It’s not so strong that you’d say it’s not monochromatic, but it’s enough that EMULSIVE wrote that it goes green in the shadows and when an orange filter was used, the whole image came out green. Fuji Instax Mini Monochrome produces black and white, credit card-sized prints within seconds of shooting. Fuji Instax Monochrome film works in all instax mini cameras and offers stunning instant prints that can fit into a wallet, purse or mini photo frame. Each pack contains 10 shots of high quality credit-card sized photos that you can fit into a purse, wallet or mini photo frame. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Maybe it didn’t help that the exposure was off and I didn’t see enough detail where I wanted it, but I couldn’t be sure if it was the film or the camera at fault. I printed each image in the SP-2 printer and resolution test images (below), were done at exactly the printer resolution to avoid detail loss through resampling. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things.This versatile ISO 800 film features neutral grey tonality combined with natural contrast and highlight response that helps it to capture vivid monochrome images under daylight or studio lighting. The color film does a great job there, but instead the black and white look lends itself to a much more artsy feeling overall here.

I got a lot of enjoyment out of the process of taking pinhole photos, and it is super educational, too. The first move towards that was cameras that have a bit more manual control over the exposure–while the next was Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome.Given that I work mostly in black and white, I have a fairly good idea how a typical silver-based panchromatic monochrome film desaturates and this wasn’t quite the same. However, be aware there are some colours that don’t translate correctly into monochrome, so in certain circumstances, you may be better off using Instax Color and desaturating in post-production. One thing to note is that contrast is very high with this film, far higher than Fuji Instax color films. The blocks of graduated fine lines on the test images below are pitched at 1 pixel wide at 800 x 600 (the printer’s maximum resolution). It's also a fun film to use - easy to load, shoot and best of all - no wasted time at the lab wondering how your images came out.

With all of these cameras, it’s also quite tough to use studio strobes with the exception being the Diana F+. Then, and only then, would I be able to create an image that I’m really ever so truly proud of with this film. Interestingly, a black and white image printed on Instax Mini Monochrome comes out close enough in grey tones – albeit a cooler, bluer grey compared to the brown mid and shadow tones of Instax Color’s ‘black and white’. When printing, dynamic range is not significantly different between Instax Mini Monochrome and Color. You might argue the printer might be off calibration, or that the image resolution is limited by the printer, but seeing as I got better results than from a camera, I’d say these criticisms are moot in real-world situations.Unfortunately this great black and white formula is not currently being sold in the Fuji Instax Wide format, which is closer in size to original Polaroid. However, it’s consistently inconsistent because the inconsistency is a result of imperfect colour mapping at the design stage, rather than the poor manufacturing tolerances that we see in other instant films today. Using the Instax Share SP-2 printer gets around problems such as poor camera metering, bad focus, poor optics and lighting colour temperature. I plan on pushing through with some more day time shots and different subjects to get a nice sample set to look at. Other than the desaturation filter, the SP-2’s app offers a ‘Sepia’ effect, which is like black and white, except it is black through pale yellow and bizarrely considers reds and magentas to be slightly lighter.

lens to a camera, set my shutter speeds and apertures, focus using maybe a bellows system, and meter the film against my studio strobes. In my uses, I decided to put this camera through the paces with portraiture and pinhole work–exactly what I’d use instant black and white film for to begin with. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. Very much unlike anything that the Impossible project offers, this film doesn’t turn Sepia after a while.

Clifton Cameras is a credit broker, not a lender and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN728300). Timing it out, an image first appears from the white opacifier at 1 minute, with a fully developed image showing up within 5 minutes. If you want the best quality Instax black and white images that you can make of, use the printer and not an Instax camera. Have you had different experiences with Fujifilm Instax cameras, printers and the Instax Mini Color and Monochrome films? The absolute best hacks that I’ve seen are from Steven Lloyd and Brock Saddler: who have found ways to make vintage cameras work with the film via hacks.