Fujifilm Instax Mini 7

Instax Mini 7S image by Martin Grünert (Image rights)

The Instax Mini 7 is made in Japan by Fuji. It uses Fuji's own instant film format "Instax Mini" for credit-card sized prints.

The current (2011) version of the camera is the Instax Mini 7S (so identified on the top panel), and has an exposure dial with a "home" position. Solid-color white and "choco" brown versions join the earlier two-color designs. In Japan the camera is sold as Cheki. There is a Hello Kitty version of 7S. The corporation who currently owns the brand-name "Polaroid" has also released a version of the 7S branded as the Polaroid 300, but this has no connection to earlier Polaroid integral-film cameras.

The Mini 7 allows the user to switch between different apertures, indicated by symbols (indoors, overcast, sunny, very sunny). When the camera is powered on the meter will indicate the desired aperture with a blinking red LED next to the symbol the user should switch to, no blinking LED indicates the camera will shoot wide open, the default aperture settings. To power on the device you pull the whole lens section outward until it clicks into postion, internally this also extends rubber belows. The shots counter is mechanical, previous models used an LCD display.

Specification

• Lens: Fujinon lens, f=60mm, 1:12.7, 2 components 2 elements
• Finder: Inverted Galilean finder, magnification 0.4, with target mark
• Focus: 0.6m ~ Infinity
• Shutter: Electronic shutter 1/60-sec
• Exposure Compensation: Manual on/off (LED indicator in exposure meter)
• Flash: Automatic flash in low light, automatic adjustment, 0.2 - 6 second recycle time, range of 0.6 - 2.7m
• Power: Four LR6/AA-size 1.5V alkaline batteries, shooting capacity of approx 20 packs.
• Dimensions: 119.5 x 121.5 x 70.5mm (W x H x D)
• Weight: Weight: 320g (without batteries, strap, film)

Links

• Fuji Instax Mini7 at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
• Instax Mini 7S manual from Fujifilm USA

Japan-market Cheki branding of Mini 7S, with revised exposure dial image by Glenn Chen (Image rights)