I just took a Fujifilm instant camera on my Euro summer trip, and it transformed my whole approach to holiday snaps for the better

Date:
Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:52:09 +0000

Description:
Smartphone photography might make capturing memories easier than ever, but
how many of those memories do we actually look back on?

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Instant photography takes on a very different form these days. It used to (and ultimately still does) mean a photo you take thats instantly printed out on paper. Realistically, it means
a photo you take on your smartphone in seconds and its something we all take for granted. Just open the camera on a smartphone, point, shoot, done.

However, in many ways, the instant nature of smartphone photography can
remove any creative nature of framing the perfect shot.

This is a thought I had recently at least when heading over to Europe on holiday, and one I wanted to amend by taking a Fujifilm Instax mini 11 in my carry on. In my mind I couldnt have made a better choice.

Fortunately, the updated model, the mini 13, is on sale at Amazon for just AU$119 at Amazon for EOFY. Save 14% (AU$20) Fujifilm Instax mini 13: was AU$139 now AU$119 at Amazon The very epitome of point-and-shoot photography, the Instax mini 13 couldnt be easier to master. Press a button to pop out the lens barrel, frame your subject in the viewfinder and hit the shutter button. A couple of seconds later, your photo is printed on photo paper to hold onto forever. Best of all, this latest model features a self-timer for those all-important selfies. View Deal Ive long been on the fence about instant cameras and a separate camera from my phone in general. Ive made the trip to Europe several times before to visit my family, and in the past Ive taken my OM System OM-D E-M10 MKIV.

However, the last time I took it, I never used it (as much as I told myself I would), as the added bulk of carrying around lenses and the camera body
itself just proved too much of an inconvenience for me. Considering my iPhone 15 Pro could take decent pictures within seconds, I didnt feel the need to keep it close by.

This year that all changed. While my iPhone was still an undeniably useful companion on my recent trip I took well over 1,000 photos I knew this time that I wanted to capture more memorable pics that would actually get looked
at again (this is a safe space; we can all admit we never actually look back at photos we take).

Id never used an instant camera such as the Instax mini before, and I have to admit there was a very slight learning curve to adjust to a new way of taking photos. And that was half of the fun for me because I knew I only had a finite number of sheets to print on. I had to make my pictures count!

Using the Instax mini meant I had to be more considerate when framing a shot, which fortunately was super simple using the viewfinder. It might look like a tiny window (because it is), but whatever I saw through it is what came out
on paper.

And hey, there really was something magical and special about waiting for the image to develop how would it look? Did the colours come out ok? Did anyone walk into the shot as I pressed the shutter?

When my partner and I returned home, we made a much more conscious effort to look at the pictures Id taken to determine what wed keep and what wed get rid of. Of the photos we kept, were going to frame them at some point at home. We havent quite decided how just yet, but we know we will.

Considering Ive only ever printed a handful of photos from my iPhone, Id call that a win for Fujifilm. And at AU$119 for the mini 13, its a small price to pay for photos youll actually come back to. Today's best Fujifilm Instax Mini 13 deals 79 View Deal 79.99 View Deal No price information Check Amazon Show more We check over 250 million products every day for the best prices



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