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The Jollylook: A Vintage Style Instax Film Camera Made from Cardboard

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01/31/2017
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Last Updated on 01/31/2017 by Chris Gampat

Every time a new Instax camera gets announced it’s a genuinely great reason to get excited: and a new Kickstarter called the Jollylook wants to inspire to many others. The Jollylook is a foldout camera made from recycled paper and cardboard with some glass elements for the lenses and the shutter and aperture are made of thick paper and laminated cardboard.

Quirky, but indeed kind of cool too!

The Jollylook has aperture control with f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22; f/32; f/45; f/64 and pinhole. F8 is small, but it makes sense when considering a film this large. The fastest Instax lens on the market is f5.6 from the Mint TL70 2.0. You can also control the shutter speed, though the details on that aren’t super clear except that there is a manual shutter mode where you can control the shutter time manually. I assume it means holding it down as with pinhole modes.

Of course, you also have a viewfinder and a hand crank to get the images out of the camera. This is going to be a rather interesting experience overall, though I see it being used very well in natural light studio environments.

Jollylook Technical specifications:

  • Lens – a meniscus lens with a focal length of 110 mm ( 4.33 in ), allows to take photos from portrait to landscape. can be moved up to shoot through the pinhole.
  • Viewfinder – a Fresnel lens
  • Aperture – a switchable diaphragm with manual adjustment for the seven values: f / 8, f / 11, f / 16, f / 22; f / 32; f / 45; f / 64 + pinhole.
  • Shutter – automatic with shutter speed of 1/250 or 1/160 and manual shutter mode with the possibility to control the exposure time manually.
  • Pinhole – a round hole in a copper foil 0.6 mm (0.023 in) in diameter, located on the diaphragm disk
  • 10 shots per instax mini cartridge (the cartridge can be changed many times)
  • Storage conditions – store in a dry and dark place at room temperature.
  • conditions of use – use at temperatures between 10 – 35 °C (50 -95 ℉) in dry weather.
  • Size when folded 85 x 127 x 48 mm ( 311⁄32 x 5 x 157⁄64 in )
  • Fujifilm “instax mini” instant film cartridge
  • Photo size 46(W) x 62(H) mm

For more information, be sure to check it out on Kickstarter.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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