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First video received from surface of Titan.

Actually, some of these points are not in the articles, and (not surprisingly) seem to be causing some confusion based on some of the comments I have seen above.

1) The cameras are purchased, just like any ordinary (non-digital) disposable camera. There is no rental agreement, nothing to sign, no deposit, etc. Some previous comments have asked about this. Also, the camera IS cheap; the hardware itself costs probably no more than $25-50 to manufacture, and likely pay for themselves in 1 or 2 processings. The big draw is that you can use them in potentially hazardous environments, and if it gets destroyed or stolen, this only sets you back $11 + a few minutes to solder a new connector into a new camera.

2) The batteries are changeable by the user - they are ordinary AA alkalines. They will last much longer than 1 25-picture cycle (I haven't yet managed to exhaust a set), but when they do run down, just open the battery cover and pop in fresh ones.

3) The sensor is actually 1.3 megapixels, not 2MP as claimed on the package.

4) The picture quality is mediocre - but not nearly as bad as these samples would have you believe (I don't know what happened to that guy's cam). Try the samples here and here (middle of page) for other samples. The biggest problem seems to be motion blurs from not holding the camera steady enough (the "shutter speed" is pretty slow). The other problem is that the lens is adjusted to be in-focus at some specific point probably between 4-12 feet from the camera. In practice, your subject will usually not be exactly at the in-focus distance. While you've got the camera open to solder in a little USB socket (or whatever), you can rotate the lens to adjust it for other distances, up to within an inch of the lens.

5) Concerns that this hack will be singlehandedly responsible for driving the cameras off the market, driving Ritz out of business, etc., seem largely unfounded. They will probably go off the market anyway - last time I was in Wolf Camera, the sales associates were actually warning people away from these cameras, saying that they would get slightly better image quality from the film disposables (for less $$, and 27 vs. 25 pictures - it's a no-brainer, come to think of it...)

Found this on a messageboard... Camera autopsy / dissection

Calm down have a look at the samples what is the point in disposable digital cameras that take pictures like these?

1. The camera itself is shit. Take a look at these stunning examples of just how terrible the image quality is. It uses a CMOS sensor (not a CCD) and a hella-cheap fixed-at-infinity plastic lens.
2. It's a 1.3 megapixel sensor scaling up to 2 megapixels, as though the image weren't bad enough already.
3. The busniess model is not necessarily fundamentally broken just because a bunch of unwashed /. hackers buy these $10 cameras and never return them. Most dickhead consumers are lemmings, and they do what they're supposed to do. If those consumers wish their single-use cameras were digital so they could share their photos with their Internet pals, which is ostensibly one of the reasons to make this camera in the first place, then I expect that people will do just that if the price is right. That's the factor that could kill this product, not a bunch of freakish /.ers cutting up USB cables.

1. The camera itself is shit. Take a look at these stunning examples of just how terrible the image quality is. It uses a CMOS sensor (not a CCD) and a hella-cheap fixed-at-infinity plastic lens.
2. It's a 1.3 megapixel sensor scaling up to 2 megapixels, as though the image weren't bad enough already.
3. The busniess model is not necessarily fundamentally broken just because a bunch of unwashed /. hackers buy these $10 cameras and never return them. Most dickhead consumers are lemmings, and they do what they're supposed to do. If those consumers wish their single-use cameras were digital so they could share their photos with their Internet pals, which is ostensibly one of the reasons to make this camera in the first place, then I expect that people will do just that if the price is right. That's the factor that could kill this product, not a bunch of freakish /.ers cutting up USB cables.

1. The camera itself is shit. Take a look at these stunning examples of just how terrible the image quality is. It uses a CMOS sensor (not a CCD) and a hella-cheap fixed-at-infinity plastic lens.
2. It's a 1.3 megapixel sensor scaling up to 2 megapixels, as though the image weren't bad enough already.
3. The busniess model is not necessarily fundamentally broken just because a bunch of unwashed /. hackers buy these $10 cameras and never return them. Most dickhead consumers are lemmings, and they do what they're supposed to do. If those consumers wish their single-use cameras were digital so they could share their photos with their Internet pals, which is ostensibly one of the reasons to make this camera in the first place, then I expect that people will do just that if the price is right. That's the factor that could kill this product, not a bunch of freakish /.ers cutting up USB cables.

if it was a 3 or 4 mp camera i'd be willing to expend the effort to do this, but it's only 1.3mp... check out these crappy pictures! I'm not minimizing the hard work it took for the people to get the camera working, but my time is worth more to me than the lousy pictures i can get from this camera.

This business-model deserves to die a painful, CueCat-style death.