Making GOOD Instax Prints

[Tin Can]

Now that I have a USBC to SD card dongle

Eureka!

Throw out all cameras that use Instax as the lenses are crap and the cameras fail

Instax Wide printer and film is 15% more than Mini. Use a Wide Printer

USBC works very good, I use iPad 6 and load any pic into the device

Then wirelessly print to a Wide Printer https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/consumer/instax/printers/linkwide


Here is a lousy copy of a copy of a copy Instax wide


Today I will be shooting my Hell-o=Ween image with 3 packs of Fuji FP100C if it still works

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52464868095_4bf990a53b_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2nW9ari)Copy 3X (https://flic.kr/p/2nW9ari) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[ic-racer]

I exposed my last two Fuji pack film loads a month ago and they were both shot.

[Duolab123]

Yep, these are great little printers.

[Neal Chaves]

Here's a camera that uses Instax Wide, can mount the finest lenses, focus and compose accurately and is extremely fast and reliable. A real crowd-pleaser wherever it goes.

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[SergeyT]

Seems like their marketing dept certainly know what they do - make consumers pay 3 times for essentially the same thing.
Start with mini - saturate the market
Repeat with square
Repeat with wide

[Tin Can]

I also have a Lomo Back with the clumsy spacer

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1722650-REG/lomography_z45inst_lomograflok_4x5_instant_back.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=CjwKCAjw5P2aBhAlEiwAAdY7dPHFK4zNK3lZ3vhJIYitnYpmpNyOwhjwvNpnaYLPeXecNFSeTsHU8hoCxpQQAvD_BwE

No thanks




Here's a camera that uses Instax Wide, can mount the finest lenses, focus and compose accurately and is extremely fast and reliable. A real crowd-pleaser wherever it goes.

232250232251

[Oren Grad]

Instax Wide printer and film is 15% more than Mini. Use a Wide Printer

USBC works very good, I use iPad 6 and load any pic into the device

Then wirelessly print to a Wide Printer https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/consumer/instax/printers/linkwide

I use the Instax app on an inexpensive Samsung Android tablet tethered to my desktop PC, same idea.

[Tin Can]

I use the Instax app on an inexpensive Samsung Android tablet tethered to my desktop PC, same idea.

I have 3 cheap INSTAX cameras

Their problem is special battery, that nobody sells, it must be 1400 watt

My 2 current INSTAX printers are rechargeable, they work fine

[Neal Chaves]

I also have a Lomo Back with the clumsy spacer

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1722650-REG/lomography_z45inst_lomograflok_4x5_instant_back.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=CjwKCAjw5P2aBhAlEiwAAdY7dPHFK4zNK3lZ3vhJIYitnYpmpNyOwhjwvNpnaYLPeXecNFSeTsHU8hoCxpQQAvD_BwE

No thanks

There is no spacer on my modified Crowns. The new back that I fabricated centers the Instax and provides the required setback. it is a joy to use and demonstrate.

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

There is no spacer on my modified Crowns. The new back that I fabricated centers the Instax and provides the required setback. it is a joy to use and demonstrate.

Can you share some images or description of what you did Neal?

[Tin Can]

I have a Horseman with special set of setback for Polaroid

[MartinP]

I have 3 cheap INSTAX cameras

Their problem is special battery, that nobody sells, it must be 1400 watt

My 2 current INSTAX printers are rechargeable, they work fine

A 1.4kW battery? Wouldn't that be really heavy? The Wide cameras available in Europe have used normal AA cells for about fifteen years or so, and I managed to find an unloved secondhand Wide for EUR48 in the camera shop in town. Ideal for small events and ice-breaking etc. I have a plan to amuse myself by exposing individual sheets in a normal 4x5" darkslide, by means of a polystyrene-sheet adapter (corner slots, as used to be used to mount photos in albums). If it is a rainy winter then I play indoors more!

[Neal Chaves]

Can you share some images or description of what you did Neal?

First, I must say that had been using an Instax Wide back from Mercury Camera Company (the owner is a member here) for some time. While the Mercury back is not as full featured as the Lomograflok, I was able to see the potential of the Instax film through various lenses. It can produce some excellent color images.

The Lomograflok looked promising so I bought one of the first available. I found the offset of the frame to be unacceptable. On the Crown Grafic, the ejected film would catch on the Top RF on the way out and be bent. As soon as I started using the supplied spacer to set infinity stops on the Crown I saw the images were not as sharp they should be. I made a focus aid from an empty film pack with ground glass at the film plane. When I put this in the camera and checked the stops, they were off.

I have fabricated a back for the Crowns from marine board. The back now has room to process and eject the Instax while staying in place. The Instax Wide frame is now centered in the 4X5 horizontal format. In operation, the camera is the same as a Crown with a roll film back. With the right masks in the viewfinder you can have very accurate composition and framing. I like the Self-cocking Copal Press shutters. You compose, focus, expose, eject and it's ready again.

I have fully informed the Lomography organization about the camera, but have no response from them. And so far, it remains confined to the lounge for reasons hotly debated on other threads. I call it the Lounge Lizard.

[Tin Can]

I am going to convert Plate holders on both sides to easily hold Instax at T

Instax is not flat

thinking