This $40 Camera Is Completely Ridiculous...

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  @TomCalton · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @youprettywow · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t feel scammed into buying one. The ads I saw actually promoted the low image quality as a feature (ie &quot;retro digital&quot;)

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  @KevinBjorke · 1 year ago

  I love this. It&apos;s not a camera, it&apos;s a genrically-nostalgic art project and FANTASTIC!

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  @BulletTooth011 · 1 year ago

  The shutter button confirms delete. The one I bought came with directions. I think it is pretty good for what it is.

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  @baxtermike5093 · 11 months ago

  I thought the pictures come out pretty dang good, honestly.

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  @Kikilang60 · 1 year ago

  They had a photography program at our school. To qualify, you had to take an introduction to photograph course. The introduction started with a package, which you had to buy. The package consisted of a toy camera, a glass lens, three rolls of film (yeah, film), photographic paper, and a portfolio. The course began with an introduction on photographers becoming an equipment junkie. Every photographer will become addicted to buying equipment they don&apos;t use or need. We then covered all the types of photos that exist. There&apos;s not that many. Once you learn what they are, you will know more than almost every photographer. You had one shot at each type of photograph. It didn&apos;t have to be good, but you had to understand what you were doing. The camera wasn&apos;t an actual toy, that just what they are called. We took out the plastic lens and put in the glass lens. That was it. We took the photos. We had to explain what we were doing. Did that, you could move on. Later, he said, equipment matters, but you could go broke, buy shit you don&apos;t need.

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  @photography_jsk · 1 year ago

  For $40 (or $32, thanks to today&apos;s lightning deal), it&apos;s a fun camera worth a flyer on it. At its original price of $120, or even $99, it&apos;s a scamera.

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  @fidhammer · 1 year ago

  I wish I still had my grandmother&apos;s old Rolleiflex camera. Now at 49 im find interest in photography

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  @fromia1 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmEvo8F8a34&amp;t=53">0:53</a> I was 99% sure you actually bought a pencil sharpener, and that&apos;s the lever you turn once you stick in a pencil 😂

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  @GRIZZLYSGEAR · 10 months ago

  The reason the videos are muted when you use the spinning handle is to replicate old school silent films made with spinner cameras, this is also a good thing as the noise from the spinning mechanism would suck when watching them back...

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  @Jimmy-d2q9b · 1 year ago

  It is advertised as a toy camera so I wouldn&apos;t call it a scamera, since it doesn&apos;t &quot;scam&quot; people to think it as a proper camera. It was sold in China for around $30, so $40 on Amazon, considering the shipping fee and high tariffs these days, is not a bad price for such a toy.

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  @oOSpecialProskillsOo · 1 year ago

  honestly, about 40 bucks seems alright for a little gizmo to have a couple of days worth of fun with, and after that it looks quite good on a shelf or smth. ive spent more money on more useless things. seems like a cool little gift aswell

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