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In my experience those fuckers made the worst pictures one can imagine ever. I'm not exactly talking about the picture quality by the way even though they take also a prominent part in the results. Just the fact that they were pocketable enough and you didnt need to think about developing costs anymore before the internet became important. Sure, there are enough people these days who lack any decency and whip out there phones. But these little fuckers where sometimes whipped out with the full intend to take a pic of the worst possible sujet one can think of. Some of these pre-facebook pics still haunt us till this day as memes. Some are forgotten. Most of them never made it to the public and hopefully all get taken by bitrot.
I remembered that I have one of these lying around a few years ago and I always found the picture quality fairly servicable, especially for such a light camera. I think its probably not up to modern phone standards but having a lens and optical zoom gives you a lot of options. I will not deny that the photos I have taken are pretty much the worst though xD You can also technically get raw output if you use modded software which is cool
Well most people didn't worry about developing costs. My mom had one for 10 years and complained digital cameras cost just as much as film cameras to operate, to which I replied "huh wut?"
She said she had to buy a new SD card every time.
I'm like "no, once you transfer the photos to your computer you can reuse the cards, where are you cards?"
She replied that she had been throwing them in the garbage. SMH
My memory of photography in high school was, about 1/3 of the girls had one of these little point and shoots in her purse. Like, a girl was more likely to have a camera than a cell phone in those days. And then like, four guys were REALLY into photography and had SLRs with interchangeable lenses and tripods and such.