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While it may seem an irrelevant detail, the camera-like leatherette case that flips or snaps open like the old camera cases did, not only made me smile but gave

While it may seem an irrelevant detail, the camera-like leatherette case that flips or snaps open like the old camera cases did, not only made me smile but gave me hope that they were clued in enough to their market as to make it a success.

botexpert 10y ago
To me it's a huge drawback and makes it a no buy. No way I'm going to vote with my money and award them for using inefficient, unrecycled, inferior material instead of abundant recyclable non-animal sourced material. Edit: Thanks for the flags and downvotes, hate is so fresh here.
- kerbalspacepro 10y ago
  Something tells me you wouldn't have gotten it anyways...
  - botexpert 10y ago
    I'm a huge fan of customizable camera firmware. Playing with software controlling visual input brings me joy, have bunch of cameras and lack of leather is not a problem at all.
- patrickg_zill 10y ago
  Actually I used "leatherette" in the generic sense of "looks like leather". TBH I have no idea what material it is made of.
  - botexpert 10y ago
    It's animal leather, at least that's what can be concluded from a quick Google search.
    - 205guy 10y ago
      The arstechnica article linked in another comment calls it "artificial."