Our founder, George Lin, created the Paper Shoot camera back in 2013 as an avid admirer of analog photography for his entire life, though when he was younger, could never afford it. He wanted to create a camera that was simple enough to be accessible to everyone, more cost-effective than analog photography and was gentler on our earth. That's when he came up with the Paper Shoot!
Beginning with our camera boards, we manufacture them ourselves by a small team in Taiwan, where George lives. Our team makes each camera to order - this process, while lengthy and perhaps not the most time-efficient or cost-effective means of production, is much better for the planet as it eliminates mass factory production, mass chemical run-off, and the exploitation of labor. Paper Shoot also has its ROHS compliance, meaning that we've eliminated a laundry list of toxic and environmentally damaging chemicals from every level of our supply chain.
Additionally, many parts of the camera board are recycled! When someone is done with their Paper Shoot, or it reaches the end of its life, we take back the camera and recycle it into a new one as opposed to letting it waste away in a landfill. Our lenses are also sourced from the same company that produces Apple's lenses that were to be sent to a landfill as they developed higher resolution products, so we took what would've been trash and developed it into these incredible little cameras!
