They technically didn't, I'm just stupid and missed where you change it in the menu. Although, while it does do 44mp, it's not 44mp worth of detail, so the image still looks really bad.
I mean honestly people say buy vintage but after having bought two older Sony cameras and finding problems in both of them past the point you can return on eBay i don't know what's worse. People never take into account that with a second hand camera you never know when it's going to just stop working cause it's old
@@camera-guy yeah with little disposable income the failure of two cameras I paid $100+ for put me off vintage Sony digital cameras. For $200 I could have bought a dfcdng new camera miles above the "vivitar" camera you reviewed. Still I found the advice of just adding a filter to be very solid advice. The average person just wants a few cool pictures and that's by far the easiest and most economical way to achieve that goal👍
oh no vivitar has become a chinesium ghost company (the designed some really nice lenses and made very good filters back in the day my main uv filter on my konica hexanon 55mm is a vivitar multicoated uv haze filter with a built in collapsible lens hood) it makes me sad every time i see a once great name on slop e-waste
It's autofocus only. Unfortunately, most of these cheaper cameras tend to have poor image quality, due to being made with parts closer to a Webcam than actual camera. That said, keep practicing, learn it's limitations, and just enjoy photography! Limitation breeds creativity, plus it'll be all the nicer if you ever upgrade to something better!
Honestly you're better off just buying a different camera, I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I bet this camera has a worse sensor than the average cheap phone of today
Funny how they’re selling these cameras at 30 bucks when you could go to your local boot sale and buy 10 of them for like 5 bucks. What makes them nostalgic to me is the absolutely blinding flash that ruins the photo.
Worst part is I went back and saw they flew off the shelf at walmart. 100% about the flash thing. I think I forgot to talk about it in the vid, but the flash on this thing is for advertising more than function.
I just went to Walmart and looked for the cheapest crappiest camera I could find, I had no idea it was some TikTok trend. What I got was indeed a crappy camera, so I'm happy with my purchase. It sucks, and that's why I like it.
@@finnthewitch That’s simply why I just bought an actual digicam from ~25-ish years ago for a more authentic experience. Cameras this crappy can easily be found in smartphones from the past 10 years onwards
The IR mode looks like they were trying to replicate what you would see on a full spectrum camera with an IR/Blue NDVI filter or, to a lesser extent, a 590nm filter before processing. Don't know why they would choose that over faking deep IR black and white.
This looks and performs exactly like the Walmart brand camera I was gifted in 2008, a pretty embarrassing disappointment at the time. Kind of hilarious the product is still around.
My dad bought me a higher end model of these that was meant to be good and 4k for Christmas and a used hf10 for same price is probably better. I feel bad for just getting rid of the camera though 😕
Atleast they are not charging several hundred for disposable garbage like the cannon t100 or literally all mainstream phones, atleast the t100 and this vivitar has a easily replaceable battery.
The T100 is one of those thing where you have to wonder how it made it to production. Yes, let's make a WORSE T7 for about the same money! And then keep selling it once the similarly priced R100 released!
i actually have a problem with this, i have everything needed like the SD card for it, and when i try to take a picture it literally just won’t take it as much as i click the button, any advice??😭
It's hard to say without looking at it. Is it new? I doubt it's a setting, but you may reset the camera to see. Otherwise it may be broken? Again, hard to say without seeing it.
Your video style is so dank pods, and i love it. I think youi can compress the video a little more to make it shorter and a lil more engaging! Keep it up, left you a sub and excited to see you next vids !
I just bought one of these for the heck of it. My goal was to use the black and white four street photography. I am not hating it. (Let me add, I just went for a 2-hour walk and took a bunch of okay shots. It gives a documentary look in these look like back in my photographs from the 1950s, if you set them up right. Some of the architectural shots are so old-fashioned. This was totally worth 30 bucks. But y'all need better cameras in addition to this lol)
@@camera-guy Camera Acts Like A Drive? I'm Giving It To The Baby.. I Like No GeoLacation In Image Files Thank You For Video, I Bought It On A Lark Fot The Baby.
7:16 I wonder if these are actually IR pictures. After all, as long as the camera doesn't have an IR cut filter, it can take IR images, so it's not imposible for this e-waste camera to be able to do so.
It could be possible, but they would have to put in some sort of device to move the IR filter. If it did take real IR photos, it would actually be a really good value to people who may be interested in that.
6:50, probably for someone that wants to overlay the Red, Green and Blue photos on top of each other and give them color, probably a weird kid on Instagram too
i dont know why but my camera doesnt do well with like outside pictures it makes it way too bright and cant even see anything at all pls help me fix this T-T
Adobe lightroom? Should be on the app store. I will say that I didn't realize they lock their presets behind a subscription, so I'm looking for another app that has that type of thing to recommend.
Vivitar used to be a good quality camera but now it seems like they are almost like a Chinese nock off and I remember as a kid some of these point and shoot cameras used to be good quality almost like my old ge 14.1 m140 digital camera
Yeah they died early 2000s and were bought out by another company who uses their name to sell crap. It's a shame too considering some of their old stuff is really good.
@camera-guy I think someone should buy out Vivitar and make the cameras good again being I do think some people still want a low cost camera but still looks great for the money
@ idk if your still having this problem but my dumbass wasn’t putting the battery in so if you’re like me and you threw out the box the second you opened it .. sorry 😅😂
I just bought one for fun. I have a DSLR and a really good mirrorless, but I wanted to see the CCD sensor and I wanted to do some black and white artistic stuff with this. It works!
You can take 100 photos on it internally, however, only at the lowest resolution. You also can't do video. It has trouble picking up high storage SD cards, so I'd recommend picking up a 16gb micro SD for cheap.
You mean SD card? If so, it refused to take all of my good ones, so I had to use a cheap no-name 16gb card. It takes Micro SD as well so be careful of that
@@camera-guy thank you, I did mean sd and yeah I tried the high ones but then tried the 2gb but I’m glad to know the 16 works for more storage. I appreciate it
those cheap „200 megapixels digicams” are such a rip off, literally take and actual old digicam that shoots 4 megapixels and the quality is better! plus they actually are vintage and look so partially due to their CCD sensors
Unfortunate You may be able to return it depending where you bought it from? Some places have a very generous refund policy that let you send if back if you simply aren't satisfied. If that's the case, you could try it out, and if you don't like it, send it back.
How do they get away with lying about the cameras 44mp?
They technically didn't, I'm just stupid and missed where you change it in the menu. Although, while it does do 44mp, it's not 44mp worth of detail, so the image still looks really bad.
@@camera-guy I believe it's simply interpolated up from the 3mp sensor. The sensor itself is not 44mp
not him roasting tf out of the camera i iust bought🥲
Yikes
(Hope you enjoy the camera though, I know I reviewed it poorly, but at the end of the day this is all subjective!)
@@camera-guy haha thank you. even if it's a piece of crap at least it was a cheap piece of crap!
I mean honestly people say buy vintage but after having bought two older Sony cameras and finding problems in both of them past the point you can return on eBay i don't know what's worse. People never take into account that with a second hand camera you never know when it's going to just stop working cause it's old
Very true! I'm personally fine with things failing, but many people aren't.
@@camera-guy yeah with little disposable income the failure of two cameras I paid $100+ for put me off vintage Sony digital cameras. For $200 I could have bought a dfcdng new camera miles above the "vivitar" camera you reviewed. Still I found the advice of just adding a filter to be very solid advice. The average person just wants a few cool pictures and that's by far the easiest and most economical way to achieve that goal👍
Oh, I was supposed to use a $30 walmart camera for tiktok video. I goofed up and used a $700 camera and a $500 lens. My Bad. LMAO
Rookie mistake
weird flex but okay.
The VGA quality makes it look like it was taken on a Nintendo DSi, though I’m rather surprised there isn’t any purple fringing on the darker areas
oh no vivitar has become a chinesium ghost company (the designed some really nice lenses and made very good filters back in the day my main uv filter on my konica hexanon 55mm is a vivitar multicoated uv haze filter with a built in collapsible lens hood) it makes me sad every time i see a once great name on slop e-waste
I’m confused as how to make the pictures look good on this camera😭 and no clue how to focus or if I even can focus before taking the pic
It's autofocus only. Unfortunately, most of these cheaper cameras tend to have poor image quality, due to being made with parts closer to a Webcam than actual camera. That said, keep practicing, learn it's limitations, and just enjoy photography! Limitation breeds creativity, plus it'll be all the nicer if you ever upgrade to something better!
Honestly you're better off just buying a different camera, I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I bet this camera has a worse sensor than the average cheap phone of today
Funny how they’re selling these cameras at 30 bucks when you could go to your local boot sale and buy 10 of them for like 5 bucks.
What makes them nostalgic to me is the absolutely blinding flash that ruins the photo.
Worst part is I went back and saw they flew off the shelf at walmart.
100% about the flash thing. I think I forgot to talk about it in the vid, but the flash on this thing is for advertising more than function.
Yeah, you can just buy Canon powershot G9 for 40$ instead of this eWaste shit
@@ru2ikwhere’d you find a canon power shot g9 for $40😭
I just went to Walmart and looked for the cheapest crappiest camera I could find, I had no idea it was some TikTok trend. What I got was indeed a crappy camera, so I'm happy with my purchase. It sucks, and that's why I like it.
Fair enough
@@finnthewitch That’s simply why I just bought an actual digicam from ~25-ish years ago for a more authentic experience. Cameras this crappy can easily be found in smartphones from the past 10 years onwards
The IR mode looks like they were trying to replicate what you would see on a full spectrum camera with an IR/Blue NDVI filter or, to a lesser extent, a 590nm filter before processing. Don't know why they would choose that over faking deep IR black and white.
I just picked Minolta DiMage X20 in our local thrift store for $12 that have 2 megapixel in it. That is better than the vivitar camera.
This looks and performs exactly like the Walmart brand camera I was gifted in 2008, a pretty embarrassing disappointment at the time. Kind of hilarious the product is still around.
can I use a non-included cable to upload photos? i've been trying and it wont let meee
You should be able to, it's just USB.
i literally cant open the thing to access the sd card
The average tik toker will buy this, realize its a piece of crap, throw it in a drawer and use their phone to take photos
My dad bought me a higher end model of these that was meant to be good and 4k for Christmas and a used hf10 for same price is probably better. I feel bad for just getting rid of the camera though 😕
That's unfortunate. It really sucks that these are almost more readily available to people than good cameras.
Atleast they are not charging several hundred for disposable garbage like the cannon t100 or literally all mainstream phones, atleast the t100 and this vivitar has a easily replaceable battery.
The T100 is one of those thing where you have to wonder how it made it to production. Yes, let's make a WORSE T7 for about the same money! And then keep selling it once the similarly priced R100 released!
@@camera-guy well some do say the bigger the company the worse their products start getting
imagine if major camera brands decided to jump on digicam trend?
I could see some of them going after the same market as the Fuji X100, but I doubt anything like the pocketable point and shoots and such.
i actually have a problem with this, i have everything needed like the SD card for it, and when i try to take a picture it literally just won’t take it as much as i click the button, any advice??😭
It's hard to say without looking at it. Is it new? I doubt it's a setting, but you may reset the camera to see. Otherwise it may be broken? Again, hard to say without seeing it.
Literally same.. SD card and all and it won’t let me take a photo
Your video style is so dank pods, and i love it. I think youi can compress the video a little more to make it shorter and a lil more engaging! Keep it up, left you a sub and excited to see you next vids !
Thank you!
I just bought one of these for the heck of it. My goal was to use the black and white four street photography. I am not hating it. (Let me add, I just went for a 2-hour walk and took a bunch of okay shots. It gives a documentary look in these look like back in my photographs from the 1950s, if you set them up right. Some of the architectural shots are so old-fashioned. This was totally worth 30 bucks. But y'all need better cameras in addition to this lol)
Ahh Vish!tar aka more landfill. A nugget worthy of getting a One Grit on it.
How do you get photos off of the internal storage into the se card if the card wasn’t in when u took them?
You have to connect the USB port on the side to a computer or phone
@@camera-guy
Camera Acts Like A Drive?
I'm Giving It To The Baby..
I Like No GeoLacation In Image Files
Thank You For Video,
I Bought It On A Lark Fot The Baby.
Yeah it just acts like a drive.
7:16 I wonder if these are actually IR pictures. After all, as long as the camera doesn't have an IR cut filter, it can take IR images, so it's not imposible for this e-waste camera to be able to do so.
It could be possible, but they would have to put in some sort of device to move the IR filter. If it did take real IR photos, it would actually be a really good value to people who may be interested in that.
@@camera-guy May we get a part 2 eventually? We may be in front of a hidden gem, altough I doubt it.
I may see if I can test it and make a short on it :)
@@camera-guy Thanks a lot mate! I'd really appreciate it
Is the popsnap's IR mode real?
I have a Onn digital point and shoot for my family and even if it is a little smoother that vivitar pop snap still has better video and photo quality
Thinking about getting one for a camp that we can’t have our phones idk if it’s worth it tho
If you can get something like a used canon or sony point and shoot, I'd do that, but otherwise, I'd say it's fine. A camera is better than no camera!
6:50, probably for someone that wants to overlay the Red, Green and Blue photos on top of each other and give them color, probably a weird kid on Instagram too
@@nelsonrodriguez2085 The weird Instagram kid vibes were off the charts with this one.
i dont know why but my camera doesnt do well with like outside pictures it makes it way too bright and cant even see anything at all pls help me fix this T-T
The only thing I can think of is in the menu, there's an exposure tab. Try setting it lower and see if it helps.
is the app your talking about towards the end on Apple Store? can’t find it
Adobe lightroom? Should be on the app store. I will say that I didn't realize they lock their presets behind a subscription, so I'm looking for another app that has that type of thing to recommend.
Vivitar used to be a good quality camera but now it seems like they are almost like a Chinese nock off and I remember as a kid some of these point and shoot cameras used to be good quality almost like my old ge 14.1 m140 digital camera
Yeah they died early 2000s and were bought out by another company who uses their name to sell crap. It's a shame too considering some of their old stuff is really good.
@camera-guy I think someone should buy out Vivitar and make the cameras good again being I do think some people still want a low cost camera but still looks great for the money
Because u need to set it to 44mp before u use it first. I have one
Yeah, I found that out in a follow up video. Probably still need to cut that part out, thanks for reminding me.
how can i set it?
@@esrarara8514 It's in the menu, the option only appears when you have an SD card.
Idc about the quality . I want something that looks worse , but my problem is I been charging this thing for an hour and it won’t turn on 😂😂
no seriously
@ idk if your still having this problem but my dumbass wasn’t putting the battery in so if you’re like me and you threw out the box the second you opened it .. sorry 😅😂
For $30, it's pretty good.
I just bought one for fun. I have a DSLR and a really good mirrorless, but I wanted to see the CCD sensor and I wanted to do some black and white artistic stuff with this. It works!
Creative Pebble speakers spotted :O
The GOAT
can you up load them on your phone or only computer?
@demgamergirls7156 You should be able to load them on Android, but not sure about iPhone.
@@camera-guyjust did!
Knew this was gonna be garbage the moment I read sakar international on the back
did yu have to get a memory card for to record?
You can take 100 photos on it internally, however, only at the lowest resolution. You also can't do video. It has trouble picking up high storage SD cards, so I'd recommend picking up a 16gb micro SD for cheap.
@@camera-guy So if I bought that SD card. It'll start recording?
What we card did you use?
You mean SD card? If so, it refused to take all of my good ones, so I had to use a cheap no-name 16gb card. It takes Micro SD as well so be careful of that
@@camera-guy thank you, I did mean sd and yeah I tried the high ones but then tried the 2gb but I’m glad to know the 16 works for more storage. I appreciate it
those cheap „200 megapixels digicams” are such a rip off, literally take and actual old digicam that shoots 4 megapixels and the quality is better! plus they actually are vintage and look so partially due to their CCD sensors
I don't even get why they do such high megapixel counts, considering that's the exact opposite of what these cameras are for.
I got mine from the mail it was a black one/!
@@Jupiter-p7f Nice! Enjoy the camera.
12:56 for editing false colour photos in post
I just bought one today😭
Unfortunate
You may be able to return it depending where you bought it from? Some places have a very generous refund policy that let you send if back if you simply aren't satisfied. If that's the case, you could try it out, and if you don't like it, send it back.
Vivitar is popular product.
No one asked
Ya better have visited dr james
He diagnosed me with low resolution
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