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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

This odd compact digital camera snaps a photo every time you take a shot on film. But will it be a hit or a miss?

A film camera with a LIGAR hotshoe digital camera attached.

Any film photographer can tell you about the frustration of developing photos only to discover light streaks, fogging, or grey spots. But now, Escura Camera, the inventors of the SnapRoll keychain camera, have come up with an unusual camera to fire off a digital image every time you take a film photo.

LIGAR is a 12MP, 1.5oz (40g) digital stills and video camera that can attach to any film camera with a hotshoe. Like a flashgun, it synchronizes with the shutter to capture a digital image at the same time as the film image. The shutter on the film camera acts like a shutter for both cameras, and that also means compatibility is with any film camera with a hotshoe slot.

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