Is anyone frustrated with Instax and hopes for the resurrection of FP100c?

Instax is fine for what it is. The wide one is almost a decent size. What sucks is Fuji doesn't really make a decent camera to use it. I have their high end retro 90 (I think it is called that) one, and the pics are indistinguishable from a cheap one they make.
Fuji used to make a cool AF wide one - the 500 AF, but replaced that with the much crappier model they have now that is fixed 2 zone focus.

I would love to use the peel apart film, but doubt that'll ever happen.
 
I'm frustrated with instant film in general. Polaroid Spectra got killed for the wrong reasons, IMO. Supersense's One Instant Kickstarter uses expired chemistry. Color from Polaroid Originals still isn't that good, and B&W ages poorly. Instax is kind of small. New55 is dead.

I spent way too much money trying to get Fujifilm Fotorama Ace that was as fresh as possible, only to find out that it doesn't even produce an image anymore. When I've got some time to tinker around, I'll see if I can shoot Instax Square in a Spectra and Fotorama Robo Ace.
 
aizan said:
......New55 is dead........
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They're still around, but under a different name. I tried their stuff, again, and was disappointed, again. I shot three sheets of the new 400 speed stuff which gave me a terrible negative and an even worse print. I threw the last two sheets in the trash.

Jim B.
 
I like instax film: high contrast but not sharp. Did that really happen? kind of thing... A good match for memory. The cameras give you what it wants, not what you want. Straight horizons: forget about it... It is what it is. Better not to load it into your film holder to see if everything is set!
 
I used a little bit of FP100C before it went away, and I enjoyed my tinkering with it. But for me it was strictly for studio or around-the-house use because of all the messy trash it generates. Instax is much handier out on the field.

If you're desperate to shoot Instax with a high-quality lens, get one of the Option8 Instax conversions. The Lomo Automat Glass isn't bad, either. Haven't tried the Lomo Square Glass yet, but that should be decent too.
 
I practically gave away the last of my FP100c with a Polaroid Land 400 camera. I didn't really care for the color.

I have used the Instax SP3 printer for square photos and and pretty pleased with it. I just send over photos from my iPhone ( sometimes scans from my 6x6 cameras ). I also have the SQ6 and it's OK, but similar to the Fuji FP100c IMO, so I just stick to the printer.
 
I'm not frustrated with Instax at all ... the MiNT RF70 makes very good use of the wide version film, the Lomo Instant Square does the same with the square format film, and the Instant Magny 35 fitted to my Leica M4-2 does with the square format film as well. The Fuji Instax cameras are typical instant film low end machines: they work, but they're unexciting for photographers.

My project to build a higher-end Instax Square camera has been sitting on the shelf for a time but will happen this year. It will be a Mamiya Press 23 Super based thing: a lens unit fitted to an Instax SQ processing unit from the Instant Magny 35 project. All but one piece is already in hand, and that's the custom lens mount that will have a Mamiya Press breech lock on one end mated to a bayonet to fit the processing unit on the other.

Pack-film Polaroid cameras and their derivatives are likely to near dead now. Fujifilm FP100c and FP3000b are long gone at this point ... sad, but such is it. I doubt whether Fuji will resuscitate their production. The One-Instant film project has promise but it is going to be at a very high cost per exposure; I've got one on my ticket and will evaluate whether it's worth buying more film for once I play with the initial pack of 18 exposures.

In Time, we only get the chance to move forwards. :)

G
 
Instax Wide with a press style lens, say 100mm, might be the way to go. Since normally these instant prints are not enlarged then DoF requirements could be a bit relaxed I think, enough to make focus by scale viable. I was thinking the 105mm f4.5 Kodak lens from a 6X9 folder would probably cover Instax Wide.
 
zuiko85 said:
Instax Wide with a press style lens, say 100mm, might be the way to go. Since normally these instant prints are not enlarged then DoF requirements could be a bit relaxed I think, enough to make focus by scale viable. I was thinking the 105mm f4.5 Kodak lens from a 6X9 folder would probably cover Instax Wide.
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Instax SQ is basically the same format size as any 6x6 format camera (62x62 mm image area compared to 56x56 mm negative image size on my Hasselblad) so any 6x6 format compatible lens assembly (with shutter and focusing mount) will work fine. I chose a Sekor 50mm f/6.3, which on 6x6 nets the diagonal AoV of a 35mm format 28mm lens and, wide open, will net a useful but shallow focus zone of about 3 feet depth when focused at 7 feet. Fine for zone focus!

The same lens covers 6x9 cm nicely; I'm sure it would be fine on an Instax Wide print (62x99 mm image area) with similar focus zone. This discussion is getting me hot to get back to work on making the last part of my custom Instax SQ camera...!

:)

G
 
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