Instax cameras will be happy to see these new “classic” version just launched by Fuji Japan! You can read the (Japanese) presnetation page at http://instax.jp/mini90/.
ThePhoBlographer reports that:
This camera is significantly more serious than the previous Instax iterations.. This camera has macro mode, double exposure mode, bulb mode for up to 10 second exposures, rechargeable battery, mode buttons on the back of the camera, and the ability to fine tune the flash exposure as well. The lens is a 60mm f12 and they also state that it has a programmable electronic shutter that can shoot at up to 1/400th. It’ll cost around $210 when it hits the US next spring in 2014.
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I’m digging it !
Great !
Where is my 10-24 , 23 and 56mm ? 😉
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Gorgeous design. Dieter Rams would be proud.
Is it able to store digital copies or only print?
Considering its medium format – what do you think?
Absurd. This is a far cry from Dieter Rams’ aesthetic. This is not what I would define as the essence of minimalism or the creed of Less is better. There are many details here that would be removed or refined further, if the goal was to reference Dieter Rams.
Duh – It’s an instant camera, NOT digital…
I think Fuji is on the right track, X-Series cameras and now Instant Photography revived, they seem to have their trend scouts at the right places!
No hotshoe?
It shall be mine
I have 50s and instax200 but really want this new one for bulp mode and double exp.Also its fiaky looks like camera for somebody else’s then teenage girl’s :p
*Droool* 😛 A hipsters dream cam!
Being a “hipster doesn’t come cheap! The present Instax Mini 50S, with the same specification, sells for $114.99 http://www.freestylephoto.biz/16102240-Fujifilm-Instax-Mini-50S-Instant-Print-Film-Camera
Not to mention instant photo paper. :O
Meh! I prefer the Jelly Bean look of the present camera http://www.freestylephoto.biz/static/pdf/product_pdfs/fujifilm/Instax_Family_Brochure.pdf
These cameras are NOT inexpensive to shoot. In the USA Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Instant Print Color Film Twin Pack (2 packs x 10 exposures each) is $15.99 or $.80 per picture!!
It is definately not a cheap way to shoot, however the instant polaroid film made by The Impossible Project is a lot more expensive, in the UK its approx £20 for 10 exposures. I love the results and unpredicatability of these instant cameras. Cheers j
f/12? No, thank you.
Got excited until I read f/12.
You realise this is like a medium format camera? The “sensor” is the size of the photo, you’d have no depth of field with something much faster which would suck for a fixed focus camera!
Then don’t make it fixed focus. They’ve done it before with the Polaroid 600se.
Cool. I live in Japan and might get one.
Was playing with the thought of getting an instax back for my old Sovjet LOMO LC-A, but it’s almost as expensive as getting a new camera, and this one seems nice, especially the double exposure feature. Cuts the price for one picture in half sort of, haha 😉
I sell instax cameras and film in my shop and we cannot keep this stuff on the shelves. I order as much as I can and it’s gone. I scratch my head at this everyday and can just imagine how popular these will be. Hell, I might even buy this. Fuji, just keep doing what you’re doing because it’s obviously working.
I want this retro style but in the Wide version — pretty please Fuji!
+1 I want one that’s larger format, that’s slim and compact with similar retro styling.
+2!
+3!!
+4!!!
Hey Fuji, how about a DIGITAL version with this retro styling with instant printing (like Polaroid)
Great idea
+1 Can’t wait
I am looking forward to this new instax camera. Now how to work out how to buy it online from Japan
@Tv, Try Japan Exposures http://www.japanexposures.com/services/ They sell Japan Only cameras like the Fuji Klasse S film camera US$460.54 , etc. Also Japanese Photo Books.
I live in Tokyo and will probably export these as a private person, via eBay.
I’m sure others will do the same 😉
Try Fuji “pivi”. Ok it’s just a pocket instant printer, but a camera version would basically be the same but bigger with a super cheap camera stuck on it.
Oh boy! Credit card-sized pix!
Just in case anyone is interested, I translated most of the information on the instax mini 90 website into English on my eBay listing for the pre-order of this camera.
I pre-ordered one for myself and an extra one today, in case someone not as lucky as me and not living in Japan wants to get hold of one in advance.
Since I’m not a shop but a private person, I guess I’ll only export very limited numbers of the camera.
You can find the translation here (moderators if this is against the rules because of self-promotion, please delete the link and I will put the translation up on my blog instead):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=151108980916