lighten up and shoot

Stephan,

To be honest, I never tried to run the battery down completely on the PoGo. It does come with an external charger and can print while charging (which is something I have done) which plugs into a regular wall outlet. As to the cost of the extra battery, a good place to gauge that is generally amazon.com.

The Photomonk

Thank you photomunk I just see that it has a dictated AC input, thought it used the USB for his power.

Can't find anything on Amazon but shipping from there and paying import and taxes doesn't make it cheap I'm afraid.

The problem is that I need to run that device on batteries for the purpose I want it and they say it will only print 15 photos on one battery.

The canon battery last for much longer it appears, enough for the day at least but the set price (i've searched much) is €165.. I think I might go for canon since the prints are larger and they are easier to get as well.

The PoGo must be using a step-down transformer/rectifier, so maybe you could recharge it from one of those solar powered phone chargers? I've yet to get my hands on mine (1 day to go!) but I'll be amazed if the charger isn't a simple wall wart transformer.

Well, I've had my PoGo for about 13 hours now, printed around 20 shots, and I love it. It does have limitations, it works best on photos with plenty of contrast but if the photo looks good on the LCD then it'll probably come out well on the PoGo. I can also print from my Eee PC with a Bluetooth dongle.

Only snag is that the power input is a proprietary design with a roughly rectangular two-pin plug, rather than a barrel connector. This might pose a problem for anyone attempting to run one from a solar phone charger.

I would say to anyone who's interested, buy one. They're not expensive, work with Pictbridge, and produce surprisingly good results.

Thank you Matt that was helpfull
Too bad that the connector is proprietary design
I must say that the price is very actractive indeed.

What do you think of the size of the prints, I'm afraid I find them too small.

I'll agree that they're small, but to be honest I find the Selphy photos a bit undersized too. There's a certain charm to these little sticker prints too - they remind me of the pictures you see pilots wedging in their control panels in films.

The A4 ones from my IP90 are a good size for displaying at home but obviously the IP90 is a bit too bulky to carry around.

Good that you said something about the size of the Selphy, I thought they were standard 102×152 mm but they are 89×119 mm, the ZINK paper is precisely half the size of the 102×152 mm so 51×76 mm, I must say that they are bigger then I thought.

Just found out that the older models of the Canon Selphy came with a battery so that might be interesting, will need to search for them though but might be worth it.

My Mother also owns a Selphy (the one I've had a brief play with), I'm not sure which model but it can definitely take a rechargeable battery as she ordered a couple of 3rd party ones. They seem to work ok, although she did say something about having to trim a bit of plastic to make them fit properly.

The Selphy paper has two perforated strips. Once these are torn off, the photos are postcard sized (and the paper has pre-printed markings on the back to allow you to use it as a postcard).

We use a Selphy on holiday to send people custom postcards. The print quality is superb.

That isn't fully correct because there are more variations then that,
You have the postcard size 100x148 mm but also the L size 89×119 mm, creditcard size paper 54x86 mm in normal and sticker, Mini-sticker 22x17,3 mm and panorama paper of 100x200 mm

My stepfather has a Selphy and what the printer prints is very good, the Pogo seems to be less from hear say.
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Problem here also is that the ZINK paper is hard to come by, in most computer shops here you can easily get paper/inkt set for the Canon Selphy.
Also battery life of the Pogo is 10 prints which is too little, Selphy can get 36 prints from his battery and if there is a normal battery powered version then that's even better.
I Already spotted some Selphy with battery on the second-hand market so that's probably what I will do.

I didn't know that different paper sizes were available for the Selphy, that's definitely a plus point for it.

All I can say about that review is that nothing pleases everyone. It isn't a top-quality photo printer, that's why it costs around £20 for the starter kit. I've not noticed fine lines on mine, and providing that the source file has decent contrast it seems to produce reasonable results.

It isn't intended for "serious photo journalists" (something I have no desire to be - as the initial post has it, lighten up and shoot!), it's supposed to be fun, like the old Polaroid instant cameras. If I want to print something to hang on the wall I'll use the IP90 and some good quality paper.