Fuji Wide instax back for large format

Donald Qualls · Sep 3, 2020

Last I heard, the Coyote back was out of production, out of stock, and no indication when it would be available again. It also cost almost three times what the Lomography Instax Wide back is listed for.

xya · Sep 3, 2020

Donald Qualls said:
Last I heard, the Coyote back was out of production, out of stock, and no indication when it would be available again. It also cost almost three times what the Lomography Instax Wide back is listed for.

last I heard (a week ago) was that they are preparing a new batch. but there are other manufacturers as well. these are individually manufactured backs, not a lomo prepaid campaign for a relatively large production batch once, like lomo always does. sure these are more expensive. but they act as ordinary tlr backs, you get what you see immediately. no prefocussing on a special screen, then changing the screen for the back, pulling the dark slide, taking the photo, inserting the darkslide again and changing to screen another time...
and yes, I ordered a lomo back and prepaid it nevertheless.

abruzzi · Sep 5, 2020

I got my LF setup a little after Fuji discontinued peel-apart film and stocks started disappearing. So this is great. Rather than buying a polaroid back and scrounging expired film, this will let me get some level of instant feedback without investing in a dead end. The price is very good too, since you'll pay as much for a instax wide camera.

film_man · Sep 7, 2020

abruzzi said:
The price is very good too, since you'll pay as much for a instax wide camera.

The price of the back is almost irrelevant when the choice is 10 sheets on fresh Instax Wide for $20 from the shop vs 10 sheets of expired FP-100 for $2437287349823 from some random guy on ebay.

mshchem · Sep 7, 2020

Watch Fuji. Knowing my luck Fuji will discontinue the Instax Wide format.

abruzzi · Sep 7, 2020

mshchem said:
Watch Fuji. Knowing my luck Fuji will discontinue the Instax Wide format.

I’ve read that Instax is Fuji’s biggest profit center, so hopefully not. Though, it’s probably the smaller Instax that accounts for most of that.

xya · Sep 9, 2020

film_man said:
The price of the back is almost irrelevant when the choice is 10 sheets on fresh Instax Wide for $20 from the shop vs 10 sheets of expired FP-100 for $2437287349823 from some random guy on ebay.

don't know where you buy your instax wide film, but for $20 I sometimes get a pack of 20...

xya · Sep 9, 2020

mshchem said:
Watch Fuji. Knowing my luck Fuji will discontinue the Instax Wide format.

they still promote their 300 camera and that's still THE model for a marriage and birthday fun camera, so I hope thex will continue this for some time. BTW: all formats are the same hight, so wide doesn't need special machines.

mshchem · Sep 9, 2020

xya said:
wide doesn't need special machines.

Aha! Good observation. That's an important point I hadn’t considered.

So maybe we should ask for a Instax back to fit their old GX617??

vickersdc · Jan 22, 2021

I note that the LomoGraflok 4x5 back now has an estimated delivery of July '21, rather than April '21.

Fuji Wide instax back for large format

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