Manual focus! It has also gotten criticism from DPReview for poor build quality. Daven Mathies and Hillary K. Grigonis, The best instant cameras for , Digitaltrends. Erin Lodi is a freelance writer reporting on cameras and camera accessories at Wirecutter. She started her career as a photojournalist working in newspapers—shooting film—and was the mobile-imaging editor at DPReview.
She is also a professional photographer who has made her living photographing everything from rock stars to humpback whales. Our pick. Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 The best instant camera It is easy to use and produces the best instant prints at a better price than the competition. Upgrade pick. Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay A high-quality hybrid This tiny instant-and-digital hybrid camera delivers instant prints and a digital review screen.
Budget pick. Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 A fun camera at a great price Fun and simple to use, the Mini 9 takes smaller, lower-quality but still good for instant photos for less money.
Also great. Fujifilm Instax Wide Bigger and wider photos The Wide produces larger, wider prints at a lower price than the Instax Square SQ6 and runs on AA batteries, but the camera is quite a bit larger than most modern instant cameras and gives you fewer options.
Everything we recommend. Why you should trust us What is an instant camera? Why you should trust us. What is an instant camera? Who this is for. How we picked. In choosing cameras to test for this update, we looked for models that fit these criteria:.
Easy to use: This should be a fun camera that can be enjoyed without much instruction or a big learning curve. Creative controls: The simple, point-and-shoot fun of instant photos is great, but better instant cameras will also let you make minor adjustments to exposures, or even make multiple exposures on a single print to keep the experience fresh. Decent battery life: You should never have to bring more than one set of spare batteries when you take your instant camera out for the day.
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One of the best opportunities to find the Instax Mini on sale is during the upcoming Black Friday deals event. Film type: Instax Mini Image size: 6. Released in March , the Instax Mini 11 price is not dissimilar from its predecessor.
With automatic exposure you no longer need to remember to set individual lighting settings, no doubt saving countless shots, and a new focus on close up shooting will allow you to expand your instant photography portfolio with a new range of subjects.
Aside from these nifty features, you're still picking up the recognisable plastic camera shell we've come to recognise, as well as a new selfie lens barrel that does away with the clip-on attachment of yore. There's really only one difference between the Instax Mini 8 and the Instax Mini 9 and it's a tiny little mirror. The Instax Mini 9 has a small mirror next to the lens, making lining up selfies much easier and ensuring a more accurate picture.
The newer Mini 9 is slightly more expensive than the Mini 8, but consider this: if you're likely to be taking a lot of selfies, the mirror could save you a small fortune on film costs as you'll have fewer wonky, poorly framed snaps. If the price is right for the colour you want, this is the one we'd go for. The Instax Mini 9 requires two AA batteries and is available in cobalt blue, flamingo pink, ice blue, smoky white and lime green.
The Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 is one of the most popular instant cameras on the planet thanks to its super cheap price and bold, cheerful and colourful design.
Simple to use and with brightness controls, built-in flash and cool 1. But could you be tempted by the newer Instax Mini 9? The Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 requires two AA batteries and is available in black, grape, raspberry, pink, blue and yellow. 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.
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