A caveat: We've had some bad batches of film, and buyers have complained about this as well. The Lab makes Polaroid images from images on your phone. It takes a photo of your phone screen, so the better phone you have, the nicer the results.
What sets it apart is the smartphone companion app. As of press time, the app is not the best, but it does give you the option to use features like Tripod Mode, Manual Mode, or setting a custom f-stop in Aperture Priority Mode.
It's pricey, but it does offer a good blend of modern methods and vintage execution. Sure, it has the right features, but its huge, plasticky body isn't portable compared to a Polaroid-compatible shooter or an Instax Mini camera. Its biggest drawback is the viewfinder, which can make framing close-up shots challenging. But if you want to go wide and don't mind the bulk, it's decent. Fujifilm's Mini Link is close to our top pick, the LiPlay, but ditches the camera functionality.
Instead the Mini Link prints images from your phone. Fujifilm's new mobile app is much better than its past efforts. I'd recommend this over the older SP-2 printer for that reason alone, since the results are otherwise similar. What makes the new app more fun? Fun Modes. Party Print creates collages from multiple phones, while Match Test takes images of two people or two images of one person and prints a combined image.
It'll also tell you how "compatible" it thinks the pair is, which is gimmicky, but what party doesn't lighten up with a little gimmickry? For those of us who value portability, Fujifilm offers the Instax Mini But if you're lucky, you can sometimes find it at a significant discount. This stylish but expensive camera is fantastic—just not for everyone. I enjoyed shooting with it but routinely questioned why it costs more than twice as much as the incredibly similar Fuji Instax Mini Here's another one like the Fujifilm Instax Mini Link.
It lets you share prints instantly. For kids, instant cameras are fresh and new. That makes sense—these are the masters of instant film cameras, and we heartily recommend them. The best feature in the Now: It has a double exposure mode, so you can frame two different shots and print them as one, which is an easy way to get creative. The exposure is automatic with a built-in flash for low light situations.
Want to take a selfie? Pop the lens out to configure the camera for a close up and take aim. Kudos to Kodak for trying something modern and clever. You get 2x3-inch prints with a sticky backing for, you know, sticking them to things.
As such, you can use the Kodak Smile just like a digital camera. The back of the camera has a small LCD display for reviewing shots, plus a friendly slide-out panel for basic photo booth-style editing and printing. The lens barrel is marked for distant, moderate and close focus distances; though, most of the time, you can leave it set to distant, which covers everything more than about seven feet away. Another cool feature: The lens cap has a wireless remote control built in for triggering the shutter from a distance, making it perfect for fitting everyone into the shot.
The camera shoots on Instax Mini film, which prints 2. Like the Kodak Smile, this is a digital camera at heart, and you can save your photos to an SD card if you want to preserve them digitally. But like an instant film camera, this one prints automatically as soon as you snap a photo. The Ivy CLIQ2 uses a Zink zero ink printer rather than printing to traditional film, and the prints are 2x3 inches on sticky-backed paper.
When it comes to taking pictures, this is a very simple all-auto camera with a built-in flash and no special exposure modes. There are a lot of instant cameras to choose from, but many of them look about as attractive as a Wi-Fi router. The Fujifilm Instax Mini 90 is something else altogether; it has a gorgeous retro design that looks like it stepped out of the s. You get full automatic exposure along with simple exposure choices for action, portraits, landscapes, and more.
It all comes out on Instax Mini film, which makes 2. If you want larger prints from your instant camera, then the Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant Film Camera is probably the camera for you.
The Fujifilm instax mini 11 is a really approachable instant-print camera. Powered by two AA batteries, it's at the cheap and cheerful end of instant photography, but its lack of sophistication is hardly a negative — here it just widens its possible audience, and families with kids in particular will find this an ideal fit.
Close-ups of 30cm away from the subject are also possible. Simplicity is the watchword here, with simple point and shoot operation. With retro styling, it feels like it's pitched at the photo enthusiast, with some manual control over exposure and even the option to disable the built-in flash if you feel pictures are too bright. A double exposure mode extends creativity options for the curious although results can be a bit hit and miss here as does a shutter-release button above its lens, which doubles up as a selfie mirror another shutter-release button is in the usual top-plate location.
The advantage here over a cheaper instant-print camera is an LCD display strip at the back revealing your chosen settings. As usual, the viewfinder is tiny but adequate for purpose, while the faux leather finish to the bodywork adds a splash of style.
Powered by four AA batteries rather than the usual two, the Fujifilm Instax Wide is the big daddy of the Instax print camera range. It's practically medium format camera-like heft enables it to deliver larger prints it uses Instax Wide film packs rather than Instax Mini that more closely resemble standard print dimensions. A lever that encircles the shutter-release button on its bridge-camera-style handgrip powers this one up and extends its 95mm lens, while the built-in flash is similarly huge and automatic, save for a fill-in option.
The Polaroid Go is a palm-sized camera that everyone will fall in love with faster than it takes a photo to develop. Bigger instant cameras balance exposures better, and rival Instax Mini cameras deliver slightly better image quality indoors — but neither are as fun to use, or will make you as many friends, as the Go… which still produces pleasing pics. And the Go boasts double exposures, which you won't get unless you opt for pricier options like the Instax Mini A fun and funky little camera, the Polaroid Go will be the star of your next party and will deposit an endless amount of memories in your pocket or wallet.
And if you've got kids, this could be the ideal camera for little hands to get started with. Don't forget to pick up a pack of the new Polaroid Go instant film!
The Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 is powered by two small CR2 lithium batteries included that the makers claim will last a whopping 30 film packs, of 10 shots each. Looking to tempt Instagrammers away from their smartphones, this camera apes the style of the 'gram logo and offers square-format imagery, while retaining its analogue workings.
Again, we get a selection of body colors and a selfie mode, plus three color filters that attach to the flash, along with double exposure, macro and landscape modes.
Unsurprisingly, the camera uses special Fujifilm Square film, which provides a central image size of 6. A newer Fujifilm Instax Square SQ1 has recently been launched - but the older SQ6 is better value, and has more features - so this is the one you should go for. The Polaroid Now is a welcome arrival to the Polaroid product line, and a worthy addition to the increasingly crowded instant camera world.
For pure point-and-shoot simplicity, though, the Polaroid Now is hard to beat — and while the Instax Mini 11 does have it beaten on price, we definitely prefer the full-size square prints that Polaroid delivers. And much as we love the Instax line, when you're shooting old school instant film there's nothing quite like the tactility of holding a big, boxy Polaroid. The Fujifilm instax Mini LiPlay is our pick of the litter for one reason.
A hybrid instant camera that also functions as an instant printer, the LiPlay uses real instax Mini film — this obviously gives that unique and intangible retro look that's impossible to recreate in any other medium. And, since you can send images to the LiPlay from your phone, you can print any of your pictures on cool instax film. It's also perhaps the most "wow"-looking camera here, with gorgeous design especially in the black with rose gold trim , in a beautifully compact design that measures just The 4.
There's enough built-in memory to store 45 images, but the camera supports microSD cards to give you as much room as you require, so you can take a bunch of shots and pick the ones you actually want to print. The Kodak Smile Instant Print is one of the best digital instant cameras — a modern update of instant photography that combines the best of analog with the beauty of digital. This slim-as-a-smartphone camera that sports a sleek design and uses Zink zero ink technology — it's essentially a miniature printer with a lens, producing 2x3-inch sticky-backed prints.
Inside the camera is a relatively humble 5MP sensor up to 10MP through interpolation , though for images this size you don't need all the resolution in the world. Ultimately the pictures it produces look more like printer images than they do instant photographs — not necessarily a bad thing, but they don't possess quite the same magic as instant film.
The ability to add up to GB of microSD memory means that you can snap to your heart's content, then cherry pick the images that you want to print. The integrated battery keeps the camera nice and svelte, though you only get around 40 prints per charge — a far cry from the shots you get from Polaroids. The LCD screen is definitely on the basic side, too, so don't go expecting the same kind of fidelity as in your traditional DSLR or mirrorless screen.
Kodak's Mini Shot 3 is a tidy little instant print camera that's great for anyone who doesn't want anything too complicate. It doesn't use Zink like the Kodak Smile above, but houses a proper little printer that uses Kodak's 4PASS all-in-one cartridges to spit out little square prints, 3 inches by 3 inches.
The colors pop a good deal better than Zink, and they are also rated to be longer lasting. The camera overall is pretty cheap, and running it isn't too expensive either, making it a good option if you want to shoot instant on a budget. It also produces 10MP digital photos that you can save via Bluetooth on the app and you do have to do it this way; there's no internal storage.
A cheap option that's good fun for anyone, especially those who aren't too confident with using a camera. The editor of Digital Camera World, James has 21 years experience as a magazine and web journalist and started working in the photographic industry in as an assistant to Damian McGillicuddy, who succeeded David Bailey as Principal Photographer for Olympus.
This has led him to being a go-to expert for camera and lens reviews, photographic and lighting tutorials, as well as industry analysis, news and rumors for publications such as Digital Camera Magazine , PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine , N-Photo , Digital Photographer and Professional Imagemaker, as well as hosting workshops and demonstrations at The Photography Show.
An Olympus Micro Four Thirds and Canon full frame shooter, he has a wealth of knowledge on cameras of all makes — and a particular fondness for vintage lenses and film cameras. Jump to: Instant film cameras Digital instant cameras. Image 1 of 5. Image 2 of 5. Image 3 of 5. Image 4 of 5. Image 5 of 5. Specifications Type: Instant camera.
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