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Equipment & Techniques => Mirrorless Cameras => Topic started by: Alan Smallbone on September 16, 2016, 11:09:44 am

Title: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Alan Smallbone on September 16, 2016, 11:09:44 am

Gee I wonder how overpriced this instant Leica will be....???? ;D

https://www.dpreview.com/news/9051480205/leica-sofort-instant-camera-officially-announced-ahead-of-photokina-debut

Take Fuji Instax film too so you can now have b&w instant Leica.....

Alan

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: howardm on September 17, 2016, 06:03:08 pm

it's $300 so I have a hard time as to why Leica is tarnishing its brand value w/ it.

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Alan Smallbone on September 18, 2016, 11:13:23 pm

Especially when it is a rebranded Fuji Instax Mini 90, lens assembly is the same, just a different box. And the Fuji is under $200 most places....

Alan

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on September 23, 2016, 09:45:06 am

Well, Fuji just got out a Michael Korrs edition, so... seems like easy money from riding this new wave of nostalgia instant print. Who knew that the instagram generation would also like the instax prints?

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Alan Smallbone on September 23, 2016, 02:59:54 pm

Paulo have you ever looked at the yearly Fujifilm reports? Their income from Instax is huge, more than the X-cameras. Very profitable for them. They are also coming out with a square format one later this year. I see a lot of people use the printer as well, to give out prints from the X-cameras right after they take them. There is also another company that is making a full functional TLR that uses the Fuji instax prints. Kind of interesting trend.

Alan

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Telecaster on September 23, 2016, 03:50:22 pm

I had the Fuji version for awhile earlier this year. Ended up giving it to a friend's young daughter. It's fun to use, and she gets a kick out of watching the pics develop after the camera spits 'em out.

-Dave-

Title: Re: Leica Sofort - get your instant red dot kicks....
Post by: Peter_DL on September 23, 2016, 04:24:38 pm

Trying to get a basic idea about the "IQ" of scanned Instax film, I came to the following website.
Probably more for the But-is-it-art-? section.

http://www.amandamabelphotography.com/2013/10/28/fujifilm-instax-mini-50s-film-scans/

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