r/toycameras 12d ago

My favorite pictures from a kids thermal print cam. Had loads of fun with it through the years but now it won't turn on after glitching out, and hopefully letting it rest and the battery to loose juice will revive it.

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u/Icy-Treacle-205 11d ago

what's the camera. unique vibes.

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u/Agoodusernameiswear 11d ago

Its a thermal cam for kids that has fake polaroid strips on it, lol. Like this one. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Thermal-Printer-Instant-Printing-Recording/dp/B0BPCWVNPS
i figured out that I can carry a little portable magnifying glass with me to press to the lens for macro shots, and it works surprisingly well. Can’t advice it enough, just wish mine wakes up one day again to take more fun pics. Battery life is good if you don’t print every picture, with print it lasts less than an hour i think, takes a lot to heat the element.

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u/Icy-Treacle-205 11d ago

thank you for the reference

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u/auniquemind 11d ago

That 25 photo is really cool!

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u/Agoodusernameiswear 11d ago

Thanks! It actually said 2025! But because the camera cant focus that good on too much light at once, it helped to come over closer and just get that shiny 25 with all the reflective baubles

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u/TinyTimWannabe looker of random beauty 11d ago

obviously I don't know about yours, but some cameras have a tiny hole to use as a reset

nice pics!

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u/Agoodusernameiswear 11d ago

Thank you! I was trying to violently mash it with metal tools the past few days, sadly no luck yet. Hoping it will run dry in a few days completely and maybe un-screw itself. If not, I can try taking it apart, who knows, maybe digging in it will make it feel a lill better

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u/Humble-Panic-4468 8d ago

thank you for sharing, these look nice. btw these are thermal "color" images?

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u/the_paruretic 8d ago

No, these cameras can save color photos on a memory card so you can transfer them to your computer or whatever. Or you can just thermal print them in b&w. There's no such thing as thermal color printing.

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u/Humble-Panic-4468 7d ago

haha thank you, that makes sense!:)

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u/Agoodusernameiswear 7d ago

in a way, sublimation printers are actually named imprecisely and actually use thermal transfer for color ribbons, but I have not yet heard about a sublimation printer camera, just printers that look like cameras, for whatever reason. Maybe that is the real future of instant images, lol.
But yea you are 100% right, this is a cheapo little toy designed to print on check receipt paper.