I arrived at this value after some experimenting and a lot of overly dark prints. While this is a ridiculous design decision, it didn't bother me much since all I was doing was increasing brightness about 20 percent for every photo. However, the final app is out, and the lack of preview remains. Originally, I assumed this was a beta software bug since I started testing before the app was publicly released. The slider covers the final image, which is, quite frankly, crazy. (I suggest increasing brightness.) The one quirk of the app is that when you edit, there's no preview. The Polaroid Originals app can select any media file on your phone, and you can edit the image a little within the app. I wish the instant camera world would just drop this idea.Īside from the video gimmickry, the Lab is dead simple to use.

It's also worth noting that anyone with the app installed can view the video, which has some potentially awful privacy consequences that I'd be more worried about if the feature wasn't so utterly useless. Since you can't embed a digital video in a physical print, anyone who wants to see the video has to install the Polaroid Originals app. Fujifilm recently did something similar with audio in its Mini LiPlay camera/printer, and in both cases it feels very awkward and gimmicky. While the focus of the Lab is analog, it does offer the ability to 'embed' a video with your print.