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GRM wrote:
The pictures out of these Fuji Instax cameras are mediocre at best. My kids have a few and I've seen the results first hand. Very poor quality with lack of detail. Sure, I didn't expect wonders from a $100 camera (much more if you add the film) but the quality is super low even for a $100 camera. Toys, nothing more.
Most people don't care, though. I could have edited my photos in-camera to make them print a little better (they work best shooting a little darker or underexposing by a couple of stops prior to printing), but even with them slightly blown out, soft and washed-out, people LOVED them at the wedding. I couldn't print them fast enough. With a little patience and know-how, these can produce decent results, which is why I'd love a Wide format printer instead of the little small guy, but aside from that, having an instant photo to share with someone, a tactile keepsake of a moment, is a huge plus in an increasingly digital world.
The top response I got at the wedding where I printed those was, "Oh my gosh! I didn't even know they still made Polaroid film! I remember my grandmother (father, etc.) using one of those when I was a kid. I really should dig out those old Polaroids and look through them."
They didn't care that these were actually Fuji. And that they were a new[ish] thing. They referred to them as Polaroids and connected the instant prints with some family member. There's a lot of nostalgia with these instant prints for anybody over the age of, say, 30. And for anyone younger that is into this "Instax" fad... Good. Keep it alive a little longer whether you're a pro handing out keepsakes at a wedding, Zack Arias breaking the ice on the streets of Dubai or a handlebar-mustachioed hipster with skinny jeans and your granddad's golf cap riding a fixie in Albuquerque.
I don't care where the interest comes from or how good or bad the prints might be (admittedly, Fuji's own cameras do NOTHING for these prints, but printing from a digital camera using their printer is rather amazing and offers up better prints)... It's part of photography and that can't be all bad.
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