[jug]

I have a hard time seeing this going anywhere. Features of lens sharpness and manual controls seem at odds with the intent of spontaneity and the lack of medium quality, so much of your effort is thrown away once you print. In none of their samples for aperture/shutter/auto did I even see the typical differences between the modes such as bokeh or motion softness due to let us say limited sensor size and print quality. Or their samples were just poor as showcases.

In that case, addons to polaroidize your smartphone (printer for smartphone) seems like a much better idea since you already carry a large set of controls to influence an output in your favorite apps, and already designed with the outset of limited optics (e.g. fake bokeh), and indeed that product already exists. You’ll also have digital copies to reproduce the Polaroids at will (multiple friends/family etc)

[dotancohen]

  > I have a hard time seeing this going anywhere.

My daughter has a previous model. I came to the conclusion that this camera is not for consumers, rather, maybe useful for events or pubs to photograph participants and to immediately place on an event wall. Though I've never actually seen the device used for this purpose, I honestly can not find another use case where another device already popular on some market is not a better fit.

[kawsper]

The company I work at does exactly that! We bring it for parties or events and have a wall of pictures at our office.

[justsomehnguy]

> or pubs

I mused about buying one for the bar I frequent. But the price of the unit and the expendables is way too much to shoulder it myself, especially considering the unit could be damaged or stolen.

[fragmede]

> You’ll also have digital copies to reproduce the Polaroids at will

For the some of the remaining use cases for Polaroids, that's a bug, not a feature.

[jug]

Ah right, but I was thinking of expansions to new audiences. But if you rather have this classic instant photo mindset, I was thinking the regular Instax models would do. My point is that this new model seems to have conflicting feature sets for reasons similar to yours.