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Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived
damiangerous writes "American chain Ritz camera has begun offering disposable digital cameras for $10.99. The price includes 4x6" prints and a Photo CD of the camera's 25 photo memory. Pictures can be deleted, but there's no LCD."
They might take the thing apart when you send it in, remove the chips, put them in some other system to read them,
That is, by far, the stupidest thing I have ever heard from someone who pretends to have a clue. Do you realize that part time $5.25/hour photo lab employees cannot do shit like pulling out sensitive electronics? Fuck, these people often manage to break something as simple as a copy machine. Do you realize how much it would cost to even have to take apart the cameras? Obviously, the store would want to process the pictures as quickly as possible, so it's almost certain that the camera has an external connector that hooks up to an automated system (most likely a standard PC with custom software and a special printer attached) to retrieve the pics and reset the camera (and probably recharge the batteries).