Beginner's Guide to Instant Film Formats [Instant Breakdown]

Did you know you can buy a pack film back for a model 95 camera

im so stuck between a mini and a fuji square

Fuji - WE NEED A 4x5 - PLEEEEEEASE

The lomo instant square has a glass 95mm lens, shoots square instax, but also supports instax mini to save costs. Consider it

The death of Spectra will never be forgotten

now we can add polaroid go to this lineup.

Your videos are fantastically informative! Thanks

Hey, I have a vintage polaroid impulse portrait. It says in the description it uses polaroid 600 plus film, can i still use polaroid 600 (vintage) film?

Having to Engineer Gaming™ up some Instax cardstock adapters for Kodak instant camera's sure is a way to start this hobby after coming back from the thrift store.

Instax wide seems impossible to get hold of at the moment. I do hope it isn't on the way out. Thanks for a great overview and comparison of the formats.

Did you know that the Neutral Density filter makes 600 film SX-70 compatible?

I like the fact that Fuji has an electronic digital Instax film recorder for the Mini format...I just wish printing on it could be done without needing their app or a phone, but on Linux instead. I do like having actual chemical photographs of Ragnar from the Vikings TV show plus all the stuff I hoovered up online...that they flat out won't let you print at the drugstore (let alone the ones under my mattress...wink...wink.)

Store refrigerated?

Excellent video - please keep it up. The world needs to know about instant photography so it can become more popular and we can get the manufacturers to make more cameras and film types :) I've never seen the 8x10 format before - now I want to invest in a camera that can take those photos. Any models you would recommend?

The "Not for resale" thing tho

Good video. Fuji wins in price, quantity and colors.

i was trying to go to sleep and after my video finished this one autoplayed. i am not trying to choose a size of instant photo. i already know i'm getting instax mini to glue silly little pictures in my silly little journal. i watched this video solely for this guys personality.

great video! I'm just sad I can't find polaroids for my 4*5 :(

do the instax cameras need batteries?

Omg I'm Dutch and I never knew that we were the ones fighting for Polaroid! That's cool. I adore instant film and have the instax mini 8 and instax sq6. I love them both, both the format is a little small, as you said. Maybe I'll check out the wide, even though the cameras are CHUNKY. Cool video!

Great to have Keith haring teaches me

Instax wide is so much more of a viable format now with the release of the Lomograflok. Not only do you have access to 98% of 4x5 cameras but DIY conversions with old Polaroids or even 3D printed bodies. This really opens up a lot of opportunities for Instax film so long as Fuji wants to keep Wide around

I think I'm going to start shooting instant again, but I think I'll be going with Fuji's film over Polaroid.

So good, funny man!

Yooo I love your channel I can binge for hourssss

What’s with the shade throwing at Fuji? Just bought their new instax printer based on what I have seen on instant printers, Polaroid are nice but I watched various videos comparing print qualities and Fuji science seems to nail exposure where Polaroids seem to come out very warm and over exposed

Well done on this awesome high-quality video!

Thank you for this video! The info about who is making Polaroid currently was especially helpful. I found a Polaroid One model from 2001 in my grandpa's things when I was helping my mom go through stuff and I balked at the price of the film, but now I want to use it when I go on trips, I think. Special film for a special occasion :) Wish I could afford to use it regularly though!

I don't know whether to thank you or curse you. This was exactly the video I was looking for out of casual interest and it answered all my questions. What I didn't count on was your infectious enthusiasm. Doggone it, I can't afford another film format! Urgh!!!

The Sq20 and Sq1 is available on the Instax Square Line up soo 6 cameras in total

Do those have the negatives like Polaroid?

oh, well this is outdated now!

So what would say is the best instant camera and film based on photo quality

Did somebody tell that you look like Keith Haring in some way?

I used the impossible project, fujifilm instax mini and wide. Those three have their unique benefits and drawbacks, but i would love to try the Polaroid original.

Is there any way of recycling the empty film cartage? I hesitate throwing it in the recycling bin.

If Fuji would release an Instax Bluetooth printer like the Mini, I’d be all over it. That’s the format I really want as I like shooting Fuji cameras (not the plastic ones); the Mini has the right rectangular shape, but are tiny pics for teens with toy-looking cameras. Props for Fuji identifying a market and going with it, it seems to have worked, although in the world of teens, being “cool” is fickle. But it has carried them through to now, when adults might be more ready to embrace Instant film again. Like flares and disco music... perhaps? You don’t have to hide your Abba and BeeGees vinyl collection anymore.
I seriously considered getting an Instax 500af, but realistically know I can’t afford it, and am self-conscious enough I probably wouldn’t end up using it much. All I really want is an Instax Wide printer for my Fuji camera.

just getting into instant film, your lomo'instant wide review and this video have helped a lot, thanks :) also brilliant intro

The amount of quality and production put into these videos are truly appreciated! 👍🏾🙏🏾

Well done! Amazing production values. We should do a little tour of our Ashland facility where we make the Supersense reagent.

I am a big instant user... since my Colorpack II from 1970, I love the stability of Fuji film, bat really love the size of Polaroid ... I keep hoping they get better at color, I am pretty pleased with their B&W film. I also love my Fuji Neo 90, but also wish there was a camera with more controls ... ancient SX70s can do wicked long exposure, why can't Fuji make something like that!!!

Polaroid now or Fujifilm sq6????

One more thing to consider if you’re shooting black and white: Fuji’s b&w are in my opinion not truely b&w as some color shines through and they have a distinct blueish tint. Polaroids on the other hand are beautiful and warm.

I wish Polaroid and/or Fujifilm brought the peel-apart film back! 😭

Wouldn't it be neat if one could just attach an instax printer to the bottom of a dslr like as an extra battery+printer accessory

Did he just call me a square? lol

This is so well produced. Well done. Thank you