Many years ago Sony launched an ad campaign for their PlayStation 3 that utilized the slogan, “It Only Does Everything.

Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. Adjust the exposure, alter the white balance, turn the flash on or off, even select macro mode for close-ups. What’s also enticing about the direct print feature is that the app also allows us to edit our print within the app before sending it to the camera for printing. We stood against the wind and the salty spray of the bleak sea for as long as we could be bothered, which wasn’t long, considering we had a five- and seven-year-old in tow, and also considering that my idea of a perfect day is comprised mostly of sun and temperatures strictly higher than 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Fixed 28mm-equivalent lens offers a versatile wide-angle perspective and the f/2 aperture is well-suited for working in a variety of lighting conditions.

The Instax Mini Evo is quite a capable device, and certainly one of the best digital instant camera hybrids (which is to say, it combines the advantages of the best instant cameras with the decidedly non-instant advantages of the best portable printers). With the Mini Evo I’m free to shoot whatever I want, take a look at the results, and decide if they’re worth the money of a print. Fuji have doubled the resolution compared to previous hybrid insta-photo models for more stunning results. So any filter effects or lens effects that you’d like to apply to your images need to be made at the moment the image is made, or you’re out of luck.

While it may look like leather on chrome from a distance, it’s actually formed almost entirely from plastic. From the cliffs of the peninsula we could see an island, upon which stands the Nubble Light, a homely light station that’s been lighting the seas around since 1879. In the black and chrome-coloured combination, the hybrid instant camera Instax Mini Evo is reminiscent of analog camera classics from the 1960s and 1970s. I would never have attempted this pear photo shoot with a Polaroid camera, or with my Fuji SQ1, a camera which I love, simply because it’s so expensive to waste film. Despite having a highly capable camera in my pocket at all times, I rarely print my smartphone images and so I had a lot of fun scrolling through my gallery and porting over pictures to print.I tried printing high/good quality images, but whenever I print in through the app, it becomes blurry and low quality. Some of the built-in effects are a little strong for my tastes, but there are plenty of options to get your creative juices flowing.

Because had Sony not coined that catchy phrase in 2008 it might’ve been used just as well by Fujifilm today to market their newest Instax camera. The instax mini Evo in brown is a hybrid instant camera and smartphone printer with a sharp analogue-style design and lots of amazing creative options. While the credit-card-sized Instax Mini prints aren’t the largest, they still offer a decent amount of detail and look nice when displayed. There’s an accessory shoe on the top plate, which is most useful for mounting a self-powered light, and a tripod socket on the bottom. Leaving you to express your unique point of view and share life's beautiful nuances either as an instant physical print, or a captured moment worthy of social media.I’ve spent the past couple of months shooting the Mini Evo, and though there are two or three problems with the camera, it really is a wonderful thing. This innovative hybrid instant camera features 10 lens effect options and 10 film effect options, giving you up to 100 different ways to instantly create your own unique 2 x 3" photographs. Experiment with the vividness, go retro, add softness to the focus, lose the colour - it's your shot, there's 100 ways to capture it, take control. I spent a lot of time printing images from my phone, images that would have otherwise stayed locked in that digital tomb forever (or at least until I got around to having them printed professionally – so, likely never). If not, I fiddle some dials and keep inching my way closer to a photo that looks good enough to force that chemical reaction.

OK, we all know it’s textured plastic but it doesn’t feel tacky and it’s still lightweight enough for you to chuck in your bag for the day without weighing you down. The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo's black and chrome-coloured combination, along with its leather-like structured surface on the front and back, reminds users of analogue camera classics from the 1960s and 1970s.An instant camera for the 21st century, the Mini Evo allows you to preview your shots before you take them, tweak the exposure, add filters and flash, then print and share your shots to social media. I wanted to illustrate all of the different looks that a photographer can get from the Mini Evo simply by doing nothing more than rotating the ring around the lens or the dial on the top.