Just managed to purchase my Takara Tomy Xiao digital instant camera - like finally!
This includes 130 pieces of photo paper, a cleaning kit, and shipping from Korea. :)
I've developed love for photos I guess when my friends back in Vietnam were talking about photography of DSLR and when my friend had an instant camera ? :)
Then took neoprints with Nerdy and found myself looking at the neoprint.
So in this instant-camera-craze, I decided to get myself one of this with my birthday hongbao ! :)
The upside of this camera personally is that:
1) It's really convenient, nice and cute to bring to diff places.
2) You can give your friends the instant photos (almost instantaneous).
3) It's an instant + digital camera, in fact it's the first digital instant camera in the world !
4) Reviewers have said that the photos were long lasting and do not fade overtime.
5) You can have a hard and soft copy of the photos.
6) You can choose which photos you wanna print out. You can even decorate and add borders,special effects to the photos.
7) It's a great hobby to pick up and you'll get to treasure and capture nice moments.
8) It is fairly good for resell. For instance, if I dont wish to have this anymore, I could resell it via blogshop and get back part/full/more money that I've paid. (Of course, I wont want to resort to this. It's the worst case scenario. This is only if the camera is redundant for half a year - perhaps like my ex Nintendo DS?:/)
9) It has 1 year warranty.
10) My mum also wants her share in this camera, so she is going to pay me 50 bucks to use this camera too. Meaning purchasing this camera will be even more cheap for me.
The downside is that:
1) The instant photo papers(which includes ink), are not very cheap.
It costs me SGD0.50 after special discount.
Developing photos in retail stores costs only SGD0.20 provided if you develop a minimum number of photos.
2) Instant photos means that I would need to purchase a photo album, or make one myself, incurring further costs, however fun the process is. It also requires an external adaptor to charge.
3) This one's a big downside for me. It's only 5 megapixels digital camera. Which means this photos with soft copy will not be as good as normal digital cameras.
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Considering the good and bad points about this camera, I'm still going to purchase this. (=