography are making sure that doesn't happen.
@@AWAShowme If you listen to Pentax on developing their new film camera, they literally said this. You don't seem to understand just how many little things go into manufacturing something, and how it gets so much more expensive having to redevelop it all from scratch. It's a problem that's affected pretty much any industry in a developed country which lost manufacturing and is trying to bring it back. The most thorough videos on this topic I've seen are interviews with the founder of Hadrian manufacturing which found a niche because there are planes the US Airforce currently cannot fly because people forgot how to make parts in them and sometimes the parts are seemingly very simple. A good example of this already happening in the camera industry was when Nikon brought back its rangefinder in the 2000s. In the end they had to reverse engineer so much that the camera ended up being many times more expensive to the point that NIkon lost money on every single camera sold.
Compare $1 a photo with the current typical 35mm film experience. $15 for a roll of colour 35mm film. Plus $20 to develop and print that film. Suddenly, that instant camera doesn't seem so relatively expensive.
Exposure is tricky could take you 3-4 shots to get a balanced shot !
At asa of 800 and the extreme contrast of the films scale , it is an investment in each image , very wasteful .
Hi Chris, if you were born in the 50s, Polaroid would hire you instantly as sales manager. Thxs for taking us on this excursion!
Please review more old/analog stuff!
If want instant prints but you're not wedded to the whole lo-fi instant camera experience, consider one of Fuji's Instax printers - they're cheaper than this camera, and the ability to preview frames on your phone or camera before printing makes for a much more economical use of expensive Instax film. In the six years I've been using Instax printers, I've wasted less than a single pack of film on unwanted shots, which would be an unbelievably high hit-rate for conventional instant photography. I can also print wide-angle, macro or telephoto shots that would be impossible to make using any instant camera.
I'm crazy about one of those.
But i'm going to sell my Sony A7 since I'm not using it as much as I actually wanted.
Using more film and digital.
Fujifilm also sells analog instax cameras besides digital ones (that can preview frames)
@@GungKrisna12 I've got the Instax Mini Evo which is basically a digital camera with a printer attached, but the camera component is disappointingly poor: for my uses I'd probably have been better off just getting an Instax Mini printer
I think that viewfinder might have been a last minute afterthought the way it pokes out the side
The top is occupied by the film ejection port so putting it there is not very ideal.
Looks like incident meter on front? If so I reckon you could get some ND material and dupe it's exposure for brighter images.
Got the Lomo Graflok for my Intrepid camera. And man. Real glass sure makes a diffrence
Now we are waiting for a review of photography on a film camera. 😂
imagine that camera but with rangefinder focusing
There's such a camera. It's made by Mint, its called the rf70 I think. Never used it, but the consensus is its just not worth the money.
35mm f/3.1
Huh I never thought there were other cameras that take this film. I assumed it was proprietary.
There's actually a bunch of companies that make cameras using it. The most extravagant ones are from Mint, I've been pining for the tl70+ but its too expensive for me to justify buying it.
It's a cool idea but you can get an instax wide printer for less than half this price and print from your cell phone.
Who would want one?
People with money to burn. 😂
I have to laugh a bit about expensive because it is $1 per photo. Given that people pay upto $7or some fancy coffee drink and on average $5.50 for a large cappucino, it doesn't seem that a $1 per photo is that much. The coffee is just as unnecessary as the photo. These are things that we like and value and are willing to pay the asking price. However, I would gladly give up the coffee before the photo should push come to shove.
c'mon, everyone goes for the Holga with plastic lens, and called the glass version somehow "pointless"😂
I simply see no point to these cameras. Huge,bulky and still pretty average image quality wise. But I have owned a Fuji Instax Wide printer which is far better. Can take photos with a smartphone or digital camera and transfer certain images to the printer to get top quality prints. Much more cost effective and better quality. A win-win. People really LIKE getting a momento of a day on an old “Polaroid” print after a party etc.
Thanks for the unvarnished review as usual. This looks like an unnecessary camera. There are so many awesome old film cameras for less. I just bought a canon Elan 7 for 200!
Its an unnecessary camera until we start running out of old used cameras and so much time has passed that we forget how to build a new one. Pentax and lomography are making sure that doesn't happen.
@Carthodon You really think it's possible the camera companies would forget how to make analog cameras? Oh ok. I respect your opinion nonetheless.
@@AWAShowme If you listen to Pentax on developing their new film camera, they literally said this. You don't seem to understand just how many little things go into manufacturing something, and how it gets so much more expensive having to redevelop it all from scratch. It's a problem that's affected pretty much any industry in a developed country which lost manufacturing and is trying to bring it back. The most thorough videos on this topic I've seen are interviews with the founder of Hadrian manufacturing which found a niche because there are planes the US Airforce currently cannot fly because people forgot how to make parts in them and sometimes the parts are seemingly very simple.
A good example of this already happening in the camera industry was when Nikon brought back its rangefinder in the 2000s. In the end they had to reverse engineer so much that the camera ended up being many times more expensive to the point that NIkon lost money on every single camera sold.
My dashcam takes better photos.