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Camp Snap CS-8 Mini shrinks the retro camcorder for smaller hands

Camp Snap's original retro camcorder was supposed to be a summer-camp toy for kids. Instead, adults with a weakness for chunky plastic and that particular 90s video grain snatched it up. So now the CS-8 Mini shrinks everything down, smaller grip, smaller hands, smaller target audience. It's a clever pivot, and it raises the right question: will this one actually end up in a kid's backpack, or will another wave of grown-ups just find it even cuter? The original's charm was its bulk. The Mini trades that for portability, which might be exactly what a fidgety eight-year-old needs. Or what a collector wants for the shelf. Either way, the razor clam here is the intended user, because Camp Snap just admitted its first guess was wrong.