@@YapbreakOneabsolutely. It’s exactly that. A filter. There’s no real grain on the image and there’s hardly ever period correct lighting or equipment used, especially in analogue horror. You’ll see someone with a camera just running or walking with it in front of them like a cell phone flashlight, or there’s just this crap slathered all over the audio to make it seem old.
What I really dislike about the imitation digicam is that most of the paid-partnership content on TikTok is just just plain false marketing, often including sample photos taken with other digicams from brands such as Canon and Nikon. It's very obvious, I've seen one with a Canon PowerShot date stamp,. They don't try to hide it, and yet people still believe that it takes photos like that.
It's kinda crazy to me how they now market bad digital cameras for an "old-school" feeling. I kinda can get behind the Camp Snap since it's supposed to emulate an old disposable camera, so you have no screen, a plastic viewfinder and absolutely no buttons outside of the flash (of course, an LED) and the shutter, and you can get an "okay" film filter, but those cheap, no-name cameras that are just regular digital cameras? There's literally no point, I've got a couple of mid 00s Canon digicams for free at work (we had a ton of them and they were being send to the recycling since we're now using phones to take pictures) and they're WAY better that what that Vivitar crap can do. I've also bought Mavicas for a lot cheaper than that, something like the FD92 can be found really easily, can use a Memory Stick instead of a floppy disk and will probably take pictures that are more interesting than that since it was MADE to be a good camera back in 2001.
The Camp Snap is actually a pretty cool camera, although a little expensive given what it is, at least in my opinion. These older digicams are so easy to find that it honestly puzzles me why people bother with these "so retro!" Aliexpress cams.
Last year, I gave away my Canon PowerShot SX100 IS to a very close cousin of mine who time to time take photos of wildlife, mainly birds as I'm pretty much decked out with a DSLR and a small range of lenses. She appreciates the superior image quality compared to her phone, especially zoomed and similarity my uncle too when i shot some of their portraits with my DSLR which made me create a motto that "you can't fake glass all the time". As for Tik Tok metas, my guess is as everyone have stated in the comment section, its a mix of consumerism and lack of knowledge but I'll also pin "expectations of instant gratification" (or "the path of least resistance") on the board of reasons too.
Awesome video! Your channel deserves way more attention, especially since the issue of consumerism such as this continues to plague social media and the internet in general; personally, it feels as though our society is being forced to forget the quality and craftsmanship of the past in order to be content with the heaps upon heaps of worthless trash that is pumped out for mass-consumption and easy profit. I completely agree with your sentiment toward the end of the video: "Buy nice used stuff, instead of cheap new stuff."
Thank you! It was really sad to see so many tiktoks and other videos singing the praises of these terrible ripoffs, and other aliexpress crap as well. Luckily the empooopening hasn't really happened in the camera world yet, but I'm counting the days honestly, it seems inevitable. Hopefully more people start speaking with their wallet on this stuff.
not to mention that now with most of the Canon Ixus models you can also shoot raw with the CHDK hack! Just a little 'simple' trick that lets u squeeze all the power out of those little cameras which are really fun to shoot with! (if you wondering: yes, pictures will come out noticeably better, especially for editing, but we still talking about old tech and old sensors... don't expect today's detail and DR). Optical zoom + real flash and extremely pocket size means it's almost always with me, contrary to my new fuji and sony...
this channel is great it's similar to that one guy with the green ipad and a rock named one grit and his sennheiser headphones or something but for cameras instead
I love the PowerShot G3! Such a weird and cool camera. Lots of pro features like shooting in raw. The pictures off that old CCD are amazing. You can get them super cheap($50-100) and the batteries are super available since they're the same as canon DSLRs from the era.
my sister and i would always get digicam hand-me-downs from our grandpa bc he LOVED electronics and was always buying new ones. today im constantly swapping between the old 35mm Olympus StylusEpic (was his), whatever digicam i find at goodwill (fav was a canon powershot but it died), panasonic lumix (when i want a bit higher quality but still portable), and i rock a sony video8 handycam for video. i personally prefer having separate specialized devices, shooting pix/vids always feels much more... personable? but im an old electronics fiend who doesnt use tiktok.... ahaha whatever tmi i dont have the words to describe it but something about how the digicams render the pixels is more pointillized like film. and yess the flash, they always have decent flash. ive been ranting about digicams to friends since like 2019 and im glad that they are coming into the spotlight despite these lame cash grabs- there will always be grifters trying to capitalize on the hype and take advantage of young kids who've never held the real deal or seen the results with their own eyes. no matter what the trend of the hour is, the wheels of capital must keep turning no matter the cost. (also loved the thumbnail hahah)
Sounds like a nice collection! Older digicams tend to render images a lot more film-like because the companies made them that way. Transitioning from film in the early 2000s, companies didn't want to stray too far from it in case digital cameras flopped, so colors were more film-like. (At least, that's what I heard) I'll always be in favor of having individual devices instead of using the "all in one glass slab" for everything. Helps keep me less distracted, and interact with people more.
I still want one of them old Powershot G series cameras due to the tilty screen, raw format and also properly long shutter speeds for night photos. Also CHDK is really neat.
Screw it. Buy a Fuji X100VI and turn on the film simulation mode. TikTok users have a lot of money anyway, right? Considering how much money they've spent on scam products.
This came up on my recommendation!! Great video!! Do you have any suggestions on a digital camera with a flip out screen? I realized my phone doesn't take great front camera selfies and I'm back at taking selfies with the back camera of my phone haha
Thanks! Depends on how much you want to spend I suppose. If you're just using it for selfies, you probably won't find anything that beats the convenience of being always in your pocket, or even being to fit in your pocket for that matter lol. You can pick up something like a Canon Powershot G5 or a Nikon Coolpix 8400 for around $75 and they have, albeit small, flip screens for selfies. Overall, you may be better off shooting blind with the back phone camera, although the cameras I mentioned would also serve you well. Hope I was able to help!
Great video, the title is perfect. Just small FYI some olympus cameras have what they call Live ND (neutral density) on the OM-1 Mark II, OM-1, OM-5, OM-D E-M1X and OM-D E-M1 Mark III
fellas I guessed them all right, lemme break it down, the phone camera is top left, because you can see the auto brightness kick in, top right is the professional canon camera (forgot the exact name), because it’s moodier plus no auto brightness, bottom left, is the powershoot because it’s alot darker than the other 3 and I own a camcorder from like 2007, and I know cameras from the early 2000s tend to struggle with dark areas. and the last one, bottom right, the vivitar, I guessed because it had the cheesy date and time that you find on old vhs cam corders. same thing applies to the second round, minus a few little things.
In my opinion, ANY camera from tiktok is and will be garbage, I dont get why they keep marketing it as “y2k aesthetic” because in reality its just some cheap camera that has the same video quality as a webcam from the 2010’s. I myself own a few handycams and digicams from the 90’s to the 2000’s and I will say your best bet is just to invest some money into a real high quality camera than some random one made by a random company off the internet. Edit: Oh and optical zoom is INFINITELY better than digital zoom, unless the manufacturer makes the digital zoom look appealing and smooth then meh, better than the choppy zooms.
Yeah, the worst part for me is that in many cases, you'd be off with a 10 year old phone than one of these. There really isn't a use case for these, because their worse at being retro than a phone, and in some cases the same price as a proper digicam.
La diferencia entre CCD y CMOS es menor de lo que se cree. La razón por la que los colores de los CCD son diferentes se debe principalmente al software. The difference between CCD and CMOS is less than you would think. The reason CCD colors are different is mostly because of software. (I tried to keep the answer simple so Google Translate didn't die, but I can go more in depth if I need to.)
The only advancement we’ve made in technology, whether it be phones, cameras, TVs or otherwise is that we’ve made everything cheap and flat, and have given everything the same GUI.
Looking back, that would've made more sense lol. I only compared these because I didn't have one of the more pocketable powershots, and they were about the same price.
i bought the tiktok digicam and it does give the same feeling but it takes WAY too much effort to reach it, might end up just giving it to a toddler sibling so they play around with it.
It's hard to explain, but it's a different kind of terrible. One is just limitations of the time/budget, one is just made to be as cheap as possible. At least, that's my opinion.
@@camera-guy ig so but i dont think only comparing it in low light scenarios is a fair comparison bc ppl arent really buying it for the low light performance. and in the other video i think the photos look really neat and while yeah ur other camera looks "better", it doesn't have the same vibe/aesthetic that someone going for the digicam wants out of it. if they just want a "good" camera they already have a pretty good camera with their phone.
Such a shame what happened to vivitar. I still use some of their old lenses with my mirrorless since some are amazing and affordable and often a few are rebranded lenses like takumar etc.
It's a big shame, same with Kodak and (to a lesser extent recently) Polaroid. I'm going to have to pick up some vivitar lenses, I've heard great things.
Hey! Loved the video I also had a question regarding digital cameras ! Have you ever used a casio ex-z110 /kniw anything about it? I saw it at the local thrift store and wanted to buy it but cant rlly find many reviews of it so i thought maybe you would know.
I would say it depends on the price. I personally wouldn't pay more than $35 for it. I don't have any personal experience but I will say that you can look up image samples from specific cameras on flickr to see if they're to your liking: www.flickr.com/cameras/casio/ex-z110/ Best of luck and happy shooting!
Damn i really didn't appreciate the abundance of "straight to e waste" products out there. I wonder where the money comes from. Obviously with so much supply, and so little demand, you would think people would stop making these, but somehow it feels like they just get more and more common. Sure, most companies manufacturing these will probably go bankrupt at some point, but there is so much money getting basically thrown into the trash, as well as valuable rare minerals
I honestly would’ve wanted to see the weatherproofing pushed to the extreme and see the pictures it would’ve taken after being left to the elements outside for a prolonged period of time.
@@camera-guy Find it strange that my comment didn’t post to the video of the ‘eco-friendly’ digicam when that was the one I was referring to, but least glad you found it :D
I had G5 (next model, 5.1Mp otherwise same thing as G3). G3 was $800 in 2002 so it's not like it's something cheap, it's only cheap now because it's old and no one needs it. Looking at my G5 pics now (CRW, i.e. RAW), overall pleasant but noise isn't good even at min ISO even with good light (speedlite or sunlight) and pictures have some line artifacts and fringing even in the center. Problem is small sensor, some smartphones have much bigger sensors today. It's better to buy some very old (6-10Mp) used APS-C/DX DSLR, quality would be so much better, G3/G5 powershots - only good as collector's items.
I don't know how well I portrayed this in the video, but I wasn't necessarily trying to say to buy this specific camera, but rather just saying that older cameras are better at being nostalgic-looking than new "vintage" cameras like the vivitar.
I had the same experience when I accidentally read a book by a TikTok author. It was horrible. A character said in first person internal dialogue that she never saw the kidnapped woman in person, only in missing posters. That character turned out to be the kidnapper. I went to Amazon, ready to read reviews that agreed with me, and there were THOUSANDS of 5 star reviews calling the author a genius for that incredible plot twist. A lie is not a plot twist! Then I noticed TikTok and "Booktok" mentioned over and over in reviews. After that and a few other accidental purchases of books by TikTok-popular authors, I do through research before buying. If an author appears on TikTok at all, they go on my avoid list. TikTok is such a strange and fascinating look into human psychology.
I'm not here to defend these bad tiktok shop "digicams" at all since they are inherently bad anyways and getting a proper old digicam is still the ideal because it was actually a flagship camera from its time. However from what I know there's a like camera circulating around thats a japan exclusive rn called a Bluemake BM-ODC01 which kinda looks like a canon, has an optical zoom but not that good i think but has a camera output that I'd say isn't as bad as other generic cheap digicams, it captures the sort of old age photography that proper old digicams take, down to even the half press to focus system. Although if given the choice still would go for an old digital camera instead.
@camera-guy Only now did I realize you were at around near 300 ish subscribers which is crazy, it was such a surprise seeing the quality of the content. It remind me of Dank Pods lmao, just some extra notes on the camera I mentioned in my comment, aside from the japanese one by bluemake, there seems to be like chinese reproduction units that are released that are basically the same just with a different splash screen when turned on. Keep in mind that when you do get either a chinese reproduction model or the one straight from japan, they are both wifi enabled, everything except the splash screen and body of the camera should be the same!
Don't know much about that specific model, but one really cool resource is that Flickr lets you look up albums per specific cameras: www.flickr.com/groups/sd630/
Instead of making these generic souless tiktok digicams they instead should put people onto the great digicams already made especially if they want the film look or vintage look. The nikon coolpix s80 is one of them. One of the last "vintage" or "film" look CCD digicams and that one came out in 2010 around my birthday. Camera has an unique look, unique zoom and interesting colors
Absolutely. I really don't get the point of these when "vintage" digicams are so readily available. That being said, I know some people simply don't want to buy used stuff, which makes it a shame that these types of cameras are basically dead.
@@camera-guy I do think the old canon powershots (a4000 a22000 a14000 etc...) make a good substitution for the tiktok camera. Better quality, a flash, and same form factor under $50. Only thing is it's hard to push someone getting into photography to learn all of the hardware of a camera, compare them to a new camera being sold, then trust the seller of a used camera. It's probably best they learn the hard way like many of us did lol. Worst case it's a stepping stone to a camera they'll enjoy.
Digicam is overused & overpriced for nowadays because of trends I better choose that old dslr combined with pancake lens that only cost $100 for both, but with better image quality Vintage doesn't have to be smudgy quality right?
If I wasn't buying more cameras than any human reasonably needs for UA-cam, then I'd absolutely just go with an older DSLR. That being said, shooting on these older "digicams" is fun, but I personally wouldn't pay over $50 for one.
Tiktokers drooling over shitty dropshipped reshelled dashcam marketed as an Digicam are edging me but as least now we get to upsell these ewaste cameras old enough to drink and drive to them for 5x the price.
@camera-guy agreed. The optical zoom thing is a MUST. if the camera has fixed lens (focus, aperture and zoom, mentioning the firsy 2 because the Fuji X100V exist) then it's just waste.
Bro touch some grass so the picture samples are taken with natural light. Your sample images don’t prove much. One lightning scenario doesn’t help as much. I really wanna see how both cameras perform under natural light
you just cant make something like the powershot g5 in 2024. theyre such complicated pieces of machinery. no wonder all modern attempts at digicams are essentially portable, battery powered webcams.
The whole Powershot G line is so good. Honestly still hold up as great photography cameras to this day. Unfortunately, it seems like no company is really interested in making good point and shoots except Fujifilm, but theirs are a little expensive.
@@camera-guy I'd love to own one some day. I got most of my digicams before the boom in 2021 including the legendary powershot sd1000. that thing is so good looking and fun to shoot. my first camera was actually an SD600 i found at a garage sale for $5 and got me really into photography
Have used the tiktok cam, the sensor is half decent enough to pass for an old cam. Not sure what the hate is when its cheap and doesn't involve rummaging through ebay for half broken, overly price inflated 2007 point and shoots with rotting batteries.
I understand not wanting to deal with eBay and used products, but the tiktok cam isn't really "old cam," it's just bad. There's a difference between something that was made to be good, and something that's made to be trash. That being said, nothing wrong with using a camera, and if you enjoy it, then that's all that matters!
@@camera-guy right and I wasn't making that point that it looks like an old cam. Just that it's probably "close enough" for the average tiktok user. As an anecdotal example, my cousin describes it as a "vintage digital" look even if it is objectively bad relative to actual old cameras, it just doesn't matter to the actual customer base of these cameras.
Premiere completely destroyed the pictures at 7:50 . No clue why, but I'll link the originals in the description.
In a Tik-Toker’s mind: Vintage==Bad quality so all of a sudden bad quality==aesthetics
Bruh just take 50s stuff for example. Any piece of tech from the time is nearly indestructable
my favorite version of this is the "film" or "VHS" aesthetic that shows that the people emulating that have never seen anything from that era
@@YapbreakOneabsolutely. It’s exactly that. A filter. There’s no real grain on the image and there’s hardly ever period correct lighting or equipment used, especially in analogue horror.
You’ll see someone with a camera just running or walking with it in front of them like a cell phone flashlight, or there’s just this crap slathered all over the audio to make it seem old.
@@YapbreakOneliterally every analog horror video uses digital artifacts like glitching and JPEG compression on a fucking “VHS” tape lmao
What I really dislike about the imitation digicam is that most of the paid-partnership content on TikTok is just just plain false marketing, often including sample photos taken with other digicams from brands such as Canon and Nikon. It's very obvious, I've seen one with a Canon PowerShot date stamp,. They don't try to hide it, and yet people still believe that it takes photos like that.
It's kinda crazy to me how they now market bad digital cameras for an "old-school" feeling. I kinda can get behind the Camp Snap since it's supposed to emulate an old disposable camera, so you have no screen, a plastic viewfinder and absolutely no buttons outside of the flash (of course, an LED) and the shutter, and you can get an "okay" film filter, but those cheap, no-name cameras that are just regular digital cameras? There's literally no point, I've got a couple of mid 00s Canon digicams for free at work (we had a ton of them and they were being send to the recycling since we're now using phones to take pictures) and they're WAY better that what that Vivitar crap can do. I've also bought Mavicas for a lot cheaper than that, something like the FD92 can be found really easily, can use a Memory Stick instead of a floppy disk and will probably take pictures that are more interesting than that since it was MADE to be a good camera back in 2001.
The Camp Snap is actually a pretty cool camera, although a little expensive given what it is, at least in my opinion. These older digicams are so easy to find that it honestly puzzles me why people bother with these "so retro!" Aliexpress cams.
Last year, I gave away my Canon PowerShot SX100 IS to a very close cousin of mine who time to time take photos of wildlife, mainly birds as I'm pretty much decked out with a DSLR and a small range of lenses. She appreciates the superior image quality compared to her phone, especially zoomed and similarity my uncle too when i shot some of their portraits with my DSLR which made me create a motto that "you can't fake glass all the time".
As for Tik Tok metas, my guess is as everyone have stated in the comment section, its a mix of consumerism and lack of knowledge but I'll also pin "expectations of instant gratification" (or "the path of least resistance") on the board of reasons too.
Ooh that's a good motto, I like that.
100% agree with the instant gratification thing too.
I just bought a used SX120 IS! It's my first camera ever
Awesome video! Your channel deserves way more attention, especially since the issue of consumerism such as this continues to plague social media and the internet in general; personally, it feels as though our society is being forced to forget the quality and craftsmanship of the past in order to be content with the heaps upon heaps of worthless trash that is pumped out for mass-consumption and easy profit. I completely agree with your sentiment toward the end of the video: "Buy nice used stuff, instead of cheap new stuff."
Thank you! It was really sad to see so many tiktoks and other videos singing the praises of these terrible ripoffs, and other aliexpress crap as well. Luckily the empooopening hasn't really happened in the camera world yet, but I'm counting the days honestly, it seems inevitable. Hopefully more people start speaking with their wallet on this stuff.
I bet the tiktok camera uses a CMOS sensor insted of a CCD
It does, getting an actual CCD sensor would be too much effort for them.
Ehh CMOS > CCD
CMOS is better than CCD, but with these cameras whose whole point is to look "vintage," CCD can have an advantage.
@@camera-guy it highly depends on the colour filter array on the CCD, some CCD DSLRs looks like CMOS.
*just shoot film atp*
@@Baer9471 My favourite answer to “How do I get my photos to look like film?”
Just shoot film.
not to mention that now with most of the Canon Ixus models you can also shoot raw with the CHDK hack!
Just a little 'simple' trick that lets u squeeze all the power out of those little cameras which are really fun to shoot with! (if you wondering: yes, pictures will come out noticeably better, especially for editing, but we still talking about old tech and old sensors... don't expect today's detail and DR).
Optical zoom + real flash and extremely pocket size means it's almost always with me, contrary to my new fuji and sony...
The Canon Powershots and other brand-name point and shooys are really good! Didn't know about the RAW mod, might have to try it!
this channel is great it's similar to that one guy with the green ipad and a rock named one grit and his sennheiser headphones or something
but for cameras instead
I think his name was...Crank bods? Don't remember.
Is it dank pods? I remember the green ipad in the middle of every video lol
@@matthewdc6534 yep
I think that show is hosted by a lady snake called Frank
@@Marcosmvp yeah and she plays the drum or something with her tail
I love the PowerShot G3! Such a weird and cool camera. Lots of pro features like shooting in raw. The pictures off that old CCD are amazing. You can get them super cheap($50-100) and the batteries are super available since they're the same as canon DSLRs from the era.
They're really good cameras! Honestly very usable today outside of the whole "retro" thing, especially over the generic camera.
my sister and i would always get digicam hand-me-downs from our grandpa bc he LOVED electronics and was always buying new ones. today im constantly swapping between the old 35mm Olympus StylusEpic (was his), whatever digicam i find at goodwill (fav was a canon powershot but it died), panasonic lumix (when i want a bit higher quality but still portable), and i rock a sony video8 handycam for video. i personally prefer having separate specialized devices, shooting pix/vids always feels much more... personable? but im an old electronics fiend who doesnt use tiktok.... ahaha whatever tmi
i dont have the words to describe it but something about how the digicams render the pixels is more pointillized like film. and yess the flash, they always have decent flash. ive been ranting about digicams to friends since like 2019 and im glad that they are coming into the spotlight despite these lame cash grabs- there will always be grifters trying to capitalize on the hype and take advantage of young kids who've never held the real deal or seen the results with their own eyes. no matter what the trend of the hour is, the wheels of capital must keep turning no matter the cost.
(also loved the thumbnail hahah)
Sounds like a nice collection! Older digicams tend to render images a lot more film-like because the companies made them that way. Transitioning from film in the early 2000s, companies didn't want to stray too far from it in case digital cameras flopped, so colors were more film-like. (At least, that's what I heard)
I'll always be in favor of having individual devices instead of using the "all in one glass slab" for everything. Helps keep me less distracted, and interact with people more.
@@camera-guy i feel like i’ve heard that before and it makes a lot of sense! thanks for the explanation:)
I still want one of them old Powershot G series cameras due to the tilty screen, raw format and also properly long shutter speeds for night photos. Also CHDK is really neat.
I use the G2 and man that thing punches well above its weight. Colour science is addictive too
Damn I was expecting you to have about 100k more subscribers than you do! Keep doing what you’re doing, and you’ll get there.
Thank you!
I hadn't noticed that this is such a small channel. I'm his 802nd subscriber 😁
-August 27, 2024, 7:54:00 PM EDT
That "Stand up "felt personal lol
USED DIGICAM ALL DAY LONG FOR ME 📸🤩 Great video, great channel, what a guy! 🤝
Absolutely. Thank you!
"How do you mess up imitating yourself" you'll be surprised
The “heyyy perfect..I didn’t even cut the camera 😊” is so funny to me and idk why 😅
A note about the ND filter: A lot of point and shoots have it, Canon Powershot S95-S100 etc. comes to mind
Screw it. Buy a Fuji X100VI and turn on the film simulation mode. TikTok users have a lot of money anyway, right? Considering how much money they've spent on scam products.
Many cheaper thing > Good single thing
This came up on my recommendation!! Great video!!
Do you have any suggestions on a digital camera with a flip out screen?
I realized my phone doesn't take great front camera selfies and I'm back at taking selfies with the back camera of my phone haha
Thanks!
Depends on how much you want to spend I suppose. If you're just using it for selfies, you probably won't find anything that beats the convenience of being always in your pocket, or even being to fit in your pocket for that matter lol. You can pick up something like a Canon Powershot G5 or a Nikon Coolpix 8400 for around $75 and they have, albeit small, flip screens for selfies. Overall, you may be better off shooting blind with the back phone camera, although the cameras I mentioned would also serve you well. Hope I was able to help!
@@camera-guy wow I'll look in to those cameras! Yeah nothing beats the convenience of a phone but ya know I'd like my selfies to look decent haha.
That's fair lol. Hope you find a good camera!
Great video, the title is perfect. Just small FYI some olympus cameras have what they call Live ND (neutral density) on the OM-1 Mark II, OM-1, OM-5, OM-D E-M1X and OM-D E-M1 Mark III
fellas I guessed them all right, lemme break it down, the phone camera is top left, because you can see the auto brightness kick in, top right is the professional canon camera (forgot the exact name), because it’s moodier plus no auto brightness, bottom left, is the powershoot because it’s alot darker than the other 3 and I own a camcorder from like 2007, and I know cameras from the early 2000s tend to struggle with dark areas. and the last one, bottom right, the vivitar, I guessed because it had the cheesy date and time that you find on old vhs cam corders. same thing applies to the second round, minus a few little things.
Nice explaination!
In my opinion, ANY camera from tiktok is and will be garbage, I dont get why they keep marketing it as “y2k aesthetic” because in reality its just some cheap camera that has the same video quality as a webcam from the 2010’s. I myself own a few handycams and digicams from the 90’s to the 2000’s and I will say your best bet is just to invest some money into a real high quality camera than some random one made by a random company off the internet.
Edit: Oh and optical zoom is INFINITELY better than digital zoom, unless the manufacturer makes the digital zoom look appealing and smooth then meh, better than the choppy zooms.
Yeah, the worst part for me is that in many cases, you'd be off with a 10 year old phone than one of these. There really isn't a use case for these, because their worse at being retro than a phone, and in some cases the same price as a proper digicam.
“Guess the camera” shows us a completely black image
Extra hard mode
@@camera-guy XD
Thank you dankpods
Cankpods
No entiendo cómo te haces el experto y no decís que un es CCD y la CMOS y esa es una grandísima diferencia de esa epoca
La diferencia entre CCD y CMOS es menor de lo que se cree. La razón por la que los colores de los CCD son diferentes se debe principalmente al software.
The difference between CCD and CMOS is less than you would think. The reason CCD colors are different is mostly because of software.
(I tried to keep the answer simple so Google Translate didn't die, but I can go more in depth if I need to.)
Thanks camera guy! I will now purchase a camera
The only advancement we’ve made in technology, whether it be phones, cameras, TVs or otherwise is that we’ve made everything cheap and flat, and have given everything the same GUI.
Don't forget making software more bloated and harder to run!
I feel like a better comparison would’ve one of the other canon powershots that were canons actual digi cams but overall I agree with this video
Looking back, that would've made more sense lol. I only compared these because I didn't have one of the more pocketable powershots, and they were about the same price.
i bought the tiktok digicam and it does give the same feeling but it takes WAY too much effort to reach it, might end up just giving it to a toddler sibling so they play around with it.
isn't the camera supposed to look like shit because that's why you buy it now? for the shitty camera aesthetic
It's hard to explain, but it's a different kind of terrible. One is just limitations of the time/budget, one is just made to be as cheap as possible. At least, that's my opinion.
@@camera-guy ig so but i dont think only comparing it in low light scenarios is a fair comparison bc ppl arent really buying it for the low light performance. and in the other video i think the photos look really neat and while yeah ur other camera looks "better", it doesn't have the same vibe/aesthetic that someone going for the digicam wants out of it. if they just want a "good" camera they already have a pretty good camera with their phone.
as a filmmaker, i hate those tiktok cameras, man they suck so bad, id rather get a 2nd hand digicam on Shibuya lol
Such a shame what happened to vivitar. I still use some of their old lenses with my mirrorless since some are amazing and affordable and often a few are rebranded lenses like takumar etc.
It's a big shame, same with Kodak and (to a lesser extent recently) Polaroid. I'm going to have to pick up some vivitar lenses, I've heard great things.
Hey!
Loved the video
I also had a question regarding digital cameras !
Have you ever used a casio ex-z110 /kniw anything about it?
I saw it at the local thrift store and wanted to buy it but cant rlly find many reviews of it so i thought maybe you would know.
I would say it depends on the price. I personally wouldn't pay more than $35 for it. I don't have any personal experience but I will say that you can look up image samples from specific cameras on flickr to see if they're to your liking: www.flickr.com/cameras/casio/ex-z110/
Best of luck and happy shooting!
@@camera-guy bartered and got it for 5 bucks + a cheap film camera
@@camera-guy bought it for 5 bucks and got a 35mm film camera with it, can't wait to use it
Nice!
kityyyy kityyy yeah
The best part.
i dont even care about how bad the picture from the tiktok camera turn out to be, but rather that thing look like a toy from kid
Damn i really didn't appreciate the abundance of "straight to e waste" products out there. I wonder where the money comes from. Obviously with so much supply, and so little demand, you would think people would stop making these, but somehow it feels like they just get more and more common. Sure, most companies manufacturing these will probably go bankrupt at some point, but there is so much money getting basically thrown into the trash, as well as valuable rare minerals
Never really thought of it that way, but yeah it is kind of strange.
this is awesome! I'd love to do a video like this sometime, keep up the great work!
I think my grandpa had one of those!
Underrated channel
I honestly would’ve wanted to see the weatherproofing pushed to the extreme and see the pictures it would’ve taken after being left to the elements outside for a prolonged period of time.
Good idea :)
@@camera-guy Find it strange that my comment didn’t post to the video of the ‘eco-friendly’ digicam when that was the one I was referring to, but least glad you found it :D
I had G5 (next model, 5.1Mp otherwise same thing as G3). G3 was $800 in 2002 so it's not like it's something cheap, it's only cheap now because it's old and no one needs it.
Looking at my G5 pics now (CRW, i.e. RAW), overall pleasant but noise isn't good even at min ISO even with good light (speedlite or sunlight) and pictures have some line artifacts and fringing even in the center. Problem is small sensor, some smartphones have much bigger sensors today. It's better to buy some very old (6-10Mp) used APS-C/DX DSLR, quality would be so much better, G3/G5 powershots - only good as collector's items.
I don't know how well I portrayed this in the video, but I wasn't necessarily trying to say to buy this specific camera, but rather just saying that older cameras are better at being nostalgic-looking than new "vintage" cameras like the vivitar.
Dawg thats a whole ass compact camera not a digicam
Those "Retro" cameras that all those fucky ads advertise are just cheap Crappy cashgrabs... But somehow the comments are always so positive...
I know right? I was really surprised to see absolutely zero negative reviews for it when I was looking. Guess that's the power of TikTok shilling.
@@camera-guy or just bots
theyre probably all dropshipped on top of that
@@12gauge_shawtyy oh yeah obviously ^^
I had the same experience when I accidentally read a book by a TikTok author. It was horrible. A character said in first person internal dialogue that she never saw the kidnapped woman in person, only in missing posters. That character turned out to be the kidnapper. I went to Amazon, ready to read reviews that agreed with me, and there were THOUSANDS of 5 star reviews calling the author a genius for that incredible plot twist. A lie is not a plot twist! Then I noticed TikTok and "Booktok" mentioned over and over in reviews.
After that and a few other accidental purchases of books by TikTok-popular authors, I do through research before buying. If an author appears on TikTok at all, they go on my avoid list. TikTok is such a strange and fascinating look into human psychology.
I'm not here to defend these bad tiktok shop "digicams" at all since they are inherently bad anyways and getting a proper old digicam is still the ideal because it was actually a flagship camera from its time. However from what I know there's a like camera circulating around thats a japan exclusive rn called a Bluemake BM-ODC01 which kinda looks like a canon, has an optical zoom but not that good i think but has a camera output that I'd say isn't as bad as other generic cheap digicams, it captures the sort of old age photography that proper old digicams take, down to even the half press to focus system. Although if given the choice still would go for an old digital camera instead.
I'll have to look into that one, sounds interesting.
@camera-guy Only now did I realize you were at around near 300 ish subscribers which is crazy, it was such a surprise seeing the quality of the content. It remind me of Dank Pods lmao, just some extra notes on the camera I mentioned in my comment, aside from the japanese one by bluemake, there seems to be like chinese reproduction units that are released that are basically the same just with a different splash screen when turned on. Keep in mind that when you do get either a chinese reproduction model or the one straight from japan, they are both wifi enabled, everything except the splash screen and body of the camera should be the same!
this dudes gonna blow up but he needs a better pfp
My profile picture is only the highest quality possible. ;)
sup just find ur channel and can i ask what u think about canon sd630
Don't know much about that specific model, but one really cool resource is that Flickr lets you look up albums per specific cameras: www.flickr.com/groups/sd630/
Aw yeah!!! Return of the kitty content!!!
Instead of making these generic souless tiktok digicams they instead should put people onto the great digicams already made especially if they want the film look or vintage look.
The nikon coolpix s80 is one of them. One of the last "vintage" or "film" look CCD digicams and that one came out in 2010 around my birthday. Camera has an unique look, unique zoom and interesting colors
Absolutely. I really don't get the point of these when "vintage" digicams are so readily available.
That being said, I know some people simply don't want to buy used stuff, which makes it a shame that these types of cameras are basically dead.
If it gets people into photography, and the size keeps them bringing it everywhere, i'm all for it.
Absolutely true!
@@camera-guy I do think the old canon powershots (a4000 a22000 a14000 etc...) make a good substitution for the tiktok camera. Better quality, a flash, and same form factor under $50. Only thing is it's hard to push someone getting into photography to learn all of the hardware of a camera, compare them to a new camera being sold, then trust the seller of a used camera. It's probably best they learn the hard way like many of us did lol. Worst case it's a stepping stone to a camera they'll enjoy.
Ahaha this was a fun watch!
Love this!
I see that this channel is inspired by Dankpods
Digicam is overused & overpriced for nowadays because of trends
I better choose that old dslr combined with pancake lens that only cost $100 for both, but with better image quality
Vintage doesn't have to be smudgy quality right?
If I wasn't buying more cameras than any human reasonably needs for UA-cam, then I'd absolutely just go with an older DSLR. That being said, shooting on these older "digicams" is fun, but I personally wouldn't pay over $50 for one.
Tiktokers drooling over shitty dropshipped reshelled dashcam marketed as an Digicam are edging me but as least now we get to upsell these ewaste cameras old enough to drink and drive to them for 5x the price.
But :c the mint green casing :c
The best color for the worst camera
spray paint !!
if it doesnt have manual exposure, its a bad camera. this applies to most cameras.
or if it doesnt have optical zoom, dont buy it.
Optical Zoom is a big one. No manual controls isn't always a turn off, but usually a big red flag.
@camera-guy agreed. The optical zoom thing is a MUST. if the camera has fixed lens (focus, aperture and zoom, mentioning the firsy 2 because the Fuji X100V exist) then it's just waste.
hello kitty cat
Stop buying shit off TikTok
But content... :(
@@camera-guy I understand but you’ll be happier in life 😂😂
I'm the 143rd subscriber 😎
Bro touch some grass so the picture samples are taken with natural light. Your sample images don’t prove much. One lightning scenario doesn’t help as much. I really wanna see how both cameras perform under natural light
Cool video idea but why didn’t you get one that’s similar in size? I‘m not carrying this pos big ass canon around 😭😭
It's just what came in the mail at the time. You can get smaller Canons and such that are pretty good.
get a canon from the SD Powershot series, very small and fully made to last... also im 100% sure the tiktok camera is a copy of these cameras
@@camera-guy So you would’ve also compared it to shaving cream if that came in the mail that day? Tiktok camera vs my electricity bill 😭😂
There are lots of small digicams
@@ru2ik tru
WAP
you just cant make something like the powershot g5 in 2024. theyre such complicated pieces of machinery. no wonder all modern attempts at digicams are essentially portable, battery powered webcams.
The whole Powershot G line is so good. Honestly still hold up as great photography cameras to this day. Unfortunately, it seems like no company is really interested in making good point and shoots except Fujifilm, but theirs are a little expensive.
@@camera-guy I'd love to own one some day. I got most of my digicams before the boom in 2021 including the legendary powershot sd1000. that thing is so good looking and fun to shoot. my first camera was actually an SD600 i found at a garage sale for $5 and got me really into photography
why u cry so many in your videos bruh
Why do you cry in so many of your comments bruh
Have used the tiktok cam, the sensor is half decent enough to pass for an old cam. Not sure what the hate is when its cheap and doesn't involve rummaging through ebay for half broken, overly price inflated 2007 point and shoots with rotting batteries.
I understand not wanting to deal with eBay and used products, but the tiktok cam isn't really "old cam," it's just bad. There's a difference between something that was made to be good, and something that's made to be trash. That being said, nothing wrong with using a camera, and if you enjoy it, then that's all that matters!
Takes like 3 seconds to find a decent digital cam on ebay lmao
@@thelemon5069 yeah, if you know considerably more than the average tiktok user to avoid even worse crap lol.
@@camera-guy right and I wasn't making that point that it looks like an old cam. Just that it's probably "close enough" for the average tiktok user. As an anecdotal example, my cousin describes it as a "vintage digital" look even if it is objectively bad relative to actual old cameras, it just doesn't matter to the actual customer base of these cameras.