Camera and Toy Rolled Into One

One day I was sitting around doing nothing, and a couple beers later I drifted over to my camera cabinet. I had this fun idea that it might be kinda cool to shoot a month's worth of pictures using the cheesy little Vtech digital camera I had on display there. I couldn't remember much about it, but I knew it took really grainy pictures and I thought I might be able to use the grain in my favor.

I took it out and put some batteries in it. It was grainy all right. Holy crap! It was bordering on what it might look like for someone to make pictures using colored sand. But so far, so good. Like I said, I expected grain. But then I looked at a couple of them on the computer and realized the pictures were only a tiny 480x640 in resolution. That's small. Especially when you view it next to today's smartphones!

Needless to say, I opened the camera up, took the batteries out, and placed it back up in my display cabinet. I think it's put to better use just sitting there among my other bookmarks of photography history.