Can you guess which panel below was imaged by a $500+ Canon Digital Rebel Xsi and which was imaged with a $2.99 Kodak disposable camera?
Near the end of September, the company I worked for threw a retirement luncheon for me. The lady who organized the event brought a bunch of throw-away cameras to be handed out to folks who attended so they could take some candid photos of the party. I grabbed one of them that the boss used to get some shots, so I could get them printed out.
There were about 13 shots left in the camera, so I took it to the Botanic Garden to finish the roll off. I snapped a shot of the Koi pond roughly at the same time that Damsel was shooting it. You can see the result.
The drugstore film possessor offered a Photo CD for a couple of bucks extra, so I went for it since all of our recent media is digital. I got the pix today and they were a disaster. Both the prints and on the CD. It looked like they scanned in the prints after using the grainiest possible print media.
Bottom line: you get what you pay for.
When we were in Kona last year (mmmm, Kona…. What? Oh, sorry) I bought two waterproof disposable cameras for snorkling. (Not realizing you can now rent a digital dive camera…)
We got the film developed at the local K Mart, and the guy at the counter warned us not to expect much. He said that the market for film, as opposed to digital, is so small now that no one is putting anything resembling decent film into disposable cameras. (The dive cameras we got were 800 ASA.) Disposable cameras have never been the greatest, of course, but these produced some crap photos, and Mr. K Mart Photo Counter said that’s to be expected.
Lessons learned.
Disposable digital: $11.99.
Wassa matta you no likee feesh?
Actually it’s a great photo if the fish are swimming in your fireplace grate.