Ride Lugged

so i recently splurged and bought two 9 dollar aiptek cameras. i’m gunna take them out for thier first ride today, but here are some shots i took just strolling to the post office. they have odd color, but it is a super overcast day, and they have no adjustments for anything. the smaller cam is not much larger than your middle and index finger combined. the bigger one would be good for meatier hands. it would say its the size of a 1/3 used tube of tom’s toothpaste. both cams take 40 ‘high resolution pics’ @ 1.3 megapixels, or 160 at some lesser resolution. i think you basically get crappier color and more bleeding between forms at the lower res. they are powered off aaa batteries, so you can bring spares, and they weigh nothing. ok anyway, to the pics:

above pic is low res. you can see some of the color is wonky.

this pic is high res. there is a manual focus guestimator thing you can do macro shots with. this is that.

low res pic. you can see the lack of definition in the bush.

indoor night shots. interestingly grainy.

moral of story thus far: cheap cameras arnt as bad as they should be, considering the price. pluses over ’spensive cameras: um cheap, so if you take it mtn biking, or whatevering, and you drop it @ high speed or in a puddle, you dont cry about it. sometimes its nice to take photos that arnt the best, and not worry about it. also, the small size of the pics makes them ideal for uploading to a blog. no resizing nessesary.

why did i buy it if i already had a decent fuji? the fuji was heavy and not condusive to wool jersey pocket storage. this is. UPDATE: IF YOU TAKE THESE PHOTOS INTO PHOTOSHOP AND SAVE THEM, THEY CAN BE UPLOADED INTO IFOTO.