Hi I'm Billy of the Fuji Guys, today we're actually going to to take a look at the new
Fujifilm instant camera, the Instax Wide 300.
This camera is Fuji's latest instant camera that uses the
Instax wide film, not the mini film so this film
is double the size of the Instax Mini film. If you're looking for a camera that uses
a much, gives you a much larger print, this might be a camera to take a look at.
We're going to look at the contents and get you started for the first time
with this camera. Depending on the country that you purchase this from,
the package may differ as well as the content in regards to:
if the package includes film or not. So you wanna check that out okay? So let's take
a look at the contents of this camera.
Let's go ahead and unbox the new Fujifilm Instax
camera, the Instax wide 300.
Depending on the country that you purchase this camera from,
it's gonna differ in terms of packaging because this particular package here
will include a free pack of Instax
Wide film. So let's just take a look at the content of
the new Instax Wide 300. So opening up the box of course,
we're gonna have several contents here. We have the
owner's manual both, I guess here in English and in
French and also various, different languages as you can see.
There is a little bit of a diagram on the camera, how to set things up.
And of course, this video's gonna show you how to get this camera up and
running right away.
So let's put that aside. Let's pull out the
camera which is the bulk of the contents,
and of course it's in a bubble wrap package here.
And again I'll put just the bubble wrap aside for now, and as you can see this is the
Instax Wide 300.
It is quite large compared to the Instax Mini Camera and of course,
that's because it's all about the size of the film. The film itself
uses Instax Wide film and it's double the size basically in terms of width
compared to an Instax Mini
film camera. Okay so that's just the Instax Wide. We'll put that aside for a
second, we'll
take a look at the rest content. Um, inside the box you of course have
a camera strap, and of course th strap can be attached
on to the camera. Onto either side here
of the camera and of course,
it's quite simple just like any other strap you would actually end up,
you know, looping this strap through and then of course,
you know, of course, attaching that
that loop of course inside here, of course the proper way to do it is
really to put it
under. So under the strap as you can see, and then attach it that way.
So, again, we'll try to do that in a second if we have some time.
In the box of course is a set of
double A batteries, that you have a total of 4 AA batteries.
It's one-time use alkaline batteries so the camera,
once it depletes the battery, which is generally about you know a 100
film packs - 100 film exposures.
And you'll notice it by you know the light
on the back, indicating the flash recharge taking a little bit longer.
So we're gonna install those batteries in a second. We also have inside the contents
a close-up attachment,
lens attachment here. And the close up lens attachment is kinda neat
and the way it of course works is that
it changes the...er...
attaches right to the front here and it just clips on, and as you can see had this
little piece in the front here,
and it's really an alignment to the viewfinder
and as you look through it, you can use this as a new focus point because
of course, when you attach this close up lens onto it,
the focus distance changes. As well on top of that, you also have this little mirror
which is a self mirror here
as you can see, Um,
you know, it helps you frame your shot that you're definitely centred into it if
you're gonna do some selfies
with the Instax Wide camera. Okay.
In the other contents of course, this package comes with
a free pack of Instax Wide film that's actually
2 in a package, and and let's just open that package up right now. But again,
depending on the country that you purchase
the Instax Wide camera from, it may or may not to include
film. So you wanna check the box to see what does it does not you obviously
have to
pick up a set of film. It comes, in this one here, 2 packs
and it's of course sealed
in a foil cover and of course,
it's obviously to prevent light from coming in because this is film, once it's
exposed to light of course you know,,
it's going to damage the film. I know some you have concerns about going to
the airports
and if we do have that concern, I recommend if you do have
film, whether it's instant film or any type of film,
is to have it hand checked with security. And
saying that of course, I've been too many airports and taken my Instax film
without
any major issues at all with any xrays getting into the exposure of
that. So that's really the content of the Instax Wide 300
camera, so let's see if we can insert the batteries onto the camera right now.
As you can see on the side here, this is where
the AA batteries would go into, and again we're just gonna
open up these batteries really quickly.
Again, because this is AA batteries they are one time
use. So if you want to get rechargeable batteries you can. You can pick up a good set
of nickel-metal hydride batteries,
Again, you want to follow the instructions in terms of the orientation
of the AA batteries. So that's 1, we got 2 right there,
3
and then of course the last one right here. So you wanna make sure that the batteries are
oriented correctly. There's a little diagrams inside,
and of course you can just turn on the camera and if it turns on,
obviously you had the batteries in correct. So before you think
the product's either defective, just
check that the batteries are inserted
correctly. That was your on-off switch by the way. Now let's see if we can insert the
film onto the camera as well.
So, I'm going to open up this package, the very first-time. It is
sealed as you can see... as you can see it does have a protective cover.
This is the part that actually goes into the
camera itself. So this is how you would actually insert the camera. If you see the
yellow tab here in the top right hand corner, that's the way that it should fit
into the camera itself. There's a little
clip here to push down and it actually opens up
the back of the camera as you can see we can look right through the lens
when the camera's turned on and light travels through the lens
and then hits the actual film because this is the protective film that on it
so..
in order to insert the film you want to match that yellow tab to the yellow tab right there,
and of course we're just gonna put it in place, okay,
there we go. You don't want to jam it in, it just fits in like that and
of course if you close the film, it should clip in place
and if you look at this low window here, it will indicate of course,
it aligns to the a yellow tab that you saw on the film so you know that there's film actually
being loaded
in the camera itself. So now that the film was loaded of course,
we have the option of course of attaching the hand strap here. So
for this video, I'm not going to attach it completely, but I'll just show you
quickly how to loop that
in. So as you can see, you've got the strap like here, like to go
with this from the top down, and hope we can get this to a loop
in for me...there you go.
So once it's looped in like that, of course you can slide this forward
and then the way to do this of course is to just push this forward up. It goes right
under, and we're gonna just slide it in like that,
pull it up and...
slide it back down... and then
we can lock it in place like that and then if you just pull on it, it is now tight and of course,
you can adjust this back-and-forth, and you would do the same for the opposite
side as well.
Okay, so that's just..I wanted to show you that quickly, but I wanna take it off
because it's much
easier for me to demo the product with it off.
And then of course, turning on the camera is just this on an off switch right here.
So you are just gonna
twist it to the right and it powers on the camera. When it first powers up, you can
see there's a little light on the back here. That just indicates the charge recycle time
for the built-in flash.
So when the light goes off, of course the camera is ready to go. Now,
it indicates on the LCD that there is no exposures left, that's because there's that
protective
protective cover in front of that...er... film cartridge itself. So you
wanna take the first shot,
and that's going to eject the protective cover as you can see right there.
Okay so that was your protective cover. You can put that aside. Now the film's ready to
go. You got 10 exposures,
there's different dials back here like the L and D that stands for light
and dark, and pushing it will toggle between different modes. So
L and D. So that's really three different options.
So, when you don't have anything displayed on the back, that means that
it's on normal exposure.
If you want to make the picture lighter, you wanna have it indicated as L
to make the picture much brighter, and if you want the picture to be darker,
then you would push the button again, and It would show that it's D. So D stands for dark,
and it's gonna make a darker exposure of the scene, and that's done
through, of course, the built in aperture that it's gonna
close it down a little bit to let less light get into the
lens and onto the film. Ok? So I am going put it back just to the normal exposure.
Then you got this flash button on the right here that toggles between a
different modes. You've got forced flash,
and then you basically have auto flash when you don't see a flash
indicated on it. As you can see you have the optical viewfinder and then you have this little
LED light, that again,
indicates that the flashes ready to shoot.
On the front of the camera of course, you've got the opposite side of the optical
viewfinder,
you got some sensors here to determine basically the amount of light that's coming in,
and so it determines what shutter speeds the camera should
operate on. Again this is because it's an automatic camera.
The exposure is going to be done automatically for you. This is basically a focal,
a focus distance. So turning it sets it to
basically three meters to infinity and turning it to the right again
a changes it to a a close-up
you know... three meters,
and then of course much closer than that, and then of course, attaching this
piece onto the front allows you to do, of course,
close-up shots. So that just clips right into the front of the lens I
believe. There you go, and
first shot I guess, is, let's do a selfie Ok? So I am going to set it up to...
to do a close up and then just take a little selfie here of myself.
I set in my face onto that little mirror,
the film comes up and were just going to let that sit
and of course, wait for it to expose.
I am going to take this piece off again and,
when you look through the viewfinder of course, you'll see,
that there is some.. uh..a circle right in the middle. So you want to make sure that
when you are
composing the scene, if a subject's very close,
you're gonna have a parallax because what you're framing through this glass,
is not the same as what's being captured on the lens. So,
as you go further and further back, that issue becomes less and less apparent. So,
if you do a lot of close-up shots just make sure that
you deal with the parallax correction because what you see through there, is
not necessary been captured through the lens itself.
And that's why you have, when you attach the close-up lens, you have this
extra circle appears that helps you position
the focus point for the camera so that you don't have a misalignment when
it comes to
taking that shot. So that's just how you take pictures.
If you want to ensure that the flash always fires, you can push it and then
of course, we're gonna take a flash shot right here and again, I'm gonna change my
focus distance
to a to 3 meters to infinity, and see if we can get
a different shot right here.
So again, this film
is again, double the size of an Instax Mini film. As you can see, if I cut it this in
half,
I basically would have basically Instax Mini film.
So there you have it! The Instax Wide 300 camera from Fujifilm, this is the
camera take a look at.
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