The power an glory of the nerfcam

[mbarrick]

What happens when a bunch of punks, SCA-types, gamers, goths, Vancouver Club employees, and sundry others gather on the first full day of summer to share meat? I brought along my aging "nerfcam" as it was dubbed last night - a.k.a "the bat cam" - my first digital camera, a now venerable JamC@m2...

Accidentally snapping photos while marvelling at the nerfness of it all...

Accidentally taking pictures while throwing the camera

The hostess

Taken with the camera disassembled - just a circut bard with a battery hanging off it, how cyber!

Nothing like a good arms-length self portrait

Hanging out, having fun.

"Good times'

And the piece de resistance, 1055 x 210 pixels of toy camera glory, The Nerfcam Panorama:

Comments

[heythats-mybike.livejournal.com]

where did you get this nerfcam?

Radio Shack

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

My exact model is not on the market anymore - it has been superceded by the JamC@m3. As digital cameras go they are cheap like borscht and virtually indestructable *but* there is next to no memory in them, the colour sucks, the resolution sucks, and while the version 3 has a flash, mine (v.2) does not and is useless in anything but daylight.

Re: Radio Shack

[heythats-mybike.livejournal.com]

hmm well it still sounds like fun! right now I have a Kodak DX3900 which is pretty good, 3.1 megapixels, can take up to 70 pics. I am always looking for different types of cameras though and that one you have just seemed interesting.

Re: Radio Shack

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It has its place. Short of running it over or dropping it in a bucket of water it's pretty indestructable (one circut board, no moving parts). I don't worry about it breaking. We were litterally tossing in back and forth at one point. I would *never* do that with my "real" cameras.

Re: Radio Shack

[heythats-mybike.livejournal.com]

I may have to check it out, cause I'm looking for something that I can just throw around and not be paranoid about breaking.

I miss poloroid cameras, and not those stupid joy cams or whathaveyou...

how awesome!

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i am truly most envious- looks like a good time was had by all... :}

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

hey what happened to ET???

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I took that with the good camera. I haven't downloaded them yet.

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like every single one of you managed to leave by the time I made my late arrival. Sorry to have missed you all!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

We had a whistle-punk stationed on the corner to warn us of your arrival and all bid a hasty retreat when he sounded the alarm :-p