rjbuzzclick
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Hi All,
I finished a fun project a while back that I posted over on LFPF, but thought I'd share here too in case folks were interested. While browsing through a local thrift store I ran across a KiiPix Instax Mini optical phone printer made by TOMY. It's a really flimsy and imprecise contraption. You basically lay your phone on top displaying an image, and press a shutter button on the KiiPix to take an Instax Mini photo of your phone screen. That is, if it doesn't collapse and the shutter actually opens.
But, at its core is a manual-wind Instax Mini film developing transport.
It turns out that by removing the lens/shutter and phone frame, and lopping off a couple of lobes on the bottom, the KiiPix will sit flush on a Graflex film pack adapter. The KiiPix will need a bit of tape and foam to seal it up. The Graflex adapter needs one of the rails filed out a bit to make clearance for the wind knob.
The film plane sits slightly off center, and is set back by about .726".
I used some Velcro to hold the KiiPix to the Graflex adapter.
The unit works reasonably well. The only issue is that you have to remove it from the camera to easily grab the wind knob to eject and develop the film. I may also find a different way to keep the whole thing together instead of the Velcro straps. The whole project took maybe 60-90 minutes to complete.
I'm shooting the Instax Mini at an EI of 800-1200.
I finished a fun project a while back that I posted over on LFPF, but thought I'd share here too in case folks were interested. While browsing through a local thrift store I ran across a KiiPix Instax Mini optical phone printer made by TOMY. It's a really flimsy and imprecise contraption. You basically lay your phone on top displaying an image, and press a shutter button on the KiiPix to take an Instax Mini photo of your phone screen. That is, if it doesn't collapse and the shutter actually opens.
But, at its core is a manual-wind Instax Mini film developing transport.
It turns out that by removing the lens/shutter and phone frame, and lopping off a couple of lobes on the bottom, the KiiPix will sit flush on a Graflex film pack adapter. The KiiPix will need a bit of tape and foam to seal it up. The Graflex adapter needs one of the rails filed out a bit to make clearance for the wind knob.
The film plane sits slightly off center, and is set back by about .726".
I used some Velcro to hold the KiiPix to the Graflex adapter.
The unit works reasonably well. The only issue is that you have to remove it from the camera to easily grab the wind knob to eject and develop the film. I may also find a different way to keep the whole thing together instead of the Velcro straps. The whole project took maybe 60-90 minutes to complete.
I'm shooting the Instax Mini at an EI of 800-1200.