FujifilmInstax Mini

Instax Mini is Fujifilm’s integral instant color film, rated ISO 800, with a 62 × 46 mm image on 86 × 54 mm film [1]. The print comes out of the camera and develops on its own in about 90 seconds, depending on the temperature [1]. Wikipedia dates the Mini format to November 10, 1998, and says the color film is still in production [2].

Look and color

• Saturated, but natural. Amateur Photographer finds “punchier and more saturated colours than Polaroids” [5]. Shoot It With Film calls the colors “very natural and rich with solid contrast” [7], and Analog.cafe cites “realistic colour reproduction” [4]. Dan Finnen finds it “much more color accurate” than Polaroid Originals [6].
• Vivid reds and greens, dark blues. Emulsive writes that reds and especially greens stay vibrant while blues are “considerably darkened” [3]. The author says this is not an artifact of the printer used for the test [3].
• The color cast is disputed. Dan Finnen sees “a subtle blue cast” that feels a bit colder [6], while Emulsive describes warm, brownish blacks [3]. The two reviews used different setups (camera prints against a printer test), and we found no measurement that settles it.
• Neutral next to Polaroid. In their comparisons, Shoot It With Film reports a heavy pink cast on Polaroid Color 600 and a greener one on i-Type, against true-to-life Instax color [7]. Compare the Polaroid Color page.

Tonality

• High contrast, narrow range. Amateur Photographer says the narrower dynamic range gives “dazzling white” highlights and “impenetrable black” shadows, where Polaroid keeps more detail [5]. Emulsive writes that “shadows rapidly lose detail while highlights are lost” [3], and Analog.cafe that prints “may still suffer from blown highlights and crushed shadows” [4].
• Flash matters. Many of the “contrasty” reports come from photos taken with a camera’s built-in flash. We found no review that separates the film’s curve from the flash, so the split is uncertain.

Grain and sharpness

• No silver grain. This is a dye-diffusion print, not a silver-halide film with visible grain.
• Soft. Analog.cafe notes “plenty of softness” in enlarged prints and slightly less detail in color than in monochrome [4]. Emulsive measured about 7 line pairs per millimeter on prints made through a printer [3]. That is a test of one printer and one film, not a film specification.
• The camera matters. The optics of the camera limit detail as well as the film; the reviews above do not separate the two.

Names, status and history

• Format. Wikipedia lists three Instax formats: Mini at 46 × 62 mm, Wide at 99 × 62 mm and Square at 62 × 62 mm, the last released in 2017. Instax Monochrome exists in all three, starting with Mini in 2016 [2]. This page covers the standard color Mini film only.
• Status. Wikipedia says the color Mini film is in production [2]. Fujifilm’s Instax Mini 12 page, checked on September 30, 2026, still lists Instax Mini film for that camera [1].
• Datasheet. Fujifilm publishes specification pages, not a technical datasheet with characteristic curves, so there is no spectral sensitivity graph for this film. The tonal and color claims on this page come from reviews.
• Names. We found no verified rename or other trade name for the Mini color film.