Kodak Charmera Sample Photos + Portraits
Hello! If you are new to my site because of this little trending keychain camera–welcome! I’m an Atlanta (US) based artist/photographer with lots of years of experience shooting and editing photos from many camera types. This post is about the little Kodak Charmera. After you get tired of scrolling, please visit the entirety of my blog/website to see photos from all the fun events that I cover around town. Thanks!
(updated 11-24-2025 with a few more photos that I placed here at the beginning)
Kodak Charmera Portrait – Color Corrected in Capture NX2. The thing about digicams of this lo-fi nature is that the fun is leaving them as is, but If you are new to my work, I pretty much HAVE to edit EVERY SINGLE one of the photos that I shoot. With raw files it’s so much easier obviously, but this keychain digicam only shoots highly compressed jpegs like back in the day. With most digital files there’s always a color cast to skin tones, but I would have to say this color corrected Charmera picture turned out alright!
Kodak Charmera Portrait – Color Corrected in Capture NX2
Kodak Charmera Portrait – Color Corrected in Capture NX2
6 Blind Boxes of the hard to get Kodak Charmeras. You can just pre order them right now and expect to get one after the new year. I would advise not paying the ludicrous prices right now.
Kodak Charmera Image with “Windows 3.11 Frame!”
Kodak Charmera product shot with the iPhone 3GS! Let’s see how it compares!
Hello everyone, I got a box of Kodak Charmeras the other day. They are definitely to keep and give to friends and family, because they are just too cool. If you’ve followed along my site and blog for any amount of time, you’ll know I love all sorts of cameras from every era. Just like with fashion, what goes around comes around. I remember in 2011 really going crazy over the hard to find Digital Harinezumi. Fast forward another 12+ year cycle and the fever has begun again with this Kodak Charmera (Labubu/blind box camera). I was wondering why there was interest in my Vivitar Keychain camera post, and it’s because of the “scarcity” of this cool little new digicam.
I won’t bore anyone with the specs or the features the Charmera has, here are some photos from this week of just having fun with this not so serious camera. This is how I would use this camera, basically slotting it into the random camera juggling that I like to do on our regular hangouts. Life is too fun and short to be stuck using just one brand or aligned to a particular medium’s tribe.
I wanted the 01 default costume Charmera and got it on my first box! I think it looks the best from a graphic design point of view. It’s an homage to the 110 camera from back in the day and the Kodak film boxes. Plus the yellow is great for the fall season that just arrived here in Georgia.
It’s rare to find anything printed, and the mini brochure and packaging is a step up from most of the soon to be e-waste stuff we all order. I think it looks great. Package design and typography plays a huge role in our everyday purchases. Movie posters back in the day made you want to watch every single movie, but these days we scroll endlessly through streaming services and their uninspired horizontal composites of just faces and blah design.
Kodak Charmera hanging out with my yellow Japanese maple tree. The leaves are already dropping as I type this.
Digital Harinezumi, Kodak Charmera, and Vivitar Retro Keychain Camera
The camera takes about two seconds to power on with a sound, makes a fake shutter noise when you take a picture (which can’t be disabled), and it has a mini led light for lower light scenes. With the 64GB microSD card I put in it, it shows an astounding 99999 images.
The box looks right at home on my vintage camera shelf. Graphic design, logos and typography is magic for sure, as it can really encapsulate the feelings of an era.
The Marvel comic book is from 1986 but the camera is not from 1987! 🙂 I found that issue above in the cheap section at the comic shop in Commerce. The same one that I had when I was a kid and read religiously. In the Spider-Man/Peter Parker entry there’s a breakdown of his fancy film camera.
Lo-Fi Kodak Charmera Photo Samples
Big thanks to Sara for coming over and helping me test this Charmera!
Not really related to this post, but Fujifilm Instax is a perfect match for fun lifestyle shots with this Charmera as a prop. Again, I use all cameras, all brands, all makes and models, there’s just too many fun things that have been created for us humans to use to make pictures.
Kodak Charmera | Selfie by Sara! So Pretty.
Kodak Charmera and Windows 3.11 Frame
More photos to come!
Kodak Charmera food photos: Pork Belly and Turnip Greens $18, String Beans and Pork $14, Seafood Soup $12. One of the great food combos you can get at Great Wall in Duluth
Kodak Charmera pics at Hmong New Year
Here’s an example of the video quality of the Charmera. It definitely looks pretty close to the lo-fi vibes of the classic Harinezumi.
Here’s an example of what a Charmera photo looks like printed out. Usually at the end of every year I print my favorite images for posterity. Something you can hold and look at away from a phone or computer screen is a rarity these days. My bigger cameras run the gamut of digital camera history, ranging from 3MP to 50MP. This little Charmera produces a 1 Megapixel image recalling my first digicam from back in the day. I used to print stuff from it all the time, and it’s bizarre in a way to do it again with something that only shares the “Kodak” name due to the sticker. At the 4×6″ print size almost every camera’s perceived quality differences is normalized. It’s ironic that one of the frames the Charmera has mimics the GUI of the Kodak printmaker I would also use at the Walgreens over twenty years ago.
Charmera 1 Megapixel file printed on a Canon Selphy dye-sub.
One annoying thing about the Charmera and the Vivitar camera is that recently they both have not been showing up as external drives when I plug them into the computer to download the images. I’ve tried three different computers, Mac OS and Windows, and they charge via the cable, but the microSD doesn’t show up. They used to though. Not a problem since I have a micro to SD adapter, but it’s a bit annoying to have to eject the card and transfer this way. Oh well, a small price to pay for a trip down memory lane with this lofi imaging tech.
