New products from Ilford

These are popular, especially at weddings. Our problem in our county is that there is no place within 60 miles that you can drop off one of these for processing, so they will have to be mailed somewhere. Of course, there is also nowhere here that sells them. Walmart in our town doesn't sale film or disposable cameras, or even have a film drop anymore. Only those Kiosks for digital prints from memory cards.
 
newsgrunt said:
please make them recycleable or else this is a fail imo.
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They all ARE recycable, and indeed re-usable (if you know how, you can even reload them at home).

I do hope Ilford supply the true black and white ones with film removal instructions and a free return mailer envelope to reduce waste - while C41 will generally be handed off to a lab that does recycle, the majority of these will end up DIY developed, and home darkroom users mostly will not know how do extract the film without damage, nor where to dispose of the camera.
 
That's good to know, I've only ever used one of those underwater disposables and that was eons ago ;) Reloading would be cool, guess you have to crack the case very carefully...
 
It makes good sense. Give someone a taste of black and white and they may just move on to a proper non disposable camera. Lord knows ebay is awash with such bargains at a silly price. My other half is thrilled with the little cameras I have bought for her and she now loves film. I get the joy of scanning it for her !!
 
Konica made a sepia tone one use camera back in the 90s, which I kind of wished they had exported. This might be fun in the same way. People just looking for an "old timey" look who don't own a film camera or know how to develop/print.
 
jsrockit said:
I've used the Rollei ones... and they worked pretty well.

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I got my hands on one of those. Reloaded it with some regular film. Worked very fine ;)
 
Why not? If it sells, then I say go for it. I still buy the Kodak disposables occasionally for my son. He loves them.
 
The only problem I see is the drying up of local C-41 processing. Here the local Costco discontinued it 2 months ago. Don't know whether the 'instant gratification' generation will put up with the delay between the click and the print. Hope they do. Actually viewing a photograph as a physical print will be a whole new experience for some teenagers.
 
Hmm, could be a nice wedding take away.. "take a **** load of photos and i'll develop them"
 
I imagine the educational market would consume 'disposable' b&w cameras for intro photo courses (well, the few that actually involve a darkroom).
 
Sorry, haven't noticed them at weddings for quite sometime.

And where would the average person get B&W film developed and printed? Perhaps the film that can be souped with color chemicals.

See smart phones being used quite a lot at weddings now. Rarely does anyone use film anymore.

Well, lets see, perhaps people residing in others parts of the world will use them.
 
As other mentioned, this is not exactly a new idea for ilford, they'v had hp5 disposable cameras in the past. But it's been awhile, and I find people still ask me about them once in a while even though they've been out of production for quite a while.
Add all the lomo types to the mix, and I don't think they'll have any problems selling these.

-Brian
 
Tangential question - is it easy to get the film out of these?

My kid asked me to develop the film in her disposable camera, just yesterday .

She is intimidated by a "real" camera , and at this point prefers disposables and her plastic lomo unit.

Randy
 
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