After increasing its choices to video with the CS-8 inspired by Kodak and Canon’s retro Super 8mm film camerasCamp 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, sooner efficiency, filters out there proper out of the field, and new options making it simpler for youths to make use of.
The Camp Snap 2 is out there beginning as we speak by way of the corporate’s on-line retailer for $69.95, which is similar 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 photographs. The precedence is on ease of use and sharing as an alternative of facilitating any post-processing. If you’d like a extra succesful screenless point-and-shoot, you’ll have to improve to the 16-megapixel Camp Snap Pro.
One of many Professional’s options that has trickled right down to the Camp Snap 2 is extra bundled filters. There are actually six out there by default, together with classic appears and black and white, accessible by way of 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 photographs, though that measurement is now nowhere close to as widespread because it was once.
Different enhancements embody a housing that’s now 15 p.c 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 folks shopping for the Camp Snap 2 as the primary digicam for his or her youngsters, a brand new Camp Lock function disables the built-in filters whereas the reminiscence card door now has a screw making it harder to entry or by accident open.
