I can't review the usage of the camera bc I had to return it. The flashing can cause our daughter to have seizures. What I can say is this appears to be a very nice camera. The packaging was very nice. Everything that comes with it is great! I was disappointed that our daughter couldn't use it!

After reviewing several cameras for our 7 year old granddaughter this one came out on top. We gave it to her for Christmas and she loves it! It’s rechargeable, compact and simple enough for her to charge, load and print film and save photos to the SD card. She loves all the accessories and gave each of us a photo in the little frames for Christmas memory. The quality of photos is great and her photographer grandpa is very impressed. She carries it in the case everywhere we’ve gone and says it was her “wow” gift this Christmas 🎄

This was a gift for my daughter because she wanted a camera that would print photos right away but I didn’t want her printing out a bunch of terrible pictures and wasting the paper. This camera is perfect because it print instantly if you choose but allows you to see the photo first and/or store it for digital use. My daughter hasn’t wasted all those photo pages like we did back in the day with our Polaroids so that’s a win for me! The one thing I don’t like about these cameras is the expense of the paper (hence our hesitation at wanting her to get one) but given the paper is pricey for any camera like this, it’s not really a knock against this specific camera.

This product is so easy to use and prints so well!! I bought it to use with the adventure challenge book (which I recommend too!) and love that you can peel the back of the pictures to stick to whatever you want. Only downside is no self timer

We purchased this instant print camera for a trip we took to Nicaragua to see the two children we sponsor through Compassion International. This camera was awesome. We were able to take pictures of our kids and hand them an immediate memory. I have seen complaints about the quality of the pictures these cameras print. Frankly I do not know what they are talking about. The quality of these pictures are better than the original Polaroid cameras ever had. Granted the pictures are 2in. x 3in. small but they are printed virtually instantly! We found that the camera works well in bright to medium light levels. If you are inside you need to be close, 5 feet or less from your subject for the flash to illuminate the subject properly. That requirement is no different than you had to do for film cameras of the last century. This camera does not have a sophisticated light handling ability like a modern cell phone camera but when was the last time you printed directly from your cell phone into the hand of a bright eyed child in the middle of Nicaragua? NEVER! If you have realistic expectations about what this camera can do, instant 2in x 3in snapshots with a fixed mm lens then you will not be disappointed. If you are expecting 5in x 7in studio quality finished pictures then buy that $1500 digital SLR and the $1200 studio quality photo printer. This camera took and printed close to 20 photos and still had two thirds of its charge left. It is well made and well designed. This camera will be going with me on all future trips and events where instant snapshots are called for. Thank you ZINK for developing this technology, Thank you KODAK for developing such a great little camera printer.

We love this camera! I did a lot of research before purchasing an instant print camera for my 11-year-old's birthday. I knew that overall it was a fun novelty item, but I also knew I couldn't invest in endless amounts of film, so printing photos that we didn't want was going to be frustrating. Having looked into so many different models (at least those in the less than $100 price range), I had resigned myself to the fact that it was what was going to happen - she'd have to learn to be judicious with her photos and also we'd just use an SD card for when she didn't have film.

And then, JUST before I purchased a different model, Amazon suggested the Kodak Smile - and it was EVERYTHING I was hoping for! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that it has a screen for viewing the photos and she gets to pick which photos she prints. That was the ONE thing I was wanting in an instant-print camera. Of course, she loves getting to use it to take photos of her friends, and our vacations, and she's building up a small scrapbook with her prints (the Zink prints, btw, all have a sticky back, so they can just be stuck right into the book). And the option to review photos and re-print allows her to print multiple copies for friends.

Now, I'll have to put the caveat that the photos are not the highest quality - I knew that was going to be the case with any of these cameras - but, again, she's 11, so it's good enough for her. Also, it's a little finnicky in that, in order to save a photo, you have to click the "OK" button after you click the shutter. That takes some getting used to and she's lost a few favorites when others were taking a photo of her, because they didn't know that feature. Finally, I was a little disappointed in the "filters" options - there are only black and white, sepia, and blue. And the only "frame" is either a white border or no border. I thought there would be some more fun things to play with in those, but that wasn't a deal breaker.

Overall, she's very happy, and so are we!