Fujifilm unveils Instax Square SQ10 - a hybrid digital/film instant camera

PanARMENIAN.Net - Fujifilm’s Instax series of instant cameras is super popular, having sold more than 25 million units around the world, and the company just announced the biggest shakeup to the line yet: Instax Square. Apart from the shift to an Instagram-friendly square film format, the first Instax Square camera works in an entirely different way to the rest of the Instax line. For starters, it’s digital, The Verge says.

The Instax Square SQ10 uses a 3.7-megapixel digital sensor, and you can frame shots by using a 3-inch LCD on the back of the camera. There’s a 28.5mm-equivalent f/2.4 autofocus lens. The camera has ten different filters that can be applied to photos before printing, as well as vignette control and brightness adjustment. Images can be saved to internal memory or a microSD card. Instax Square film is 86mm x 72mm, with the actual photo taking up 62mm x 62mm; for comparison, standard Instax photos are 46mm x 62mm.

FujiRumors previously reported on the existence of a film-only Instax Square camera called the Instax SQ, but Fujifilm isn’t announcing that now. If all you want is a traditional Instax camera that shoots square photos, it’s probably best to wait and see if that becomes official.

The Instax SQ10 will be available next month for $279.95; 10-packs of Instax Square film, meanwhile, will cost $16.99.