Joanna HolmanTip for Aussie photographers: the Kmart photo printing kiosks do fun formats. These were $0.25 each for instant, cheaper if you’re willing to wait
I also acquired from the Kmart photo section but haven’t tried yet the smallest and cheapest digital camera I’ve ever seen. It was $19, included a microSD card and for scale I’m holding it up against a standard size business card
Took the Kmart very very tiny very very cheap digital camera out for a test and these are some of the better images I got. Photos are about 2MP, haven’t checked the video filming quality. I was shooting in the lower overcast light basic digital cameras tend to struggle with so may well get better results in full sunlight. It doesn’t cope with very closeup shots.
Obviously you’d never use this as your main camera to capture anything of importance but if you want to experience shooting with the aesthetics of early camera flip phones or test your ability to take interesting shots with the most basic of gear, this is a fun purchase
The tiny camera I brought has the most creative way of changing settings I’ve seen in a gadget
I shudder to think what turn of events made this necessary. Did someone have a profound misunderstanding of how cameras work?
Damien (TIG BUSINESS)@joannaholman just generic CYA notification i'd guess
MyViewOr think they could bypass Musk's implant with a DIY ...
Preston von Gabbleduck@joannaholman That's wild, but kinda geekily cute.
leighelse{}@joannaholman I have seen much worse. It's better than any phone camera I had before 2015, anyway.
AJ Sadauskas@leighelse @joannaholman So just out of curiousity, I just had a bit of a play around with fine-tuning some of the colour settings on those photos. (Hope you don't mind!)
If you're willing to do a little bit of fine-tuning on the contrast and saturation, the results are not that bad!
If you're willing to do a little bit of fine-tuning on the contrast and saturation, the results are not that bad!
@aj no problems with you playing with them! Definitely possible to get some decent results for such a ridiculously tiny camera with some tweaking and careful composition
ChiaChatter@joannaholman Those are surprising good for a little camera such as that at 2MP!! Are those red flowers fairly true to color?
@ChiaChatter should have thought to take comparison shots with something else. they’re probably a little brighter but the flower colour is not egregiously off
The photos in my pre mobile phone days were all done with a small Kodak 110 pocket camera. Still have it somewhere... and the colour on the processed photos has lasted better than those taken with the only digital camera I had over 30 years later ...
No idea what the processing is like now as I don't bother getting them developed professionally, have thousands of them so just print off a few. Wonder how the colour will last on them ... not well I imagine :)
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@joannaholman I was hoping the yank tank had run aground on the speed hump.
@anne_twain we have some brutal speed bumps around here. That car is so low they’ll get themselves in trouble sooner or later
Barry@joannaholman My first thought when I saw it was that it could prove quite useful if you are a spy. Can you confirm?
@NZBarry Maybe? It is extremely small but it does make a shutter sound when taking photos and may not get you the level of detail you'd need in such circumstances
Snowgaze ❄️
@joannaholman does it work?!!! How are the results like?
@snowgaze didn’t get a chance to test it tonight, looking forward to trying it in the next few days
@snowgaze the results from the Kmart mini camera
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Attached: 3 images Took the Kmart very very tiny very very cheap digital camera out for a test and these are some of the better images I got. Photos are about 2MP, haven’t checked the video filming quality. I was shooting in the lower overcast light basic digital cameras tend to struggle with so may well get better results in full sunlight. It doesn’t cope with very closeup shots. Obviously you’d never use this as your main camera to capture anything of importance but if you want to experience shooting with the aesthetics of early camera flip phones or test your ability to take interesting shots with the most basic of gear, this is a fun purchase
@joannaholman thanks, I was curious! It's not bad - my daughter loves to pick up my very old digital camera and use them for a "vintage look", I was wondering if the result would be comparable - I think that one is performs a little under my 20+ yo canon, but It's so tiny it's probably super fun to use
@snowgaze there’s also a fun element of surprise. It does have a teeny digital display but you don’t know if your images are any good until you get back to your computer
@joannaholman that is so beautiful!!!
isolI used that format at Kmart for a non-photography project - I was restoring an old dial gauge, and was stuck on how to restore the face.
Then I thought I could make an image and print it at Kmart. That would be far better than anything I could do by hand, or print at home.
Worked really well, and like you said, amazingly cheap!
peter renshawnoice, I want to try this.