Disposable Cameras - Use them and then dispose them.
Reached your vacation spot and you realize you forget your camera home? No worries; thanks to Kodak and Fuji Film who invented the disposable camera. Now you get to capture all the special moments while on vacation. Disposable camera (as the name is self-explanatory) is a single-use camera. More often than not you will find on tourist destinations a stall that sells such cameras at affordable prices. If you have a passion for underwater photography you can also buy one of those weatherproof disposable cameras.
A disposable camera is a simple box camera sold with a roll of film (135 film or APS cartridge) installed. Most cameras come with an integrated flash unit and generally use focus free lenses. Nowadays many disposable cameras come with an actual cartridge, the kind you would see in any standard (read reusable) camera. While many others have the film already installed, which is internally wound over a spool. When you are done taking pictures, the entire disposable camera is given for processing, which, is unlike reusable cameras where you would just hand over the camera roll.
Wide scale popularity of these reliable & cheap disposable cameras led to the invention of disposable digital cameras too. A disposable digital camera does not use any film; it uses the digital technology to take pictures instead. Again the whole camera is handed in for processing. The digital disposable cameras are available in some markets but they have not gained wide scale popularity due to the expense of the process & poor quality of image (as compared to any standard digital camera).
The increasing competition in this field today has made disposable cameras cheap. Nevertheless, it has also led to various enhancements in technology. You would find it interesting to know that few disposable cameras come with a manual zoom facility today. The feature works by shifting two lenses in front of the shutter.
Some teenagers today are finding dangerous has made ways to use their cheap disposable cameras into stun gun. Actually these disposable cameras have a capacitor capable of storing up to 700 volts of stopping power. Converting the disposable camera into stun gun is child's play. Nevertheless, the shock produced can be lethal sometimes; therefore it is advisable not to try something like that.
The disposal cameras come really handy and can definitely help you bring back home memories of your vacation, but you may need to compromise a bit on picture quality.