Disposable cameras and camp?

[Maxlee]

Sleepaway camp suggests sending disposable cameras - does anyone still use these? Do places still develop them? For those who's kids have been to camp should I send? Any alternatives or general camp suggesyions appreciated as this is our first time!

[KrisM]

You can buy them at Walgreen's and they send them out to develop the photos. For 5th grade camp (3 days), I decided to send one of our older digital cameras instead. I think it's about 7 years old and 3MP or so. Not a big loss if it got lost or broken, but a bigger chance of her taking good pictures on it, since she is used to digital and looking at the screen rather than through a viewfinder. She did not bring it on the canoe and she did have Ziploc bag to put it in for rain.

[lizzywednesday]

Whatever you send (disposable or digital), stick an address label on it - just in case!

[Maxlee]

Camp had no electronics policy - wonder if they will
allow digital cameras

[doberbrat]

there was another thread about this earlier in the summer. I sent an older digital camera I got at a yard sale for $10. Wrote her name & phone# on it in sharpie. The pics werent the best but I figure they're about on par as a disposable camera would have been and she was able to get some videos as well.

[boogiemom]

I send one with each of my boys. Bought a 2-pack on Amazon. Walgreens will still develop them. My boys take goofy photos that mean nothing to me but each photo signifies a memory for them. They love them.


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[rlu]

We were able to get prints from negatives done in-house at our local CVS. Check around.

DS did not take cameras to overnight camps so can't speak to that.

[hbridge]

We purchase and get them developed at CVS (they do have to send them out to develop them). DC LOVES taking them to camp!