Fujifilm’s Retro Instax 41 Camera Imagines Life Beyond Instagram

If Instagram has got you down as much as it has me down (I can’t even find friends’ photos anymore amid the deluge of AI-narrated spam posts and “suggested for you” nonsense), Fujifilm may have the antidote you needed. The company’s new Instax Mini 41 is a tightly-packed point-and-shoot instant camera for capturing the moment and handing off photographic keepsakes, which may mean you won’t have to ask your friends if they’ve given up their Insta account yet. The Instax Mini 41 is a sequel to 2021’s Instax Mini 40 (which didn’t actually launch until 2022) but in a redesigned plastic shell that still sports the large flash and 60 mm lens. The big improvement this go around is the introduction of automatic exposure, which will adjust the sensor for the light levels when you press down on the shutter button. Fujifilm claims this will result in less blown-out photos when snapping in bright spaces like the great outdoors. The new design also adds parallax correction found in the Instax Mini ... Read full article.