In this month’s article on the future of film, you mention the interest in vintage digicams. I just bought a CampSnap 103B digicam. Fixed focus, fixed aperture, wide angle lens, optical viewfinder, 8MP, NO on-camera controls beyond camera on-off and flash off-on-auto.
Why? I started back into analog photography earlier this year with my old Minolta 110 SLR. That was fun, but the all-in purchase/processing/shipping cost of $1.20/exposure was a choke point. I was strongly considering a refurbished Olympus Pen EE2 on Ebay (Japan-based refurbisher) to get that cost down to $0.45/ exposure when it occurred to me that I could get essentially the same user experience with the CampSnap camera, minus the costs of film. And without the worries of mechanical failure in a sixty year old camera that hardly anyone knows how to fix.
Rick Enochs Dec 17, ‘24
Dmitri Dec 17, ‘24