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Story: Disposable digital camera hits US stores

Posted by: David Wright (Friday 20 August 2004, 2:08 PM)

Erm, why?

Surely the whole point of a digital camera is that is is re-usable and doesn't involve any lab in processing your pictures. You load them straight onto the computer, keep the ones you want, delete the ones you don't and e-mail them to friends.

If you really want a print of 1 or 2 pictures, you send the image to an online processing firm...

I can't see the point in paying for a "disposable" digital camera I use once, then have to pay to get my pictures as well...

OK, the disposable fun cameras can be useful somewhere where a decent camera could get stolen or destroyed (lads/lasses nights out, go-karting or something where you are in and out of the karts and your camera gets left unattended). But having to take the digital camera to a chemist to get the pictures printed and burned onto CD IMHO defeats the whole point of a digital camera...