Re: One-use cameras

**"Christopher P. Lindsey" t*@spamfodder.com**

> With the increased security measures at the airports now being reported, I'm
> debating if I want to bother taking my camera to the GWA symposium.  I'd
> like to have SOME photos, though, and was wondering if the one-use cameras
> would take good enough photos.  For that matter, how much difference is
> there in brands?  Does anyone have any experience with these cameras?  I
> don't know if I'd use any of the photos for publication or not.

Hi Lon,

I used a Kodak disposable camera on my recent backpacking trek through
the Smoky amounts.  My overall impression?  It sucks.  :)

I'm sure the film is fine, but lens is so low quality that all of the
pictures look slightly out of focus.  I can tell who people are, but
it doesn't have anything near the crispness that I'm used to with my
Velvia film.

In fact, on the first half of the trip I carried my Nikon N90s with
a general 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5d zoom lens and those photos were fantastic.
Of course, I wish I'd had my flash, but who wants to carry all of that
stuff up a mountain?  I'm no Ansel Adams.

Anyhow, I've decided that if I'm ever in a position where I don't want
bring 'the big guns' that I'll just go buy a $200 35mm camera and
use that instead.  Those pictures are much better, the cameras are
lighter, and if I break it, I'm not out oodles of money.  

I talked to the guy at the film lab, and he said that they're all pretty
much the same.  My advice?  The disposable ones aren't even worth looking 
at.  

Chris

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