It's awesome that a twenty six year old thermal printer still runs. That dinky little camera might even outlast a number of more modern instant digital ones!
Cameras like this currently exist! A few years back, my nephew started taking interest in my mirrorless camera taking pictures of everything and everyone. Well, to feed his interest, I got him a cheap little thermal printer camera from Amazon. He loves it, and aside from the poor image quality from the sensor, the photos print out pretty great!
Casio had made some fascinating Cameras, back in the Days. Little Fun Fact: The (in this Case Build in) Printer was made by a subsidiary of Casio itself, the Label maker Division. There is even a Printer for their most Famous Camera, the Casio QV-10, and as you can guess, it's just a modified Label printer.
Casio used to make a lot of cameras. The Exilim series were the go to for consumer high speed photography before Casio kind of gave up on them. Probably because Casio never made cameras larger than compact sized which were getting chewed up by camera phones.
As a French guy, I think that's a funny camera name and it should be "petite colle" as "colle" is a feminine word. But you're right it's like "little glue stick". It's funny because recently on Chinese social medias I saw a kind of new camera like this one that does thermal printing. Enjoyed your video, as always :)
I love the look of the prints on the little stickers! The inkjet printer setup is probably the best way to go. I remember some software from the late '90s/early '00s that let you set up custom print areas for printing a whole sheet of stickers, and I think that'd be useful here.
@@snappinesscan you explain the buyee thing a little more, that would probably make for a nice little info video. I have checked them out for books I think but checkout is just too bewildering
Phtographer -enthuist who has a degree in photography here I love experimenting with thermal print cameras I am talking about the one you gift your kids. Unlike a polaroid or other instant camera although the image quality for the ditigial file is like a crappy old digicam It is cheaper than the other Instant cameras out on the market. The rolls of thermal paper are the exact ones you ude in a grocery store and you can get 20 for less than $50. What I enjoy about photography is you get to experiment with different cameras as a college student I;ve used a 4x5 view camera, hasselblad and lots of digital and film/analouge cameras for classes and they always left me curious.
This video and your previous two videos didn't appear on my subs timeline for some reason, whereas your most recent one (Sony DSC-V1) did. Not sure why that was, first time its happened. Anyway, great content and keep 'em coming, always interesting watches!
I looked into this camera a while ago but was concerned about it needing some proprietary paper and didn't buy it. I might have to reconsider again now that you've seemingly cracked the code! I would love a future video about thermal printers/cameras. :)
Another very interesting find. My thought was immediately that it doesn’t work because of the missing marks. Great you figured it out and made this work for more than the twelve stickers you got. And by the way congratulations on 50k subscribers! Well deserved.
Thanks for making this video! I impulse purchased this on Japanese Mercari without realising how difficult it is to source the sticker papers. Really appreciate it
Hello, I 3D printed the stencil and bought thermal sticker labels and couldn’t get it to work. I noticed the stencil was missing a section so I filled it in manually but still not working. Potentially the printing mechanism of my camera is broken… such a bummer 😢
@@MimiMatsumoto-dw8uh What error message does it give on the screen? I did also notice sometimes it's really picky about the size, so if it's too big but still slides in, it can get jammed.
Woah thats cool bringing a dead Old Forgotten Camera and giving it a new purpose a new life! im currently saving up for my very first camera im saving up to buy a Lumix GH1 old but gold
@@snappiness WOAH there's a LITERAL Gold version?! Now that's one interesting camera to have hahaha Love your content! your content never gets old it's just perfect
That's interesting how the black lines are the "dope" for the camera to work. I wonder if it's working like a Scantron or other similar tech works using optical scans to give the camera the "Go ahead!" to print whatever it needs.
Another thing that you could potentially do is... Have your replacement sticker paper to enable the printer, but also you could read the signals to the printer and at least conceptually get the digital image that way
This is the most "What was the point!?!" or "What were they thinking!?!" cameras I think I have ever seen. Like seriously its cool and stuff but not sure what the point at all of this would have been. Especially since all the photos the original owners took have faded over time and disappeared. Strangest camera I think you have ever featured. Fun video.
I've recently fallen in love with cheap thermal paper printers that look like kids toys. They are quite cheap, paper is cheap, some models produce quite decent images that you can gift or store as a memory.
I wonder if it truly needs ALL the markings... could you do with just the shorter black ones, or something? These "detectors" usually just work with the start of the paper (I had an electronic lock with "bar codes" that did this.) Might be worth experimenting with.
Looking at ebay, all of the "casio petit" devices that sold in the past three months sold on June 22nd and 23rd. The ones remaining are all around $120. So, you're literally responsible for driving up the price lol. Still a cool camera to look out for. :)
Did you do any testing to see if the camera was looking for all of the markings. It may only need one which could greatly reduce the manufacture time. Great video. Thanks for caring about the little things!
very cool, very unique - shame there's not a way to figure out how to transfer the photo data straight to a computer, at the end of the day the camera must store these as 1s and 0s somewhere.. 🤔
Probably the BPA found in thermal paper. It can be absorbed through the skin and some thermal papers used in receipts has been measured to have high amounts
@@MojiBaked Modern thermal paper doesn't seem to have BPA in it anymore according to receipts where BPA Free is written on the back at least in Europe.
We bought a Gabby Dollhouse Camera like this to our youngest daughter and the quality is far from that and it's just a toy. At 4yo she loves taking pictures and the 5 paper rolls are already gone. By the way, "Petit Colle" in French is not a correct sentence. Normally, we should say "Petite Colle" and now it means "Little glue". "Petit Colle" could be better translate with "Boy, Glue !" like an order. In that way, the product has a funny name in French
Может там две проверки я бы сравнил расположение всех полосок вряд , вдруг есть алгоритм и там типа таблицы . Ну и фото датчик проверяет Второе может быть там магнитная полоска или полоска с графитом на сопротивление тока работает . Легче там амперметр или омометр поставить и сравнить). Интересная защита.
Can we have a video where you give advice how to get your kid into photography? I am about to give an Olympus 2040zoom from 2001 to my daughter as she is turning 5. (A great perk is that it only holds 100 pictures, I don't have to go through thousands after a day of her shooting)
I'm all about that! I don't know if I have any good advice, other than just put the camera in their hands and let them rip. My kids have been very naturally interested, and take the most random pictures lol. Sometimes they don't want to and that's fine, but I just have their cameras handy when we go out and they will often ask for them.
I realize that RUclips is an amazing platform …. BUT…. You sir , should have a Netflix show … or some other platform which youtubehaters can access because your photography content rocks !
Your kids will love that one. Who needs a instax when you have a Casio
That's right!! :D
It's awesome that a twenty six year old thermal printer still runs. That dinky little camera might even outlast a number of more modern instant digital ones!
I need a full video on thermal printers. It's not a want, it's a requirement.
Cameras like this currently exist! A few years back, my nephew started taking interest in my mirrorless camera taking pictures of everything and everyone. Well, to feed his interest, I got him a cheap little thermal printer camera from Amazon. He loves it, and aside from the poor image quality from the sensor, the photos print out pretty great!
Excellent work!
A stamp is definitely a good idea. Your dedication to "quirky" cameras is amazing.
I smiled when you finally made it print on the normal one. Good one.
Casio had made some fascinating Cameras, back in the Days. Little Fun Fact: The (in this Case Build in) Printer was made by a subsidiary of Casio itself, the Label maker Division.
There is even a Printer for their most Famous Camera, the Casio QV-10, and as you can guess, it's just a modified Label printer.
I was today years old when I learned that Casio made a camera...
Casio used to make a lot of cameras. The Exilim series were the go to for consumer high speed photography before Casio kind of gave up on them. Probably because Casio never made cameras larger than compact sized which were getting chewed up by camera phones.
Whaaaat? Casio made tons of cameras back then
How is today years old? 😂
@@Moonstone-Reduxstop sack topping for phones
Casio made very awesome cameras, including the first point and shoot with slow motion video at 1000fps!! (With ridiculously low resolution, of course)
As a French guy, I think that's a funny camera name and it should be "petite colle" as "colle" is a feminine word. But you're right it's like "little glue stick". It's funny because recently on Chinese social medias I saw a kind of new camera like this one that does thermal printing. Enjoyed your video, as always :)
I was hoping someone with some French language knowledge would chime in!
Yeah they probably meant "collant", adjective for "sticky" and noun for "sticker"
To say that I NEED to find this camera for myself would be an understatement
I love the look of the prints on the little stickers! The inkjet printer setup is probably the best way to go. I remember some software from the late '90s/early '00s that let you set up custom print areas for printing a whole sheet of stickers, and I think that'd be useful here.
Nice stuff !! I managed to pick up a rare 17mm F1.8 for the Samsung NX Mini from Yahoo Japan via Buyee. Thanks to your tip from a past video.
Oooo, very cool. Have fun.
I'm looking for one too I have the unleased mark 2 version I believe
@@snappinesscan you explain the buyee thing a little more, that would probably make for a nice little info video. I have checked them out for books I think but checkout is just too bewildering
Phtographer -enthuist who has a degree in photography here I love experimenting with thermal print cameras I am talking about the one you gift your kids. Unlike a polaroid or other instant camera although the image quality for the ditigial file is like a crappy old digicam It is cheaper than the other Instant cameras out on the market. The rolls of thermal paper are the exact ones you ude in a grocery store and you can get 20 for less than $50. What I enjoy about photography is you get to experiment with different cameras as a college student I;ve used a 4x5 view camera, hasselblad and lots of digital and film/analouge cameras for classes and they always left me curious.
I quite enjoy how you get into these cameras, and dive deep, literally and figuratively, and take us along for the adventure. Thank you!
Thank you for tuning in!
man now i want one of these they're so cute
You are a legend.
OK your channel is the #1 camera lovers channel. Great sleuthing on this one. Love your work.
You are very kind, thank you
This is an amazing find and looks like a fun, LoFi camera.
Great video, a very fun camera. would love to see a general thermal printing focused one.
I was surprised by the size of the final print but actually like the resolution.
I love this quirky little thing - thanks for sharing it!
This video and your previous two videos didn't appear on my subs timeline for some reason, whereas your most recent one (Sony DSC-V1) did. Not sure why that was, first time its happened. Anyway, great content and keep 'em coming, always interesting watches!
Thanks for finding the secret of these cameras!
I looked into this camera a while ago but was concerned about it needing some proprietary paper and didn't buy it. I might have to reconsider again now that you've seemingly cracked the code!
I would love a future video about thermal printers/cameras. :)
Cool. I like that you went to such lengths to figure out the coding on the back of those sheets.
Another very interesting find. My thought was immediately that it doesn’t work because of the missing marks. Great you figured it out and made this work for more than the twelve stickers you got. And by the way congratulations on 50k subscribers! Well deserved.
Thanks! :)
My dream camera, the Nikon F3/T arrived yesterday through buyee! Thanks for the tip!
OH MAN! That's so clever. Glad you managed to get that camera back in rotation!
Your videos bring me great joy and happiness, thank you!
Very cool! When drawing the optical pattern you could probably skip the arrow, it’s for user and not for sensor, I recon
Wonderful video! Amazing camera! Thanks for sharing! Not on my medically needs list. but happy you got it working!
Thanks for making this video! I impulse purchased this on Japanese Mercari without realising how difficult it is to source the sticker papers. Really appreciate it
Cool, good luck!
@@snappiness Do you know what the exact width of the label is meant to be?? Thanks!
Hello, I 3D printed the stencil and bought thermal sticker labels and couldn’t get it to work. I noticed the stencil was missing a section so I filled it in manually but still not working. Potentially the printing mechanism of my camera is broken… such a bummer 😢
@@MimiMatsumoto-dw8uh What error message does it give on the screen? I did also notice sometimes it's really picky about the size, so if it's too big but still slides in, it can get jammed.
Woah thats cool bringing a dead Old Forgotten Camera and giving it a new purpose a new life!
im currently saving up for my very first camera im saving up to buy a Lumix GH1 old but gold
That will be a very fun camera. There is literally a gold version too, if you want that lol
@@snappiness WOAH there's a LITERAL Gold version?!
Now that's one interesting camera to have hahaha Love your content! your content never gets old it's just perfect
I would enjoy a video about those cheap instant cameras and printers you mentioned at the end of the
That's interesting how the black lines are the "dope" for the camera to work. I wonder if it's working like a Scantron or other similar tech works using optical scans to give the camera the "Go ahead!" to print whatever it needs.
You should make scans of the pattern so people can experiment with printing their own. And just for preservation purposes
would love more videos on obscure little unknown cameras like this one!=)
Then you’ve come to the right place.
That's pretty much the basis of his entire channel and it's incredible
Another thing that you could potentially do is... Have your replacement sticker paper to enable the printer, but also you could read the signals to the printer and at least conceptually get the digital image that way
I enjoy your never ending quest for the most obscure tech
Kinda been the rabbit hole I've been going down this year xD
That camera is so cool! 40mp me is intrigued by a .00somethingmp camera….
great video with a happy ending 😅 I like it 👍🏼
Awesome little thing :D.
This is the most "What was the point!?!" or "What were they thinking!?!" cameras I think I have ever seen. Like seriously its cool and stuff but not sure what the point at all of this would have been. Especially since all the photos the original owners took have faded over time and disappeared. Strangest camera I think you have ever featured. Fun video.
casio makes good cameras. had a little point and shoot that was taking better photos than my Nikon 1 series lol
I've recently fallen in love with cheap thermal paper printers that look like kids toys. They are quite cheap, paper is cheap, some models produce quite decent images that you can gift or store as a memory.
I wonder if it truly needs ALL the markings... could you do with just the shorter black ones, or something? These "detectors" usually just work with the start of the paper (I had an electronic lock with "bar codes" that did this.)
Might be worth experimenting with.
omg, that is so cool (and cute)!
Looking at ebay, all of the "casio petit" devices that sold in the past three months sold on June 22nd and 23rd. The ones remaining are all around $120. So, you're literally responsible for driving up the price lol. Still a cool camera to look out for. :)
Did you do any testing to see if the camera was looking for all of the markings. It may only need one which could greatly reduce the manufacture time. Great video. Thanks for caring about the little things!
Buyee really is cool! I just bought a Kodak S-1 which I was curious if you had ever heard of as I’ve never seen anyone talk about it before
This is amazing!!!!
3:33 Bro, your maths is wrong, but it makes that thing even better. It's *0.002 megapixels*
I did stamp for it ;3 From my 3d printer
That's a great solution!
very cool, very unique - shame there's not a way to figure out how to transfer the photo data straight to a computer, at the end of the day the camera must store these as 1s and 0s somewhere.. 🤔
Health concerns about thermal printing? Why? 🤔
Also curious about about this! 🙋
Probably the BPA found in thermal paper. It can be absorbed through the skin and some thermal papers used in receipts has been measured to have high amounts
@@MojiBaked Modern thermal paper doesn't seem to have BPA in it anymore according to receipts where BPA Free is written on the back at least in Europe.
You should get those factory sticker sheets scanned! Or is there already an PDF online, archived somewhere?
What if you don't need to paint all the shapes? Maybe it scans only in a certain location.
wow, this is such s cool camera!=)
Please I need a video on thermal printing cameras.
also, I found that the kodak memo shot era which seems to be a modern version of this concept
this is even cooler fuji instax
Wow, that camera looks like a "back" massager... 😂
Waiting for you to break your silence on the Pentax 17. No pressure.
We bought a Gabby Dollhouse Camera like this to our youngest daughter and the quality is far from that and it's just a toy. At 4yo she loves taking pictures and the 5 paper rolls are already gone. By the way, "Petit Colle" in French is not a correct sentence. Normally, we should say "Petite Colle" and now it means "Little glue". "Petit Colle" could be better translate with "Boy, Glue !" like an order. In that way, the product has a funny name in French
I knew about some proxies but i cant remember. Can someone tell me the proxies they know?
You could make a potato stamp! 🤣
yes, make a video about instant print cameras.
what is the correct width needed for the camera?
What’s the quality compared to a GameBoy camera ?
what size is the sticker? i made them but it always shows error and the sticker is stuck😢
Petit Colle means Little Glue in french (Missing the E at the end of Petit).
Any idea why it's written on this Japan-only camera ? ?
Yo dude i love your videos
Makes me happy to hear that :)
Can we have scans of the original thermal paper.
I just scanned a copy for you and it's linked on my blog (which in linked in the description). Let me know if you need something else
Was that sticker of a Vivitar CV35? 😅
Wow😮
Может там две проверки я бы сравнил расположение всех полосок вряд , вдруг есть алгоритм и там типа таблицы . Ну и фото датчик проверяет
Второе может быть там магнитная полоска или полоска с графитом на сопротивление тока работает . Легче там амперметр или омометр поставить и сравнить).
Интересная защита.
Can we have a video where you give advice how to get your kid into photography?
I am about to give an Olympus 2040zoom from 2001 to my daughter as she is turning 5. (A great perk is that it only holds 100 pictures, I don't have to go through thousands after a day of her shooting)
I'm all about that! I don't know if I have any good advice, other than just put the camera in their hands and let them rip. My kids have been very naturally interested, and take the most random pictures lol. Sometimes they don't want to and that's fine, but I just have their cameras handy when we go out and they will often ask for them.
Tried using buy, but I just can’t figure it out. Any chance you might be able to do a video on how to use it
I did make a video last year diving into more detail, but maybe a refresher is in store!
@@snappiness Yes please.
mhh can you compare with game boy camera? is a matter of print size or looks better?
Fun fact: PetitE Colle means Little Glue in French !
What reason is there to have kids if not to make them paint markings on thermal paper for an obscure old camera?
or just use a thin spray paint layer
I realize that RUclips is an amazing platform …. BUT…. You sir , should have a Netflix show … or some other platform which youtubehaters can access because your photography content rocks !
Thermal cameras 101 video pls!
父親が持ってたけど、当時でも相当なガジェット好きしか買わないような製品だったはず
売れてたのかな？
I’ll pay up to 1.2k US dollars for a good condition one.
Why ?
Yikes. Some things are just better left dead and forgotten, like this camera and hair metal.
Guess the camera: Ricoh MyCrystal ?
Dang, well done. 👍 I didn't think anyone actually could lol
Why don't you just print those black signs on the paper with a printer?
Je le veut OK yes mister le ?
Czsio like therm printer