I'm fairly sure the N64 camera shown isn't disposable - my brother had one back in the 90s. It's just a low end point-and-shoot, but fully reloadable by the end user
@@StephenHoldawayThese focus free reloadables are way more common in Asia where I live so I never quite saw disposable cameras. Got a few of them before finally having this weird duck of a zoom lens Vivitar that has a really long zoom projection at its narrowest focal length. No doubt that made for some humorous moments during high school when I bought that camera though by then I was using a compact digital.
@@Moonstone-Redux lmao, I thought when people have smartphones and all technology then people in asia are smart enough to use them and not some ass disposable cameras
They were not thrown in the trash! Speaking as a former film developer - after being developed, the cameras shells were picked up by a company, refurbished with a new AA cell and repackaged.
@@ぶ乙Kodak makes a regular film camera, the m38, which produces film with the appearance of these wasteful disposables with less actual waste. Of course the camera itself is meant to mimic the look too, so it is also plastic. I dont know why people dont look for more sustainable, cheaper options.
@@JayBoyModzI remember that camera my aunt from my mom's side had this camera back in 2009 it was the same black and yellow Kodak camera you showed in your video.
I had one in my backpack when I went to school sometimes lol. Would take some pictures. Honestly it was more special than today because you only had 'x' # of photos to take so you always tried to make them special.
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I remember getting one of these for Christmas back when I was 7 and I went nuts taking pictures with it. I took pictures of my little brother, my Christmas gifts, pretty much anything I could photograph.
I literally saw a short that looks exactly like this one made by someone completely different. Down to how you got the lens out, fit it for your camera, even the photos kinda looked the same. Crazy
Omg i had a pink one 😮 90s was the friggen best then you'd go to the photo shop to get them all peinted and the photo reels had little cartridges too 😮
Back in the day (late 90's high school) we'd get used ones for drug stores and disassemble them and take out the capacitor for the flash and charge them with the flash button (made a cool sound charging up with a "whine" of electrical current) and then have something you can shock stuff with😅 it would stick to metal instantly soldering it. We didn't go around shocking each other. This one kid had it done he said, "it hurt like hell!!!" 😂 Made his arm all numb for awhile😂. We actually had a dark room with photography class, ah the good ol days😊
Wow, that brings back memories... Hey, which do you figure is worse for the earth: disposable cameras, or thrown out smartphones? Thankfully, people aren't throwing out phones for the latest thing quite as much now.
ngl I might try this as I do Photography and Love to test out effects in old Camera's,like B&W Film, Colour Film, even those Mini Spy-Camera's in Comic book ad's. this is soo much better than buying a new one over and over again just for the lens, thanks for the experiment.
You didnt throw the camera away when you where done with it. The camera had like 30 exposures, you could take 30 pics. Then you took it an dropped it off at photo center like at Wal-Mart or Walgreens to have the pictures developed. The cameras didnt get thrown away they got sent back to the manufacturer an they cleaned em up an sent them back out. Probably tested an reused the lens an internal parts an put it in a new shell with a new roll of film.
I had a nintendo 64 camera it might have came from nintendo power dont remember but what seems to me is the one i had was shaped different with a smaller n64 logo on it
It's fine that you did this mod, these things were and still are cheap and plentiful, but despite the "disposable" name the cameras were actually reused. You dropped off the whole camera for development and they'd pop the film out and ship the rest of it back to the manufacturer to put a new roll in and sell it again. The only waste is the packaging. And you can even do this yourself by just sticking a new roll of film in it. If you want the film look, try shooting actual film! It's fun and easy!
Btw! You can also just use the camera as is! It just needs a new roll of film put inside. The "disposable" Kodak cameras today are all reusable so please let the lab have them / make them refill it for you !
As far as I can remember there were two types of this film point and shoot camera. The one that was disposable which you couldn’t open and was cheaper and the other one which you had access to change a new film and was more expensive.
Actually, that's not generally true. At least the Kodak ones have a little "crown" along the top of the cartridge that works with the film advance. That means that a normal 35mm cartridge won't work if just inserted into the same spot; you'd have to reload the original cartridge
This. You were supposed to give the entire camera back to have the film developed - you couldn't even access the film roll unless you cracked open the case, and the case was not intended to be opened by the user. I mean, you totally could, and I definitely shocked the shit out of myself a few times playing with the flash circuitry. but ideally most people would never be in the position to throw the camera away because otherwise they would never get the flim developed.
Around 2016 I went around and found like 5 undeveloped from 2002-2008 took them and got them developed. Sadly a lot of them were damaged but the photos still were worth keeping. Was awesome seeing new pictures of old family events.
@@caingamin2unfortunately this is a continual problem in which we are passing down to our kids and which is also why every generation say’s exactly what you did ‘prices aint like they used to be’ No, they aint, and never will be, and will continue to rise until we address the issue or leave a catastrophic failure waiting for the future generations And by adressing the issue I don’t just mean ‘lower price’ because to get just a lower price and a stable price over multiple generations we need to change our whole monetary system And I don’t see the fat elites doing that until said catastrophic failure happens when there will be massive revolts and a freeze on the worldwide economy and society as we know it
@@KrulKrulSprietSpriet True though they're not commonplace now. I also miss seeing just about every shop offer photo developing services and also the old type film cartridges. There was a sort of dog bone looking one and I also had a Halina 'disc' with motorised drive. Loved that camera!
I’ll never forget back in 90s when I was about 8 years old and I was really into pulling electrical things apart to see what was inside. Well I was pulling one of those exact Kodak cameras apart when I saw a “danger of high voltage shock” sticker. I scoffed, there is no battery in here I said to myself and about 15 seconds later as I continued pulling the camera apart the flash capacitor discharged into my finger and the shock I got changed my life forever. From that point on I took note of danger stickers, they aren’t lying 😂
Disposable cameras weren’t put in the trash. They were returned, (refurbished when necessary), reloaded and resold. Also they’re not too difficult to reload at home, though for most a toy camera would be an easier alternative.
@@ExpandDong420 the average consumer wouldn't be throwing them away, they'd be dropping it off at a film lab and coming back to pick up the negatives and prints
@@ExpandDong420you would drop off the whole camera at the lab and get photos and negatives back. The lab would extract the film, then throw the camera in a box. When the box was full it was sent for “recycling”. Which I’m guessing meant they were dropped in a shredder so that the metals could be recovered, then the plastic was thrown out. It’s very unlikely they were refurbished, there were too many different manufacturers and models, the logistics of refurbishing would be simply too expensive.
@beefchicken WTH, those disposable cameras were literally made by the manufacturers of the film they came with and the film branding was all over the camera, too! Those cameras were literally made to sell camera film to people who couldn't afford the upfront cost for a proper camera! And their design never changed. There were no complicated or expensive logistics to refurbishing those cameras, just send them back to the manufacturer, they have the correct film since they're the ones making it! 💁
Some of these disposables can be used to source 800 iso color film, which isn't conventionally made for anyone else other than Lomography. Apparently the film isn't the best but it is weird and rare.
Always be careful with these, although not deadly, the capacitor that is charged to quickly ignite the flash for these cameras can deliver quite the shock. I learned this the hard way when trying to make a homemade stun gun as a kid.
It's shocking how easy this is to do apparently. It's so cool that you can take high quality digital photos that have the exact same vibe as disposable cameras.
