Instant Camera
An instant camera. Take photos with primary fire, zoom in and out with secondary fire, and change focus mode with reload.
The Instant Camera is part of the Summer Pack DLC for Rust. Crafting it needs that DLC. You can craft it without a workbench.
About the Instant Camera
Recycling it returns the Gears only by chance, 50% of the time.
How to craft the Instant Camera
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 1 × Gears and 75 × Metal Fragments.
1 
75 
Workbench Not required
Craft time
NO WB 15s
WB1 −50% 7.5s
WB2 −75% 3.8s
WB3 −75% 3.8s
How to repair the Instant Camera
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 21 × Metal Fragments, and no blueprint is needed.
Repair bench No blueprint needed
×21 What the Instant Camera recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 37 × Metal Fragments for one.
RecyclerGuaranteed outputExtra chance output
Green 50%
×37 50% 50% Green (powered) 60%
×45 60% 
Red 75%
×56 75% 25% 
Yellow 40%
×30 40% Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
