Croma Camera and Printer Offers July 2026: Instax to Mirrorless

Five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-five per cent off a stated Rs. 7,999, and nothing in the box but the camera. The Mini 11 is the previous generation — the Mini 12 replaced it — and what you give up is the twist-to-turn-on lens barrel, the closer minimum focus and the parallax correction that makes the 12's viewfinder actually match the frame. What you gain is fifteen hundred rupees. For a camera bought as a gift, taken to two weddings and a birthday and then left in a drawer, that is a sensible trade. Remember that you are buying film separately, and film is where this hobby costs money: budget roughly Rs. 50 a shot, which is what every bundle in this chapter charges. Ten shots is one evening. If you already know you will shoot more than that, read the next five picks before you buy this one.

• Price: Rs. 5,999 (stated MRP Rs. 7,999)
• Key specification: Instant camera, body only, no film included
• Discount: 25% off, which is Rs. 2,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Cheapest way in
• Buying logic: cheapest body, film extra

Six thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 8,999, and this box contains the Mini SE body and ten shots of film. Four colourways of it — green, pink, gray and blue — all sit at exactly this price with exactly this badge, which is the tidy behaviour you expect from a manufacturer bundle and do not always get. Against the Mini 11 at Rs. 5,999 with no film, you are paying a thousand rupees for the newer body and ten shots. Against the Joy Pack four picks down, which is the same Mini SE with forty shots at Rs. 8,499, you are paying Rs. 1,500 less and getting thirty fewer shots — which prices those thirty shots at exactly fifty rupees each. Hold that number. It reappears in every single bundle on this shelf but one.

• Price: Rs. 6,999 (stated MRP Rs. 8,999)
• Key specification: Mini SE body plus 10 shots of film
• Discount: 22% off, which is Rs. 2,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Body plus ten shots
• Buying logic: the number to hold: Rs. 50 a shot

Seven thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-one per cent off a stated Rs. 9,499, body only. This is the reference price for the whole chapter: every Mini 12 bundle below is this camera with film added, and subtracting Rs. 7,499 from each of them tells you exactly what Croma is charging for the film. Two colourways, pastel blue and mint green, at this price. The Mini 12 over the Mini 11 gives you the twist-to-power lens, a close-up mode that engages automatically instead of needing a clip-on adapter, and a corrected viewfinder — small things individually, but they are the difference between a picture of someone's forehead and a picture of their face at arm's length, which is what these cameras are for. Fifteen hundred rupees more than the 11. Worth it if the camera will actually get used.

• Price: Rs. 7,499 (stated MRP Rs. 9,499)
• Key specification: Mini 12 body only, no film included
• Discount: 21% off, which is Rs. 2,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: The current body
• Buying logic: the reference price for the maths

Seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-seven per cent off a stated Rs. 10,999 — the deepest badge in this chapter, and the arithmetic that matters is not the badge. The bare Mini 12 is Rs. 7,499. This box is the same camera plus ten shots for five hundred rupees more. Fifty rupees a shot. Three colourways at this exact price. Now look back at the Fun Pack and the Joy Pack: thirty extra shots for Rs. 1,500, also fifty rupees a shot. And the Moments Box we left out of the picks, twenty shots for Rs. 1,000 over the bare body — fifty rupees a shot again. Four separate bundles, one rate. Instax Mini film sells in twenty-shot twin packs for roughly Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,200 at Indian retail, so fifty rupees a shot is fair rather than generous. There is exactly one bundle on this shelf that breaks the rate, and it is the next pick but one.

• Price: Rs. 7,999 (stated MRP Rs. 10,999)
• Key specification: Mini 12 body plus 10 shots — Rs. 500 over the bare body
• Discount: 27% off, which is Rs. 3,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Rs. 50 a shot
• Buying logic: the rate, stated plainly

Eight thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-six per cent off a stated Rs. 11,499: the Mini SE body and forty shots of film. Four colourways at this price. Against the Fun Pack at Rs. 6,999 with ten shots it is Rs. 1,500 for thirty more — fifty rupees a shot, the fourth bundle on this shelf to land on that figure. What makes this pick worth its slot is the comparison sideways rather than upwards: the Mini 12 Mega Pack in the next slot is Rs. 500 more, has the same forty shots, and gives you the newer body. Five hundred rupees for the current generation is the easiest upgrade decision on this page. Buy this one only if the SE colourway is the one you want, or if the Mega Pack is out of stock in a colour you can live with.

• Price: Rs. 8,499 (stated MRP Rs. 11,499)
• Key specification: Mini SE body plus 40 shots — Rs. 1,500 over the Fun Pack
• Discount: 26% off, which is Rs. 3,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Forty shots, older body
• Buying logic: Rs. 500 short of the better box

Eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-five per cent off a stated Rs. 11,999, for the current Mini 12 body and forty shots of film. Subtract the bare Mini 12 at Rs. 7,499 and the forty shots cost you Rs. 1,500. That is thirty-seven rupees and fifty paise a shot, against the fifty rupees a shot that every other bundle in this chapter charges — the Delight Box, the Moments Box, the Fun-to-Joy step, all of them. Twelve and a half rupees a shot does not sound like a discovery until you notice it is a twenty-five per cent reduction on the only consumable this camera has, and that the badge on the tile says twenty-five per cent too, about something else entirely. Nobody sorting this shelf by discount would find it, because five listings show a deeper badge. Buy this one. It is the best-value box on the shelf and the reason we read the aisle.

• Price: Rs. 8,999 (stated MRP Rs. 11,999)
• Key specification: Mini 12 body plus 40 shots — Rs. 1,500 over the bare body
• Discount: 25% off, which is Rs. 3,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Best overall
• Buying logic: Rs. 37.50 a shot — the only one

One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four rupees, seventy per cent off a stated Rs. 5,990 — the deepest badge across seventy-eight imaging listings, on the cheapest item in the read. That combination is the shape of this whole chapter. Across the aisle the median discount is twenty-two per cent, but the four listings above forty-five per cent all come from Qubo, Portronics and XElectron, and the ones sitting at two and three per cent come from Sony and Nikon. It is not that the cheap brands are being generous; it is that a brand with no established street price has nothing anchoring its declared MRP, and a brand whose bodies are cross-shopped in every camera forum in the country has very little room. As a dashcam this is the sensible purchase category on the page — the one imaging device that earns its keep by existing rather than by being used. Qubo is Hero Group's connected-devices label.

• Price: Rs. 1,824 (stated MRP Rs. 5,990)
• Key specification: Full HD dashcam — cheapest listing in the read
• Discount: 70% off, which is Rs. 4,166
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Cheapest thing here
• Buying logic: the deepest badge, the cheapest item

Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine rupees, forty-seven per cent off a stated Rs. 11,050. Treat the 8,400-lumen figure on the listing the way you would treat any lumen claim under ten thousand rupees: it is the seller's number, measured by nobody in particular, and the practical translation is that this will look good in a fully dark room and washed out with a lamp on. That is true of every projector at this price from every brand. What you are actually buying for Rs. 5,899 is a Full HD panel, a Miracast receiver so a phone can throw to it without a cable, and a remote — which is enough for films on a bedroom wall and not enough for a living room with windows. Against the Portronics Beem 420 two picks down at Rs. 11,099, you are paying half as much for a similar claim and a shorter warranty history. If a projector is an experiment rather than a purchase, start here.

• Price: Rs. 5,899 (stated MRP Rs. 11,050)
• Key specification: Full HD LED projector, 8,400 lumens claimed
• Discount: 47% off, which is Rs. 5,151
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Cheapest projector
• Buying logic: an experiment, not a purchase

Eleven thousand and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 32,250, sixty-six per cent off, and it is Rs. 4,500 cheaper than the Beem 410 in the next slot, which declares the identical Rs. 32,250 MRP and is the older, lower-resolution model. That single comparison is why this pick carries the steal badge: two projectors, one stated MRP, and the Full HD one is the cheaper one. Portronics is an Indian accessories brand with a long run of well-reviewed portable projectors, which puts it a tier above the sub-six-thousand-rupee entry we picked above — a brighter lamp, a better fan, a warranty network that exists. Read the 3,200-lumen claim with the same scepticism as every other lumen claim on this page. At Rs. 11,099 with a Full HD panel, this is the projector we would put in a bedroom and expect to still be working in three years.

• Price: Rs. 11,099 (stated MRP Rs. 32,250)
• Key specification: Full HD LED projector, 3,200 lumens claimed
• Discount: 66% off, which is Rs. 21,151
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Biggest steal
• Buying logic: Full HD, and cheaper than the HD

Fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-nine rupees, fifty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 32,250 — the same declared MRP as the Beem 420 in the pick above, which costs Rs. 11,099 and has a higher-resolution panel. The 410 claims more lumens, 3,600 against 3,200, and that is the only column where it wins. This is the pick that earns its place by being the one you should not buy, and it is here because it demonstrates the failure mode this chapter is about: two listings from the same brand, sharing a stated MRP, where the badge orders them wrong. Fifty-two per cent looks respectable. Sixty-six per cent looks better. But the two badges are computed from the same Rs. 32,250, so for once the badge and the price agree — and the shopper who sorted by neither, and simply read the two spec lines, is the one who ends up with Full HD for Rs. 4,500 less.

• Price: Rs. 15,599 (stated MRP Rs. 32,250)
• Key specification: HD LED projector, 3,600 lumens — same stated MRP, higher price
• Discount: 52% off, which is Rs. 16,651
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Same MRP, worse deal
• Buying logic: the one to skip, and why

Two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, seven per cent off a stated Rs. 2,695. Almost no badge at all, and it is the cheapest printer in the read by nearly three thousand rupees. Single function means printing only — no scanner, no copier — and no Wi-Fi, so it lives on a USB cable next to one computer. For a household that prints a form twice a year, that is the correct machine and everything above it is a subscription to ink you will not use before it dries. The honest warning is the one Canon does not print on the box: cartridge printers cost little and drink expensively, and a set of replacement cartridges for this model runs a meaningful fraction of the printer's price. If you print more than about twenty pages a month, skip to the ink-tank picks below, where the economics invert completely.

• Price: Rs. 2,499 (stated MRP Rs. 2,695)
• Key specification: Single-function inkjet, no Wi-Fi — cheapest printer here
• Discount: 7% off, which is Rs. 196
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Cheapest printer
• Buying logic: two forms a year, nothing more

Five thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, thirty-eight per cent off a stated Rs. 8,860 — and across twenty-one HP listings in our read, which ran a median badge of nineteen per cent, this is the outlier at the top. All-in-one means print, scan and copy; the Wi-Fi means it sits in a cupboard rather than on a desk. For a student printing assignments and scanning documents for forms, this is the shape of machine that fits, and Rs. 5,499 is a fair price for it. The same cartridge warning as the pick above applies with more force, because this one uses HP's Ink Advantage cartridges and you will buy them. A sibling model, the DeskJet 2989, sits at Rs. 5,689 with a thirty-six per cent badge off the same stated Rs. 8,860 — the same machine class, Rs. 190 more, two points of badge less. Open both before choosing.

• Price: Rs. 5,499 (stated MRP Rs. 8,860)
• Key specification: All-in-one Wi-Fi inkjet — deepest printer badge in the read
• Discount: 38% off, which is Rs. 3,361
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Deepest printer badge
• Buying logic: print, scan, copy, cupboard

Twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-nine rupees, eleven per cent off a stated Rs. 13,699 — a badge small enough to be invisible on a sorted page, on the printer that changes the arithmetic. An ink tank is refilled from bottles rather than cartridges, and the running cost per page drops by roughly an order of magnitude; Epson's EcoTank line is the one that established the category in India. Monochrome means text only, which is what home and small-office printing overwhelmingly is. The correct way to compare this to the Rs. 2,499 Canon above is not by price but by pages: at low volume the cartridge machine wins on total cost for years, and somewhere around a few thousand pages the ink tank overtakes it and never looks back. If you print a dissertation, a small business's invoices or a child's entire school career, buy this one and ignore the eleven per cent.

• Price: Rs. 12,199 (stated MRP Rs. 13,699)
• Key specification: Monochrome ink-tank, refillable bottles not cartridges
• Discount: 11% off, which is Rs. 1,500
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Best for volume
• Buying logic: the maths flips around 3,000 pages

Fifteen thousand four hundred and nineteen rupees, fourteen per cent off a stated Rs. 17,906. HP's Smart Tank line is its answer to EcoTank, and this is the mid-rung: colour, all-in-one, Wi-Fi, auto on-off. Three thousand two hundred rupees more than the monochrome Epson above buys you colour and a scanner, and whether that is worth it comes down to one honest question — will you print photographs and children's projects, or only text? Most households answer the first and print the second. Two siblings bracket this listing in our read: the Smart Tank 585 at Rs. 14,359 with a fifteen per cent badge, and the 675 at Rs. 18,809 with nineteen. Three machines, three badges, a Rs. 4,450 spread, and the badge again orders them almost at random. Read the model number and the feature list, not the tile.

• Price: Rs. 15,419 (stated MRP Rs. 17,906)
• Key specification: Colour ink-tank all-in-one with auto on/off
• Discount: 14% off, which is Rs. 2,487
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Colour ink tank
• Buying logic: colour, if you will actually use it

Twenty-one thousand eight hundred and nine rupees, sixteen per cent off a stated Rs. 25,869. This is the machine for a room where several people print: mono laser, so pages come out fast and dry and do not smudge; refillable toner rather than cartridges, so the running cost stays low; automatic duplex, so it prints both sides without anyone flipping paper. Croma's laser shelf is where the badges are quietest — our read found HP laser models at ten, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen and twenty per cent, a range so narrow it tells you the category is priced rather than promoted. Above this sit the Konica Minolta office machines at Rs. 47,800, Rs. 1,38,549, Rs. 2,30,449 and Rs. 3,81,219, which carry the deepest badges in the aisle — thirty to forty-seven per cent — and are not household purchases by any reading.

• Price: Rs. 21,809 (stated MRP Rs. 25,869)
• Key specification: Refillable-toner mono laser with duplex
• Discount: 16% off, which is Rs. 4,060
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Best for an office
• Buying logic: several people, one printer

Twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, forty-six per cent off a stated Rs. 23,990, and it is the deepest reduction on any camera above ten thousand rupees in our read. The plain Hero is GoPro's small, cheap, current entry model — 4K, waterproof without a case, the standard mounting fingers that every accessory in the world already fits. That mounting ecosystem is most of the argument for buying a GoPro rather than a cheaper action camera: the helmet clip, the chest harness and the handlebar mount you buy this year will fit whatever body you own in 2030. Five GoPro listings appeared in our read from Rs. 12,990 to Rs. 47,000, with badges from sixteen to forty-six per cent. This is the cheapest and the most discounted of them, which is a coincidence worth taking advantage of rather than a pattern.

• Price: Rs. 12,990 (stated MRP Rs. 23,990)
• Key specification: 4K waterproof action camera — deepest badge above Rs. 10,000
• Discount: 46% off, which is Rs. 11,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Best action camera
• Buying logic: the mounts outlive the camera

Forty thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, thirty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 59,990. The Pocket 3 is the odd device on this page that genuinely replaced a category: a one-inch sensor on a mechanical three-axis gimbal, in a body the size of a marker pen, shooting footage that used to require a camera, a separate stabiliser and two hands. For anyone making video rather than taking photographs — a small business filming its own product clips, a person documenting a trip properly — it does more per rupee than anything else in this read. Six DJI listings appeared, from Rs. 34,990 to Rs. 60,990, with badges from fourteen to thirty-six per cent; the Creator Combo of this same camera is Rs. 60,990. The plain version at Rs. 40,990 is the one to buy unless you already know you need the wireless microphone.

• Price: Rs. 40,990 (stated MRP Rs. 59,990)
• Key specification: Gimbal-stabilised 1-inch-sensor vlogging camera
• Discount: 32% off, which is Rs. 19,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Best for video
• Buying logic: it replaced three objects

One lakh three thousand one hundred and thirty-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 1,05,995. Two thousand eight hundred and fifty-six rupees off. Three per cent. This is what the top of the imaging aisle looks like once you leave the bundle-and-badge economy behind: four Nikon listings in our read at three, nine, twelve and seventeen per cent, three Sony listings at two, three and nineteen, against a whole-aisle median of twenty-two. Serious camera bodies are cross-shopped against the same model at four other retailers by buyers who already know the street price, and there is simply nowhere for a declared MRP to hide. The Z FC is an APS-C mirrorless in a retro dial-covered body with a 28 mm prime — a camera bought by someone who has decided what they want. If that is you, the three per cent is not an insult; it is the market telling you the price is the price.

• Price: Rs. 103,139 (stated MRP Rs. 105,995)
• Key specification: APS-C mirrorless with 28 mm prime — 3% off
• Discount: 3% off, which is Rs. 2,856
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Where the badge stops
• Buying logic: the price is the price

Two lakh thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees against a stated Rs. 2,43,990. Five thousand rupees off a camera that costs more than most of the readers of this page will spend on electronics this year, and the smallest badge anywhere in seventy-eight listings. We end the page here because the contrast with the first chapter is the whole argument. A Rs. 1,824 dashcam carries a seventy per cent badge. A Rs. 2,38,990 full-frame Sony carries two. Nothing about the dashcam is a better deal for that; the badge is measuring how much room a seller has between a declared MRP and a price the market already knows, and that room shrinks to nothing exactly where buyers are most informed. Read the aisle the way its most informed buyers read it — by price, by spec, by what the thing will actually be used for — and the percentage stops mattering entirely.

• Price: Rs. 238,990 (stated MRP Rs. 243,990)
• Key specification: Full-frame mirrorless — smallest badge and highest price here
• Discount: 2% off, which is Rs. 5,000
• Rating: not published here — 24 of the 78 listings we read showed a star with no review count behind it
• Role: Smallest badge in the read
• Buying logic: where informed buyers shop