Cheap digital cameras

[Weird Harold]

I can't find the thread where I metioned the Barbie(tm) and Nickelodeon (tm) cameras for kids, so I 'll update the information with a new thread.

I stoppped by Kmart today. Both of these cameras were priced at $59.99 +tax. They're simple point and shoot type cameras, and come with picture processing software aimed at children's interests. They may be marketed for children, but they take 640x480 true color pictures just like the low resolution mode of more expensive cameras. For posting a picture with your Bio, you don't need the high resolution from a more expensive camera or a scanner.

These aren't cameras I'd use for printing photo quality 8x10 portraits, but they're more than adequate for adding a picture to a website or family newsletter or the like.

Just an option for those who don't want the 1 Hour photo place to see you naked.

 

[Weird Harold]

Originally posted by Fallen Angel:
There is also the option of having your pictures put on a disk when developed and then just download from the cdrom..

Aside from the wait of 3 to 7 days, there is always the question of how many copies got printed and who has the ones you didn't get back when you send them off to have them scanned.

The local Walmart photo center has a self-serve enlargement machine that can scan pictures and/or print enlargements from disks. I don't know if it can scan pictures to disks or not. Even if it could, I doubt I would use it for nude pictures, because it's right in the middle of the Photocenter where everyone who gets in line can see what pictures you're scanning and printing.

Many of the office supply stores now have scanners on sell for around $50 AFTER rebate. They aren't the top of the line but if you don't mind a long wait for it to scan they should do fine.

A disposable Polaroid for $15.00 or so, and a scanner work well for discrete pictures. Depending on your CPU, the cheap scanners aren't all that slow. My UMAX printer port scanner took 15 minutes to scan a high resolution picture with my old 486 motherboard, but only takes about 2 minutes with the new Pentium II Motherboard. My neighbor has a similar scanner with a USB interface to an iMac computer that scans a comparable picture in about 1 minute.

Still, a digital camera is the best way to go for privacy and security. There's no strangers drooling on your prints before you get them back, and no prints to fall into the wrong hands. Just nice safe password protected, hidden directories full of nice pictures. <G>

 

[Fallen Angel]

There is also the optinion of having your pictures put on a disk when developed and then just download from the cdrom.

Many of the office supply stores now have scanners on sell for around $50 AFTER rebate. They aren't the top of the line but if you don't mind a long wait for it to scan they should do fine.

To put a picture in an email you will need to download it, or scan it and then place(save) it in a file like in "my documents" click add attachment on the email and then follow the instructions.

 

[SpecialK]

I think what Harold was getting at is the fact that with a cam (be it Barbie or otherwise) you don't have to worry about getting pictures of questionable content developed at Walmart or wherever else. I was in line after Xmas dropping off film at Wally World once and sure enough, someone was getting some nude pics developed and all of us who were waiting could see these pics rolling by through the machinery. At first only one person started snickering but after awhile all of us were giggling away. The technician never did notice I don't think. But let that be a tip in favour of the Barbie-cam.

K