This is a Paper Shoot camera. It's what all these photographs have been taken with since March 3. It's a "camera" in the loosest terms. It amounts to a circuit board with exactly one button on it, the "shutter" release. It takes 2 AAA batteries. That big gold circle is suggestive of a lens of substance but it's mostly cake decoration around a pinhole of a camera that's likely been repurposed from a cell phone from 2005. It claims to be 16MP. Maybe it is. The viewfinder is a rectangle cut in the whole mess that doesn't even closely reflect what the camera is taking as a photograph. There are 2 led lights on the back that flash blue if you manage to captures something. No focus. No preview screen. And a micro USB port on the side to plug it in. In theory you can plug it into a computer and treat it like an external drive but, well, that part doesn't work, and as a result, all the photos are taken on January 1, 2000, no matter how many days pass between the first photo and the last photo. There's supposed to be an internal clock but it doesn't work.
It's a very stealthy little thing except for the big gold lens like thing on the front. There's also a crappy little speaker that betrays its stealthyness by making a faux shutter sound with every actuation of the "camera."
I "invested" in the deluxe version which came wrapped in cork and came with two magnetic lenses that stick onto the face of the lens. One is a fisheye, the other simply a wide angle lens. Neither really work that well.
Is it a good camera? Nope. It's junk. Was it amusing and fun to walk around with for almost 2 weeks? Sure. Why not? I never know what I was taking photos of. The compositions were guesses at the best of time. It was entertaining... for a while.
That said, the experiment is over for now. Maybe forever.
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