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Bodger product.
£65 is my sort of price for a camera. A couple of years ago I spent £69.95 on a Canon Powershot A1200.
So, I know that for this amount of money I should be able to expect a large LCD screen, a zoom lens, auto-focus and all sorts of fancy features.
My new camera will have none of this - no LCD screen, a fixed focal length and fixed focus lens, just two buttons and a couple of LEDs to help operate it.
It's Greg Dash's Lofi-Fisheye camera which has been launched through Indiegogo - which means that my calling it an "investment" is technically accurate. I and the other investors have paid our money up front to enable Greg to go away and get his camera design manufactured - and, hopefully, by around the end of June he will have 1,000 cameras to send out to those of us who have risked our money on his venture. So, what's the attraction of this camera?
Normally when I buy a camera I end up wishing it had a wider angle lens, to fit in those extra people, or that massive building or just a wide landscape and that full-arc rainbow. My current solution is to use the Hugin Panorama stitching software to merge a number of separate photographs together. But that doesn't always work - people move (and can appear twice in the resulting panorama or just distorted into an impossible to achieve posture), and Hugin struggles with atmospheric features like rainbows and clouds.
I'm also looking forward to the promised time-lapse photography features of Greg's camera. Will it work?
I'll let you know.
