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Old 04-29-2008, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr.Intensity View Post
...I was looking for a how-to piece I got on; How to rig a cable and upload your pics and reuse the camera- which suggested to me that they were digital, but besides that; what if they are film cameras, can they still be 35mm? and if so why aren't they the same quality as SLR 35's?
Most of these disposable cameras (Fuji, Kodak, etc.) are 35mm. But they are not SLR's. They only have a fixed lens which is sometimes not even glass but plastic. Moreover they don't have any focusing mechanism. So they are limited in their DOF etc. Therefore they never can be as good as a dedicated SLR. That's why they are as cheap as they are.
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