Customer Ratings & Reviews

Photo quality ok at medium distance only - fast, easy to load. Having no screen gives no feedback on printing (easy to accidentally take photo) and also most people not accustomed to framing photo without screen. Paper around $.050 for each photo.

This camera doesn't take or print the best pictures, but I don't think that is the point of this camera. The camera is more for fun than for quality, as the pictures print immediately from the camera and have sticker backing. I would say this is fun for younger kids only though. My 4 and 6 year olds love snapping random photos and decorating things with them. Outside during the day, picture taking is easy. Inside, we figured out quickly that you need good lighting and the auto flash doesn't always turn on when you want it to. We've also had a mini polaroid type camera, and I prefer that type more for the price and the kids novelty of shaking the picture to develop it.

I took this out of the box, charged it up, added the paper and had instant sticky photos to post around the office. The camera charges fairly quickly and is ready to go. It comes with a pack of 10 sheets, so you will want to purchase extra paper with the camera. It's very nice not needing to purchase batteries and the recharging is a really nice feature. The photos are similar to other instant cameras, but the clarity and quality is very good for this kind of device. My granddaughter wants one now, so I see a second one coming in the near future. I have compared it to other cameras and I like this one the best so far.

I know you can take pictures on your phone, I know your phone has filters I know that your phone has two cameras and a third camera that does something that you don't even know but this is good old fashioned fun. A camera like this makes the joy of photography come back and then the fun of turning it into instant stickers just that much better. Definitely a gift for a 10-year-old or better or a really big kid like a 35-year-old father who plays with it more than his children. But it's so much fun!

Canon IVY Cliq Instant Film Camera is an ok camera with just enough basic features to keep you happy. While does feel slightly cheap the design is lower than what I expect with other "insta" film cameras. The mint green adds a nice touch to their otherwise boring color lineups from other companies. Setting up the camera is easy it's just a battery pack inside and once that is fully installed you can charge up the camera which takes about an hour and a half. The feature here is that you can print out pictures on the go which does a decent job. They give you 10 sheets of ZINK paper which is nice to test the camera but if you want more you have to buy because the 10 will run out. The "ZINK" paper you can buy separately is pretty cheap to buy which is also another defining feature which gives you about 50 sheets for $20. Trust me when it comes to these instant cameras film is something you have to keep in mind as the price will stack up on you. Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 is one that is a beautiful camera and love to use but when you only get 8 sheets for $18.99 the fun start to die out quick; The Fujifilm Instax Square film paper is $36.99 right now for 60 sheets. By far the Canon IVY wins on all fronts with pricing. Plus Zink paper can be used as stickers but they don't stick well as they curl up on the edges. Does the camera take pictures, good pictures? Well, that is going to depend on your shots and angles. It's a very mixed bag. It was really hard to take photos during a road trip even with autofocus. My girlfriend loved using it but didn't use it for long. Great for taking indoor shots but just don't use this in the dark as it is useless. Prints don't look sharp nor clear but it is a "photo" so you have that going. There is a selfie mirror on the front of the camera which is just as laughable as it doesn't do much to help take a selfie all that well. The flash is only good for about a foot away. The SD card goes up to 256GB which is plenty to take all the photos you need. What I think it is that people expectations are way too high for this camera and forgetting what its actually for. These "Insta" cameras is not there to replace your Canon T-series Rebel or Your Ultra megapixel smartphone but its there for fun and I suppose nostalgia. This could be great for teens or kids who just want pictures but outside of that its pretty average with nothing standing out. The thing is there are other Insta cameras that does what this does better but this Canon IVY Cliq is for the very budget friendly more so then the others I've tried. I just feel like Canon could do a much better job than the Cliq and Cliq + line of cameras. Almost like they need to go back to the drawing board and overhaul before they get left behind in this field. The younger crowd will love it but I also feel that more features should have been added to keep thing interesting for them. I had a little fun but not enough for me to keep interested in this product or recommend to friends.

Fun colors, can print some of the picture leaving room to write on the print. Picture quality is good for instant. Micro sd option is nice to save the prints for additional printing/memories for later. Form factor is comfortable in the hand and the charge holds a decent amount if pictures. Con: is the film is expensive and you have to buy the Plus model to use it as a mobile printer.

Welcome back the classic instant camera; as in physical picture in your hand. The good: It is lightweight, it is not a very heavy camera. Has fair picture quality, and it does produce a physical picture that develops in under 1 minute. The not-so-good: You need basically FILM cartridges for the pictures. And they are not-in-expensive. about $10 a refill, thus making each picture cost about $0.50. When learning how to use the camera, we used up over half of the included cartridge. There are two settings for picture size, that got a bit confusing for her to use at first... now that she knows, setting it is okay. Two times in picking up the camera (that was on), we hit the easy to push shutter button, which caused us to take two instant pictures of our palm. There is no digital screen, as most young users are used to. So you don't get to pick and choose what picture looks best to print, and no way to make duplicates of the same photo for all the friends squished into it. It is a small print, about 2"x3"... not the full-sized Poloroids from "back in the day". Overall, the quality of the camera seems nice... but if this is going to be a primary use camera, be prepared for the cost on the supplies and the small print size.

While a limited number of picture print pages are included with the start-up kit, which does make me wonder about the cost of 'refills', I was happy to be able to print crisp/clear photos relatively quick without lugging around a photo printer.

Cute little product. Good for scrapbooking. Sometimes it captures great pictures, other times it's like stepping into the 90s because it'll straight up wash out an image. Put having pictures of my cats easily and quickly printed is very nice.

Very cute basic camera for teens to have fun and save memories. Print quality is ok, not the best but it’s not a professional camera so I don’t expect much! Kids love it and I love it to create memory books. I would recommend this to a friend.

The Canon IVY CLIQ Instant Camera is a gimmicky point and shoot camera that prints each picture you take on Peel & Stick ZINK Photo Paper. The paper costs about fifty cents a 2x3 inch sheet and fits in the camera like a small deck of cards. Taking pictures is pretty easy, actually a bit too easy as the shutter button is way too easy to trigger when handling the camera. I took one accidental picture after loading in the paper. The camera is pretty basic with a fixed lens, an auto flash and a selfie mirror on the front. With this basic model, there is no way to take a picture, preview and then print. Press the shutter button and you print (along with saving the image to a micro SD card). As for the prints, they are fairly basic and look like a bit flat color wise. Given the quality (or lack of) the prints and small size (don’t expect 70/80’s era instant prints) I can’t really recommend the camera. My teen children did think instant prints were pretty cool though, especially with the sticky backing for placement on a surface. Pros: - Instant prints - Camera looks cool - SD card for storing images you took Cons: - Small, unremarkable instant prints - No preview, click the shutter you get a print - No control over flash, exposure or much else - Takes about 25 prints per charge

This is a great camera for taking quick photos that you need to share with friends or family. They come out fast and look really good.

Canon - IVY Cliq Instant Film Camera - Bumblebee Yellow Maybe I am missing the point... OK. Maybe I am missing the point. I have the Canon Ivy Printer, and I use it as needed when I find a picture I want to print out. It does a really nice job for a small format print. So I was intrigued when I found the IVY Cliq Camera. I was excited when the package arrived looking forward to having camera and printer in one package. After opening the package, the excitement quickly died. I grew up back when instant cameras were a thing. Film cameras were the norm. Digital cameras were not a thing yet. The fun part of taking pictures back then was seeing how they turned out after waiting an hour at the local photo lab. Then you start going thru the pictures and were lucky to get 3 or 4 good shots of people in a 36 picture roll. The odds of someone not blinking or making a odd face were pretty slim. Instant cameras were fun too as you took the picture and stood there like a fool waving it in the air trying to get it to develop quicker. The fun there was watching the photographer and seeing the disappointment as they see the picture was nowhere near as good as they had hoped as cousin Jimmy decided to stick a finger in someone's nose. Why do I bring up this memory? At 50 cents per sheet, taking a photo to be instant printed is not cheap. It would be very easy to go thru 10 pictures and not get a good one. Clearly there must be a way to take a picture and view it before it prints. Right? Maybe a app that sends the photo over Bluetooth...but then why not just use the phone to take the picture? But don't worry Canon took care of that...there is no app...there is no Bluetooth...there is no control over what prints. All pictures print, even the nose picking Jimmy pictures. That is OK, I thought. I just won't load the paper, save the image to the micro SD and figure out how to get the right photo to print later. Nope. The camera will not take a photo without the paper. Clearly this wasn't right. I go to Canon's support page. Nope. You can't take a picture with no paper. OK, this can be fixed in a firmware update I am sure. I'll download the software and see what the firmware update process is like. Hmmm? No software for the camera. I am now assuming no firmware updates either. So I have a camera with a SD slot that will not take pictures without "film" being in this digital camera. A 5 megapixel camera? You honestly could buy a cheap cell phone and have similar results. I am not sure who this camera is for nor why it exists in this format. Buying just the IVY printer and using your phone will give better results and known results. Honestly I can not recommend this camera in any sense of the word. It might be more tolerable if the paper was cheaper and affordable, less than 10 cents a sheet seems about a right price point. But for the gamble of taking a good pic and no way of editing the picture before print and the hassle of having to have extra paper available if you are taking a lot of shots... I'll stick to my cell for everyday shots and break out the DSLR for special moments or projects. For the life of me, I don't know who the target consumer is for this camera. The prints are so small that older people won't be able to see them. The price per shot is too high for most people sub 30 years old to find affordable. The inability to just take a digital picture is a waste. The beauty of digital photography is the ability to correct a picture before publishing or printing. This works against the grain of the advantages of digital photography. For less than 10 cents an image, I can select the photos I want printed and pick them up in an hour or have them shipped to me. Or I can wait 30 seconds to get a picture I am not sure of with cousin Jimmy and his stray finger. Good: - It is yellow??? - It has a strap - It is lightweight - The pictures can be used as stickers (can you hear my eyes roll as I typed that?) Bad: - Requires paper to take pictures - The paper is about 50 cents a sheet (same complaint for IVY printer) - Can not preview what is being printed - No software - No app - No Bluetooth - Might have been cool 30 years ago - 2x3 format - 5 Megapixel

As Best Buy Insider, I hate giving a bad review . However, let me be clear, the Canon Ivy Cliq camera is a truly awful waste of money. When you first take the camera out the box, it looks good. Nice color, seems to be decent craftmanship. It has some heft to it. Then you notice things that are move evident in the specs. No screen. Weak flash. Little to no memory. No app. 5MB photos. No Bluetooth. No NFC. That is correct, 5MB. The lack of screen is acceptable because it is an instant camera, but pictures on a digital camera that are only 5MB? So maybe the prints are okay at 5MB because they are only 2” X 3”. Not even close. The colors are completely off - skin tones are reddish, whites are yellow and there is an odd washing out on the edges. I tried multiple different lighting scenarios and they all came out terrible. So in thinking about, the 5MB does not really matter. The reality is you can print photos 3 times the size at 5MB if the lens is good and the print media is good. Therein lies the problem. You have a tiny lens and the “Zink” media is very poor quality. Bad combination. The competition offers digital cameras with instant printing with 10 to 20 MB, wider lenses, Bluetooth, screens and more. If you look at the non-digital instant cameras, you find much more features and much, much better image print quality. Then the competition does all that at a lower price. The reality is this is a product with no target customer. The image quality is too low for the enthusiast. The lack of screen will not get the under 30 customers. The camera is basically a toy and that will not get the teens ( which seem to be their target customer from the ads.) The price of $99 will not get parents to buy for kids. This should have been a $50 camera marketed kids who will use it a couple of times and put it in drawer. In summary – poor features, poor functions, poor price. This is the worst Canon product I’ve ever owned. Nothing to look at here, move on to the competition that just does a better job. Sorry Canon, I usually like your products but - uugghhh.....

Ive had a chance to run two packages of Zink paper through this camera and have been dissapointed with the results. When I first got the camera I was looking forward to shooting random grab shots to put into a small photo book. But after using the camera and going through 20 prints, I have yet to find one that is acceptable enough to put into the photo book. At first I though that maybe more light would be better, but even outdoors in full sunlight, the colors are washed out and focus is hit and miss. The camera itself is not bad, it is what you would expect from a $60 camera. No many features but really what would be expected from a camera in this price range. The camera charged quickly and was easy to load the Zink pack. It seems fairly well built and actually feels pretty good in the hand. You can put a micro SD card to save photos, but these pictures are as bad as the prints. You can change the picture size from 2x3 to 2x2, if you want, but I'm not sure why you would, the prints are already small. There is a view finder, flash and a selfie mirror on the front, but these are it for added features. If you are looking for this size prints, I'd probably stay away from this camera and look for one of the many available 2x3 printers out there.

I grew up in an era where photos were printed. This does the same--- only instantly! The camera looks sleek and is light. Taking photos is easy-- it takes some getting used to the framing, especially being used to phone cameras. This is hard when you cannot review your live shots before it gets printed out. So it requires a learning curve. Photo quality is so-so. It's not crisp and is sometimes dark-- even in well-lit situations. Same as the regular photo prints in the 80s. So plainly, this camera is just for plain fun especially that the photo sheets can be used as stickers. I'm sure baby boomers and little kids will love this --- the photo sheets are not cheap though. It can act as a regular camera given the extra SD card slot, but, almost everyone has a smartphone, that I'm sure takes more photos. Artistic people can have a use for this too. Overall, it is a fun camera. Something to use as a back-up to take instant souvenirs.

I'm very impressed with this little camera. It was great to take with us just to take some quick pictures downtown. The printing quality was very impressive for it being an instant film camera. The camera has a fairly decent battery life, I ran out of paper before I ran out of battery. The charging time is very short, we charged it for about thirty minutes and got a lot of use out of the camera.

The Canon IVY Cliq is neat I mean cool I mean its an instant camera. It does what it promises but very very simple. heck, there isn't even a screen, It would be great for the kiddos to play around with but that's about it. I have more fun taking pictures with my cell phone. I would have like at least some software. If you got some young children who like taking pictures this is the one.

I have tested a few of these novelty self-printing cameras, I guess I have a bit of nostalgia from a past era. But this one would really only be cool for a kid for short period until they ran out of the film (imo). It is strong, well built, and quite colorful. It has an expandable memory slot which is a cool bonus but prints very mediocre pictures. I wish I could say better because I really do like the idea of these coming back but this one is not trend-setter.

Easy to use, quality is good enough based on what I paid.