My dad gave me his DSLR but I would never look at the photos I took or cared for it.
Now that the number of photos I can take are limited I can’t wait to develop those photos and actually feel it.
My dad gave me his DSLR but I would never look at the photos I took or cared for it.
Now that the number of photos I can take are limited I can’t wait to develop those photos and actually feel it.
I would’ve loved a polaroid or the equivalent. Instant physical photos are an amazing invention in my book.
Instax is the modern equivalent of Polaroid - cameras that spit out real instant photos there on the spot. Not great image quality, and somewhat pricey per shot, but good fun. And yes, it’s proper instant film with chemistry, so you can watch the image develop right there in your hands.
Caveats/gotchas: IIRC the Instax line also includes hybrid cameras which are basically just digital cameras with built-in printers. Still neat, but less cool than the standard line in my opinion. Also, Polaroid do still exist in zombie corp fashion, but they mostly just make digital cameras/printers and the film for their old cameras is crazy expensive. Unless you’re deeply committed to using an old Polaroid camera, it’s not worth it compared to Instax.
The salesman was super cool to be honest. It was between this and instax hybrid model (which costs more) but he understood my needs and suggested this.
What got me more exciting is that I only have 36 photos per film roll so have to be very conscious of what I choose to capture