That being said, I'm sure there is or will be a competing system in which they just give you the CD-rom scanned in from the developed negative of a disposable camera.
They've been doing that for some time. It's an option you check on the developing envelope. Some places now just do it and charge you an extra $1 or so that you didn't notice. There is one that is actually marketed that way and does say "digital" on it -- I saw it at Target, but don't recall the manufacturer.
Crappy lens quality aside, given a choice between a single-use film vs digital camera, I'd choose film every time.
1) The digital has no preview screen so it's just as much of a guess as with film.
2) With film I get negatives which I can blow up to larger sizes than I can with 2 megapixels.
3) I can always get my film photos on CD or scan them in at higher resolution.
All that these digital single-use cameras are good for are reduced processing costs to the vendor and maybe a faster turn-around time for the user (if you only wait ~10 minutes for your CD).
"I have encountered the opposite problem. Professors who say "information gotten off the internet is less good than information in books"
and therefore, my printout of a Supreme Court opinion (from the Supreme Court Website, mind you) got me docked, because this source would have been better gotten from the library reference series that contains these things."
I'm going to give the Prof the benefit of the doubt and venture that the problem wasn't where/how you saw the material, but rather how you cited it.
Professors prefer you to use sources that are repeatable and web URLs and many web published articles change or go away and can't be referenced later.
But items such as acts of Congress and Supreme Court rulings have specific, persistent citations that you could have used with nary a blink from your prof. Just take some time to find out the proper way to do it and you won't lose points in the future.
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1) The digital has no preview screen so it's just as much of a guess as with film.
2) With film I get negatives which I can blow up to larger sizes than I can with 2 megapixels.
3) I can always get my film photos on CD or scan them in at higher resolution.
All that these digital single-use cameras are good for are reduced processing costs to the vendor and maybe a faster turn-around time for the user (if you only wait ~10 minutes for your CD).
I'm going to give the Prof the benefit of the doubt and venture that the problem wasn't where/how you saw the material, but rather how you cited it.
Professors prefer you to use sources that are repeatable and web URLs and many web published articles change or go away and can't be referenced later.
But items such as acts of Congress and Supreme Court rulings have specific, persistent citations that you could have used with nary a blink from your prof. Just take some time to find out the proper way to do it and you won't lose points in the future.