膠片攝影 lomo'instant wide glass：頂級拍立得廣角相機評測與樣片

You know what they say, width isn't everything. But those people have never sat on a United Airlines seat that crams your two buns into one. Or shot with a Lomo Instant wide glass. A camera universally beckoned for for almost ten years. An Instax-wide, sharp-shooting hunk that breathes life into a format which could use some oxygen. Let's get wide with it. A kind of photography that would become part of the human being. Press a button and have the picture. Welcome to In an Instant. My name is Ben. And the Lomo Instant wide glass has finally splashed onto the scene with a certified doinker of a lens that enables some of the cleanest shots you can get on Instax wide with a fair bit of shot shaping that is possible by its variety of onboard tools. Five years ago in 2019 BC, I first filmed a video for the Lomo Instant wide which is one of very few cameras released for the Instax wide format. And more or less the only one crafted for creativity and put at a price point that is reasonably affordable for the average human who is in this for kicks. This camera is really fun and is challenged by only the professional tier Mint Instant Con RF 70 as the best all-around camera for Instax wide while being essentially the same price as Fujifilm's far more basic Instax wide 400. The original Lomo Instant wide is great in many departments including its plastic lens which offers a dreamier alternative to the plain Jane optics of other wide offerings. Even though I consider that lens's softer characteristics a benefit in the 10 years since its release, it has often baffled me that Lomo never offered a glass lens version of the camera as they do with other models for Instax square and mini. At the time of the original camera's development in the 2010s several prototypes did indeed have a glass lens semi-Frankensteined on there. I got to see one myself and I was just like, OK, that's great. Yeah, does it come in mine? Lomo sat on the concept so long I assumed it was never coming. But the beautiful monster has finally emerged from its cave an update with several new features and also some stuff I wish they had iterated on from its plastic predecessor. The headline here is of course the lens. F8 like the SX70, 90mm like its Fujifilm comrade and a wonderfully designed focusing mechanism that spans infinity all the way down to 0.3 meters or less than a foot. Enabling frame-filling compositions and wide ranging freedom without the need for external accessories. The lens actually has two fixed apertures, F8 which provides pretty shallow depth of field at closer focusing positions and F22 for deep focus situations like landscapes. Sadly, one adjustment Lomography did not make to this camera is the viewfinder which like the original camera sits drastically off center and introduces a decent degree of difficulty in framing with intention. I'm not saying designing a camera with this bizarre film size is easy but placing a viewfinder centered with the lens would have made a massive difference in usability and given it a leg up over the Instax Wide 400's similarly frustrating viewfinder parallax angle. Lines within the viewfinder can only do so much to help and in the end, practice and feel is how you'll create images framed to your liking. Despite that challenge and the fact that you are guesstimating with zone focus the images out of this thing are definitely impressive and it's not very hard to capture something beautiful with it. When framing and focusing works as anticipated you'd be hard pressed to have a better time shooting Instax Wide. I really do believe this camera is pretty singular and how well it supports the format and what it's offering optically. And the focus zones are pretty easy honestly. It's not that hard to tell if you are 1-2 meters away or further or closer than that which is kind of all you need to determine. An external strap with distance markers is coming soon to help you measure shorter distances and that just should have come with the camera. A surefire improvement to this model is the light meter which surprisingly is very good. The original Wide was hit or miss and I do feel that they've calibrated this new meter much better. Exposure compensation also plays a heavy hand and can swing exposures pretty drastically. A couple other options include bulb mode which keeps the shutter open for long exposures super fun if you like experimenting with light painting or landscapes and a 1 over 30 mode which locks the shutter speed at 1 30th. You'd want that if you were shooting with an external flash using the PC sync port and don't want to lose ambient light. And then there's this setting which says 1 6th on this copy of the camera but this is actually a prototype and that will be an F 22 mode. So it locks the camera at F 22 and then auto determines the shutter speed. Great for landscapes like I mentioned earlier. In LOMO graphic fashion you can of course do multiple exposures which is really fun with the splitzer attachment so you can do sort of passport style shots or diptychs which works well on Instax Wide due to its kind of uncomfortable aspect ratio. Instax Wide can be difficult to compose with since it's either really wide or really tall. And the splitzer lets you use that to your advantage. The lens thread is 52mm so there's a lot you can do there from prism filters to warming filters to give Instax a little more oomph. The last thing to mention in terms of controls is the onboard flash which works well but for some reason is toggled on automatically every time you turn the camera on. For this camera and for the audience who are likely buying it I think the natural state of this camera should have been flash off and I am routinely making the mistake of forgetting to toggle it off between use and that's kind of annoying. OK,let's do pros and cons maybe. Glass lens. Although I love the plastic lens on the original LOMO Instant Wide the glass alternative was always on the wish list and Christmas came early because Santa's a little freak like that. Shot shaping. I used this term before but basically I like that there are many ways to create the image of your desires. Various adjustments including aperture shutter speed with exposure comp and quite a large focus throw from the lens. If you're coming to this camera from having only used a first party Instax Wide camera you will absolutely delight in your ability to get creative. Cons.No accessory mount. With no ability to confirm focus in camera I really wish they had put a cold shoe mount right here so users could mount an external range finder. Better yet, a hot shoe would have been highly agreeable given this camera is ready out of the box with PC sync flash. As it stands, you'd basically have to mount a bracket to this camera to use it effectively with flash handheld. On camera self timer. Like the original LOMO Wide it comes with a James Bond ass lens cap with an infrared remote control to trigger the camera shutter which is awesome and slick as but honestly, I'd rather have it on the body cause I'd be losing caps and view finder This is one that's really hard to reconcile I know it would have been annoying to have the view finder top mounted for packability but look at how old Polaroid pack film cameras circumvented that. There are other ways and it would have been more fun if I wasn't doing mental gymnastics every time I was composing Well, that about does it for the LOMO Instant Wide Glass It was pretty striking making this video thinking about five years passing since I reviewed the original model It's a large quantity of time and like so much has happened in the continuous growth of this community and this industry and it's really wonderful to be a part of that Thank you to LOMO for letting me use this thing early Thank you to everyone who has followed along on this journey for half a decade and thank you for watching it in an instant Drop your wide donk on that subscribe button Stay tuned for more views Breakdowns and all things instant Bye And this camera has a ridiculously close focusing distance With the included adapter Which can get as close as 10 centimeters That's so close That's like way too close Back off