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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I love the idea, just...the lack of details and specifications really makes me nervous, especially as I'm less than enamored by Indiegogo to begin with (mostly because they take your money the moment you pledge, vs Kickstarter and the Amazon Payments that takes the money at the conclusion of the campaign (if successful.))

What I didn't see on the page was anticipated battery life (standby and how many pictures you can expect to take...), format of pictures, anticipated pixel sizes, etc. I also don't think he's given much thought about how he'd deliver 1,000 packages much less 5,000 packages.

I'm all for supporting inventors, and this project fills a void that really does need to be filled. But I really think he needs to collaborate with someone else...

The biggest bell and whistle I see missing from this project: Bluetooth 4.0 - view pictures on a smart phone as they are taken, change ASA settings, monitor battery power. That right there would double the functionality with very little additional hardware cost.

An inductive charging circuit would also help; strap on an external battery pack to the back of the camera and the film pod picks up the energy and charges the internal battery.

15 posted on 08/16/2013 10:10:23 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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“What I didn’t see on the page was anticipated battery life...”

Maybe they can repurpose the camera body’s lever that advances the film. Place a mini generator in the right side of the cartridge. To generate some juice, the user just needs to crank that lever a few times, which spins the mini generator in the cartridge.


19 posted on 08/16/2013 10:34:17 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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