# Blind People Should Not Have Digital Camerss

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by changedheart421 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 19-Dec-2007 22:05:50

Hello all. I usually do not post questions but I need an opinion. I really want a new digital camer for christmas. My family though says it is a waste of time because I am totally blind. Well, my thing is I feel that if I was at a party, or somewhere I want my own camra even if someone is taking the pics for me. So do you people feel it is ok for blind people to have cameras? Let me know.

## Post 2 by Jesse (Hmm!) on Wednesday, 19-Dec-2007 22:09:28

Sure! Why not? Have anything you want if it makes you feel happy!

## Post 3 by fuzzy101 (The master of fuzz!!) on Wednesday, 19-Dec-2007 22:14:37

I don't see why not. If you have sited friends then you can still post pictures online so it wouldn't be a waste.

## Post 4 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Wednesday, 19-Dec-2007 23:11:49

I agree, it may seem odd but...hey, go for it!

## Post 5 by reclusive thinker (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 0:50:10

I don't think you need to justify this to anyone. I mean, there are a lot of things that are difficult for a blind person to use independently, and this is going to enter into a blind person's decision about buying or asking for any given product, but it's an individual choice. Hell, i'd buy a car if I had someone to drive it.

## Post 6 by Big Pawed Bear (letting his paws be his guide.) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 2:11:25

i have a digital camra, and it's easy for me to use. I can set it myself and then tell sighted people how to set it. I can also take the memory card out of it and put the card in my pc, so i do0n't have to use inaccessible software to get the pics off the camra. go for the camra if you want it.

## Post 7 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 4:26:21

i AGREE WITH THE OTHERS. iF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WOULD HELP YOU TO RECORD THE VIDEOS THEN GO FOR IT. gOOD LUCK.

## Post 8 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 5:42:23

Hey reclusive thinker, I did buy a car because I had a kid who could drive it.
rainbowjess88, A camera might be on the bottom of my Christmas wish list, but that's me and not you.
So, I'd say, go for it if it seems like you would be interested in working with it. Sounds like you've given it some thought.
Enjoy your camera, and no posting pictures on the zone. &LT;lol>
Bob

## Post 9 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 6:04:38

agreed. you can get the camera and to hell with what people may think. Personally, I wouldn't get one, ubt that is my choice. *smile*

## Post 10 by Angel with Attitude (Account disabled) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 6:10:56

I took loads of pictures the other day whilst out with friends and apparently some of them came out really well. The great thing about digital cameras is that blind people can take pictures and not worry about wasting film. Enjoy the camera!

## Post 11 by Ukulele<3 (Try me... You know you want to.) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 6:33:31

Oh my God! I want a digital camera so bad too! Damn. I don't see why ppl think that just cause you're blind you can't/shouldn't use cameras and enjoy having pics even though you personally can't see them! lol Most of my friends have sight so I wanna have a camera while hanging out with them and post them up on myspace for my friends to enjoy or just have the pics for remembering things by. When I do get one, which will be after I get my mixer and new comp, I wanna print them out and start my own photo collection. lol I also wanna get a digital picture frame too just cause I think they're cool. haha
And to Grizzly Bear, do you have any sight at all? Cause I'm interested in uploading my own pictures myself and wondered how you did it. lol Cause I know there are things you have to take in to consideration like the size of a picture and all that.
But yeah. I think it's awesome that a blind person would want a digital camera too. lol It means I'm not the only one... haha
Michelle

## Post 12 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 11:17:16

Well we all have digital cameras on the bakcs of our mobile/cell phones don't we? so why not get a digital camera, even if it means spending your Chrimbly money on it?
Jen.

## Post 13 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 12:06:39

We have a digital camera/camcorder. it's awesome. and michelle. Dan got me the digital photo frame for our anniversary, to put all our wedding pics in. it's awesome!
o go for it. hehehe

## Post 14 by Emerald-Hourglass (Account disabled) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 12:22:30

i want one too for the same reason michelle stated..

## Post 15 by changedheart421 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 14:35:26

man I feel better. thanks guys.

## Post 16 by Ukulele<3 (Try me... You know you want to.) on Thursday, 20-Dec-2007 21:51:26

Wow Shea! That's so cool! hehehehe I would love a digital picture frame! lol And how come I never got the link to download your wedding video? *sad face* hehehe I wanted to hear Danielle sing. lol But yeah. Yay for digital cameras/camcorders.

## Post 17 by cattleya (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 20:29:12

Hope you got it for xmas. I ask for one last year from my mom and got it without a question asked. I've always been fascinated with photos, and I've never been able to see them. Anyways, my husband usually takes the pics, but I do sometimes, and I enjoy them at least as much as he does; if not more.

## Post 18 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Friday, 28-Dec-2007 9:17:06

Blind people can use those pictures to create a scrapbook. we can just write a little caption, describing the photo and put it on the same page as the picture itself, so when we look back on it later, the memory is still alive. *smile*

## Post 19 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Friday, 28-Dec-2007 13:45:06

Rainbowjess, I hope you got your camera. But if you haven't been able to change your family's mind about it, you might have to get it yourself. Did you get any Christmas money? Maybe use that and buy it. I'm totally blind as well, and I imagine my family would react in a very similar way if I said I wanted a digital camera. But to heck with it. You have good rationale for why you want it. And even if you didn't, do whatever makes you happy.

## Post 20 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 05-Jan-2008 10:13:57

I have a normal camera with a film inside. It's one of those really old ones with a windy thing on it, but I don't really care. I mostly like taking pictures of or getting other people to take pictures of animals. The only thing is, I've put lots of photographs in a photo album and can't remember who their of and the person describing them to me probably won't know the animals.

## Post 21 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 06-Jan-2008 22:14:39

That's why digitals are great, cuz you can label the files.

## Post 22 by cattleya (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Monday, 07-Jan-2008 13:29:06

That's what I do. Date and then what it's of. LOL. Glad I do have it cause got some photos that my Mom didn't back at my niece's birthday, and now she needs copies of what I got; some pretty good ones too. *smile*

## Post 23 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Monday, 07-Jan-2008 14:03:21

I wanted to take a photography course in university, I mean, why not, I could take pics with a digital camera and name them "pictures born from darkness" or something equally artsy, heck, people puke on canvas and lacker over it and then sell it for good amounts as abstract art, don't see why a blind person taking pictures couldn't create something that is considered artsy by sufficiently weird buyers. So, heck, go ahead, take your photos, whilst your at it, give your deaf friends head phones, shampoo to your bald friends and free weightwatcher subscription to the starving kids in Somalia.