The TTartisan Retro-Style Instant Instax Camera was announced in February, and listings on B&H Photo were recently reported as a sign that the camera might come to America to counter a report by asobinet, but the listings were created around October of last year. It took me a while to find it among my out-of-control Chrome browser, and I verified it with Google Gemini since it is aware of when it was listed. These kinds of listings usually consist of a photo and a brief description that is filled in later, and I do not bother reporting them until they include details about the product.
Unfortunately, I do not take this as a sign that the camera will be coming, as I think Fujifilm will use intellectual property laws to block TTartisan from selling it wherever they can. We can always hope TTartisan will work it out with Fujifilm. I have tracked many listings over the years that have gone from Notify When Available to completely removed, and I fear this might be one of them because the longer a listing remains as Notify When Available, the more likely it becomes that the listing was created quickly for SEO optimisation rather than any insight into upcoming products.
These cameras are only sold in Asia at this time, which is most likely due to Asian countries having almost no intellectual property laws compared to Western countries.
Is anyone still manufacturing manual cameras in 2026? I just got one.
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