Lomo'Instant Square Glass

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The Lomo'Instant Square Glass is an instant camera made by Lomography, originally for photos on Instax Square film; but they have also made an alternate back for the camera, allowing it to use Instax Mini film. As of Spring 2024, camera outfits are listed in the maker's web-shop with and without the Mini back; those with the Mini back also seem to come with more extras (though this may just be a better listing); it is to be expected that the single-format camera will be discontinued.

The front of the camera folds in. The lens is on the front of a simple one-pleat bellows. Unlike a traditional folding camera though, folding the camera leaves the lens still ouside, on one side of the folded unit.

As the name suggests, the camera has a glass lens, like the Lomo'Instant Automat Glass; but unlike that camera, this is not a wide-angle. It is a 95mm f/10, (roughly equivalent to a 45mm lens on a 35mm camera) which can be stopped down to f/22 (just these two stops; not intermediate aperture values). The maker states that aperture is automatically selected as part of the camera's 'advanced auto exposure'; it is not clear if there is manual control of this.

Like the other Lomo'Instant cameras, the lens focuses in three zones, in this case with a lever on the side of the lens panel: 0.8m, 1-2.5m and infinity. A portrait lens, also glass, is supplied with the camera, allowing exposures at 50cm.

The shutter is exactly like that of the Automat Glass: the shutter speed is varied between 1/125 and 8 seconds in auto-exposure mode ('A'), and 'B' shutter mode allows long manual exposures up to 30 seconds. A remote release is supplied with the camera, and it has a tripod socket. The camera allows exposure compensation of ±1 stop, with buttons on the back. It permits multiple exposures.

The camera has a built-in flash, with auto output; this can be switched on or off (again, a button on the back). A set of four coloured gel filters for the flash is supplied. It requires two CR2 batteries, and the remote release needs one CR2025 (a different battery from the release of the Automat Glass camera).

The camera comes in black (there seem to be both black-with-edge-trim and all-black versions), white and red ('Pigalle') editions.

Links

• Lomo'Instant Square Glass 'Pigalle' edition at Lomography