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Kodak Charmera Sample Photos + Portraits<\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n

(updated 1-07-2026 with a few more photos that I placed here at the beginning+end)<\/em><\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 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!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Animated GIF I made from a Charmera video clip<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kodak Charmera Portrait – Color Corrected in Capture NX2<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kodak Charmera Portrait – Color Corrected in Capture NX2<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kodak Charmera Image with “Windows 3.11 Frame!”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kodak Charmera product shot with the iPhone 3GS! Let’s see how it compares!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hello everyone, I got a box of Kodak Charmeras the other day.\u00a0 They are definitely to keep and give to friends and family, because they are just too cool.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Just like with fashion, what goes around comes around.\u00a0 I remember in 2011 really going crazy over the hard to find Digital Harinezumi<\/a>.\u00a0 Fast forward another 12+ year cycle and the fever has begun again with this Kodak Charmera (Labubu\/blind box camera).\u00a0 I was wondering why there was interest in my Vivitar Keychain camera post<\/a>, and it’s because of the “scarcity” of this cool little new digicam.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Life is too fun and short to be stuck using just one brand or aligned to a particular medium’s tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 It’s an homage to the 110 camera from back in the day and the Kodak film boxes.\u00a0 Plus the yellow is great for the fall season that just arrived here in Georgia.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 I think it looks great. Package design and typography plays a huge role in our everyday purchases.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Kodak Charmera hanging out with my yellow Japanese maple tree.\u00a0 The leaves are already dropping as I type this.<\/p>\n

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Digital Harinezumi, Kodak Charmera, and Vivitar Retro Keychain Camera<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.\u00a0 With the 64GB microSD card I put in it, it shows an astounding 99999 images.<\/p>\n

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The box looks right at home on my vintage camera shelf.\u00a0 Graphic design, logos and typography is magic for sure, as it can really encapsulate the feelings of an era.<\/p>\n

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The Marvel comic book is from 1986 but the camera is not from 1987!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I found that issue above in the cheap section at the comic shop in Commerce.\u00a0 \u00a0The same one that I had when I was a kid and read religiously.\u00a0 In the Spider-Man\/Peter Parker entry there’s a breakdown of his fancy film camera.<\/p>\n

Lo-Fi Kodak Charmera Photo Samples<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Big thanks to Sara for coming over and helping me test this Charmera!<\/p>\n

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Not really related to this post, but Fujifilm Instax is a perfect match for fun lifestyle shots with this Charmera as a prop.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Kodak Charmera | Selfie by Sara! So Pretty.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kodak Charmera and Windows 3.11 Frame<\/p><\/div>\n

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More photos to come!<\/p>\n

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Kodak Charmera food photos: Pork Belly and Turnip Greens $18, String Beans and Pork $14, Seafood Soup $12.\u00a0 One of the great food combos you can get at Great Wall in Duluth<\/p>\n

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Kodak Charmera pics at Hmong New Year<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s an example of the video quality of the Charmera.\u00a0 It definitely looks pretty close to the lo-fi vibes of the classic Harinezumi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Animated GIF of the same video below<\/p><\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kodak-Charmera-Sample-Photos-Portraits-Review-2025-11-07-V_Boon-Vong.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n
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Here’s an example of what a Charmera photo looks like printed out.\u00a0 Usually at the end of every year I print my favorite images for posterity.\u00a0 Something you can hold and look at away from a phone or computer screen is a rarity these days.\u00a0 My bigger cameras run the gamut of digital camera history, ranging from 3MP to 50MP.\u00a0 This little Charmera produces a 1 Megapixel image recalling my first digicam from back in the day.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At the 4×6″ print size almost every camera’s perceived quality differences is normalized.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Charmera 1 Megapixel file printed on a Canon Selphy dye-sub.<\/p><\/div>\n

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.\u00a0 I’ve tried three different computers, Mac OS and Windows, and they charge via the cable, but the microSD doesn’t show up.\u00a0 They used to though.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Oh well, a small price to pay for a trip down memory lane with this loifi imaging tech.<\/p>\n

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Kodak Charmera with my first digital camera, the Kodak DC210 Zoom Plus! The same resolution basically but separated by over 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on my vintage shelf is the failed Lytro camera.  Here are some product shots since they are both the same shape!  The Lytro takes square photos that are almost as bad in terms of image quality as the Charmera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kodak DCS shot with the Charmera.  Yep that is the original 8 Megabyte CF card that came with the camera.<\/p>\n

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Since this post gets regular viewers like every day (Hello China!) I figure I would just keep tacking on to this one.  Here are some lo-fi videos and images of my drawings.  Again, the video is not what anyone would call good in this age of 4K video, but it has a nice look that is similar to lo-fi indie music.  The clips definitely remind me of the videos I would shoot back in 2002…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you enjoyed this silly post\/review, please check out the professional work on my website frontend.\u00a0 If anyone has a need for Event Coverage, Documentary work or Photojournalism around the Atlanta metro area and SE US let me know!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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