The reason for getting excited is that you can get these for $10 each. Walgreens expects that you'll return them to get your pictures "processed", and then they'll turn around and sell the cameras again to somebody else.
$10 for a camera that shoots 1280x1024 plus has a flash certainly isn't bad - but then you're going to rack up the expense of a SmartMedia socket, soldering, the memory card, and optionally, your own soldered USB connection. Even if you figure $40-$50 worth of materials, it's not a bad de
Yeah, I bought one [theverb.com] for my five-year-old, and guess what? It won't work without the chicken-shit software, which is too difficult for a five-year-old (and it doesn't really work right even for an adult). What I want is a sub-$100 camera that acts like a usb drive when my boy connects it to his PC (like my $250 camera does). Then he can drag-and-drop the pictures himself. He doesn't need a fancy LCD, just point-and-shoot plus flash. And no chicken-shit software needed.
I've seen at Best Buy (and I just recently read a review about it, but I don't remember the site) a 64MB MP3 player/1.3 MP digital camera that plugs right into a USB port that sells for $99. It's white and orange.
I've been looking for a cheap digital camera for my 4 year old (who likes to use my $400 one, which makes me nervous). I don't care if the picture is really low resolution, but it needs to work and be less than $100. I haven't gotten one because I've been unable to convince myself that the cameras I've found online would work at all.
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$10 for 1280x1024 pictures (Score:5, Insightful)
$10 for a camera that shoots 1280x1024 plus has a flash certainly isn't bad - but then you're going to rack up the expense of a SmartMedia socket, soldering, the memory card, and optionally, your own soldered USB connection. Even if you figure $40-$50 worth of materials, it's not a bad de
Re:$10 for 1280x1024 pictures (Score:4, Interesting)
They even came with some chicken shit software.
Ooooh Chicken Shit software! (Score:5, Funny)
I can hardly contain my excrement...
Re:Ooooh Chicken Shit software! (Score:5, Informative)
Any cameras that meet these requirements?
Sub $100 digital camera/USB drive (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ooooh Chicken Shit software! (Score:1)
I've been looking to (Score:1)