Up next in 10
There are tons of digital cameras on the market and your smartphone is probably a pretty darn nice camera too, but can they print? On demand? In seconds? Of course not. Enter the fun Kodak Mini Shot Wireless 2-in-1 Instant Print Camera with its postage-stamp size LCD screen and on-camera controls...
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out this nifty little second generation instant print camera from Kodak and finds it works well. At least, for its target audience. Watch to learn more...
Check it out: http://amzn.to/2BSX6sd
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
a digital camera with instant prints
0:02
let's have a closer look Dave Taylor
0:15
here and this time I'm looking at this
0:17
this is the Kodak mini shot wireless
0:21
two-in-one instant print camera whoo
0:24
that's a mouthful but well it's actually
0:26
a really cool camera so the basic idea
0:29
is that you have a digital camera it has
0:31
to be fair a pretty darn small little
0:34
screen on the back you can see it's just
0:35
a little postage stamp but it's secret
0:38
trick is that it actually prints on
0:40
demand so you take a photo of something
0:42
you push the button there's actually
0:45
some edit features here there's more
0:46
edit features in the app if you want to
0:48
use that but even just let's just we're
0:50
just gonna look at the camera even just
0:53
with that you actually have the ability
0:55
to print and make really nice little
0:57
kind of credit card size prints of your
0:59
images so without further ado I'm gonna
1:02
take a picture of what I'm seeing and
1:06
now on the back you can see in this
1:08
close-up it shows me the image and then
1:11
it gives me various options for framing
1:14
it or not and there's you know various
1:16
things you can do in terms of different
1:18
filters there's a really neat one that
1:21
makes it look like a drawing and that's
1:22
actually pretty cool it's called sketch
1:24
but we're just going to do a straight
1:25
print because I want you to see in this
1:28
close-up what it looks like to print
1:29
something so let's do it
1:33
[Applause]
1:39
so the first shot is the paper comes out
1:41
empty and then it comes back in and this
1:45
is a four pass printing process first
1:48
color that it does is yellow and then it
1:51
will pull the film back into the camera
1:53
to do its second pass and that second
1:57
pass as you can see is magenta and
1:59
here's the thing is it's doing this for
2:02
pass print but everything's
2:04
self-contained you don't have to buy ink
2:06
cartridges or anything it just it all
2:08
comes in this like little cartridge
2:10
basically so there's actual photo paper
2:13
and the ink needed for ten prints and
2:15
that's all you got to do it's easy so we
2:17
had yellow magenta that was cyan and
2:21
then the fourth pass is actually a layer
2:24
on top called the laminate and now it's
2:31
done so now let's have a look at this
2:33
print so it comes off and you're looking
2:35
and thinking wow there's a lot of white
2:37
on that left side but that's because
2:39
that is actually a perforated edge for
2:43
you being able to hold it in stuff so it
2:46
actually is pre-cut and you can take it
2:49
off if you want and then you're left
2:50
with this little print now it's not very
2:53
big but it does a remarkably good job
2:56
for an instant print camera I mean this
2:59
is really why you would buy this camera
3:01
because it can instantly print things
3:03
and it's really fun so what can I tell
3:06
you I can tell you also like I said four
3:08
pass printing technology the prints
3:10
themselves are 2.1 by three point four
3:14
inches they are not going to be great
3:16
wall posters but particularly for teens
3:18
and preteens these are a great size the
3:22
camera itself is actually pretty good
3:24
it's a 10 megapixel camera with
3:26
bluetooth connectivity that's how you
3:27
connect to the kodak app and it has a
3:30
little 1.7 inch LCD screen not super big
3:34
but it has all these controls and while
3:37
the screens small the Kodak's done a lot
3:40
in terms of from the previous
3:42
generations of this camera they've done
3:44
a lot to put controls on camera so you
3:46
really can use this standalone you don't
3:49
need your smartphone you don't need to
3:51
use the app or anything like
3:52
that you can just do this and just zip
3:54
along now if you do choose to get the
3:57
Kodak app it offers stickers and frames
4:00
and a whole lot more sort of everything
4:02
you'd want for the snapchat generation
4:04
so really it's you know it seems a bit
4:07
big it's question is why would you want
4:10
this if you already have your smartphone
4:11
and the answer is of course because
4:13
these it's really cool to be able to
4:16
print on demand and there are plenty of
4:18
situations where like at a party this is
4:21
gonna be really fun and each print runs
4:24
about 60 cents so you buy a 20 sheet
4:28
cartridge and this 20 sheet cartridge
4:31
will set you back $14.99 so you can do
4:33
the math it's not free there are
4:36
physical product and physical components
4:40
that go into this I mean it is an actual
4:42
piece of film so nice job I really like
4:46
it it's really fun it's of limited use
4:49
there's a small number of times and
4:51
places that you'll be using this but
4:52
when you want on-demand printing it's a
4:55
pretty cool solution and it's way less
4:58
hassle than bringing a separate printer
5:00
and worrying about paper and do you have
5:02
extra ink cartridges everything
5:04
self-contained so nice job Kodak now
5:07
before I tell you the price which is the
5:09
only other thing to talk about with this
5:10
then I'm gonna ask if you can go ahead
5:12
and click on that subscribe button I
5:14
super appreciate it and give me a thumbs
5:17
up if this is good
5:18
I appreciate that too cool now only
5:21
thing left to talk about is the price
5:22
and it's a little spendy for what it is
5:26
maybe it'll come down a little bit but
5:28
in either orange or black and the orange
5:31
is sort of the kodak orange so in either
5:33
of those two color schemes this kodak
5:36
mini shot Wireless two and one instant
5:39
print camera will set you back a hundred
5:41
and $19.99 at amazon.com now it does
5:45
come with a prints but honestly that's
5:47
like what seven bucks worth so it's
5:50
still pretty expensive it's a hundred
5:52
and ten bucks
5:52
it is a one-trick pony it's a really
5:55
cool trick but it's a one-trick pony so
5:57
you really have to ask yourself how much
5:59
do you want on-demand printing if you
6:02
can afford it or if this is something
6:03
that really intrigues you this is
6:05
obviously going to be the
6:06
absolute hit of any party in the teen or
6:09
tween set because it's fun to take
6:11
selfies but it's way more fun to go home
6:15
with a couple of prints so definitely
6:17
worth checking out this is Dave Taylor
6:19
and I'll catch you in my next video
6:21
[Music]
6:22
[Applause]
6:37
[Music]
#Online Media
#Camera & Photo Equipment
#Photo Printing Services