i love how the footage makes you look like your back in time it's funny when you see smart phones and some other items that remind you that its not shot back in the day.
Great video! I love how the old gear is becoming more used again as all this old pro gear as such a nice old look to it and being a camera collector I’m posting more and more videos of my older stuff and having so much fun doing so!
I like the 80s vibes of the VHS. You should just for grins and giggles do a kind of short documentary of the 80s in your town, local Mall, or whatever you feel was pertinent to the 80s. Maybe add in some 80s artifacts. It wouldn't have to be in-depth or anything like that. But filming it ALL on this VHS camcorder would certainly be interesting.
Oh, it was S-VHS, not standard VHS. Superb cameras these were! We used similar Panasonic SVHS camcorders for professional jobs back in the day. I actually enjoyed your footage very much, it looked vintage :)
You made a very good transfer on the VHS to computer . many gets it washed out and complain vhs was so bad . it isent if you do it in a proper way . Damn cool video . i collect some VHS cameras . and a hint is try get a SVHS camera & svhs tape that was a big upgrade at the time . "almoast DVD quality" . BUt another thing get one off those RCA cameras Cheep nasty late 90/early 2000 vhs camcorders with a 3 inch screen . absolutly full automatic . but maybe more cool for a Vlog then you can see yourself like Hitachi VM7500LA VHS Camcorder with 3" Color LCD Screen . , need get one off those . sadly never sold in europe . :) Nice video btw :)
lol vlogging with that thing would be the same as going out with one of those late 80s/early 90s giant brick phones. You definitely gonna get some stares. :P
I ordered a "new" Quasar VA230 S-VHS video camera from 1988 on Tuesday, because really it's the lowest-priced S-VHS camcorder I could find on eBay that comes with every accessory. It hasn't arrived yet, so I have yet to find out if it works... Surely in new condition it will...
Thanks for doing this ! I started using VHS back in the 80s and even throw its low definition compared with todays cameras there is no reason why it cant still be used and you get a retro effect on your videos .
Thanks. Glad to see your upscaling looks good and nostalgic. I Googled bc local secondhand store is selling this OmniMovie camera for half off of $9.99 so yeah, just $5. But post-covid cost of $249 for Omnicharge bundle on Amazon I guess I will skip this one and keep with my C920 and fake GoPros. Still...tempted top go get the camera just in case I want that nostalgic look. Oh. I have EzCap capture device and cluster of video adapters. So no VHS tape needed. Thx x2
My parents bought this same camera new in fall of 1993 and still have it. It cost about $1200 at the time. It still works great and shoots great looking/sounding video. Better sound than most built-in DSLR mics now actually. A truly well built piece of kit. By the way, this camera not only allows you to review your recordings but it also lets you edit and punch in audio or video, meaning you could record voice-overs in camera, or cut to the next scene video-first making it look like you have a professional live multi-camera setup. If you wanted higher quality you should've got some quality TDK S-VHS tape (this is after-all an S-VHS camera).
The camera shoots at 60i you can create slow motion by over cranking the footage. When you import the footage "digitize" render it to 60P drop it on a 30P time line and your footage will be slowed by half time.
Well, gotta give you credit for being original, lol. Make sure you wind up the secondary power spring with 55 cranks only, too much an it’ll snap. But seriously, it’s great when younger generations collect, repair and use things that were cutting edge when I was your age. You’ve probably seen the prices on things from he early-mid 80’s. Back then minimum wage got you around $460 a month if you worked full time and new electronics would eat at least a paycheck so things are a LOT cheaper today. You might like a neat little JVC Mini-DV camcorder model number: GR-DF550U. Apparently, it was the smallest video tape recorder made but I haven’t verified that. But, the recorder is small, about 4.5” long? I picked mine up by luck at Goodwill for $26, complete with all accessories and it was in excellent condition. I’m amazed how people never just clean off the grime from their fingers since a few of the various recorders in my collection have the same thing but it’s simple to clean, dang funky people. These days it’s tough to find cool things at goodwill since there’s so many “flippers” that resell online. And here in San Antonio, the Mexicans come and clean out all thrift shops and take it back into Mexico and sell stuff in their shops. I wonder how many years these things will last. Oh, if you buy replacement drive belts in a big kit, you’ll save tons of cash and never use rubber bands unless only for temporary repair, they rot pretty quickly. Thanks for taking time to make this video.
Good call on the portable charger! My batteries used to last me around 15 minutes. Battery pack gives me a few hours! Gaff and Velcro taped the charger to the back of the camera. And keep my battery pack in a Fanny pack!
I think it looks really good. Did you add the noise in post? That purple looked cool as hell. And that red button inside the front handle is also a record button. So you don't have to reach all the way to the back to start and stop. 😃 Yes. Shoot a whole video and not say it and see if we can tell. 🖖👽
Did you figure out a way to record the video without a vhs tape, like you mentioned toward the end of this video? Curious of what a setup like that would look like. Just bought these 2 JVC GR-C7 Camcorders from 1986. Thanks
I have that same camera, among many others. You can actually adjust the FPS to 24fps (or any other) but it has a sort of striped transition between each frame. There’s a way to fix it, a UA-cam vid somewhere but I can’t remember the title. I definitely recommend a camera you can manually adjust like the rca cmr 300.
@@StrayCatMatt nice, yes. I love editing footage. You can take 60i and change it to 60p then drop it in a 30p time line and you have half speed slow motion.
Dude love this video. My dad was born in the 80s. He got me into these old nostalgic things. Do you think they would sell vhs camera and vhs player at goodwill?
Nathan same except I got my love for vintage pop culture from him but he didn’t try to get me into it I just loved it on my own and we’re the only ones in my family that love the old
A VHS camera that old may need new belts. You'll likely have disassemble it to replace the belts. Probably have to find someone to do that for you if this is something you aren't familiar doing.
I think you put a normal vhs tape on the camera so the quality is only vhs and not s-vhs wich is better. S-vhs tapes make the camera auto select the s-vhs mode
This looks like you added the "VHS Noise Filter" to this. Compare the early showing to 13:05. When showing the 4x3 footage in Pillared format (black bars on left and right sides) and the "pop" noise is visible OUTSIDE the 4x3 area, in the pillars. The pillars should NOT part be part of the VHS footage. Why make fake adjustments? This would have been easy to capture in 4x3 from the tape playback & slap it into pillars. If those tape artifacts are supposedly part of the capture/transfer into your computer, I'd say BS. They don't appear later at 13:05 before you shrink the image. What, did you capture it twice? The capture wouldn't put data from the tape into the pillar areas. In 9:52, there are tape distortions (rainbows, banding) appearing outside the tape area in the pillars. However, at 13:05, none of those distortions & pops extend out to the pillar area before shrinking it down to inside the 1080 matte, plus the vast majority of those pops from the same footage capture (transfer to computer) are gone in the later showing. Yes, recording through an A/D converter using the camera outputs and skipping the tape will be higher quality than using a tape. That gets into various tape qualities, an issue avoided by using the camera's outputs attached to a separate device to digitize. As far as the color shifting issues, that's white balancing, auto or otherwise. Also, being part of the consumer market, this is a low-quality single chip (single CCD) rather than a 3-chip (RGB CCD's) camera. I shouldn't be amazed at the number of people making videos who really don't learn basics of photography and videography, not understanding how lenses matter before "Is it digital?" matters. In school, during one of my audio classes, we had students who believed that because "digital is better" then proper microphone placement didn't matter, or even in analogue, "Just EQ it later in post." I see a lot of this in the iPhone generation where people don't understand the mechanics of photography. If you never experienced it, it's the people who in childhood said that they didn't need to learn math because the calculator would do it for them. They never get the actual nitty-gritty of how & why things function. That's why there's the question toward the end about being able to record externally. It depends on what the camera's software (firmware) is built to do--pass-through, time before auto-shutoff while idle, if it runs the outputs while recording, etc. This video was stupid.
😂 nope all that footage was captured from VHS nothing was filtered or added. Only thing done in post was upscaling. If you are seeing a difference in footage quality That’s because it’s VHS tape it was not consistent plus I’m using a really old tape that has been rewritten over and over again, some parts are gonna look decent some are gonna look crappy
@@JustAnotherChris Then why are there tape-dependent noises in the areas that don't come from the tape? Gee, it's like you deliberately avoided that issue I raised. Look at the pillar areas. Why are they inconsistent between two different times you show the same footage? Compare to this video of yours where the tape-dependent issues do not go out into the pillars: ua-cam.com/video/dyIh56VVCVE/v-deo.html
Hahaha oh man you know what, I know what your talking about now. So instead of having my audience stare at a black screen around the 4:3 ratio of the VHS footage. I placed that footage over the top of an upscale VHS blank screen to add some flare to the edit. I’m so sorry that this is a BS method for you and that I don’t know anything about photography and videography and even audio for that matter, but hey Im get better everyday! I guess I need to take a class from you. Until then I will just stick to shooting on my iPhone and just fix it In post.
@@JustAnotherChris Your sarcasm aside, while I'm sure you have some training, you speak like people who have a picked up some jargon without the deeper understanding. I'm sure you have some training, but that's still how you speak. That's one reason why the video sucks. Regarding your snotty, "I'm sorry that this is a BS method for you," is way off. The method you described is not what I was saying BS about. What I said I would call BS is NOT the method you laid out. I said I would call BS any claim that these happened in the transfer process. Why? I would have said BS those were tape artifacts, not transfer artifacts. Earlier, "The only thing done was upscaling." Now, you're saying that you upscaled a separate black video (width upscaled as well) to use a the background matte and overlaid the park footage on it (also upscaled). So much for "only." That explains more, but not entirely. More importantly, you should have said that on the first go-around to explain that I'm mistaken about you adding effects to worsen the tape footage. However, all you've convinced me of that you neither read nor analyze very well.
Just Another Chris Lol isn’t it weird that we’ve reached a point in time where we have to explain the 4:3 Aspect Ratio to people now and that Widescreen didn’t exist until the Early 90s and 2000s ahaha lol 😂
i love how the footage makes you look like your back in time it's funny when you see smart phones and some other items that remind you that its not shot back in the day.
Ya it’s super fun to mess around with
Great video! I love how the old gear is becoming more used again as all this old pro gear as such a nice old look to it and being a camera collector I’m posting more and more videos of my older stuff and having so much fun doing so!
It’s been super fun messing around with this camera I want to do more with older type equipment!
This was sick. The rock music playing in the background and then the synth wave. The static vhs transitions. So cool
Glad you liked it!! I have a few other VHS videos on the channel if you’re interested. Plus going to be doing a few more this year
I've been looking into getting a retro camera and this is super helpful.. thank you !!
Glad I can help!
I like the 80s vibes of the VHS. You should just for grins and giggles do a kind of short documentary of the 80s in your town, local Mall, or whatever you feel was pertinent to the 80s. Maybe add in some 80s artifacts. It wouldn't have to be in-depth or anything like that. But filming it ALL on this VHS camcorder would certainly be interesting.
ImTheDaveman hmmm that’s a good idea!
Oh, it was S-VHS, not standard VHS. Superb cameras these were! We used similar Panasonic SVHS camcorders for professional jobs back in the day. I actually enjoyed your footage very much, it looked vintage :)
I laughed so much with this video, thank you, friend.
That’s great!!
I love it, bro the vhs recorder footage is so much better than the digital!!
VHS is awesome and retro!
Indeed!
@@JustAnotherChris you should do a video on a meni dv tape camera
You made a very good transfer on the VHS to computer . many gets it washed out and complain vhs was so bad . it isent if you do it in a proper way . Damn cool video . i collect some VHS cameras . and a hint is try get a SVHS camera & svhs tape that was a big upgrade at the time . "almoast DVD quality" . BUt another thing get one off those RCA cameras Cheep nasty late 90/early 2000 vhs camcorders with a 3 inch screen . absolutly full automatic . but maybe more cool for a Vlog then you can see yourself like Hitachi VM7500LA VHS Camcorder with 3" Color LCD Screen . , need get one off those . sadly never sold in europe . :) Nice video btw :)
Thanks!! Glad you liked it. I plan on making more with it.
that head nod in the beginning earned u a new sub lol
lol vlogging with that thing would be the same as going out with one of those late 80s/early 90s giant brick phones. You definitely gonna get some stares. :P
I want a camera like that 🥺
Check out Ebay should be pretty cheap
Rare are those that still works
I ordered a "new" Quasar VA230 S-VHS video camera from 1988 on Tuesday, because really it's the lowest-priced S-VHS camcorder I could find on eBay that comes with every accessory. It hasn't arrived yet, so I have yet to find out if it works... Surely in new condition it will...
Thanks for doing this ! I started using VHS back in the 80s and even throw its low definition compared with todays cameras there is no reason why it cant still be used and you get a retro effect on your videos .
Robert Law thanks for watching! Yeah I love using VHS especially for getting that unique look
Thanks. Glad to see your upscaling looks good and nostalgic. I Googled bc local secondhand store is selling this OmniMovie camera for half off of $9.99 so yeah, just $5. But post-covid cost of $249 for Omnicharge bundle on Amazon I guess I will skip this one and keep with my C920 and fake GoPros. Still...tempted top go get the camera just in case I want that nostalgic look. Oh. I have EzCap capture device and cluster of video adapters. So no VHS tape needed. Thx x2
My parents bought this same camera new in fall of 1993 and still have it. It cost about $1200 at the time. It still works great and shoots great looking/sounding video. Better sound than most built-in DSLR mics now actually. A truly well built piece of kit. By the way, this camera not only allows you to review your recordings but it also lets you edit and punch in audio or video, meaning you could record voice-overs in camera, or cut to the next scene video-first making it look like you have a professional live multi-camera setup. If you wanted higher quality you should've got some quality TDK S-VHS tape (this is after-all an S-VHS camera).
That’s awesome!! I remember my parents buying their VHS cam and it was $1500 I do believe so wild to think about.
nice i like the vhs retro and low quality.. just raw clips 👌
The camera shoots at 60i you can create slow motion by over cranking the footage. When you import the footage "digitize" render it to 60P drop it on a 30P time line and your footage will be slowed by half time.
Cant believe your channel is not way bigger
Bummer the first camera did not work. Digging the old camcorder video. Love the look.
thank you! I still have some use for that first camera more on that later but thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you around in the future!
Well, gotta give you credit for being original, lol. Make sure you wind up the secondary power spring with 55 cranks only, too much an it’ll snap.
But seriously, it’s great when younger generations collect, repair and use things that were cutting edge when I was your age. You’ve probably seen the prices on things from he early-mid 80’s. Back then minimum wage got you around $460 a month if you worked full time and new electronics would eat at least a paycheck so things are a LOT cheaper today. You might like a neat little JVC Mini-DV camcorder model number: GR-DF550U. Apparently, it was the smallest video tape recorder made but I haven’t verified that. But, the recorder is small, about 4.5” long? I picked mine up by luck at Goodwill for $26, complete with all accessories and it was in excellent condition. I’m amazed how people never just clean off the grime from their fingers since a few of the various recorders in my collection have the same thing but it’s simple to clean, dang funky people. These days it’s tough to find cool things at goodwill since there’s so many “flippers” that resell online. And here in San Antonio, the Mexicans come and clean out all thrift shops and take it back into Mexico and sell stuff in their shops. I wonder how many years these things will last. Oh, if you buy replacement drive belts in a big kit, you’ll save tons of cash and never use rubber bands unless only for temporary repair, they rot pretty quickly.
Thanks for taking time to make this video.
Good call on the portable charger! My batteries used to last me around 15 minutes. Battery pack gives me a few hours! Gaff and Velcro taped the charger to the back of the camera. And keep my battery pack in a Fanny pack!
Nice that’s a great idea!
I think it looks really good. Did you add the noise in post? That purple looked cool as hell.
And that red button inside the front handle is also a record button. So you don't have to reach all the way to the back to start and stop. 😃
Yes. Shoot a whole video and not say it and see if we can tell. 🖖👽
All the shots were straight out of camera no editing. And ya I know about the red button it’s still a little awkward to start and stop.
Did you figure out a way to record the video without a vhs tape, like you mentioned toward the end of this video? Curious of what a setup like that would look like. Just bought these 2 JVC GR-C7 Camcorders from 1986. Thanks
Yes! And I have a video coming soon on this. But what I did was I captured it into my computer with a capture card.
@@JustAnotherChris thanks! This is dope. I'll be on tuned in
Awesome!!
Great video, I have one exactly like that camera since the 90's. And you inspired me to do some experiment with it. Thanks for the video 🤟😁📼
That’s awesome I’m glad to hear it! I hope to see you around in the future!
I'm in!! Super cool content man!
The man himself!! Oh man so much love right now!! Thanks for peeking the channel! Definitely inspired by you!
I love the way the footage looks! Plus the retrowave music! Sounds like desire! What kind of camera did you use?
As statin the video it’s a Panasonic
Fun projects you tinkered with! Says Yoda...
You deserve more recognition!
Subscribed! 💯💯💯
Thank you!
I have that same camera, among many others. You can actually adjust the FPS to 24fps (or any other) but it has a sort of striped transition between each frame. There’s a way to fix it, a UA-cam vid somewhere but I can’t remember the title. I definitely recommend a camera you can manually adjust like the rca cmr 300.
There is no way a VHS camera films at 24FPS, VHS is 60interlaced. You might get a strobe effect that will make it look like 30FPS.
@@reel_images Correct, it doesn't record in 24fps. I meant you can edit it once it's been digitally uploaded with programs like adobe premiere.
@@StrayCatMatt nice, yes. I love editing footage. You can take 60i and change it to 60p then drop it in a 30p time line and you have half speed slow motion.
Love this video!
Thank you!
How did you transfer the tape footage to digital?
I did a video on how to do that before this one just go back a few videos hope it helps.
Yeah I was about to say when the last time the pinch rollers were degunked and the heads cleaned
Either panasonic rebranded a quasar camera or the other way around because I have basically the same camera with the quasar brand name
Interesting 🤔
Where did you get that black tripod selfie thing that you used to hold the camcorder with? I'd like to get one of them.
VHSRecordingsStudio it’s called a gorilla pod.
Dude love this video. My dad was born in the 80s. He got me into these old nostalgic things. Do you think they would sell vhs camera and vhs player at goodwill?
Glad you enjoyed it!! Absolutely they do but there’s a chance it won’t work like what happened to me in this video.
Nathan same except I got my love for vintage pop culture from him but he didn’t try to get me into it I just loved it on my own and we’re the only ones in my family that love the old
I have that exact camera, the Panasonic, I just bought it and is there any tips you’d be willing to give? Should I buy a battery off Amazon?
Well the tips are in the video 😅
the sky looks like some anime on the vhs
I'm looking for a good VHS camcorder. I have a VHS-C JVC unit that pops Error 02 or 03 and spits out tape :(
This video was amazing
MajesticTech glad you liked it!
i have one thats from the 1992 olympics i found and bought from thrift store everything works still
Now that’s awesome!
A VHS camera that old may need new belts. You'll likely have disassemble it to replace the belts. Probably have to find someone to do that for you if this is something you aren't familiar doing.
look into Nelson Sullivan & the nine fifth avenue project; probably the first vlogger ever
I just bought this camera complete with light and case and battery but needs new battery ac works
0:18 He was looking at a flashlight
I think you put a normal vhs tape on the camera so the quality is only vhs and not s-vhs wich is better. S-vhs tapes make the camera auto select the s-vhs mode
Were you able to get your tape out?
Reeter yes I was
How did you get the footage off the camera more importantly the sound?
WING WONG I did a video on that if you want to check it out it’s the one after this one I believe. It’s linked at the end of this video in the card
What’s the song playing at 5:46
It’s from epidemic sound. It’s called reaching for dreams 3
Can someone tell me which Kamera he is using in this video ?
That info is in the video
You can actually still find brand new batteries for these old camcorders just gotta do a little research
Good to know!
I think my parents had an RCA camcorder. 😂
How to you edit with the vhs tapes
Cool Guy I did a video on just that. Take a look back it’s the one on the Roxio
This looks like you added the "VHS Noise Filter" to this. Compare the early showing to 13:05. When showing the 4x3 footage in Pillared format (black bars on left and right sides) and the "pop" noise is visible OUTSIDE the 4x3 area, in the pillars. The pillars should NOT part be part of the VHS footage. Why make fake adjustments? This would have been easy to capture in 4x3 from the tape playback & slap it into pillars. If those tape artifacts are supposedly part of the capture/transfer into your computer, I'd say BS. They don't appear later at 13:05 before you shrink the image. What, did you capture it twice? The capture wouldn't put data from the tape into the pillar areas. In 9:52, there are tape distortions (rainbows, banding) appearing outside the tape area in the pillars. However, at 13:05, none of those distortions & pops extend out to the pillar area before shrinking it down to inside the 1080 matte, plus the vast majority of those pops from the same footage capture (transfer to computer) are gone in the later showing.
Yes, recording through an A/D converter using the camera outputs and skipping the tape will be higher quality than using a tape. That gets into various tape qualities, an issue avoided by using the camera's outputs attached to a separate device to digitize. As far as the color shifting issues, that's white balancing, auto or otherwise. Also, being part of the consumer market, this is a low-quality single chip (single CCD) rather than a 3-chip (RGB CCD's) camera.
I shouldn't be amazed at the number of people making videos who really don't learn basics of photography and videography, not understanding how lenses matter before "Is it digital?" matters. In school, during one of my audio classes, we had students who believed that because "digital is better" then proper microphone placement didn't matter, or even in analogue, "Just EQ it later in post." I see a lot of this in the iPhone generation where people don't understand the mechanics of photography. If you never experienced it, it's the people who in childhood said that they didn't need to learn math because the calculator would do it for them. They never get the actual nitty-gritty of how & why things function. That's why there's the question toward the end about being able to record externally. It depends on what the camera's software (firmware) is built to do--pass-through, time before auto-shutoff while idle, if it runs the outputs while recording, etc. This video was stupid.
😂 nope all that footage was captured from VHS nothing was filtered or added. Only thing done in post was upscaling. If you are seeing a difference in footage quality That’s because it’s VHS tape it was not consistent plus I’m using a really old tape that has been rewritten over and over again, some parts are gonna look decent some are gonna look crappy
@@JustAnotherChris Then why are there tape-dependent noises in the areas that don't come from the tape? Gee, it's like you deliberately avoided that issue I raised. Look at the pillar areas. Why are they inconsistent between two different times you show the same footage? Compare to this video of yours where the tape-dependent issues do not go out into the pillars: ua-cam.com/video/dyIh56VVCVE/v-deo.html
Hahaha oh man you know what, I know what your talking about now. So instead of having my audience stare at a black screen around the 4:3 ratio of the VHS footage. I placed that footage over the top of an upscale VHS blank screen to add some flare to the edit. I’m so sorry that this is a BS method for you and that I don’t know anything about photography and videography and even audio for that matter, but hey Im get better everyday! I guess I need to take a class from you. Until then I will just stick to shooting on my iPhone and just fix it In post.
@@JustAnotherChris Your sarcasm aside, while I'm sure you have some training, you speak like people who have a picked up some jargon without the deeper understanding. I'm sure you have some training, but that's still how you speak. That's one reason why the video sucks.
Regarding your snotty, "I'm sorry that this is a BS method for you," is way off. The method you described is not what I was saying BS about. What I said I would call BS is NOT the method you laid out. I said I would call BS any claim that these happened in the transfer process. Why? I would have said BS those were tape artifacts, not transfer artifacts.
Earlier, "The only thing done was upscaling." Now, you're saying that you upscaled a separate black video (width upscaled as well) to use a the background matte and overlaid the park footage on it (also upscaled). So much for "only." That explains more, but not entirely. More importantly, you should have said that on the first go-around to explain that I'm mistaken about you adding effects to worsen the tape footage. However, all you've convinced me of that you neither read nor analyze very well.
what’s with the black edges?
Manuel Román Sánchez I guess I should have explained that for all the youngsters. VHS records an aspect ratio of 4:3 not 16:9 (widescreen)
Just Another Chris Lol isn’t it weird that we’ve reached a point in time where we have to explain the 4:3 Aspect Ratio to people now and that Widescreen didn’t exist until the Early 90s and 2000s ahaha lol 😂
TellyArchive haha right!?
omg im buying one
Do it!!!!!
Ha ha I love it
Thank you!!
Had to shut the video off at 2 mins in. Such a lame video😆cringey and not funny at all.
Love these comments so much thank you!!