Street Photography on old Digicams 

Guys! Here’s a follow-up video where I talk more in depth about the Ricoh Caplio R1 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--HJChBHOZJw.html

I grew up in film era and I still shoot film so I understand the nostalgia factor, but the revival of old digital cameras is a trend I never saw coming

i love the nostalgia factor that old digicams bring. your photos are beautiful!!

I found our old camera in the house and now carry it with me everywhere. Much nicer form-factor than even a slimmer, mirrorless camera and nice for snapping quick photos throughout your day. I enjoy film, but definitely did not expect to be bringing the old digicam back out of the closet lol

Just picked up a 2008 sony cyber shot and im actually impressed at how good it holds up.

Using a relatively old IXUS 175 here, cause its the only one i have...

are these photos you are showing on screen edited? or do they come out of the camera it’s that color?

Hey! Loved the video! just wondering if the discord is still running? the link doesn't seem to work anymore :(

Canon ixy digital 70 6mp For b&w photography

What kind of SD card can I use for the Olympus FE-170?

i have been waiting for this trend to come back for ages! i love my old digicams. don’t get me wrong, the dslr is excellent in most situations but I miss the comfort of carrying a small compact camera. also, NOSTALGIA! And your photos are absolutely stunning. I am inspired to take photos again

Cameras used in this video: Ricoh Caplio R1 - 02:00 - 03:30 Olympus FE-170 - 02:27 Canon PowerShot A2400 IS -05:10

I bought a Sony DSC-S75 back in 2001 for $700 (3.2-3.3 megapixels). I used it to take photos in the real estate industry so I was able to write most of the cost off. I took it all over the world including the Galapagos Islands with stunning results. That is, if I didn't crop much because it would pixelate badly quickly. I had a friend that had the Sony DSC-S85 (same camera but 4.1 megapixels) which made a HUGE difference in a cropped image so I bought one about 4 years ago for $15. They have Zeiss lenses! I now use it along with one of my film cameras on my local Beers and Cameras photowalks. It's slow to use so I slows me down therefore I take more care with each shot. However keep in mind, these cameras are TERRIBLE in low light without a flash.

Aesthetic is personal in the end, and I think the end result of some of your shots greatly illustrates this. New subscriber, but as a fellow photographer I appreciate the throwback appreciation.

These videos just gives me the idea of how the quality sometimes does not really matter. It is how you take the picture.

Between film and digital, I have amassed an embarrassing amount of cameras. I simply love them as tools, and I always try to look for particular models with some interesting features or quirks. I basically shoot with anything, but I've been shooting with older digicams for about 4 years now. For me, the reasons are mainly two: 1) I find I prefer the output of CCD sensors over CMOS sensors; I don't know if it's because I come from film and the way a CCD sensor renders colours is more akin to film… or if perhaps I'm just weird for not minding when shadows get crushed or highlights blown if the photo ultimately has character and mood. 2) It all began with me wanting to prove that older digital cameras from the 2000s were still perfectly good tools to take photos and that you don't necessarily need the latest and greatest to take good photos (yes, even professionally). The fact that now these older digicams appear to be the latest trend in photography is partly heartwarming and partly frustrating because, naturally, prices in the used market for this kind of cameras are rising. Not reaching insane prices, mind you, but in some cases they're already passing that 'cheap & cheerful' threshold that makes this style of photography fun to begin with. I really enjoyed your video, David. Keep up the good work! Cheers, //Rick

More of this, please. Subbed!!

I recently found my old Olympus FE-350 wide 2007 camera, with a bunch of videos I took from I was 8. It really unlocked some deep childhood memories. Guess I’ll start trying to photograph me & my friends because the quality and sensor really do bring out the nostalgia you were talking about.

I love your ‘photo eye’, great photos. I mostly shoot B&W film, but always put an old digital in my pocket. I have Canon PowerShot S500 and SD1000, which I bought new back in the day. I got the SD1000 for backpack camping because of its size and weight factor. Love it.

I wanted a compact camera and bought a used sub-compact Olympus E-MP1 (Pen Mini). I wish that more camera brands would do sub-compact bodies like that! It's so much fun to have lens flexibility on a small form factor. I've since moved on to the E-PL9 which unfortunately doesn't allow for a nice viewfinder, but I do use it a lot and especially use it with a bunch of weird and fun vintage lenses.

thank you for assuring me that i can get good photos with my 12 megapixels

Nice :-). I like older Digicams too and have a tiny collection oft them. Most times I made landscape photo walks. My favorite ones are the Panasonic Lumix LS3 and the Samsung ES15. At the moment I am experimenting with the Fuji FinePix E500, a 4 MP camera from 2004. With greetings from lower Bavaria

I'm shooting around now with a digicam we purchased decades ago: a Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS Digital Elph 12.1 megapixels. It's truly amazing, even in low light. Been missing out on a lot of fun with that little guy!

I use mostly old digicams. My favorites are the hole Kodak c series it has the typical Kodak look and ccd sensors are actually Analog sensors that works with an Digital impreter. You get the film like look and i like the Trend! It is cool to give this things a new purpose. Greetings from germany

I have a Ricoh Caplio R4 and really like it as well. The old Ricohs were really light on noise reduction, so at higher ISO you get a nice film-like grain (just do some color noise reduction on your computer to remove color blotches.) The original 8MP Ricoh GRD is pretty expensive now, but some lesser known Ricohs are really good too.

I am shooting on the Canon IXUS 125 hs. Modded it using CHDK to capture Raw

I will always prefer a camera with physical buttons and a strap, to a phone that seems like it was designed to slip out of your hand as easily as possible! Wish I could still afford to buy and develop film, the camera designs of the 70's through 90's have yet to be beaten! Especially Olympus with the 35RC, XA, and original Stylus/Mju.

Yesterday I bought a "nikon l4" for $3.75. He is beautiful😊

I don't understand why people can take good photos 🥲

Time for a new music paradigm with photography channels. It’s really done

the cleanliness of the streets have me absolutely jealous, the u.s breaks my heart yet again

Old digicams have its 'advantages', if you can call them that. I recently got a Sony DSC-S40, a camera I wanted to get back in the day but couldn't afford it because, well, I was in high school and I was broke, so... Anyway, I've been loving it so far. It's limited, yes, but those limitations force me to plan my shots more carefully and focus on composition and make use of natural lighting. If I need a quick picture, I'd probably pick my phone instead. But if I go on a walk around the city, most of the time I'm taking this camera with me.

You cant find SD card? What a shame...

Old digital cameras have something magical about their colors, my old Canon Powershot A620 is so much better then every mobile phone and even some half-professional cameras in getting this tones and hues

I bought an EOS M to use magic lantern on but decided I'd rather use it like this with vintage lenses. Loved this video. I loved the colors of the Olympus camera

While the uptick in popularity is raising the prices of these cameras beyond what should reasonably be paid for them, I love seeing content that proves to people that you don't need to spend thousands, or even hundreds, of dollars on a fancy mirrorless to make stunning images. A few months ago I picked up an old fujifilm finepix z10fd, being part of the problem and paying a bit more than I should've because its decal was just unreal in the vibe department and I've been in love with it ever since. Here I was thinking that 7-megapixels would be laughably bad, but the little guy is a beast. I especially love the black and white filter for a super filmic look, beyond that adding just a bit of digital noise and light color correction / grading in post goes such a long way. I'm not a pro photographer but for my needs (instagram, small-mid size prints, visual design assets), it's plenty. Edit* there's a blue one on ebay right now going for about $80, smh *do not* pay that much for this camera. Look at other fd models, most will be comparable, try not to pay over $50, $30 is a sweet spot from what I've seen, if you'll make money using it, you do you and adjust accordingly.

I have a Panasonic LX5 which has a CCD sensor and the images are wonderful and very film like.

i don't write well in english... i live in russia and take pictures with different old cameras and it's very interesting experience. Many people think that old cameras have become obsolete, but I am completely sure that old cameras are an important step in the life of a photographer.

I agree with Dawn. Please do more of this kind of videos. And I just subbed too! 😀

So, any digital camera with a shutter, lens, image sensor and a memory card can give us great images… who knew? Cheers!

I still use my Fujifilm FinePix F100fd, which I bought because it has a big sensor ( 1/1.6" ) for that price range. Don't know if that cam with 12 megapixels falls into that category, but it seems I have to use it also in the future, especially after checking latest cam prices 😄

i have a fujifilm finepix a400, i took it on a trip to france in 2014 when i was nine and i found lots of memories on it when i dug it out so that was cool. im going to give it a new life and do car photography with it now i think.

Great video! You gotta be careful about investing any time or hope into these old cameras. This video has some great examples of why that is. The Ricoh and Olympus suffer from a huge lack of dynamic range (blown highs and lost lows). This alone disqualifies them from ever being considered as successors to or substitutes for real film, and in my view they could never be used as any kind of alternative to modern cameras. The Canon is better, and I can see a case for carrying it, since it's small and takes reasonable pics. But none of these cameras takes better pics than a modern smart-phone.

I have an old canon a410, that despite it's old age and only being 3.2megapixels, can take some phenomenal looking photos, like seriously the amount of detail and colour production is actually very impressive for being nearly a 17 year old camera. Unfortunately it is a bit difficult to use since the lcd display and the flash is completely busted/broken, but I got a work around by using my phone and an otg adapter to see the images that I take, and a bright flashlight as the flash😂. Low light still has lots of noise, but it still retains the details and colours. Canon powershots are very impressive little cameras. One day I'll try fixing the flash and lcd display.

I use Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W710 and it has.... actually very good quality but I shoot at 2MP at times for nostalgia

Thank you! I am about to receive a Canon A520 4mp camera and can't wait to try some shots with it. Beautiful shots you took, thanks so much for sharing them and your knowledge.

Asked my mom today to give me her old Panasonic lumix, so excited to take cool shots soon. Loved your vid and photography.

Hola David me gusta tu estilo buscando los contrastes y las sombras,mi ultima adquisición fue una Olimpus SZ 17 muy compacta del año 2015 con 16 mp.También me gusta mucho mi canon Pow er Shot G2 con 4 mp y es del año 2000 es un juguete impresionante de la vieja escuela con colores muy sedosos bueno felicidades por tu canal y feliz navidad brhoter

I have a 2010 Sony that is like 12 or 16MP, takes pictures better than most (if not all) smartphones...

I found my parents 📸 , Nikon S7000, Sony Cyber shot T90, and canon forgot the model

I shoot with the canon IXUS 100 IS and its and incredible camera to shoot photos and videos it has a 12.1 megapixel count, I don't know if it is better than the canon SD1000 because that's all I'm seeing all over RU-vid. Someone let me know if I should buy it...

great video!! i’m about to receive a polaroid i534 digital camera and i’m wondering just what type of SD card would be suitable for it in 2024 i’ve done some searching on my own and it says that the newer SD cards (SDHC, SDXC) wont work on it😢 would love to hear your input on it!!

I have FE-170 and really love the tone color. I have Olympus Stylus 550WP too but the color tone is much much better on FE-170 although it's 3 years apart

I have Powershot A520 which I got as a step between Coolpix L4 and my DSLR. I used it actively for about 2 years before another upgrade and it was mainly for night shooting: light trails, nightscapes etc. It's pretty good in that regard, but you do need to stack few images to get rid off the noise more often than not.

I managed to find a classic Sony DSC-V1. Great camera with full feature manual controls. I was also able to grab hold to a Tamrac Zipshot tripod which is great to use with compact digital cameras. Night shots are a lot more fun to capture.

i'm not too familiar with science of photography lol but i'm a hobbyist, and i love these retro cameras and photos i'm very tempted on getting an old camera like that, though i'm not sure what i can find here in serbia nor what to look for exactly

I wish they'd still make Canon A-400 type cameras.

Thank you very much for this very interesting video. Take care of yourself.

I'm using sony dsc-t2 digicam. It has it strengths and weaknesses but it's serving me well as a beginner camera. I might try doing street phtgy with it.

Hola David, he comprado la bikini coolpix L10, no sé qué tal cámara es, y si me podrías aconsejar y decirme cómo editas las fotos o con qué configuración tiras las fotos. Muchas gracias y un saludo!

I grew up with film cameras. Then, the first memory of buying a camera was back in 2008-10 back when digicams were popular. I have used three digicams from thence till 2022 - two pocket ones, and a point-and-shoot regular shaped body. Ahead of the trend if you will 😆 I have to say, these produced much better photos than my smartphone, whether it be my budget smartphone, or my parents' high end ones, even with me researching to get the best possible cameras in phones. There are downsides to these. The biggest one will be battery life. Some will die within the hour. Most will last about 4-5 hours, and those will be the pocket sized ones with little zoom and little screens. The second downside is night photography. Well, if you don't spend unhealthy amounts of money on smartphones every year, then probably both the phone and digicams will be equally unusable. It's a matter of whether you like the Solar flare flash or the mugshot flash aesthetic. Jokes aside, I found myself going back to smartphones a lot of times due to these drawbacks. With the unsatisfactory colours and details and all. Eventually when I got my own proper interchangeable lens camera, I fell so deeply in love with that thing, that I committed to it. Now of course, I like a slow and intentional feel of digicams, also the colours. So I tuned my camera that way - got some colour filters from nikon's picture control site, turned to all manual (or program mode as I wished) and carried that thing everywhere like the film days. No one bothered when 5 year old me was sitting at the restaurant with a Nikon F3, and no body bothers when I have a similar sized camera with me now. On the contrary, I have piqued the interests of young children now and days with my camera so boldly dangling from my chest instead of resting on a phone in my pocket. Young tweens and teens come up to me and ask me about the camera, to take photos with it, and demand their parents for one. You can make an exception for the "no body gets bothered" statement there 🙃 Of course, if you don't really have the budget, you could go for a digicam. You *could* go for older DSLR or even film cameras, but I imagine most of you want the portability, and it's not like these things are going for £100s or anything. If you already have a regular size camera though, just customize and intentionalise that beauty. Trust me, forgetting to charge your batteries before you're heading out is not a good feeling, especially when that means you can't take the camera with you.

@davidvongries Hi do you know where can i find the Ricoh cameras i tried amazon but can't find them thanks

I wonder why GoPro doesnt make type of cams that comes w 1"" inch sensor & better image quality??? :/

Hey man looking to purchase the Canon one u reviewed in this video but a $200 price tags a bit pricey for me. You think u can hook me up with a few discounts or pick ups? Thanks man. Lotsa love!

I got the SONY DSC W150 , silver, released on 2008 ,8MP. Still operating

until now SONY stills selling digicams and I really wonder why what for?? Since its the age where android phones were already used for taking pictures aside from DLSR on events.. Some says digicam uses for VLOGGING nowadays.

i just bought a digicam from a live selling shop here and im still looking for a memory card. I got a memory card reader already. I like the Rico cam, really close to film outputs

Oh wow portraitmode sounds like a great site for feedback and criticism (I say knowing full well that I'll only upload my images there for approval from stangers to make me feel better about my photography)

I still use the camera of my Nokia C6-01 from 2010 (alright not that old) for nostalgic purposes.

I still have my Fujifilm FinePix A205s 2MP in a cupboard

"4 to 8 mp for nostalgic shot" nice gonna remember that. gonna find some old camera. I only have HP CC330 with 16 mp

i found an old sony cybershot DSC-HX9V in my grandads cupboard, how good is it for photography?

1:33 I shoot on the 2009-Super CCD Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S930 And are the photos edited?

im making photos on 50 yr old analog pentax superprogram on black-white film

I do not know about your feeling. But for me, shooting photographs with old digital camera is very fun and have a lot challenging. I like your shoot.🤩

These days you can get older style low pixel count in newer models that are sold at budget prices for those people who don't want to spend hundreds on a Digital camera and just want one for basic snapshots the only problem with the modern basic models is that they use their own unique smaller mobile phone style battery rather than specialized lithium batteries that were made by energizer or Duracell and therefore were easy to replace

Photos look fantastic for 4mp really surprising

I have a Kodak C743 camera (7Mp) that was one of the early cameras that I bought for my wife. The colors are typically Kodak and very pleasing. More recently, I picked up a few cameras at a local thrift store, each for around $5. One is a Pentax Optio E50 camera (8Mp) that gives nice results. Another is a Fujifilm A170 camera (10Mp) that I was very excited about. Unfortunately, I think they may have been pushing the limits on that sensor and the results are not as pleasing as those produced by the other two cameras. My favorite thrift store find was a Canon Powershot SX110is camera (9Mp). I like it so much that I often use it as my travel camera when I don't want to be taking my Fujifilm X-T20 camera with me. The lens is outstanding and the Canon colors are great.

Hi I got a Nikon coolpix s9050 12M 15X.5 wide optical zoom ED VR

I recommend Ricoh caplio GX (5mp), GX8, GX100, Fujifilm F700, Panasonic Lumix LC20(2mp), LC40 & LC5 (with Leica branded lens), and Kodak M series like M577 touch. All these are good for simulating a film look . The Ricoh GX and GX8 have no noise reduction and can produce a nice grain like look. Thanks for posting your photos and camera insights.

I'm using the Olympus pen mini with a fixed 25 mm lens. It's great

I have a Nikon Coolpix A100 compact digicam. I like to shoot with it 😁

Just bought today the Sony DSC-350W for 40€. Cant wait to see what can i get from it

Where did you take the photos? Seems like a nice town

2:13 sorry i dont get whats film like about that. Just looks like low quality digital picture, which is exactly what it is.

I have a canon powershot a495 but it tells me to change the batteries when they’re new 😢 could be that the lid is loose and the batteries don’t make contact with it

i have my father's sony dsc s2100 at home i'm desperately trying to fix

Love your vids man, i love the humor everything, keep it up :)

i have powershot a2200 is it still a great digi cam?? for that kinda street photography?? thankyuu

I'm still shooting with a Panasonic DMC-TZ7

Hi, what is the best digicam you recommend.. I want to buy one please

Why are these camera for some not good enough anymore? Why should we have the best of the best camera's? Older cameras are great to

I still have a Kodak EasyShare C813 (8.2MP), and I love the black & white photos it takes. I've been getting back into messing with photography and using this camera specifically because I wanted an authentic nostalgic feel lol but my main go to is still my Olympus pen E-PL1

1:33 I shoot on the 2009-Super CCD Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S930

Samsung s760 is also a decent cam to get. and a cheap one too. i like taking car pictures with it.

I think I still have an old Sony 4 megapixel cam around.

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hi! why is the ricoh caplio your favorite among the 3? :)

it's all about the content, none of the these shots look interesting imo - forget about quality

My mom bought a nikon coolpix l120 in 2011 now i have it and its good