I don’t disagree. There are trade offs. For five minutes shopping and fifty bucks total investment you can have a working Lomokino arriving the week after next

I don’t disagree. There are trade offs. For five minutes shopping and fifty bucks total investment you can have a working Lomokino arriving the week after next and be out making pictures fifteen minutes after that. What I think puts it on the same axis is a similar picture production workflow. There’s not much difference between developing exposed film, digitizing the negatives, and compiling them into something that will render. Because that’s most of the work, fewer frames has the advantage of making redoing steps easier when figuring out the workflow. The results are less good but easier to obtain. And if cinematography is a priority it might be better to get a film camera and run movie film through it.