Fujifilm's new instant camera comes with a 'selfie mode'

You don't buy an instant camera because you care about photo quality. You buy it because you yearn for a simpler, easier time, when photographs were tangible objects and cameras came in cute colours and swallowed film.

Fujifilm's Instax Mini 70 is the newest addition to the existing Instax cameras. It adds modern features such as automatic exposure control and a selfie-mirror for better framing of selfies. Auto exposure control delivers images with a natural brightness even for indoor shots, which normally tend to have a dark background.

The versatile shooting modes include a new 'selfie' mode, wherein users can press the selfie button when shooting. The camera can automatically adjust the focal length and brightness to the level optimised for selfie shots. Other convenient shooting features of the camera include the 'self-timer' for group shots, 'macro' mode for close-up shots at a minimum of 30cm from the subject and the 'landscape' mode for landscape pictures.

There's also three different colours: white, yellow and blue, a major departure from the grown-up leather-and-metal look of the Instax Mini 90. Otherwise, the Mini 70 takes the same credit-card-sized Instax Mini film, costing about a dollar a shot.