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I just bought a near mint D800 body in the original box with everything for £420 UK ($522) including shop warranty -- the shutter count was 7, 845! I've shot a couple of hundred test images now to make sure my lenses all work accurately when AF tuned on it. They do. 👍 Used D800 bodies are unfashionable now, significantly cheaper than D810 bodies, but still excellent for experienced DSLR shooters.

This Rajiv dude was a genius: the camera itself is like a gold mine - with patience you'll strike gold through a combintion of images stitched from multiple lenses

Impossible to watch videos on street photography and others without having to put up with tattooed forearms and hands .... absolutely disgusting 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I like people who break the "rules.'"

Does yours got auto focus?

Still using A mount bodies and lenses, no rush to go E mount when Minolta and other A mount lenses are such great deals. Would love to have an A99 body.

What resolution setting did you use?

Great review !!! I've been on the fence between this camera and a Nikon D300. The Nikon has live view, but no image stabilization as does the Sony. I do have a whole pack of Konica AR mount lenses I'd like to use but both models require and adapter with extra glass for infinity focus that I am concerned about degradation of image quality. On the other hand I do own a whole assortment of Sony A mount lens from a Minolta film camera I have. So two questions... Which camera would you go with ? And do these adapters with infinity focus glass compromise image quality ? Thanks

Just curious, what did you film this video on I love the look!

ahahahaha lol, the cat meme 😆

5:2 5:17 The horizon have to be one first o second third

I received my Retro Snap today. It's... Very, very bad.

Wow! a Golden Eye reference! LOL. I use to play that all the time.

Harinezumi >>>

Mirrorless suck.. It's not photography. Cheers! D.

Yep. I bought the 800E myself, (7100 shutter count, like new, 450.00) and I am thrilled. It is such a nice camera. Paired with the Tamron 24-70mm G2 (like new, 500 bux) and I want to tell you, this set is so nice its just unbelievable. Less than 1000 for the pair. For kick around, I have a pair of d90s, and a d7200. I use the d90s a lot more since I am out in the bushes a lot kicking around and for a 100 bux I am not too concerned about breaking one. I pair them with a D series AF 70-210mm, total investment under 200 bux.

u wanna be a hater so bad

With simple and cheap digital cameras often a text-file (called 'date-time' or something like that) will be created on the memorycard. Dunno if this camera works the same? If it does: open the text via an appropriate programm, correct the date and approx time. Often the last letter will be a 'y' (of 'yes'). Change that to 'n' (of 'no'), insert the card back into the camera, power up the camera quicly so that it reads this text-file and the date-time stamp should be gone. As it stands, this Retrosnap has only its smaller size and the handy build-in filters going for it, imo. Colors look waaay off (weird/bad white balance) and exposure isn't anything to write home about either. BTW: when I looked up 'retro snap', I got to a website on which they tried to sell a miniature digicam that is available on Aliexpress for around $10-15.

The Canon 60D was my first "serious" DSLR I bought (before that I had Rebels which were/are still great but the 60D granted me that second control wheel and top info plate.) It was the first camera that I considered to be my "Workhorse" for Event photography. I've got one on order re-buying it after 10 years from when I sold my original one. Looking forward of re-uniting with it after a decade.

I see one for cheap. Are battery replacements a problem. I think the digilux 2 and the x vario a were the most interesting

The Retrosnap always looked sus because the website was so well made without any info about whether it's out yet or reviews (because it wasn't out yet). There's also a completely different camera called retro snap that comes up when you search. The fact that they specifically advertised features people wished that camp snap had showed they were trying to compete and not just design something on their own. It felt not very genuine. But the worst part is, they have samples on their site and they look nothing at all like the results people are getting. Their photo samples actually look likethey were taken on camp snap.

Wow the retro snap looks bad

Well done. Thank you btw I have the Pro model with D780 and it works great. Love it

Love this camera! I shot a full documentary on it. For low light, Siriu makes some beautiful low light lenses and focus peaking helps the shallow depth of field, I’m able to shoot in the dark with little grain. The IBS makes it the best run and gun solo camera, never used a tripod with it ONCE.

Thanks for the video. I noticed your ultrasonic humidifier and as a camera/electronics "enthusiast" I suggest you to look at the Smartmi evaporative humidifier. I was having problems at home with all my cameras/lens/electronics being covered with a fine white dust, quite hard to remove. It took me a while and some research to find out that the white dust comes from the water of the humidifier. Evaporative humidifiers don't leave the white dust everywhere like ultrasonic humidifiers do. I am not getting paid by Smartmi by the way 😂 I am just thankful I found out about evaporative humidifiers.

I have two d 800s amazing camera , enjoyed your show ,

Digital just cannot emulate the film look camsnaps wants to achieve. And retrosnap is just a poor scam; the bad quality does not emulate the y2k digital look at all. Better off buying a 90s point and shoot with some 35mm film, or a 2000s nikon coolpix to get that y2k digital look.

Did you have the 1st or 2nd Camp Snap? I think the 2nd one improved (apparently). Especially on the time it takes for an exposure after pressing the button. Those are the biggest gripes I have with all those plastic digital cameras. Analog cameras simply shoot without delay.

Happy and prosperous 2025 Matt! I gotta admit the Retro snap was pretty underwhelming. You'd be better off paying 50 bucks for an old digicam or rubbing some Vaseline on your lens and applying a shitty Instagram filter to achieve the same look. But like you said there is a demopgraphic for that! Campsnap might be the better bang for the buck here. But I love these reviews even if they don't bode well for the camera - keeping it humorous and most of all honest.

Campsnap is miles better wow. The retrosnap reminds me of those $10 kids toy cameras off Amazon.

It seam like arsenal helps you take lack luster photos and I certainly don’t need help with that. Every single one of your edited personal shots look 10 times better than the arsenal. Im struggling to find out what it even does.

It seam like arsenal helps you take lack luster photos and I certainly don’t need help with that. Every single one of your edited personal shots look 10 times better than the arsenal..

Why do people (not you) think awful quality = nostalgic and "retro" my god what is this. Great videos tho.

Happy 2025 Matt! Very interesting comparison video! The CampSnap looks so much better than the RetroSnap. RetroSnap looks nearly as bad ad my Kodak MC3 ( camera/video/mp3 player) I have a Kodak DC5000. 2.1mp and it blows away the RetroSnap. Thanks for sharing, hopefully you just got a lemon, but if not, I pray you get your money back.

Huge quality dip on the retrosnap

Thanks for this review, I even have a 200mm telephoto attachment and a 20mm wide angle attachment! I haven't found anything else on the internet about either attachment lens. Anyway, I took fantastic photos with them in Canada!

Subbed for more photos of my home town. I miss Duluth SO MUCH.

I have a Sony a290 in my collection which was one of Sony's last DSLRs (before moving to SLT) and also the last of the CCD APS-C sensors ever put into a consumer camera. While the a290 is the low end model (the a390 being the more prosumerish version) its still fun to take out as its such a simple camera it even makes my Canon Rebels look "advanced" by comparison. Plus you get the quirks of those CCD colors which can be fun to play with along with the Minolta lenses even if the dynamic range is a lot more limited.

Sony bought minolta, so it makes sense the early dslr's match. I started on a sony a200 and kind of wish I still had it. I have a sony a77 that I bought in 2012 and still use.

Could you do a video explaining what settings to use so I can send it to my daughter please. Because your images are coming out great….

Wonders of DSLR. Swapping lenses in such elements while not exposing the sensor. I do it much less now that I own a mirrorless camera. Used to be a daily occurrence when I still shot with D3200. With ice there's a saying over here, that if it carries the seagull, it will carry a fisherman.

Another older A mount Sony camera that you would enjoy is the SLT series. I shot an A65 professionally for many years with great results. Happy New Year!

Hi Matt! Merry Christmas and Happy 2025! Excellent reviews and what a great camera, I only own a few Sony digicams, but that cam looks and produces great photos! Agree with you on using older cameras even for client work! I did it with a paid high school senior photos. Anything above 10 mpx is fine. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences and always great content. Stay warm! Own and use a few Pentax DSLRs as my main cameras! Was gifted a Ricoh GXR for Christmas, having fun with it!

I like your review of this camera. At the moment I have acquired two of them. One of the MkIV has to be repaired because of a cracked mirror. I removed all of the broken glass and cleaned the mirror box area, and everything works except focusing due to the mirror. I have ordered a complete mirror box to fix it. I have some experience doing this because I have repaired several of the EOS-1 film bodies. I am pretty comfortable tearing down and working on my own cameras. Once I fix the mirror box issue I will probably see if one of my photo club members would be interested in shooting with it. Even though I am getting older (I am old) and this camera is heavy, I love how it feels in my hands.

All good points. But as discussed, finding one in good working condition is the other issue. I have dabbled with this camera and aslo the 5D MK 2 and Canon 6D which all had some issues, major or minor. I just find it hard to justify the purchase when a modern camera with 4K video and better AF can be purchased for perhaps $300 to $400 ?

The difference between canon vs nikon in terms of the early days. Nikon came out with their first DSLR a 2.1mp D1. Which was a pro camera in terms of the body's build. The D30 was actually a prosumer camera by comparison, the 5D and 1D was still in development. Canon was also first to market with its own CMOS senors, while nikon was using a sony CCD.

I have used the S3Pro as a Pro in my formel portrait studio. I had an Epson 9600 at that time. It was pretty difficult to get the right pictures out of this camera in the studio. The fuji software was terrible!! I started to use Photoshop for the Raw files. I only worked raw. Than it started to work. I made the pictured softer and with my Nikon F28-70mm 2.8 I founded the perfect combination. Of portraits I could easily make pictures of 1x1,5 meters. That’s large!! I also used this camera for wedding pictures. Same exceptional result. I worked mostly with measering light and color on a grey card. That’s the secret! I used it about 100-110.000 clicks. It needed 2 times a repair. The first time was easy. The second time it wasn’t anymore. Fuji moved the service for pro’s from the Benelux to England. That was the reason for quiting Fuji. My Nikons never had a problem, As studio camera perfect image quality but very slow. Outside way to slow. I kept changing batteries due to extreme size of the raw files. Working with jpeg is okay. I was not able to make these large prints anymore. For an amateur is this still a very good camera. As a pro I prefer the pro camera’s of Nikon. This was the compatator of the Nikon D2X and D200 that time.

Nice tree and merry Christmas 🎅

I have the Canon d60. It's fun to use. I pay more attention when I take photos (since it might be the last) and don't care that much for the outcome

This year I hit a personal new low.... 6.1 megapixel. Totally useful images! Thanks for sharing!