howardstanbury Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I backed this camera on Kickstarter a few months ago and this week my camera arrived. It's the first camera to use Fuji Instax Square film that has a glass lens to deliver an image to the film (the Fujifilm offering actually uses an embedded digital camera to capture the image and then prints from the digital image). Lomo'Instant Square I like the square format of the picture, and the camera has a neat folding bellows style (reminding me of my old Ensign Selfix camera, the first one I ever used) with some discrete electronics and controls. An internal adaper allows Instax Mini film to be used to the same picture height in portrait format. Here are a couple of sample pictures Old High Street telephone box St Andrew's church tower (Scanned to 300dpi on an Epson XP-645 printer/scanner, output as TIFF, and sharpened in Lightroom to 50.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_gottschalk Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Very nice. But what makes this camera better than Fuji's Instax SQUARE SQ10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardstanbury Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Very nice. But what makes this camera better than Fuji's Instax SQUARE SQ10? I haven't used the Fuji camera, but my understanding is that it uses a digital sensor to capture the image and then makes a print from that digital image (or an edit of it). This is fine, but I am interested in the idea of the camera itself making the picture in the classic way. Whether it's better or not, I don't know, but if I want a digital printer using the square format then I think the SP-3 device would do the job better, for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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