The screenless Camp Snap 2 is slimmer and comes with extra filters

After increasing its choices to video with the CS-8 impressed by Kodak and Canon’s retro Super 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 digital camera that updates the unique with a slimmer design, sooner 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 at present via the corporate’s on-line retailer for $69.95, which is similar worth as the unique. Color 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 digital camera 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 digital camera solely captures JPEG photographs. The precedence is on ease of use and sharing as a substitute of facilitating any post-processing. If you desire a extra succesful screenless point-and-shoot, you’ll have to improve to the 16-megapixel Camp Snap Pro.

One of the Pro’s options that has trickled right down to the Camp Snap 2 is extra bundled filters. There are actually six accessible by default, together with classic seems to be 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 photographs, though that dimension is now nowhere close to as widespread because it was.

Other 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 digital camera as quickly as you press the shutter button. For mother and father shopping for the Camp Snap 2 as the primary digital camera 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.