Trying out the APS-C Sony R1 Camera 

It's quirky, but cool and surprisingly effective...

Ooo, I'm with you. The more physical buttons the better xD

I haven't pushed the limits, but it does start to break down pretty quick when I bump up the ISO, so that makes sense.

That's smart. Just a piece of finished leather that you cut to shape and adhered?

@@snappinessvlogs I used a fairly thick leather ( close to 2 mm ), a piece of paper and a crayon to trace the edge on the outline of the indent and made adjustments until I got the perfect stencil. Glued it in using some contact cement for plastics. It should also be pretty resilient.

See if you can talk them down! That's a fair price in the current market, but I'm with you that I'd want it a little lower :)

@snappinessvlogs I ended up getting it for $140, and it actually came with more accessories than I thought it would. It had a memory card, and the card reader with it. It's in like brand new condition too.

I was just oblivious then - it looks way fun. And cool that so many free parks have courses. Sounds right up my alley 😁

@@snappinessvlogs Here in Southern NJ we are behind in the number of courses to player ratios, but slowly catching up. I have been playing for about ten years, and my girls play too, they are now 12 and 15. My oldest started around 7. It is a lot of fun...and you can get out early and photograph nature in the process.

@@snappinessvlogs oh and thanks for the shout-out

Must be a regional thing. Both are correct, just different ways of saying it.

@@snappinessvlogs Maybe you can enlighten me, a metric guy: the whole imperial system is quite clear to me (not that I don't have trouble using it with callipers and such, but that's a different story) but 2/3", 1/3" and 1/4", all rather standard sizes in sensorland are clear to me: two-thirds of an inch, one-third of an inch and a quarter inch: no problems there. But how on earth do you pronounce 1/2.3" ? I'm always glad I can use a digital calliper at work (aviation) when I need to check parts, as an analog one boggles my mind compared to metric sizes...

Yes yes of course :D What a great camera.

@@snappinessvlogs and btw you should think about a place for everyday growing community to make you even busier

This was the Insta360 Go2. It's not super great quality, but it's small size and ease of use makes filming very frictionless.

I love these old quirky body designs

And to be honest, I still like it sooo much and I was so disappointed to see Sony ended up with the same design every other manufacturer went along with when I was about to buy something new as the focus started malfunctioning. It didn't get dirty as you'd inevitably get on every other camera these days as you press your nose against the screen, it has a HUGE eyepiece that you can really use to dig the camera into your face for added stability and if only the screen would have articulated more over the viewfinder this probably would have been a formfactor that could have lived on in other models as it made room for buttons where other cameras have the screen. And oh... the grip... ever since I bought a new one, not one camera has lived up to my expectations of being able to GRAB the thing. I've got long, slim fingers and almost every camera out there (even expensive high-enders like Canon EOS D5 my sister got) lacks the space I need to be able to grab and hold onto the thing, with my Canon EOS600D or so I bought as a replacement being the worst thing ever. Besides the fact I switched from an EVF-camera (The R1) to an optical viewfinder camera (which I just could not get used to after 13 years with my R1) and the fact I lost seperate controls for aperture and shutterspeed, where I had to press an extra button on my Canon meant I got rid of it after a year and 4000 pictures or so. It just was not my camera. Got a GH5 now, mainly because of the better grip, but the R1 still wins when it comes to the grip. When it comes to buttons in odd places, the GH5 really is a shit-thing... it has too many buttons and some are just in inexplainable locations: who on earth thinks it's a good idea to put the 'disp' (display) button at the spot where your thumb rests when you hold the camera like you should? I've pressed it so many times by accident... Oh yeah, the sales-guy at the store completely wrapped me with his pitch when I bought it in 2006, as I had set my mind on another brand though similar model. But hey, I was 18, felt like I was bursting with cash from my vacation-job and thus happily spent the 1100 Euro (probably the same in Dollars) on it. But in hindsight I was glad I bought it and it has lasted for so long (well, it still works, but focus is a bit of a gamble... something is broken inside which means it usually focuses okay, but it can produce a very blurry image once every so often)