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Instant Gratification! All the Details You Need to Know,
What you GET in the box:
—> Snap camera
—> Wrist strap
—> Micro USB charging cable
—> Small illustration for paper placement and powering on.
What you NEED before you can use this:*
—> micro SD card (up to 32 GB) – it will format your card so don’t use one with other files on it.
—> Polaroid 2×3 inch Premium ZINK Photo Paper (30 Sheets) – Compatible With Polaroid Snap, Z2300, SocialMatic Instant Cameras & Zip Instant Printer (premium) or 2×3 Inch ZINK Photo Paper for Pogo Cameras and Printers (Pack of 100!) (basic). The premium paper prints much better!
* You CAN take pictures without the SD card but you must have paper. OR you can take pictures without the paper but you must have an SD card.
The quick rundown: This is a 10MP camera that takes photos and saves them to the SD card AND prints them out onto 2×3 mini prints (optional as stickers) without the addition of ink or anything else. It is compact and will fit in a pocket. It includes a flash and a removable MAGNETIC lens cap. The pictures are good and are better when printed on the premium paper. But you also have the image on the SD card as long as it is loaded.
The rest of the story:
==> A few years ago, I purchased a Polaroid camera for my daughter. It ran about $65. I also bought a POGO Instant Printer (that uses the same ZINK paper) for about $40. Between the two, it was the same price as this camera and the Snap is more convenient to carry.
==> There are no instructions with the camera other than how to push the viewfinder up to power on and how to load the paper. It took some trial and error although it would seem like it would be intuitive to operate.
==> Some of my prints have streaks through them when using the basic paper.
==> The premium paper is running about 50¢ per piece. The basic paper is about 30¢ a piece – pricing depends on the volume as well.
==> You are looking at your shot through a small viewfinder on top of the camera. There is no LCD display and no way to review photos after taking them other than the prints or putting the SD card in your computer.
==> The digital photos are good for up to about a 9×12 print at 300 dpi.
==> The camera lens cap is magnetic – very cool – but you won’t know it is on when looking through the viewfinder. It may be easy to lose if you don’t keep it in a pocket and remember to put it back on.
==> You can take color or black and white and a vintage style to mimic the old Polaroid prints.
==> There is no way to stop it from printing a picture as long as there is paper in the camera. If you don’t want a print, take the paper out.
==> There is no zoom or wide angle, you get what you get and the viewfinder is not an exact image of the picture – it might be off a bit.
==> There is a tripod mount and a 10 second timer (which you can also activate by holding down the shutter.
==> The battery charges quickly and has lasted well so far.
==> You don’t get the same shutter sound as other digital cameras so sometimes it can be difficult to know if you took the picture. The sound you hear is subtle.
==> The paper goes in the camera with the glossy (print) side facing OUT, it holds 10 sheets at a time.
==> There is a cute feature, next to the color selections, that allows you to print with the familiar white border of the old Polaroid snaps. You can turn this feature on and off.
Our local camp also uses a Polaroid camera and POGO printer to takes pics of their campers for a “Passport.” This kind of camera eliminates the additional steps and could make the process quicker and more fun for the campers.
The bottom line: This snappy little camera is best in good light situations. It will not replace a good digital camera for quality of photos and features but it will provide a fun way to capture and print on the spot photos. It is great for parties, identification photos, or just for fun with friends. The paper can be costly and the prints are small. But the instant gratification and fun of watching the photo print on the spot is worth it.
A unit was provided for evaluation and review.
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|Boyonabike
Could be a really fun camera, but photos didn’t live up to expectations,
I like the magnetic lens cap, though I’ve “lost” it a couple times already since it’s small and easy to misplace. The printing of the photos is pretty snappy. There’s no focus or light adjustments functions.
As for the photos, the were a bit disappointing. Not sure if it’s the printer or the camera itself, but almost all photos came out blurry with really awful color tints (really red/magenta indoors, really green with flash, really blue in the day time outdoors). Every once in a while I’d get a color-balanced photo, but that’s about 5 out of the almost 70 I’ve taken. About half the prints also came out with a weird misprinted area on the left side. Since the main point of this camera is to get instant photos, the bad quality is a big hit on usability. Maybe I just have a bad camera or a bad printer?
Since the firmware update, the camera won’t let you take photos with the lens cap on anymore, which is good because I lost about 4 shots that way (since the viewfinder doesn’t show what you’re taking a photo of). I’m not sure what else the firmware update does, though.
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|Jim
What it is and isn’t and what you need to buy before you can use it,
The Polaroid Snap is a fun, retro, instant print camera with nostalgia and novelty value. You cannot use it as an instant print camera without Snap compatible ZINK Photo Paper, and it does not come with so much as a single piece of ZINK (zero ink) paper, so you should order some when you order a Snap.
For someone who is in the market for a fun, retro, instant print camera with nostalgia and novelty value that they can take to parties, etc., the Snap is cool enough that despite the fact that you have to buy a pack of ZINK pape in order to use it as it’s meant to be used, I can easily rate it 5 stars. But keep in mind that I’m a grandpa who has still has photo albums filled with Polaroids that I took in the sixties. And when I look at what comes out of the Snap, I definitely get the nostalgia effect, especially when I select the print option that puts an old-fashioned Polaroid border around the print. The print quality itself adds to the nostalgia, in that the print quality is apparently designed and intended to be reminiscent of original Polaroid prints.
The Snap has no built-in memory, but it does have a slot for a microSD card. Technically, if you put a microSD card in a Snap, you can use the Snap without ZINK paper, and you can access the images by putting the microSD card into another device or by connecting the Snap to a computer with the included USB cable (which is also the charging cable). But based on my experience, I’d say there’d be no point in using a microSD card in the Snap unless you are also using ZINK paper. Let’s say that you’re at a party and you take a Snap shot of someone and give them the instant print. If you have a microSD card in your Snap, you can later view that image on a computer or another device, you can upload it to the web, and you can print it out using a printer other than the one that’s built into the Snap. (I know there are such things as ZINK printers and it may be the case that it’s possible to print Snap shots saved to microSD on ZINK paper in ZINK printers but I have no idea if that’s the case. I had to purchase a package of ZINK paper in order to use the Snap so I could review it – you cannot review an instant print camera if you don’t first use it to create some instant prints – and the ZINK paper doesn’t come with instructions, other than a less-than-informative image on the foil packages that hold the ZINK paper, and I cannot find instructions on the ZINK site. I had to watch a YouTube video to make sure I was loading the ZINK paper into the Snap correctly. I’ll explain the process below.)
The Snap has no display and thus there is no way on the Snap itself to view images you’ve taken that have been saved to a microSD card. You can only view such images by connecting the Snap to a computer or by removing the microSD card from the Snap and putting it in a device that has a display. Again, the Snap is not designed to be a highly functional digital camera; it’s designed to be a Polaroid instant print camera with fun, retro, nostalgia, and novelty value, and it certainly does have all that going for it.
The ZINK paper used in the Snap measure 2×3 inches (50mm x 76.2mm, which is business card size. (Imagine if Patrick Bateman had a Snap.*) For comparison purposes I’m looking at one of the Polaroids that I mention above that I took in the sixties, and the paper measures 3 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ (88.9mm x 107.95mm) and it has the classic Polaroid white border, which reduces the image itself to 3 1/8″ x about 3 1/16″ (79.375mm x 77.7875mm). You can get the classic border on Snap prints, and with the border the Snap print on ZINK paper image itself measures 2 7/16″ by a hair under 1 3/4″ (61.9125mm x 44.45mm).
Next to the button on top of the Snap that you press before taking a shot if you want to add a border to your print (the border option does not get saved to a microSD card), is a button that you press to select color print, sepia, or black and white.
The Snap has a lens cover that is held on magnetically. There is no way to attach it to the Snap, e.g., so that it can be removed from the lens and left hanging from the Snap, and I would imagine that some Snap users will misplace their Snap lens covers. And unlike digital cameras that warn if not prevent you from taking shots when the lens cover is on, if you forget to remove the Snap lens cover and you press the shutter button and you have ZINK paper in the Snap, it will print a black print and you’ll be out the fifty cents or so US that piece of ZINK paper cost you. I speak from experience as I did this twice.
One thing in particular that I don’t like about the Snap is the view finder, which also functions as an on/off button. Gently press an edge of the folded-down view finder…
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|Mlw
Great for a child,
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|Paul Graviano
A very good “Economy” Video Recorder,
Wanting better detail and quality, I then ordered a Panasonic Video Recorder Panasonic HDC-TM90K 3D Compatible Camcorder with 16GB Internal Flash Memory (Black) which is a much more expensive recorder, but gives much better detail. Examples of the Panasonic recorder can be found by going to YouTube and searching for HO Train Layout.m2ts You can see other examples of the Panasonics work by going to YouTube and typing Paulietree1 in the search box at the top of the page.
As you might guess, the quality of a video recorder varies with the price. If you want really good, clear video you’re going to have to spend a few hundred dollars. If the quality you saw in the first video I listed is acceptable, you cannot beat the Vivitar DGTL Video Recorder for the price.
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|dertydogg
awesome!,
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