After increasing its choices to video with the CS-8 impressed by Kodak and Canon’s retro Tremendous 8mm movie cameras, Camp Snap is returning to its roots. The Camp Snap 2 is a sequel to the corporate’s first screenless digital point-and-shoot digicam that updates the unique with a slimmer design, quicker efficiency, filters accessible proper out of the field, and new options making it simpler for teenagers to make use of.
The Camp Snap 2 is out there beginning immediately via the corporate’s on-line retailer for $69.95, which is identical worth as the unique. Colour choices being carried ahead embody stealth black, chestnut brown, arctic white, forest inexperienced, and sunbeam yellow, however extra interesting are 5 new clear case choices, giving the digicam much more of a retro really feel.
There’s no sensor upgrades for the Camp Snap 2, it’s nonetheless restricted to 8-megapixels, and the digicam solely captures JPEG pictures. The precedence is on ease of use and sharing as an alternative of facilitating any post-processing. If you would like a extra succesful screenless point-and-shoot, you’ll have to improve to the 16-megapixel Camp Snap Professional.
One of many Professional’s options that has trickled right down to the Camp Snap 2 is extra bundled filters. There at the moment are six accessible by default, together with classic appears to be like and black and white, accessible via a devoted button. With the addition of a 30.5mm thread on the lens, you additionally now have the choice of attaching bodily filters to additional improve pictures, though that measurement is now nowhere close to as widespread because it was.
Different enhancements embody a housing that’s now 15 % slimmer than the Camp Snap V1 and a battery-saving sleep mode that wakes the digicam as quickly as you press the shutter button. For fogeys shopping for the Camp Snap 2 as the primary digicam for his or her children, a brand new Camp Lock characteristic disables the built-in filters whereas the reminiscence card door now has a screw making it harder to entry or by chance open.