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Instant film in the film library: Polaroid and Instax

The film library has a new Instant film group with two films, Polaroid and Instax: one has the bright, faded, soft look of an old Polaroid print, the other the harder contrast and paler colour of a Fujifilm Instax print. Both use hue sectors, so they look their best on GRLife Pro 1.36 firmware.

The pictures are simulations computed the way the camera processes colour, not camera shots.

Instant film

Polaroid

Faded Polaroid: noticeably brighter, lifted blacks and soft highlights, clearly paler colour with a neutral balance, like a print that has sat in a drawer for years.

Polaroid · An evening at the beach
An evening at the beach · Photo: Ale Romo / Unsplash

Instax

Fujifilm Instax: clearly harder contrast, paler colour with a slight magenta lean and a touch brighter, so a quick street snap reads like an instant print.

Instax · A Tokyo street corner
A Tokyo street corner · Photo: Guus Baggermans / Unsplash

If you own the GRLife Pro Film Collection, both films are already included at no extra cost:

  1. Open the film library page and download the film library again.
  2. Copy it to the GRLIFE folder on your memory card, replacing FILMS.GRF.
  3. In the camera’s film bay, load Polaroid and Instax into any positions.

Open the film library

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