Lomo’s latest instant camera is top of the glass

Instant cameras are good fun, to which our five star review of the Lomo’Instant Automat attests, but one of the accepted results of shooting on to Fuji Instax film is slightly low-fi image quality. Most photographers desire it, in fact, because art. The word ‘Glass’ in the Lomo’Instant Automat Glass Magellan’s name represents Lomo’s decision to up the ante, upgrading this version to a muticoated glass lens. With further differences including a wide 21mm equivalent focal length and a reasonably low-light friendly f/4.5 aperture. For £169 you also get a macro lens in the box, plus one of Lomo’s Splitzer attachments that allows multiple-exposure lens obscuring wizardry. Or, in our hands, a hot mess of a wasted print.

Fraser Macdonald consulting editor

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Fraser used to wear a Psion Series 3 palmtop in a shoulder holster. Perhaps he still does.Either way, his lifelong mission - including fourteen years for Stuff - has been to see whether the consumer electronics industry can ever replicate that kind of cyborgian joy.So far: nope. Despite a plan to combine a action camera and Olympus Eye-Trek goggles to become Man Who Sees The Vision Of A Man Three Inches Taller Than Himself.He also likes mountain bikes, motorbikes, cars, helicopters. Still thinks virtual surround is witchcraft. Dislikes jetskis, despite never having been on one.