Digital Cameras Go Disposable

iforgotmyfirstlogon writes: "Three Japanese companies are trying to make money off "disposable" digital cameras. You pay for using the camera, take it back to the store to get your pictures, and they recycle the camera so someone else can use it CNN story here. I think it's just a matter of (little) time before hordes of enterprising geeks figure out how to get the pics out and reuse it without paying the fee, or simply gut the camera for parts. Can't see how they'll make money..." And at $16 for .3 megapixels, this sounds like more of a novelty than a bargain, considering that 4-megapixel cameras are available now for less than a thousand dollars.

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Well you'll have to excuse the poor ones Tim...

[Telek]

And at $16 for .3 megapixels, this sounds like more of a novelty than a bargain, considering that 4-megapixel cameras are available now for less than a thousand dollars.

$1000 vs $16

I see a big bargain! Not everyone has deep pockets, not everyone can afford a digital camera. Some one wants to go on vacation for a week, snap up 3 dozen pictures (because they still take pictures like they would on film, not like us geeks who have had digital cameras for ages and take 100+ on any given night because, hey, it's free!), come back home and bam they have them all wonderfully on their computer, send them to all their friends, etc, etc, etc.

And I'm sure that the pixel range will increase with time, just give it a little to prove itself (or fail) as a buisiness model and then you'll see the bigger ones coming down too.

Oh wait, you can already rent digital cameras, and the big boys too, for not too expensive. One of my friends went on vacation for 10 days (I think he paid about $70), brought an old laptop and took well over 800 pictures at 3.1MP 1.2MB each. Damn. I'll just stick to my 2.1MP for now =(

foolish thinking

[Evil MarNuke]

I pity the fool that think for one second this might work.

Re:Japan... where *everybody* orders off the menu

[Rogerborg]

Allow me a measured retort: you're a fuckwit. I'd clarify, but I'm sure you'd delight in picking holes in the semantics of any expounded argument, while ignoring the clear veracity of it.