So I purchased this Fuji mini instant camera to take on our Disneyland family vacation last month. The thought behind this was the grandchildren would have a character sign their autograph books, I would take a picture and we would put them immediately in the autograph books with double sided tape. We called this the “magic camera” as the picture would develop right before their eyes. In theory this was a really good idea. However, it was a major FAIL!
We went into Disneyland with so much excitement with 5 grandchildren looking for the Disney characters so we could get autographs and pictures. As we all know most of the characters are outside in Disneyland, and our first character picture came out awful as the Fuji mini instant camera flash went off EVERY time we would try to take a picture. It didn’t matter what the camera setting was on, the flash went off causing all of the outdoor pictures to over expose. We would make sure the setting was for outdoors, and still the flash would go off. We tried this time and time again with no success. This was pretty disappointing for my grandchildren showing them and explaining that the “magic camera” wasn’t working as we hoped it would. The only time the Fuji mini instant camera worked, was when we were indoors at the restaurants where we ate with the characters, as the flash was needed indoors.
Hopefully there were enough phone camera’s to capture the moments to add to the autograph books later.
I will keep this little camera for indoor activities that we will take pictures for and hang them up on our family wall. But for outdoor activities, we will have to depend on other cameras to capture the moments.
Unfortunately, I will not be recommending this product to anyone as it was a major disappointment to me and my grandchildren. This is strictly my opinion and I am not being paid for this review.