Can You Vlog With a VHS Camcorder 

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've been looking into getting a retro camera and this is super helpful.. thank you !!

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.

I want a camera like that 🥺

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 :)

This was sick. The rock music playing in the background and then the synth wave. The static vhs transitions. So cool

I love it, bro the vhs recorder footage is so much better than the digital!!

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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 .

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 laughed so much with this video, thank you, friend.

that head nod in the beginning earned u a new sub lol

Cant believe your channel is not way bigger

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 🤟😁📼

Love this video!

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

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 :)

VHS is awesome and retro!

Yeah I was about to say when the last time the pinch rollers were degunked and the heads cleaned

I'm in!! Super cool content man!

I love the way the footage looks! Plus the retrowave music! Sounds like desire! What kind of camera did you use?

nice i like the vhs retro and low quality.. just raw clips 👌

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).

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?

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.

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!

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.

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 RU-vid vid somewhere but I can’t remember the title. I definitely recommend a camera you can manually adjust like the rca cmr 300.

Fun projects you tinkered with! Says Yoda...

This video was amazing

How did you transfer the tape footage to digital?

Bummer the first camera did not work. Digging the old camcorder video. Love the look.

Either panasonic rebranded a quasar camera or the other way around because I have basically the same camera with the quasar brand name

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

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?

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 :(

How did you get the footage off the camera more importantly the sound?

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.

I just bought this camera complete with light and case and battery but needs new battery ac works

Can someone tell me which Kamera he is using in this video ?

How to you edit with the vhs tapes

look into Nelson Sullivan & the nine fifth avenue project; probably the first vlogger ever

i have one thats from the 1992 olympics i found and bought from thrift store everything works still

the sky looks like some anime on the vhs

What’s the song playing at 5:46

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.

0:18 He was looking at a flashlight

Were you able to get your tape out?

I think my parents had an RCA camcorder. 😂

omg im buying one

Ha ha I love it

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

what’s with the black edges?

You can actually still find brand new batteries for these old camcorders just gotta do a little research

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.

Had to shut the video off at 2 mins in. Such a lame video😆cringey and not funny at all.