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Sometimes snatch these for $10 at the thrift.
- Usually take modern memory cards, at worst with an adapter
- Actual focus mechanism vs. fake digital zoom
- Small loss if you drop it in the swamp, get it soaked, otherwise ruin it
- Almost all employ high quality gears and lenses and such
- Generally take a pair of AAs. (Maybe stay off the units with proprietary batteries.)
- Resolution is plenty fine for most use cases. Your pic is getting down-scaled when you share it. We’re dressing up and taking 1-year anniversary wedding pics because all we have is shit that was downgraded by being passed around.
tl;dr: I’d buy the one pictured in a second.
Point and shoot like this is still around, I own a modern Sony one. It fits in my pocket for travel and replaces my huge Canon DSLR and Sigma lens that I have in storage while I’m moving to another state.
The little camera is very practical and can zoom 100x more than my phone and has image stability that blows my mind at its 4k video at full zoom handheld shots.
7MP … money bags over here
My first point-and-shoot camera was a 2MP Fujifilm that I paid about $300 for.
Your friendly reminder that the Mars rover main cameras are only 2MP. They probably have better quality sensors though.
My first digital camera was a 1.3 MP generic no-name with a fixed-focus lens. But I was like 12 and my parents weren’t about to drop hundreds on me. Plus it was the year 2000, so anything over a megapixel was amazing.
My camera before that was a Game Boy Camera. It was so bad that you could only really take selfies with it. Anything else was unrecognizable 8-bit pixel-puke. Plus the cartridge held less than 30 pictures and the prints faded within a couple of years, making it impossible to preserve any shots you took with it.
