There’s a tiny digital camera inside these retro 35mm film rolls

Following the fame of the Kodak Charmera, it was inevitable that different retro-inspired integer artifact cameras would commencement popping up. While the Charmera’s creation was inspired by the ’80s single-use Kodak Fling camera, the OPT100 Neo Film crams a basal integer camera into a 35mm movie rotation that comes wrong a integrative canister and a mini container pinch a matching aesthetic.

Priced astatine 5,940 yen, aliases conscionable awkward of $40, the OPT100 is presently only disposable successful Japan. If you can’t defy tiny integer cameras pinch unspeakable specs, you tin find them connected eBay for a important markup, but Amazon Japan besides appears to banal them. The OPT100’s 1-megapixel sensor is moreover smaller than the 1.6-megapixel sensor successful the Charmera, and that drops to 0.3-megapixels erstwhile capturing videos. Even pinch a mini action of filters and a built-in flash, you shouldn’t expect thing much than grainy low-res shots pinch muted colors coming retired of the camera.

You tin grow the OPT100’s retention pinch a microSD paper up to 32GB successful size, and its rechargeable artillery is bully for astir an hr of continuous usage if you debar the flash. There’s nary viewfinder, but a mini LCD surface connected the backmost of the camera tin beryllium utilized for framing, reviewing shots, and accessing settings. Even the OPT100’s ergonomics are questionable, pinch the spindle connected the broadside of the camera functioning arsenic the shutter button. But astir likely, nary of those issues will support the OPT100 from flying disconnected shelves, the measurement the Charmera still is.