Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 review

Business card sized prints not good enough for you? Then it might be worth considering this chunky beast of an analogue camera…

Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 review
(Image: © Gavin Stoker/Digital Camera World)

Digital Camera World Verdict

The main appeal of the Fujifilm Instant Wide 300 camera is prints twice as wide as the credit card-sized alternatives output by the standard Fuji Instax 'mini' cameras in the range, presented in landscape as opposed to portrait format. The inevitable trade-off is however, a bulky camera body that is also double the size of its regular cameras, and one that struggles to look stylish or prove particularly portable with it. However when it comes to the pictures themselves, larger is definitely better in our book.

Pros

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    Prints twice the width of most competing devices

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    Bigger prints feel less like a ‘gimmick’ than credit card sized alternatives

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    Easy to use and operate

Cons

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    Bulky to transport

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    Ugly design

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    Requires 4x AAs for power

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Credit card sized prints from the majority of instant print cameras are cute fun for the kids – who especially love them when they can be turned into stickers – but they’re probably not what most of us would want as our only memory of treasured places and occasions. 

For those seeking instant printed output closer in size to the default 5x-7 inches of high street minilabs, or even classic Polaroid film, there’s the Fujifilm Instax Wide 300. Imagine two credit cards or business cards with their longest sides touching each other and we get a precise visual idea of the size we’re talking here. However the actual picture size if we discount the white border is a slightly smaller 62x99mm.

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Gavin Stoker

Gavin has over 30 years’ experience of writing about photography and television. He is currently the editor of British Photographic Industry News, and previously served as editor of Which Digital Camera and deputy editor of Total Digital Photography

He has also written for a wide range of publications including T3, BBC Focus, Empire, NME, Radio Times, MacWorld, Computer Active, What Digital Camera and the Rough Guide books.

With his wealth of knowledge, Gavin is well placed to recognize great camera deals and recommend the best products in Digital Camera World’s buying guides. He also writes on a number of specialist subjects including binoculars and monoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, trail cameras, action cameras, body cameras, filters and cameras straps.