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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
David S Young

Fujifilm’s new Instax Mini Evo Cinema takes inspiration from classic 1960s Fuji Single-8 cine cameras that were actually superior to Kodak Super 8

Fujica Single 8 , Z1 from 1965, (Photo by Bonn-Sequenz/ullstein bild via Getty Images).

Fujifilm has just introduced its new Instax Mini Evo Cinema, a hybrid instant camera capable of capturing both stills and short digital video clips. It was inspired, they say, by the Fujica Single-8 movie cameras made from the mid-1960s to the late ’80s.

But just what were these Single-8 cameras and what made them so inspiring? As it turns out, quite a lot.

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