Analog.Cafe Podcast s1/e5 “Kodak Snapic A1: Best In Class!”
In this episode, you’ll hear me accidentally open my loaded film camera and ruin a few frames (gasp!). But more importantly, Daren and I shoot, develop, scan, and share our first impressions with the new RETO/Kodak film camera. We are impressed.
Kodak Snapic A1 is a $100 film camera with a 𝒇9.5 25mm coated glass lens, motorized film transport, 2-zone focusing, 1/100s fixed shutter, built-in flash, a double-exposure switch, and shaped like Ricoh GR1. We used a selfie taken with Snapic on the day of taping for this episode’s cover.
During this episode, we’ve got to test this camera together just before taping. We then took a break after recording the first part of the show to develop and scan the film so we could share our first impressions of the image quality from this lens (shot indoors on Ilford FP4+).
I will be putting a few more rolls through this camera on an upcoming trip and post a full review on Analog.Cafe shortly.
One thing that we forgot to mention in this episode is that longer focal lengths will require more focusing zones or risk blurry images due to a narrower depth of field: analog.cafe/r/what-is-aper…. On the other hand, Snapic A1’s ultra-wide lens ensures that most of the scene is in focus with just a simple switch for near/far.
This episode was published on December 17, 2025. 1 hr 4 min.
This is one of the photos from the roll I accidentally exposed during the podcast (I forgot I had a roll of Tri-X in my RETO Pano when I opened its film door to show Daren the camera’s construction on the inside… I snapped it shut super quick).
Most of the frames on the roll held up well, and only ~5 shots were affected at all. Lucky!
Kodak Snapic A1 actually has a window on the film door that shows which film is inside, which would’ve been helpful then.
This is Tri-X EI 200 (pulled -1 stop). You may also notice that this photo is slightly softer/fuzzier than the ones above, taken with the Snapic.
Daren describes his first impressions with the Kodak Snapic A1 film camera camera in-hand. I’ve spliced in a short video and samples shot on FP4+ on Snapic: youtube.com/shorts/6LC9_D6…
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