Got a new toy, a Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo camera. Essentially a digital camera with photo printer (you choose what to print rather than every shot printing automatically).
Pics aren’t great quality but it’s fun to be able to get prints quickly, physical copies.
Had it for a week and I’ve shot much more “normal life” with it than I do with my phone camera or DSLR, don’t feel the need to perfectly compose pics and fiddle with minutiae, just use a few fun filters and capture things we’ll one day enjoy looking back on.
Will report back again after a month of use. https://i.nostr.build/RcGM9PhEy48LGH7o.jpg
Looks great.
I have also been thinking about getting a small digital camera to replace my phone but did not consider one with a built in printer.
Most of the time the purpose of taking a photo is not to capture every detail in ultra high definition but to capture a moment and a memory. Our phones are great at capturing detail but far too often the moment gets lost either by the distraction of our phones themselves or lost in terabytes of storage.
Memories is why I got this camera. I remember flicking through photo albums as a kid and there was all sorts of random, seemingly mundane things captured about life back then but now when we get physical prints they’re heavily curated and touched up, obviously the quality is higher but it feels artificial in a sense as we can be much more selective about what we print.
This seems like a happy medium. Film is expensive (I got it under $1 a shot buying in bulk) so I didn’t want every shot to print otherwise I’d probably be too selective in shooting, but I can snap a few pics and have a physical copy in 90 seconds.
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