Notre-Dame with a Disposable Camera

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This is a picture of the Cathedral de Notre Dame de Paris taken with a €12 disposable camera (a tiny Kodak model already loaded with Ultra film and a flash). This photo is intended to demonstrate that you can indeed get a usable picture with a disposable camera, even if it isn’t quite as pretty as a photo taken with a fancier camera.

This was a sunny and pretty day in July, similar to the type of day on which I took my main photo. The photo doesn’t look half bad, as long as you don’t compare it to the main photo, which was taken with a much nicer camera. Given the the 1000-to-1 difference in price for the two cameras (yes, really!), you get a pretty good deal with a disposable.

Photographers among you will notice a number of problems with the photo—problems that are expensive to get rid of (which is why nice cameras and lenses cost so much): poor contrast, poor resolution (the original is really fuzzy, although that's hard to see here), distortion and aberrations, etc. Nevertheless, it makes a nice snapshot.

Photographed on July 29, 2002.