Bastardcam I came solely from the need to have a camera dedicated to food pictures, so that half a dozen shots of a dinner plate didn't end up mixed in with all the other stuff we take pictures of.

Secondarily, it allowed me to shoot photos for the blog when the good camera was... elsewhere. Bastardcam I was never a good camera, but it was a cheap camera. Its fixed-focus nature, however, led to a lot of post-processing, as did its completely useless flash, which washed out everything all the time in a mass of white.

Bastardcam 2 was also dirt-cheap, the result of a sale at Micro Center and some disposable income freed up by Toys R Us's failure to keep DJ Hero on sale until I was emotionally prepared to buy it. Those of you not accustomed to relying on my faultless prose to fill in the blurriness and complete failure of color balance in the photography will have a much easier time of things in the very near future.