A Look at the Instax Mini 9 and my First Pack of Film

This is my first pack of instant film!
I was given a Polaroid Onestep camera with some film in it for my birthday, and before using the more expensive film - I decided to practice with my Instax instead.
After finding many videos and people calling Instax photos "Polaroids" just because its instant film, and seeing all the people shake their photos, I decided to make a video of my own.
I've got a lot of practicing to do though, so this is just going to be my first Instax video, and will have more videos shooting instant film to come!

[@LuckyTuga13]

Great video, one little thing, although Instax is not Polaroid, Instax is an evolution of Fujifilm's Packfilm format that was based on Kodak's which was famously defeated in court for violating Polaroids patents. Fujifilm until circa 2008 was only allowed to sell their Instant photography products domestically in Japan due to this conflict, and after the original Polaroid company(not the new one that which its branding has been acquired and revived years later) stopped producing Instant film, Fujifilm was able to export it's own Instant film internationally. All this to say, although it's not a 1-1, the process is very similar if not almost the same, thus the reason why some photographers still refer to the Instax format as a polaroid.

[@freeshrimp]

Thank you for the comment! That's much more in depth then I went. I get why people still call them Polaroids, but this was a great explanation and helped me understand even more!

[@LuckyTuga13]

@@freeshrimp You're welcome!