hey everybody its norm from tested and I have a little bit of show-and-tell for
you today of a product that I bought recently that I love using as well as a
little project I did to complement it so while in lockdown
we're stuck at home and one of the things I've been doing a lot of is
taking photos of the baby I have a 18 month old little baby boy he's running
around upstairs right now probably and we've been taking a lot of photos of him
and it was Mother's Day a couple weeks ago and I bought for my wife Danica a
new photo printer now there are a lot of options for photo printers that you can
buy out there from full desktop printers from Epson Canon HP that print high
quality you know big photos they can blow up or small portable photo printers
that you can also buy with a bunch of new technologies like Zee ink where
basically you don't have putting the ink in there you buy special film put in the
printer send it your digital photo over and it prints it down the quality's okay
there's also instant cameras and in our household we love using the in stack
brand of instant cameras Fuji films in making this camera for a lot of time
it's the mini eight and it's like your standard you know Polaroid where you buy
a pack of film it's cartridge it goes into the back you
take your photo it comes out the top takes you know minute or so to develop
and it's a one of a kind we love using this even though it's a little bit
pricey per photo but you get like a unique experience
it's an ephemeral photo there's no copies of it and we had this at our
wedding it was like a party favor everyone got sick photos and take them
home they also have an upgrade and so we last year bought this guy which is the
in stock XS Q 6 and s Q stands for square so like the mini it's again
instant pictures but now they're square pictures a slightly different format but
same process better lens and I really like quality of photos that come out of
here now there's also an upgrade to this called the S cute hen
where you take a picture and yes the instant film comes out but then you also
store the picture digitally onto local memory that you can print out later now
that's interesting because it kind of takes away from the uniqueness of the
photograph that you're getting but the kind of Polaroid experience of one of a
kind you know it's like a digital negative that you can make copies of and
I'm totally cool with that I don't want to be too precious about it especially
since the film does cost a lot of money and they made me think about do they
sell just a photo printer that prints on Polaroid or instant film because I like
that tangibility I like the feel I like the glossiness of that type of paper and
I can use it with these cameras as well and they do so Fuji film sells this guy
that's what I bought for mother's day it's called the Instax share and this is
the sp3 model the third generation and it kind of is just like this camera
except there's no lens and no way to take a picture instead there's a Wi-Fi
connection to your phone that use connect and then use the app and then
any picture you have stored in your phone you can then print out and and
have in this insect's format in fact let's do one right now I took a selfie
earlier and here it goes you can even see the framing in the photo you can do
some editing you know the apply filters what-have-you reframe it I'm just going
to go press print and there it goes
so we'll wait for this to develop now there are some differences in the actual
image quality between this photo and what you would get from the full analog
experience of this camera I do think that the photos look better when shot
properly on this camera although you do only have that one chance for that one
exposure the image quality is a little bit I'd say a little blown out in the
highlights you don't get as much dynamic range with this but they still look good
there's also a funny little difference with the focal length this is a good
lens in here it basically has a about a 33 millimeter equivalent if you're
talking about 35 35 millimeter film and if you're talking about trying to
replicate the look of that picture on your phone on an iPhone the wide-angle
camera is 26 mil - laughs Oh toe is about 52 million but the front-facing
camera is that 33 mil so you can always use front-facing camera a portrait mode
save it to your camera roll and print it on the share so like I said we've been
taking a lot of photos of our baby at home and so for Mother's Day not only
did I buy this printer of I bought a bunch of this instant film again a
little pricey on Amazon you can basically buy a 20 pack for 16 or 17
dollars so it's about 80 something cents 75 to 85 cents per print and we printed
a bunch of them and I wanted to find a way to not only display them but also
encourage interaction with them there are a lot of Polaroid or instant film
display cases frames holder sleeves we're supposed to mount them on the wall
put them on your desk but they don't really encourage the grabbing of the
photo and looking at him and handing it around which i think is part of the
experience of having this and the reason to have this type of picture so I
decided to make a stand so I did a sketch and use the glowforge head back
there and over the weekend I may this which is a instant film holder and
what I did was it basically is the dimensions of one of these photos so
about three and a half inches by two point eight inches that you can use it
to sort and then I also laser-cut in a couple of these slots on here and then
you can easily stick these pictures in and have them you know offset I like the
messiness of it and then drop these photos in between as a way to store them
and after I made this first one which is hobble together it's just super glued
together I decided to make a version two and I realized not only could they
display photos I could also drop photos in between and it'd be a nice way to
commemorate maybe the first year of my baby so version two has essentially
twelve slots and I'm gonna use one each slot for every month of his first year
and so I can go through and see his progression as well as print more photos
drop them in hand it around at a party or leave it on a shelf and then really
pick it up and look at the photos and then I made a version three as well
smaller version just three and a half inches and there you see photos that you
could have in these little slots as well as ones that you can just drop in and
sort it you can hold dozens and dozens of photos in this super simple project
allowed me to just dive back in Illustrator which I haven't done in a
long time designed some slots and really satisfying to do it in fact if you want
to make one yourself if you have access to laser cutter or even something like a
Cricut and you want to cut it out of thin wood I'll put the SVG the vector
files in the description below so let's take a look at her photo yep you know
what not bad something tangible if you handed
this to someone I bet they would be fooled into thinking came directly from
one of these cameras even though it was just taken with the front facing camera
on my phone just something I wanted to share
I'm really loving using this printer there'll be a link to it below if you
want to get one yourself and if you want to make one of these display stands
yourself as well again the designs are below I'd love to
see what projects you're working on from home while we're all in this lockdown
please post them in the comments below hope you're all staying safe wearing a
mass take care of each other and we'll see you next time bye