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The image quality might be absolutely terrible, but one advantage to dropping just USD$18 on a low-low-end digital camera like the Vivitar V25 is that you can dissect it without feeling guilty. The Kahn Academy certainly didn’t shed a tear over the demise of this V25. Instead, they used its death as a golden opportunity to explain how a digital camera works, and how a cheap model manages to be so affordable.
Spoiler—it’s because they suck.
The video explains how manufacturers of bargain basement cameras cut corners and make sacrifices to features and functionality for a rock-bottom price tag. Of course, if you’ve ever seen an image from one of these cameras you’ll understand where most of the corners have been cut, but the technical explanation is still fascinating. [YouTube: Part 1 & Part 2 via PetaPixel]
PLASTIC EVERYTHING!
It’s a LCD display you fool! LED displays are massive and used as billboards. The layers in the LCD do NOT “help conduct the backlight, er, er, the light behind the LED display and then the display itself has the LEDs mounted in it and they light up different colours and they’re illuminated by their, er, by the, er…”
Half of what this twonk says is pure crap! He just likes to take things apart and guess. Lots.
“This video is private”