Fujifilm's instax mini Evo 2 gets a bigger screen, and a bigger price

The instax mini Evo 2 adds a 4.5-inch touchscreen, a larger sensor, and a wider 21mm lens. It arrives in late November at $289.

With its instax line allowing Fujifilm to make money hand over fist at the moment, the company has announced the instax mini Evo 2 hybrid instant camera, along with an updated instax mini Evo smartphone app.

There are some decent upgrades to the now $289 camera with the built-in printer that has been such an Insta crowd pleaser since the original was first released in 2021. The extra $90 over the original’s $199 launch price will perhaps temper some of the enthusiasm (that is a hefty 45% price rise), but you can argue that the new features are strong enough that they justify it.

Larger screen and Immersive Movie

The mini Evo 2 has a larger 1/2.77-inch sensor, and its lens is now a 21mm equivalent f/2.0, against 28mm on the original. The extra hardware adds bulk, at 330 g (11.6 oz) against 285 g (10.1 oz), and 87.5 x 125.3 x 43.7 mm (3.4 x 4.9 x 1.7 in) against 87 x 122.9 x 36 mm (3.4 x 4.8 x 1.4 in).

That, though, allows it to accommodate a new 4.5-inch LCD 1.23 million dot touchscreen. This is a significant upgrade on the 3.0-inch 460,000 dot screen of the original, and allows the company to offer a new feature called Expanded View. This provides a wider field of view than the 46 x 62 mm shooting area, with an on-screen framing guide also included to help in composition.

The Evo 2 prints in about 14 seconds (a faster print than the original’s roughly 16 secs), and gets about 90 prints per charge, down from 100. The camera holds about 45 shots in internal memory. Still resolution is 2144 x 2860 (6.1 MP), or 3100 x 4128 (12.8 MP) with microSD and Expanded View off.

There is also a new instax Immersive Movie feature that follows on from the tech developed for the instax mini Evo Cinema. The Evo Cinema provides 15 seconds per clip, while the mini Evo 2 records four seconds of 560 x 992 MP4 video at 24 fps leading up to each photo. This requires a microSD card. The camera can’t record movies to internal memory.

If it ain't broke...

Elsewhere, many of the features are carried over from the original in a "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" manner. The mini Evo 2 offers 10x lens effects and 10x film effects, for what the company rather cutely calculates as 100 ways to customize content, plus what it calls analog-inspired controls. It also has adjustable exposure, white balance, and flash, a macro mode, and a built-in selfie mirror.

Print resolution is 600 dpi, with a choice of instax-Rich Mode or instax-Natural Mode. There is a microSD slot and USB Type-C charging.

Smartphone printing and remote shooting use the free instax mini Evo app, and the camera prints 2" x 3" instax mini instant photos, with film sold separately.

Pricing and availability

The instax Evo 2 is expected at the end of November 2026 with a suggested retail price of $289.