Canon released the Real-time camera Printer iNSPiC ZV-123, which integrates digital cameras and photo printers. This is a newly designed camera that can print photos on paper the size of a business card. It features a printer that can be used to print photos taken by a mobile phone wirelessly.
The price is open, and the actual sales price is expected to be about 19000 yen including tax. It goes on sale on June 6th. There is also a simple model "iNSPiC CV-123" that omits functions such as smartphone collaboration (the actual sales price is expected to be around 13800 yen excluding tax).
At first glance, ZV-123 looks like a small digital camera with a photo printer that allows you to print photos immediately when you shoot. The lens is surrounded by a large reflector and a circular LED light, and tries to make the selfie beautiful.
Photography and printing are simple, as long as you turn on and press the shutter button. Like ordinary digital cameras, there are no photography mode, ISO sensitivity, white balance and other settings, all set automatically. The lens has a focal length of 35 mm and a wide angle of 25.4 mm, eliminating the zoom function.
ZV-123 has built-in Bluetooth function to support smart phone printing. Thousands and tens of thousands of favorite photos have been recorded on the mobile phone in the past, and the recent mobile phone camera can be taken with high definition, so it focuses on the printing of the smartphone. The underlying model CV-123 does not have Bluetooth, so you only need to print the photos taken by the camera.
The printer uses ZINK's "Zero Ink technology" to print on special paper that does not require ink, and a piece of paper can be printed in about 50 seconds. The size of the special paper is 6 × 7.6 cm, and the back is a sticker. The power supply is a built-in lithium-ion rechargeable battery, which can print about 25 sheets at full charge.
This is the Canon I am familiar with on cameras and printers, but it is actually the first time to make a printer built-in camera. Leave out the indispensable LCD on the back of the digital camera, which is slightly different from the impression of "Canon talks about the digital camera", creating a product with a decisive concept. The company claims that this is not a "digital camera", but a "real-time camera".
This is because, although both models can record the images taken on the microSD card on the bottom, Canon does not put the microSD card specifically, but prints out what is taken on the spot right away. The use of this real-time camera is mainly envisaged.
When it comes to the camera that will come out immediately after shooting, there will be a Fuji film real-time camera "Checky", which makes people care about which is better. Canon mentioned that the advantage of the iNSPiC series over Checky is that "the back of the photo is sticker."
INSPiC's main users are women in the second half to 30 generations, not to put printed photos into photo albums, but to enjoy the use of things around them, led by notepad. Because the back is a sticker, it can be simply pasted without preparing Laver and double-sided tape, and the photo can be cut into a free shape, which has been evaluated.
It is reported that the mobile printer "PV-123", which went on sale in September 2018, shipped at 2.5 times the quantity envisaged by Canon and performed well. The survey found that although the printer is small and lightweight with built-in batteries, it is mostly used in their own rooms and is rarely taken outside. Therefore, in order to take it outside for use, Canon planned the integration of cameras and printers.
The head of product planning said: "the smartphone can confirm the photos taken on the screen, retouching and other processing is also very easy." It's convenient, but I hope you can enjoy the accident with this camera. In addition, with the increase in the number of photos saved on smartphones, it is also difficult to look back. If you print out your favorite photos and post them on a book, you can see a piece of what you like at a time. I especially hope that young people can enjoy the happy experience brought by such fried paper photos. "he talked about the idea of development.
This time the camera is made of digital analog, it can be said to be a bit unlike Canon's products. With sealed paper and a thin body with high portability, it can be said that the features that King Checkie does not have can win many fans, which can be said to be an anticipated series.
A brief introduction to Wu Shixiu
Born in 1981. Starting in 2006, as the editor of the Inplas news website Digital camera Watch, he will interview the camera and photography industry and write equipment reviews. It will be free from 2018.