GH Institute Tests: Disposable Digital Cameras
Click-and-toss cameras, yes, but disposable digital cameras? Now manufacturers are introducing what they call "single use" digital cameras at a price of about $11 each. What's the benefit? They surprisingly marry the ease of use of a disposable camera with the technology of a digital.
The Good Housekeeping Institute engineers tested two new "disposable digitals" -- the Dakota Digital and Kodak Plus Digital. Although only the Dakota records images electronically (and lets you delete the last shot like a regular digital camera), at press time it didn't include an LCD screen for previewing pictures, like many conventional digital cameras. Also, you can't download photos straight to the computer: You must take the camera to a photo store, where it'll cost you as much as $16 more for processing (you get color prints and a photo CD).
The manufacturer's response: "Good Housekeeping tested the first-generation Dakota Digital camera.... An LCD for picture viewing [is] due out later this year."
Of the two toss-away cameras tested, Good Housekeeping prefers the image quality and true-to-life colors created by the Kodak Plus Digital. Bear in mind, though, that this camera actually uses 35-millimeter film; "digital" refers only to the disk with your images that you receive when you get the processed film back.
GHI advice: If you plan to take lots of pictures, save up for a high-quality conventional digital camera instead.
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