VistaQuest Disposable Digital Camera
A digital camera you can use once and throw away. We get hands-on with the VistaQuest single-use digital camera, look at some of the pics, and then see how it all works
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Single Use Camera Transcript:
For FrequencyCast Show 62, we looked at the VistaQuest Disposable Digital camera. Here's our transcript:
Pete:
So, if you caught our update that we released in the middle of March, we talked about this little device here, didn't we?
Carl:
Oh yes - a lovely plastic camera. A disposable one that was digital.
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Pete:
Let's face it - disposable cameras are normally those lovely things you get at things like weddings and other family events, where you take 30 or 40 photos, take them down to your local film processing company, get the film back a few days later, and there are your photos. Now this is a digital disposable camera, and we touched on it in our update.
Carl:
Yep, we certainly did. To be honest with you, we don't expect quality from this, do we?
Pete:
So we went out and about last week, taking photos with our disposable digital, courtesy of the lovely lads and lasses at AdvancedMP3Players.co.uk. Here go - let's have a look.
Carl:
Good grief! - there's a lot of them. How many was this?
Pete:
We got 39 out of our camera.
Carl:
It was a bit grainy, the indoor one there.
Pete:
Yeah - not great, that one. You see the indoor ones with the flash aren't amazingly good. They're certainly acceptable for what they are, but they're not amazingly good.
Carl:
They do look like wedding snaps - you know, the whole sort of put a camera on the table idea. The outdoor ones, they're looking quite a lot clearer. They represent the image well, and also of course you're not damaging your own camera. I see you out in the rain there.
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Pete:
So that's the advantage of these things is you can take them out and about without running the risk of damaging them, dropping them or losing them. It's only a tenner to gamble, and actually they're not that bad.
Carl:
No, it's very good.
Pete:
But these are disposable.
Carl:
Oh, are they now?
Pete:
And allegedly fully recyclable. We had a message as a result of our little update in March from Andy Smith. He said, just heard your latest update. As disposable digital cameras have been around in the US for some time, there are plenty of entries on Google about how to hack them to turn them into re-usable disposable digital cameras. Did you know that?
Carl:
No, I didn't, but that's probably handy advice for people out there. So you can buy one of these as your permanent camera, by the sounds of it.
Pete:
What we're going to do, out of curiosity, is take a look inside. What do you think? - shall we test it to destruction?
Carl:
Crack the Kinder Egg open.
Pete:
Right.
Carl:
Get it open! Come on, you wimp!
Pete:
Ooh, watch your fingers!
Carl:
Yeah, I didn't want that thumb, didn't want that finger.
Pete:
Did I get you?
Carl:
Yeah, we're doing fine - there's blood everywhere, don't worry. Get a paramedic in, we'll be fine.
Pete:
It doesn't want to come apart. Go on - give it some welly. OK, well done, Carl - your strength is superior to mine. So what we've got is a bit of broken plastic. That's presumably the counter, so that counts your one to 40, a little wheely thing there. And that's the push button mechanism, such as it is. Funnily enough, it doesn't work anymore.
Carl:
And that's a spare bit of metal - well, it is now.
Pete:
That's all right, then. The cleaner will get that later. And it looks like there's two sets of batteries. OK, there's a battery for the flash. There must be three for the flash, and one for the camera operation. A little circuit board with a switch and a large capacitor on it.
Carl:
And an LED there, to tell you it was on. There's a USB port the other side of that there. Oh and look - there's the lens.
Pete:
So there's your lens, and that is presumably your flash memory for storing your photos.
Carl:
Do you think it will still work?
Pete:
Hang on - let's push the charging button. Pass me the charging button - it's over there on the floor!
So there you go - that is, or should I say, was, the VistaQuest single use digital camera. Links to an undestroyed one up on our show notes.
The VistaQuest Disposable Digital Camera is available from AdvancedMP3Players for under £10
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