r/instax

I’d love to have a digital backup of my INSTAX photos, as well as better-quality scans for sharing online. There seem to be loads of options out there, from scanning wands and small dedicated scanners to large A4 flatbed scanners.

I’d love to hear what people here are using and how you find the results. Is there a particular method or scanner you’d recommend?

Hey y'all 👋 back with another dumb-question-from-a-lurker post.

I posted a while back about the Wide Evo and got some really honest

takes (thank you 🙏). Now I'm stuck on a different fork: Wide Evo vs Mini Evo.

On paper the Wide sounds like the obvious upgrade — bigger prints,

more room for the shot, feels more like a "real" photo. But the more

I look at people's feeds, the more I notice most of the shots I

actually save are Mini-sized. So I'm wondering if the Wide is

one of those things that sounds better than it feels day-to-day.

A few things I'd love to hear from people who've owned both (or

switched):

1. Six months in, do you actually reach for the Wide more, or does

   it end up sitting on the shelf while the Mini does the heavy

   lifting?

2. Film cost — is the per-shot cost of Wide film enough to change

   how you shoot? (I've heard "I stopped taking casual shots because

   each one felt expensive" — is that real?)

3. For the moments you actually keep on a wall or in an album —

   does the extra size matter, or is a Mini in a nice frame

   basically the same emotional hit?

4. Anyone regret going Wide? Or regret going Mini?

Not trying to start a war, just genuinely trying to spend my money

once and not twice 😅

Appreciate any real talk.

Hi everyone, this could be the a very stupid question, but I recently found an Instax mini 11 in my house and it obviously would need new films. I'm just wondering would all the mini films that you can find now work for this camera? or with its age do i need to hunt for 2nd hand films? (mind you i don't exactly know how old the camera is) Many thanks in advance everyone!

I have the instax mini evo I bought it not too long ago , I really liked the feature where you could transfer photos from ur phone and print them out on ur camera however it has stopped working for me. The issue stared a month or two ago when I tried printing an image and it wouldn’t transfer for some reason, I thought it was an issue with my WiFi so I just let it be. The next time I tried it didn’t work either and a friend told me to unpair the camera and then do it again. When I unpaired my phone and the instax it wouldn’t re connect and now I can’t get them to pair. Is it over for me 💔

Hey everyone, I’m considering buying a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 second-hand in 2026. I’d love to hear your thoughts:

• Is it still worth picking up in 2026 compared to newer Instax models (Mini 12, Mini 13)?
• If you bought a Mini 9 back in 2022, how much did you pay for it at that time?
• What would be a fair price to pay for a preowned one now?

Any advice on durability, film compatibility, or whether I should just go for a newer model would be super helpful. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I could use some advice!

I’m a wedding photographer and I’m thinking about adding something extra to one of my packages: a small 10-photo Instax album with photos from the whole wedding day, which I would give to the couple at the end of the day.

I already have a few Instax cameras, mostly Square (SQ1 and SQ6), but I’m not completely happy with them, so I’ve been thinking about getting a Wide as well, mainly because of the bigger format. I’ve also been looking at the Lomo cameras, but I can’t decide between the regular Lomo’Instant Wide and the Glass version.

I would definitely buy it second-hand, because I honestly think the new price is a bit crazy for an instant camera 😅 But the Glass version seems almost impossible to find used.

So for anyone who has tried both: do you think the Glass is really worth it, especially for photography work, or would the regular version be just as good because the difference is actually quite small?

I’d love to hear your experiences, especially if you’ve used them at weddings or for more intentional photography rather than just casual snapshots.

Thanks! 😊

Hi, I’m looking to get back into instax photography. In the future I’d like to buy a Mini Evo and possibly the Wide Evo. Reason being because I can’t afford to waste film. I’m very poor and it hurts when the shots don’t come out right. So the option of deciding where to print the picture or not is a huge deal for me. I’d rather pay a little more upfront to save in the long run.

That being said I like the square film type. I’m talking to someone who’s selling their SQ20 for $150 or so. I see square film is hard to come by and pretty pricey, but I do like that I can choose to print or not. Would you say this purchase is worth it?

How much would you spend on an SQ20?