Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 – Instant Film Camera – Ruby Red

top tier gift that you can’t go wrong with
I’m going to apologize in advance if I get carried away or ramble on but I can’t say enough for how fantastic this is. whether you are looking for a gift for someone else or yourself, young or old, you will knock it out of the park. if you can manage to find this on a sale or deal like I did then it is a no-brainerone would assume that if you are reading this review that you are already familiar with how the device works but I’ll give a quick rundown just to show it easy it is – slide the power switch to turn it on, point the camera at what you want a memory of, and it spits out a small instant picture when you press the shutter that you can see the results after about two minutes (over-simplification? massively but you get the point)I can’t speak to the functionality of the original polaroid cameras (other than they were quite large) but I do appreciate that this camera comes with different modes depending on if you want to do selfie/macro/wide shoots/etc along with lightening or darkening the shot. these take a little practice to get exactly right but that’s part of the charm, playing around and seeing what you get.since I bought this I haven’t had to swap out the batteries yet so I can’t speak to that (does take a specialty battery so I suggest having backups) but I am very impressed with the build of this for the price point. the blue/metal color looks great and gets so many compliments, it has a nice weight to it without feeling like you are lugging something around all day. even comes with a neckstrap to keep it safe and secure (I prefer to just toss it in my bag personally).the only knock that I will give this is that the viewfinder doesn’t seem to be in a very logical position. having the shutter button on the right side of the camera it makes sense in my mind that you would have the viewfinder of the left (because also most people tend to use their right eye). I had read another review that had mentioned it but it didn’t strike me as how odd it was until I was actually holding it for myself.full disclosure – I am not a professional photographer by any stretch of the imagination so I can’t speak to the technical side of things as far as aperature and all those things. it’s a blast and a half that fits in your hand

Nice camera
Love it very nice highly recommended. Although the films for this camera is pricey

It’s a shame it’s discontinued
I’ve had a lot of fun with this camera. It takes some getting used to, like think back to the day when there was no digital anything, you got one shot. You’ll have some pics that don’t turn out. The ones that do, completely worth it.I’ve taken plenty of pics of my cat, pics with friends, and of landscapes on vacation. It’s a shame this specific model is discontinued as the new versions lack some options. However I’d say don’t let that hold you back from buying a newer model, this way of taking pics is fun.

I saw this on sale and got a spark of curiosity. I haven’t used an instant camera since the mid-90s and I miss having film prints of photos. When I learned this model had been discontinued recently before it went on sale it pushed me to jump on it.The Instax SQ6 is a fully analogue camera with no zoom, autofocus, or even manual focus. It just meters the scene and takes a photo then spits it out of the top of the camera. The camera has a few different exposure modes, where it will adjust its focus between one of three distances: Macro (0.3m – 0.5m); Normal (0.5m – 2m); Landscape (2m+). It also has a selfie mode and a little mirror next to the lens to help you line up the shot. Additionally, you have the ability to manually disable the flash and set an automatic shutter timer. The camera is also reasonably compact, as the lens retracts into the body when powered off.While being able to focus manually might be nice, I understand that for instant cameras, Fujifilm presumably wishes to keep things as simple and inexpensive as possible so anybody can use the camera. The SQ6 is unique among recent Fujifilm Instax cameras in that it has these alternate shooting modes flash control, and self timer. Later models omit these features but are otherwise pretty much the same except for aesthetics. This is what pushed me to grab this camera before they’re gone for good. I like to have at least a little bit of control over the camera, particularly being able to turn off the flash.As for the photos themselves. I included a few examples with this review. I’m pretty pleased with the quality of the pictures. Learning how to gauge the focusing distance and framing takes a little bit of practice since you can only frame your shot through the viewfinder, which: A, doesn’t show you what’s in focus and B, is offset from the actual lens. I just try to remember what the actual effective focusing distances are for the three modes mentioned earlier. Correctly capturing Macro focus is particularly tricky but can have some really nice results if you nail it. By the way, when you power on the camera, the default mode is ‘Normal’, with the flash enabled.Instax film has been around for over 20 years now but I had never used it before. The colours and saturation are very nice, plus it exposes and develops evenly and consistently. It is ISO 800 and tends to have a high amount of contrast and doesn’t work very well in most indoor or dimly lit conditions as the photos come out rather dark. If you use the flash for indoor photos you can at least get peoples faces exposed decently, though the backgrounds will be largely black. As you may see from my included example photos, I’ve mostly been taking artsy-looking still life photos outdoors during the day and I’ve been happy with the results. But artsy-looking photos are only half the fun of instant photography, I look forward to bringing this on my next holiday to make some hard copy, charmingly imperfect photos as keepsakes.Overall, I’ve run a couple packs of film through this camera so far: some monochrome, some colour. I’ve really been enjoying it so far. Now, if you’re comparing Instax vs Polaroid, I admit I haven’t used current generation Polaroid film but I find the value proposition questionable. It’s more than twice as expensive per photo, is sensitive to changes in ambient temperature, and the print quality is arguably worse. I root for Polaroid and Instax to keep growing and improving, it seems both are riding a wave of popularity as people grow tired of just having all their photos in the cloud instead of in their hands. If you like photography and want an Instax Square camera and this SQ6 is still available, I’d recommend grabbing one before they’re gone. Unless, of course, Fujifilm releases a new camera with these sorts of features in the future, but who knows.

Todo llegó perfecto, y la cámara es ll que dice ser, una camara para tener fotos bonitas para el recuerdo, claro que no tiene la mejor resolución, pero la calidad es buena, solo recordar que lo que ves con el lente no es lo que saldrá, ya que el lente está en un lado de la cámara, y el lente que captura la imagen está al centro, solo un consejo para la hora de tomar sus fotos