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Fujifilm Launches Its Instax Mini Evo Hybrid Instant Camera

A new hybrid instant camera that includes all the amazing features of a hybrid instant camera, a classic analog look, and a little more!

Published

5 years ago

March 11, 2022

Joanna Melki

Fujifilm

The Instax Mini Evo is the newest hybrid Instax camera launched by Fujifilm. It’s a flagship model of the Instax series of instant cameras that features more advanced functions, operability, print quality, and apps than ever before.

Like other hybrid instant cameras, users can review photos captured on the device via the LCD monitor on the rear panel of the camera and select images they want to print.

The new Instax Mini Evo offers versatile shooting effects that can deliver up to 100 different combinations of effects for Instax shots.

Design & Specifications

The Instax Mini Evo comes with ten lens effects including “Soft Focus” and “Light Leak” as well as ten film effects including “Monochrome” and “Retro”. These two types of effects can be combined freely to create up to 100 different shooting effects, giving users the ability to fully express their emotions.

fujifilm instax mini evo shooting effects

The new model, designed with a classical and luxurious touch, is the first Instax camera equipped with a print lever, lens dial and film dial allowing users to choose a plethora of shooting effects and print. These dials are designed with attention to the finest details including operation sound offering the joy of creating analog photographic arts to the users.

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A ring around the 28mm (equivalent) F2.0 lens can be twisted to switch between ten lens effects: Normal, Vignette, Soft Focus, Blur, Fisheye, Color Shift, Light Leak, Mirror, Double Exposure, and Half-Frame.

Behind the lens is a 1/5-inch CMOS sensor with a resolution of 4.9 MP (or about 2560 x 1920 pixels), ISO range from 100 to 1600, and shutter speed range from 1/4s to 1/8000s.

The camera weighs 285 grams and measures 87 x 122.9 x 36 mm, so it’s approximately twice as heavy as the iPhone 12 or the iPhone 13 Mini.

High-Quality Prints From Any Device

The Instax Mini Evo’s resolution of exposure has been doubled compared to the previous models to achieve greater print quality. The camera offers the “Instax-Rich” mode for rich colors in addition to the “Instax-Natural” mode for softer touch characteristic of Instax prints.

fujifilm instax mini evo smartphone app

The Mini Evo also works as an Instax printer, meaning you can print out pictures from your smartphone wirelessly using a dedicated app.

The app features the “Direct Print” function for using the Instax Mini Evo as a smartphone printer, “Remote” function for remotely shooting pictures away from the camera, and the “Transferred Images” function for saving a photo (shot with the Instax Mini Evo) in a smartphone as an image decorated with an Instax frame so you can share them as digital Instax snaps.

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Egypt’s Mobile Wallets Are Booming, But Cash Still Has Power

Egypt’s telecom regulator says $57.6 billion moved through more than 57 million wallets in six months. And one operator handled 77% of the value.

Published

4 days ago

September 12, 2026

Nour Nasir

egypt's mobile wallets are booming but cash still has power

Egypt’s mobile wallets handled EGP 2.96 trillion ($57.6 billion) in transactions in the first half of 2026, according to the National Telecom Regulatory Authority – a 56% rise on the EGP 1.90 trillion ($36.9 billion) recorded a year earlier. Transactions grew faster still, up 62% to 2.22 billion, while registered wallets climbed 23% to 57.01 million.

On one reading, that is exactly what Egypt’s regulators have been pushing for: a payments system that runs through telecom-linked wallets rather than banknotes. But the same data shows how far cash still reaches into it. Cash withdrawals made up just 12% of the transactions taking money out of wallets, yet 75% of the value withdrawn or spent.

Money arrives mostly from bank accounts: transfers through InstaPay accounted for 78% of deposit transactions and 58% of the value deposited, while incoming remittances from abroad made up 3% of deposit transactions but 10% of their value. Once inside, it largely moves between wallets – wallet-to-wallet transfers accounted for 54% of all transactions and 67% of total value, with mobile and internet top-ups a distant second at 25% of volume. In effect, the wallet is serving as a transfer layer: the place money passes through between the bank account and the banknote.

That layer also runs predominantly through one operator. Vodafone Cash held 53% of registered wallets and 57% of active ones, but handled 69% of transactions and 77% of their value. Its nearest rival, e& money, held 23% of registered wallets but 14% of transaction value; Orange Cash 20% and 8%; WE Pay 4% of wallets. How many of the 57.01 million are active is not stated.

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Adoption is rather uneven in other respects. Men held 38 million wallets, or 67% of the total, against 19 million held by women. Users aged 26 to 45 accounted for half of all wallets, and Cairo alone had 10.6 million, or 19% of the national total, with Giza next at 6.5 million.

The NTRA says it is continuing to work with telecom operators on the regulatory framework for wallet services, part of a wider effort to expand electronic payments and financial inclusion. Its own figures show that effort succeeding on the way in. On the way out, three-quarters of the value still leaves as cash.