Last month, Fujifilm Japan told dealers that it would be increasing the price of film by as much as 60%. Today, Fujifilm North America specified that while it is still increasing prices, it would be to a lesser degree.
Fujifilm has notified dealers in Japan to expect price increases across a range of its photography products. Specifically, the company's photo film will go up in price by as much as 60% starting in April.
Hong Kong-based camera manufacturer NONS has announced the SL660, an interchangeable lens camera that accepts Canon EF lenses and shoots to Fujifilm Instax square instant film.
What makes instant film fun to use decades after its peak in popularity? I’d wager it’s the same things that made it fun back in the day: not overthinking things and staying in the moment while also creating unique-looking prints that convey those fleeting moments so perfectly. The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo takes a different approach.
Fujifilm has announced that it will be discontinuing a few more film products. The latest to be axed are Fujicolor 160NS Professional 120 film and Velvia 50 in 4x5 and 8x10 sheet sizes.
Fujifilm and Nintendo have teamed up to create a new smartphone photo printer that lets Nintendo Switch gamers print out their in-game photos as Instax instant photos. It's called the Instax Mini Link for Nintendo Switch Smartphone Printer.
Lomography sells a neat accessory for its Lomo'Instant camera called the Splitzer that lets you split your shots with multiple exposures. If you use the popular Fujifilm Instax Mini 90, there's now a "Splitzer" for you.
Fujifilm Europe has announced a new initiative to "support healthcare workers with Instax." The program involves donating Instax cameras and film to hospitals across the continent, in order to help doctors and nurses connect with patients without removing their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Analog photography company escura wants to "take instant photography to a new level," so they've taken to Kickstarter to fund something called the Hasselblad Portrait: "the first fully compatible instant film back for your Hasselblad V-System camera."
A Hong Kong-based company called "NONS" has created a M42-mount ILC that can be used to shoot Fujifilm Instax Mini film. They're calling it the world's first M42 mount SLR instant camera, and it allows shooters to pair easy-to-find Fuji Instax film with much-beloved (and often very cheap) classic M42 lenses.
If you're a film photographer who loves shooting Fujifilm film stocks, you may want to stockpile some film right now: Fujifilm just announced that major price hikes are coming to its films and papers starting on April 1st, 2019.
Hasselblad. The company that went to the moon. A company known for producing some of the most iconic cameras in history. Since 1948, when Hasselblad produced its first consumer camera, it has built a strong reputation within the industry. As with many companies, it has had a few bumps in the road, but for the most part, it remains a highly respected organization.
Over the last 5 years, drones have consumed every part of my life. From using aerial systems to carry cameras as a service provider with Drone Dudes, to selling drones with Dronefly, or designing and making drones in China with Yuneec, I’ve been involved in all aspects of the drone industry.
Good photos have become commonplace. Smartphones have demystified camera technicalities in the past decade, and its pervasive adoption has democratized photography for mass consumers. Since the first known photograph was made in 1820, camera functions evolved significantly to compensate for human error.
The legendary toy camera brand Holga has announced a new product called the Holga Printer. It's an Instax printer that's 100% mechanical -- there's no electronics or battery inside the device.
For about a year and a half, every time I opened my fridge I saw my last remaining 10 exposure pack of Fuji FP 100C instant film, and every time I opened said fridge I was reluctant to take it out and shoot it. I did not want to waste my last remaining packfilm but I knew I shouldn’t wait too long, because eventually the chemistry inside the film would dry. And since the film expired in late 2007, I was running out of time.
Lomography has unveiled the Diana Instant Square, a lo-fi toy camera that shoots Fuji Instax Square instant film. It's the world's first Instax camera to feature interchangeable lenses and a hot-shoe mount.
The Hong Kong-based MiNT Camera has just unveiled the InstantKon RF70, a manual large format rangefinder instant camera for Fuji Instax Wide film -- the first with full manual controls.
It may soon be time to say goodbye to another popular film among analog photographers. A new report is saying that Fujifilm's Neopan 100 Acros will be discontinued in October of this year.
In 2016, there were 762 murders in Chicago, the most by far anywhere in the United States -- more than the total of New York and Los Angeles combined. This year there have already been over 600 homicides. I was born and raised in Canada, where there are fewer murders in the entire country than Chicago has in one year.
Episode 230 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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The Rezivot Instant Film Processor is a new camera add-on that lets you shoot Instax instant photos with vintage medium-format and large-format cameras.
Fujifilm will be killing off more of its camera film products in 2018, further dwindling the company's limited selection of analog offerings.
Albertino of Instax Magic created a unique camera that blends the old and the new. Half of it is made of LEGO, and half is a 90-year-old Zeiss-Ikon Trona folding plate camera.
Lomography has just announced the Lomo'Instant Square, the world's first fully analog instant camera that shoots Instax Square film (Fuji's own SQ10 square format camera is a hybrid camera that mixes film and digital).
The last 24 hours were packed full of gear announcements, and we're even done. In addition to their new Instax camera and SQUARE film, Fujifilm also revealed two new lenses for the mirrorless medium format GFX 50s, updated their GFX roadmap, and teased a firmware update for the MF shooter.
Photographer Alessandro Michelazzi recently attended the 91st "Pitti Immagine Uomo" male fashion fair in his city, Florence, Italy. While there, he shot a creative portrait project in which he asked attendees to pose for and hold up Instax instant photos of themselves.
Fuji's first SP-1 Instax printer made a bit of a stir when it was unveiled back in January of 2014. A portable, Wi-Fi enabled instant printer, it made printing your smartphone photos practical and fun. With the brand new SP-2, Fuji promises to make that experience even better.
In March 2015, the Hong Kong-based company MiNT shook up the world of instant photography by announcing the InstantFlex TL70, an Instax instant camera that looks and feels like a vintage Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera. Today the company just announced the new InstantFlex TL 2.0, a followup camera with noticeable improvements.
The Lomo’Instant Wide is an Instax wide format camera that opens the flood gates to an unprecedented level of creative Instax photography. Packed with more features than I can count, I immediately got to work snapping imaginative, fun, and downright hilarious photographs.