It's all about managing expectations. If you expect a Fujifilm camera clone, it's crap. But if you expect a Lomo camera using outdated film, it's a gem. And for the price, it's a big "find".
@@1pinestreet As long as it is something obscure and not given attention by a RU-vidr or celeb, you can get old point and shoots for dirt cheap. My Canon A470 was just $16 from eBay a year ago but I don't know what the fuck happened as it is now selling for $40 or more.
@@ej_tech you made an excellent point about RU-vidrs making videos on old cameras. There were quite a few great p&s cameras that after a few years were quite cheap on the used market. Then someone makes a video about what an amazing deal they've become, and before you know it they're selling for close to the price as when they were new.
i feel like this is quite a effort of some talented chinese folks who has passion with electronic but lack of money to afford real sensor and optical quality to their production.
A cheap but dedicated camera like this with a modern smartphone camera software and processing will be really nice fun beginner camera for kids or maybe fot adults as well
Bought one ,not from Ali,and paid more, for my seven year old granddaughter, I am a photographer and she is super interested, and just wanted to get her off the I phone,and to learn a few basics for the future…it is exactly like your review..Very very pleased. Other beginner cameras were just silly. I tested their new model which now has a selfie feature, and they gave it to me…so now Lily and I are twins! My only gripe is the cable to transfer pictures only works for a pc…I bought a card reader and much simpler for a,little girl. She can take the card out and transfer to her I pad. Battery life not super, only 900 mah, but turned off the bells and whistles and that greatly improves the battery life…also very user friendly,no big learning curve.. .it looked and was packaged just like the one I bought her(same as above,I swear they all come from the same factory)…it also had a pleather cover,which we took off. The retro look is quite good except for the Leica owners.😂😂😂. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts!
@@TomCalton this sounds weird to say, but i would without hesitation buy this if it had... LESS features. don't need video modes. don't need filter options. don't need a screen. don't even need color- just give us contrasty noisy black and white. like literally make a mini leica monochrom and i would buy this in a heartbeat. and you can see clearly they can very much create something like that but for whatever reason they think people need "features" as if under $40 wasn't the main point.
I thought this was going to be a 'rip off scam' story. Its not a fake because they dont claim it is a Fujifilm X100V or put a Fuji logo on it. For $35 its OK if you accept its limitations, maybe for a child or just to have some fun. Fujifilm won't even sell you an X100V lens hood for $35
The motion detection function would be actually pretty amazing for something like filming birds or other animals. I used to have a gorgeous birb coming to a bird feeder I made two winters ago. I really wanted to take a photo of it, but it was quite easily spooked and it flew away every time it noticed any motion. It looks like this cheap camera would be quite handy if I had it back then.
Thanks for this video. I’ve seen it on Ali Express and never considered purchasing this camera. I’m 71 and one thing I’ve learned is you get what you pay for. There is no way I’d take the chance of buying this camera. This video validates my opinion. That being said, for the money this camera isn’t as bad as I had imagined. I go to Good Will on line and have found some old cameras in this price range. That is where I’d invest my $35. Point and shoots with a glass lens. I imagine a much better photography experience. Mask On Nurse Marty(Ret)
I thought the same thing. Though, it's heavily discounted and the original RRP was apparently $99, so perhaps they're just cutting their losses and trying to shift the units they have?
@@TomCalton they still profit at $35. I've been to china and there are countless warehouses just full of old and terrible electronic components that nobody wants. More than you can imagine. So on one hand, it's kind of good if someone is making something from basically e-waste, even if it is crap.
Just a warning, that "64gb" sd card, might not actually be 64gb. Your PC will show it as being 64gb, but when you actually write data to it, anything above a certain amount (probably 1gb) will just disappear.
I get surprisingly good photo results from mine indistiguishable on facebook from those from a Leica, it is light and easy to use with good autofocus and very sharp pictures with good contrast as long as you do not use the 'zoom' or pixel peep, ideal for taking everywhere even the beach and freeing oneself from photo technique so as to concentrate on the image and the composition. The colours are very good. The downside is reliability in that that some pictures taken seem to get lost and do not transfer to lightroom so it is a toy in that respect but much easier to use and more fun for taking pictures than a smartphone.
It reminds me of those Russian "toy," cameras you used to be able to buy back in the film days. Minus the horrible lens aberrations and light leaks of course.... 🤣
I think it's better to gift an old "soap digital" camera from Canon than this thing. Unless you live in China and you don't have some very old used cameras locally. I think it could be used as a cinema prop... For example if some "street photographer" is being hit or falls accidently and it breaks it's nice old Leica (by the script). Obviously you'll not use a real Leica/Fuji (anything valuable) in a budget cinema :)
It could be worse, it could be a Canon 2000D/4000D. I bought one of these, doesn't work like any timelapse I've ever done, but it's a laugh and not that bad. Good to have in the car, just in case something unexpected photo opportunity comes.
I bought my wife a Canon G9 years ago, apart from fitting a couple of lens flex cables it has been brilliant, and still holds it's own against any newer type of compact cameras.
But what was the ACTUAL MP size of the photos? I mean, of course not the claimed "48". But what is it, really? Guessing, I'd say between 6 and 8 MP. Maybe they "upscale" it in the camera, though, to make the output images larger?
Its a camera with built in wish list feature. I wish it did 4k I wish it did slo mo, I wish it had a mic input. You can upgrade each one for a couple of hundred dollars until you actually own a fuji.
I honestly think all the problems you had can be solved by changing the SD card. The write speed of the card is probably to slow for 4k and it would also explain the slow pictures it takes. Of course that wouldn't fix the horrible audio
I’d be curious if the 4K framerate issues are related to cheap supplied SD card? It might be frame limited due to write speed, have you tried a faster card for science?
We call this ‘Dash Cam’ in photography community in China, Some companies recycle many of the overcapacity dash cams and transform them into '4k cameras'😂
Nobody buys AliExpress, and I am sure this camera was advertised for a song. The price would have told you it is fake. Cheap things are not good and good things are not cheap.
I love it when people who make cheap rip off nevertheless try to make something of it within the limits set to them! Imagine a kid who gets this camera from a street market and gets creative with this. I can see a similar effect as with a Diana or Holga camera! It can remind open minds of the best "processor" on the "market"; the one between the ears...;--)
With the videos I se about cameras like this I always feel like its really cheap an for just a lite bit more money they can remove some of the enoying things and make it better. And also add more quality to this camera. I guess if we had the same camera but without letting it look like another camera than the company that made it can use that money to let it look like something else and invest it to make the camera better in other ways. They should not lie about the resolution of the photos and videos but just give us what it is. And also give it a better processor inside so that all the things that require more power actually work really good. I guess making a generic camera without any features stolen or copied anywhere will make the value for money definitely nicer!
