We often comment that nobody really makes bad cameras any more. Some fall short of expectations, sure, and others might have a feature or two that's a bit janky, but an honest-to-goodness bad camera? That's a thing of the past, right?
Well, sort of. While 2024's worst cameras were mainly of the aforementioned "just fell short" variety, this list does contain a couple of real dogs – the kind of bad cameras that previously only existed during the SLR era, where Soviet knock-offs that crudely copied other models and stank of diesel would besmirch the shelves of camera dealers.
