Accidentally ended up with my nephew's hand-me-down Canon P&S for a week, but it was so fun and freeing compared to using my Sony mirrorless and switching out prime lenses. I've been looking for a video exactly like this since before heading to my local flea market. Thank you so much!
I bought a sony dsc-h70 a little while ago, and i'm honestly super excited to shoot with it! I took in consideration pretty much all the points you told, even though it's a somewhat newer camera lol Thanks for the advice, and I'm really glad to have people like you in this community. I wish you well!
I still have my old digicams lying around from the a decade ago. Wanted to go out and buy a DSLR but now I can see myself practicing with these. Thanks for the video!!
Nice video. I started out with film in the 1970s, went all in digital around 2015 or so and have M32, APSc and FF. Recently getting into film both disposable and reusable point and shoot given to grand children. Then I remembered an old Canon SD1200IS I got in 2011 and is fun to use. Well I got it back out, got some extra batteries and it is still a ton of fun to use when I don't want to carry around one of my larger digital DSLR or Mirrorless bodies and lenses.
Watching this has inspired me to look through all of my gear that I haven’t used in decades. I have so many point and shoots & I should use them again.
I saw some digicams for cheap this weekend in my local flea market, i plan to go back next week with more time and get a couple of those to try them and see if i can get something cool. Thanks for the buying guide, i'll keep in mind some of your advices :)
You literally lista all the obstacles I had when I found out my "lost" Olympus FE-240 which I used back in 2009. No charger, no XD cards, no card reader. But it works now and I like it! Thank you fr very informative video!
@@tresageorge4156 I just searched card readers with XD option. Also you can find XD adapter for micro-SD card. This way you can buy micro-SD cards and use them with the adapter in FE-240. I have this setup for Olympus Mju-5000
It's about a year since the hype with digicams started and at this point many channels that would pick up this subject has already picked it up and yet the trend is in decline, so it's safe to say you are not risking not buying right now on a digicam. The reason why it won't pick up is because the main reason they had an appeal was the "colours", which is attributed to the CCD sensors, the compactness and the price. Sooner or later people will realise there are better fits for their list and also the limitations of these cams are not clearly showcased and people will quickly figure out. Either way some of the digicams that were actually interesting and that you won't waste your money over are these. Fujifilm's super CCD sensors were particularly interesting when it came their colour science, the bigger the resolution the more likely they bothered with the lens of the digicam. Sigma DP series is really well known for their foveon sensors having an insane resolution and microcontrast quality, they feel, look and operate like film cameras. Some Sony super RGB digicam seem interesting as well as their RGB-I cameras that supposedly they captured some part of the infrared spectrum. Finally some Ricoh digicams were said to be using a layer of CMOS filter to boost the operating speed of their CCD sensors by lowering the quality, that sounds interesting regardless. If you just want to try out the digicams any canon G or A digicam will do the trick. Enjoy as much as you can.
I've own a few of these cameras over the years. SDcard compatibility can be an issue. many of the older ones are not compatible with the SD-HC format. 2 GB is the largest size card that will work. You may have trouble finding these. One camera I got working by using a 1 GB microSD card with an adapter. Some older Olympus and Fuji cameras will use the xD Picture Card format. I remember it being difficult to find one a decade ago. Some cameras do have internal memory though. Many of them will also transfer using USB, but it'll be USB 1.1, and you'll need a mini USB cable. I like the A series Canons. They have enough manual controls to be really useful, all the way down to programmable white balance and manual focus. It's great that it uses AA batteries. The LADA rechargeable AA batteries they sell at IKEA work really well with cameras.
I just shot with my Canon Poweshot G3 this past weekend. I had a blast. I picked it up at a swapmeet ( another place to find retro digicams ) a couple years ago. It came with a charger, 4! batteries, two 2gb CF cards in a Lowepro bag. $60 ( Canadian ). It's only 4MP, has a tiny terrible screen yet I love using it. It has a 35-140mm f2-f3 lens. I generally just leave it at 35mm and snap away. Funny enough my best street photography snaps are taken with the G3. Lovely video by the way. Cheers!
Love 2005 Pentax *istDL I bought new and still use the 6 Megapixel CCD sensor produces pictures I have no problem posting on. I still have my 4 Megapixel Vivitar camera as well which was my first digital camera
My daughter really really love takinggg photos, but she's just using her phone. I badly want to buy her a digital camera to enhace her skill in photography
I come from the old days of 35 mm compact cameras and are thinking about getting a budget digital camera because although most people just use their smart phones to take pictures I don't really like them because certain phone apps have complete control over you photos and micro SD card Although you can just use an old mobile without a SIM card but mobile phones are just to large to use comfortably
With ccd sensor, pany lx3 and lx5 are recommended..i have some old ccd high-end compact cams...lx3 is my everyday carry..really fun camera as i use it more and more..
Recently had chance to get a Casio zr200 from 2012 I guess, it is so cute, easy to use and takes great pictures as it really has great technical features(for the time it was made, yet still good nowadays)! I had a zr400 before this, I almost cried when it fell and broke...
I have a Canon Ixus 100s for colour and a 2005 Ricoh GR digital for black and white.. The Canon was £10 and the Ricoh was £135 because it's a cult camera. Both are excellent 👍
i have 2 digital old cameras that run on aa batteries but problem is no matter how new and charged battery i put in they die really fast what might be the problem here? and how can i fix it?
HELLO I have been searching for a digital camera that’s really high quality and like not “blurry” ykwm? The ones I see are all look too blurry for my taste. I do love the 2000s-90s vibe but I want it to look CRISP still do you have any recommendations 😭??
I have found 5 digicams in the scrap piles, as well as a Nikon D40 DSLR that works. These are the ones i currently have: Sony Cybershot DSC-W230, red, works Panasonic lumix DMC-FS10, 1 black and 1 silver, both dead :( Casio Exlim Zoom EX-Z80, pink, dead :( Panasonic lumix DMC-TZ30, black, works
The T700 is nice, but they often suffer from the impossible-to-repair built-in EV steadyshot stabilization as they tend to fail and screw with the focus. I would recommend the T5 or T7 as those don't have steadyshot built-in, or the newer TX series which use CMOS sensors but have optical steadyshot which is much more reliable. But any other T-series model is a no-no if you're looking to find one that's working properly for cheap.
Disagree most profoundly with some of this. You don't need 7+ MP to get really good results. Stored away on various cards, USB sticks etc.., I've got some really good shots from 3+ MP cameras. This fascination with MP count is really daft. What counts a lot is the quality of the lens.
I'm gonna be so honest, your 3mp shots are probably insanely low res to a point where on a modern screen you wouldn't need to pixel peep to see how bad it is in term of resolution With MP I think the lowest that you should go before you're using a potato is around 7 to begin with
@@andrewpreston4127 sure I am for having an actual informed opinion based on analysing old pics against new pics on a high res display. You're mad I'm calling out your bs
@@cine-ish The only BS on display here is your own. Anyone who knows anything at all about photography knows that the quality of a photograph comes from the quality of the lens, and the abilities of the person, long before the megapixel count.
@@andrewpreston4127 completely disregarding megapixels and resolution is dumb, it's all good having an actual well composed image but if it's taken on something that very low res it'll look good from afar until you actually inspect the image properly. But what should I know, you're the professional.
