Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 Instant Film Camera (Black)

Love this camera, battery lasts forever and the wide pictures make it look like film more than polaroid.

I love this camera - I am a photographer and have used many a camera - lately been using polaroid spektra and 600 cameras with Impossible project polaroid film for my art work and also been giving them to kids to take shots with on road trips... they love it. I am I admit attached to the iconic polaroid format, but I decided to try this camera because of the large frame size and the beautiful design. I LOVE IT sofar and need to get the case....only wish they made black and white film for it - hello !? Why not....PROSThis camera is sharper than the older polaroid cameras (except spektra and land cameras). Very sharp - love itNice selfie close up attachment, sharp, with mirror so you can see what's in the frameLove the design - looks like a real older camera, but is light and smart looking (not like a pink cartoon kid camera like the others).BEST PRO: The colors and development time, as well as the properties of the film is very similar to OLD polaroid film and other peel apart Fuji polaroid film (the kind they just stopped making that worked with land cameras shame on you fuji!). It develops IN sunlight, in 90 seconds and is very sharp, with lovely 1980's yellow midtones, just beautiful tonal range and colors with excelletn sharpness. Very contrasty and colorful. Impossible Project film by contrast takes 30 minutes to develop and requires being upside down and being held out of light. It is also not as contrasty as this and I have tried all kinds (b and w is good though).I have one more pro: The film is way cheaper than Impossible Project film, thinner like the old polaroid film, but has the same glossy finish.Nice large image area! Love the image area, so much better than the mini instax.Love the old leather case designs.CONSWhy is there no black and white version of the film!?? Fuji please get on this ASAPThe format - for fine art use, the connotations of the square polaroid frame are imbedded into western and non western popular culture in ways that are hard to undo now - think Andy Warhol's polaroids now worth in the 5 and 6 figures, classic family snaps, the frame proportion is reused again and again to connote (snapshot) . I WISH they made the same format as the square 660 or the spektra format. Even if the bottom part was proportioned slightly longer, higher, that would work. I guess the rectangle is very rectangle, almost cinematic.....Camera is a tiny bit large - but ok by me.

i already had two of fujifilm's instax cameras: the mini 8 and mini 90. while each instax has their perks, i think the wide is my favorite (i might be a little biased since i just got it and it feels so shiny and new). there are two forms for the lens: 0.9mm - 3m or 3m to infinity. this is great because closeup pictures will be in focus and scenery pictures will also be in focus. the package also came with an attachable lens for closeups so you can easily make sure the subject of the picture is centered (and you can also take selfies with it ahah).i was surprised by how large the camera itself is. to put it frankly, IT'S HUGE. it's actually the size of my face, and it's bulky. not axactly the type of camera you'd like to keep in your purse in case a picturesque moment comes up. BUT, the pictures come out much clearer than the minis and are more enjoyable. the size of the pictures makes it seem like a ~real~ polaroid camera as opposed to the minis that feel very... mini. when going to events like parties or concerts or meet-ups or signings or whatever, this camera is a must. it's also the perfect travel buddy (i'd think) depsite the inconvenient and bulky size. the minis are more for casual events. but if you asked me to choose only one, i'd choose the instax wide over both the mini 8 and mini 90.before opening, i recommend reading the manual on how to set it up. the camera uses four AA batteries and the battery slot had a strap of plastic that seemed to be in the way of things. i thought the strap needed to be removed in order to put the batteries in, and so i forced the thing out. by the very end, i decided to read the manual and it turned out the strap was meant to help remove the batteries in the future. (fail fail fail. so much fail.) so yeah, DON'T DO WHAT I DID. i was too eager and ended up sorta messing up the camera.

What's old is new again, right? I bought this for the nostalgia factor of never owning a Polaroid. I thought it would be fun to use them at parties and take snapshots of people. One to give to them and another shot to add to your fridge.— DESIGN —This Instax Wide quite a large beast, so it doesn't come out all the time. I have to carefully choose when I bring it on vacation as it takes up a lot of space. You could say part of the fun of using it is because it's so obnoxiously large. The design is a modern retro that could also double as bookshelf decor.— SHOTS —The photos for this camera comes in a wide format, hence the "Wide" in the product name. This is a format for those that prefer a more cinematic look. The wideness works great for group shots, couples, or landscape photos.The quality of the printout is good. I wasn't expecting miracles, but as with most photography, the more light you have to work with the better the shot.— REFILLS —This camera uses the Fujifilm Instax Wide Film Twin Pack. It gives you twenty shots total, which comes out to about 80¢ a shot.— SUMMARY —If you've always wanted a Polaroid, or an instant film camera, this is a fun camera to have around.