The Kodak Snapic A1 is a $99 film camera that makes double exposures easy

The Snapic A1 launches adjacent period successful ivory achromatic and rhino grey colour options. | Image: Reto

Reto, a Hong Kong-based camera shaper that licenses the Kodak brand, has announced a caller 35mm movie camera called the Snapic A1 that ships adjacent week. Although its design, with either a rhino grey oregon ivory achromatic integrative housing, gives disconnected disposable camera vibes, for $99 the Snapic A1 should beryllium a susceptible shooter with an casual treble vulnerability mode for those wanting to effort their manus astatine movie photography.

The camera uses a three-element 25mm solid lens with a fixed f/9.5 facet ratio and a shutter velocity locked to 1/100 second. It has a built-in flash with red-eye simplification that tin beryllium acceptable to automatically occurrence erstwhile the camera detects it’s needed, which volition astir apt beryllium often successful low-light situations, fixed that the comparatively dilatory lens is paired with a precocious shutter speed, as PetaPixel points out.

There’s nary autofocus, but the Snapic A1 gives you the prime betwixt 2 absorption zones: 1 for closeup and representation photography erstwhile your taxable is betwixt 0.5 to 1.5 meters away, and 1 for everything other — including landscapes — utilizing the camera’s extended extent of field. If you’re feeling particularly creative, a toggle power adjacent to the shutter fastener lets you seizure 2 consequent exposures connected a azygous framework truthful you tin creatively furniture images without immoderate post-processing.

Battery beingness is rated astatine up to 10 rolls of movie with 24 exposures each connected a caller brace of AAAs. You tin way it utilizing a tiny OLED show atop the Snapic A1 that includes further details astir remaining shots and absorption mode. And unlike Reto’s incredibly fashionable and inexpensive Kodak Charmera that debuted successful September with aggregate designs released successful unsighted container packaging, you really get to take which colour of the Snapic A1 you privation to buy.