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I think it's a very very small niche that will WANT to go out and shoot with a funky-looking camera, or a camera with many moving parts. They are a product of the era; and the same applies to the millions of funky computer parts, accessories and gizmos that boomed in the 90's. Sure, it might be nice to explore in retrospect.. They make great RUclips content.
@@bbasleigh6149 No, I don't think I missed the point. I've NEVER seen a person on a shoot with a funky design. I think all those cameras with flippy parts and multicoloured options were meant to TRY to attract people, but it never worked, simply because no one in our westerner culture wants to look out of place. These funky-looking things, are most often used by such an extremely niche market, that it's simply bad business. And aren't "looks" a subjective thing? I'm mainly a Pentax shooter, yet I prefer Canon for looks out of every maker. I think the 90D is the perfect-looking camera. It has the most snag-proof body with a "compact" design. Also really like the 5D-7D bodies very much. But, last thing I would ever do is buy a camera for it's looks. It's a tool, I just want it to perform properly and to my needs... It would be like going out to buy a ladder, a nailer, a drill or a hammer based on looks instead of need.
@@GODSPEEDseven 9/11 kept us working together for a decade. Covid kept us working together for a couple years. Dropping the sun kept japan working together for a century.
Up until a few years ago, there was always some camera I really wanted to buy. There was always something interesting. Nowadays, I haven’t bought a new camera since 2018. The ones I have work great and the newer ones gives me nothing I really need. More resolution, smarter autofocus etc, basically better spec sheets that I don’t actually need or want. And like you I start to get more and more interested in older cameras
I agree to some extent: my 2018 fuji xt3 is still unbeatable compared to what you trade off for. The 2021 canon R3 brought speed plus manageable resolution. The 2022 leica m11 brought a practical and welcomed redesign, but lackluster performance, favoring spec over speed.
I remember back in my film days when I used Canon gear (A-1, AE-1 etc) and the industry at the time felt like it does now. There wasn't anything compelling enough to warrant a major upgrade or switching brands. Then auto-focus shook thinks up for a bit. Digital came along and for a time everyone was reluctant to switch. Now digital has come to a point where things are stagnating and it's really just about shooting whatever makes you happy. I wonder though... will something else come along and shake up the industry? Some new technological advancement that we will all start to consider a "must have"? Something that really makes a difference in the way you take photos or your results as a photographer? I can't possibly think of what that could be, but I also couldn't for see the success of auto-focus or digital. I think I'll just enjoy the current state of things for now. I don't have quite the GAS that I've had in the past. But... something, at some point, will come that will shake up the market there will probably be that killer "thing" that will make all cameras to-date seem that much older.
@@joshjacobson9846 Welcome to the rabbit hole! I went from a point and shoot Sureshot Telemax for about two years to an AE-1 Program and four lenses that I carry with me basically all the time now haha!
Everyone was trying to figure out what a digital camera could/should be since we were just moving from film. But with the rise of the smartphone camera and the precipitous decline of the compact camera market, all the companies are just playing it safe right now. Shit, never mind not making creative/crazy/wonky compact cameras, most companies aren't even making compact cameras at all-- safe/boring or not. I don't think this is going to change anytime soon. People are too hooked on their phones and okay with "good enough" images.
If the current trend of using ccd or instant film cameras is anything to go by, there is a space for weird digital cameras in the hobby / casual photography scene. Just give it time for 2000s nostalgia to get stronger and im sure we'll begin to see some more weird or at the least iconic compact cameras again.
Have a second hand (but perfect condition) canon compact camera from 2008 that I keep with me at work for "pictures of oppertunity", even with just 8mp it's still a fun camera to keep around and with a 32gig SD it's got room for 10,000+ pictures which is just hilarious to see on it's little display, been meaning to try loading it with custom firmware to I can make it take RAWs instead of JPEGs. Also have a Canon M200 that I want to ship to Lifepixel for full spectrum modification since that's a trick no smartphones can reasonably pull off, really wanna try seeing the world threw IR, UV, and the full spread of light cameras can actually see when you get that pesky hot mirror out of the way, especially for Astrophotography
People aren't even using their smartphones because they're okay with "good enough quality." Most people are always demanding that their smartphones be able to do 6k240 and be as cinematic looking as possible, forgetting that it's a SMARTPHONE. If you want a cinematic camera, BUY A CINEMA CAMERA. Don't buy something with a camera thrown in because it's kinda useful and then cry because it's not the best camera in the entire world, people. I'm 15 and wish that pocket cameras were still being made. As it is, a pocket camera is a great upgrade from a phone simply due to the optical zoom. On the plus side though, I've been wanting a pocket camera for a while, but could never find a good quality affordable one. Naturally, with camera companies stopping production on their pocket cams, eventually the existing ones will lower in price (hopefully 🤞). Still, quite a shame that people are delusional to think that phones will have the best quality ever. It just can't happen IMO. Like I said, it's thrown into an already complicated device. I feel that the best cameras will always be CAMERAS.
@@e_Dave Obviously the best camera will always be cameras. However, the best camera is the one you have on hand, and here smartphones have a HUGE advantage. Caring a 2k dollar camera around with you all the time can be quite uncomfortable. I always wouldn't feel comfortable bringing it with me on vacation to record boat rides or hiking. One wrong step and it's goine. A phone, on the other hand, is always with you. In terms of quality, flagship smartphones offer insane levels at this point. I watch what I recorded on my iphone 12 on a 4k TV and it looks perfect. This was unimaginable like 6 years ago.
At the end of the day consumers made a clear choice that they didn't want this goofy, gimmicky cameras, sure they seem cool and interesting now but at the time these cameras were expensive as hell and were going for style over substance. A camera is an expensive purchase that for the average person that should last atleast five years and needs to work well, many of these cameras also had reliability and usability issues to go along with the gimmicks.
I lived in japan and remember a small camcorder with a built-in projector... sadly it could only project a small image a few feet away. There were others with similar gimmicks, but most were so limited or specific that they had no real use but still managed to double or triple costs.
I still have the original Q and a couple of Q7s. It's amazing what Pentax managed to pack into those tiny cameras, especially when one realises how much of the body is taken up with the battery.
I feel cheated I loved the Pentax auto 110 It was an SLR camera for 110 format film 3 lenses Motor drive Flash Before the q, I emailed Pentax asking them to please do a digital version of the 110 They wrote back with some flimsy crap excuse A bit later - the q
Digital cameras in the 90’s and early 00’s went thru what would be the equivalent to what the automotive industry did in the 30’s and 40’s. Lots of experimenting with designs and configurations until what ultimately was decided on being the best. New technology brings about new innovation. It’s going to take some technological leap in the camera industry to get us cool weird designs again. Take a look at the action camera industry. DJI for example has built some weird things in the last few years, so., maybe you’re just not looking in the right places for weird new cameras?
I got an xpro1 a few years ago, and just adapt old Minolta lenses to it, and it’s the most fun I’ve had taking photos in a while. I recommend anybody who has grown complacent in their photography try something like this or similar.
Gosh that mini Pentax camera is adorable! It's not just cameras though, it's consumer electronics in general. Mobilephones, landlines, rice cookers, alarm clocks, watches... Remember how Nokias used to come in all kinds of fun and colourful shapes? Casios? Our landline at home was full on Memphis Milano style. My alarm clock would swear it'd never wake you up again, every morning after you'd hit it to snooze it. Even pocket calculators were super cute and could double-up as synthesizers. Manufacturers have forgotten how to be fun.
When the digital camera was invented, they didn't need to be any particular shape because there was no longer a transport system for the film, so manufacturers could make them in the most bizarre styles. I figure that the market eventually settled down into expecting them to 'look' a certain way. I do have a collection of early digital cameras in a box which I have picked up for their interesting designs.
i feel sigma and pentax/ricoh are the only brands really worth getting excited for. Even fuji has become kinda standard but i do love the early X days which boasted some beautiful cameras. i actually rebought the X10 again since i remember it being so epic. And... it still is! A fully mechanically operated digital camera with the X-Trans sensor in it. You could take the low pass filter of those cameras and they would still work. i did that to a bridge camera for IR photography with no issues. that era was fun.
For one, camera companies take half-formed opinions on the Internet much too seriously. Comments on many digital camera review sites are dominated by herds of scolds and naysayers who reflexively hate on anything different, and who seem to love drama more than photography. It takes a lot of fortitude for camera designers and manufacturers to ignore that noise and see the audience for something unique and fresh.
Sigma is definitely making the quirkiest camera bodies at the moment like the DP compacts and the fairly modular FP bodies. Really looking forward to what kind of body they're planning on putting that full frame Foveon sensor in. On the topic of Q cameras I seem to recall Pentax making some Evangelion themed special editions of the Q10 back when I lived in Japan. I do also agree with the sentiment on Sony cameras. They might be the best tool for many jobs but whenever I don't need that super high end performance I'll reach for my Pentax kit. It's just more fun. For modern and somewhat weird cameras not mentioned in the video the Pixii rangefinder from France comes to mind. It's a really strange combination of really old and really new technology.
Pentax Q...my wife applauded me, literally, when I walked in with one 8 years ago saying it was the first gadget I had ever bought she desired! I had already ordered another one for her!!
Couldn’t agree more! my love for cameras came with buying an old Panasonic Lumix from 2007 a couple of years ago, there is so much variety and cool things to discover with the old digital cameras! Also great video and channel 🤩📸
Pentax q7 or qs1 with #8 wide lens zoom -> love I take photos with olympus, pentax and pentax q and ppl always pick photos with pentax q for the best looking results ( thanks to many different fun lens)
Technology design is a lot like evolution in nature I'd say. Lots of variations are created, the the more successful designs are what have the better chance to "survive" in the environment. There's been... interesting, designs popping up for most everything; the smartphones, planes, cars, microwaves, televisions etc. we have now are adapted from their ancestors to be the most efficient design for the most uses (even if they're all looking similar is a tad boring). The 1st generations of consumer digital cameras were exciting, and people wanted to "break the mold" with their products. Camera design had already had this evolutionary process however, so it didn't take long to migrate back to the shapes we'd recognized for decades. At its root, the Q cameras are basically shaped like a K1000 that was left in the dryer too long. Add the strong desire to integrate the existing lenses and peripherals... Photography is expensive.
I still own the q7, apart from not having an optical viewfinder it’s a fun camera to use, it seems to fetch a high price still not wanting to sell, I have the kill bill yellow and black variant.
I kinda feel that way but just last year i did buy a new camera and i absolutely love it a white sony ZV-E10 to truly have fun with it buy 1 or 2 small fast manual lenses which can be often had for less than a 100 bucks it is so much fun add a lens from the sigma trio or the 18-50 for when you need autofocus and the sel55210 zoom for reach the whole kit is tiny , cheap and light but can put many big bulky setups to shame , the best camera is the one you always have at hand and this kit lives in my car so its always with me and when the moment presents itself it can create an amazing picture what more could you ask for . It takes amazing videos too and the built in mic is probably one of the best out there obviously not a replacement for a proper mic but actually good when you need to act fast . Lets not even mention the unbelievable autofocus that literally has no match , it is just a perfect package . man the amount of fun and great interactions i had because of that camera people can not believe how that tiny little thing can take such stunning photos and the imperfections and limitations of the fast manual lenses force you to be creative for me that truly brings the joy back to photography
I have a few of these featured but also a Powershot pro 1, a canon point and shoot with an in built L glass lens, the only point and shoot to ever get L glass
I had a Sony R1, I am sorry Sony changed design philosophy when they purchased the camera division from Minolta, and I think cameras just are boring because they are meant more for professionals that are people I seldom follow because few are interesting and it shows in the type of utilitarian cameras they want; consumers moved to smartphones with their miriads of apps. By the way, my Fujifilm X100S is super cool!
I use the Sony RX0 a lot due to the tiny size and still has the image quality as the bigger RX100 series cameras. It’s literally about the size of the batteries for my Leica and Panasonic cameras and can be carried almost everywhere
The small cube one? I doubt it the same image.quality. I saw a bunch of tests and for some reason it just does not compare. Video from it seems to be fun
My favourite camera is the Kiev 4, only because I'm not prepared to pay for the similar Contax II or Nikon S and M rangefinders (pun intended). They defy every ergonomic and operational convention, internal helical thread, manual focus by a small wheel, a shutter comprised of Venetian blinds, and a finger placement known only to classical guitarists, but they fine cameras and much cooler than the ubiquitous Leica rangefinders. Film, of course.
...although, Nikon did do the sensible iteration on the Contax II design and used a Leica-style cloth shutter, using the suddenly patent-free German designs for their Nikon 1 RF camera. That an intact Nikon 1 is now worth more than its weight in gold means that I will probably never, ever even handle one, let alone own and use one.
I almost picked up a Koday Easyshare V610, the pocket camera with twin lenses. I thought it would be cool to have a twin lens cam rather than a twin lens phone, but the high rate of malfunction stopped me buying. Also, I'd love a Pentax Optio X with its swivel cam action, but it's hard to find a half decent one at a half decent price. I'll keep looking. Thanks for posting, always enjoy your videos.
There were a lot of cool and unusual cameras: Sony DSC-F828, Minolta Dimage A-2 (I had one and it was the best handling), Agfa ePhoto 1680, Nikon V1 with it's tiny lenses and high speed shooting, the Sony point and shoots with the internal optical zoom lenses, Canon Powershot N (was the only camera that disabled people without use of their right arm/hand could use). I understand what smartphones did to the compact camera market was inevitable, but it's a crying shame to see all the innovation gone out of the camera market.
This was one of the reasons I sold my original Q years ago. The other reason was I got into the Ricoh GR system which fit my need for a small camera better. Still, can't wait to get into adapting crazy stuff again!
This summer I took my Q7 to Europe, mostly to save space on travel. Fantastic system. Pity I never was able to afford the ultra wide lens (price keeps going up). I even threw in a 135mm f3.5 M (with adapter) as an ULTRA telephoto lens for the system.
Love that blue Pentax u got.anytime I looking for one I will get one ..thanks again for showing me the new love for old cams...digi cams from yesterday are the bomb still..
They are! I'm really happy to have stumbled upon this special colored Pentax Q7. I wanted to pick up a Pentax Q camera again at some point anyway, so now this makes it extra fun :)
Props for featuring the Pentax Q. My Q7 in generic black (over there) needs some use. The pictures coming out of its 12mp sensor would absolutely fooled people into thinking it was even a full frame DSLR at least once. Its just a pleasure to have with you instead of the Sony a99II a-mount camera (over there with wonderful Minolta lenses) that really wants to make you feel like you're lifting weights. Also nods to the Sony floppy disc camera. Cool stuff. I BELIEVE when I last checked the Pentax Q system is discontinued. That makes me very sad. Its so unique I wish Richo decided to just keep it around as a show piece. Umm no. Discontinued. (sniff)
Trends come and go and come back again. One day people will get bored of phonography and look for something better and we will be ready to show them the way back to the awesomeness.
It's pretty standard, but the crazy zoom lens on the Nikon Coolpix p1000 is so much fun to mess around with and see what kind of things you can see from ridiculous distances, like Saturn for instance (yes, you can see Saturn with a point and shoot camera)
"What on earth possessed me to buy this little fella?" - because look at it! I don't even need a good reason, it looks rad AF. After binging your channel all morning, it's time to subscribe. Some fantastic videos you've got sir.
Electric motorcycles don't need exhausts or gas tanks so why do they look still like gas powered motorcycles? Carbon fibre can be made any shape so.why do they still look like trad bicycles? ....because the majority of people will stick with the familiar.....boring but true...
I think as far as weird wild cameras go, it's hard to top the Epson R-D1/R-D1s/R-D1x. The front half is a Voightlander Bessa film body, the back half is a custom Seiko Epson CCD digital camera, and it keeps the manual shutter cocking mechanism with the film advance lever. And they got it to market faster than Leica could build the M8.
I mean this all makes sense. Companies jump onto a new technology that blows up, start competing and experimenting in its infancy and later they all pretty much resemble one another because the perfect hardware shapes and functions for most use cases have been found. After that it becomes a spec and material flex into this standardized, tried and tested bottle. Everything I know of has been through this developmental history. "Fun" isn't really what people seek out of a system but it's always welcome, the purpose of devices besides toys is always clear and has a goal, fun is just there the most during the experimental phase.
I've got a Pentax Q10 and it's amazing. I don't use any of the Q-mount lenses though. The smaller sensor that's on the Q10 and original Q make them the most compatible with vintage D-mount lenses and C-mount CCTV lenses, which are what I exclusively use. It's such a unique little thing and I love it.
EVF's really-really irritate me nowadays, because they *should* be able to go anywhere on virtually any given camera body since *almost no manufacturers use a mirror* anymore. Instead of designing deeper ergonomics into new cameras thanks to this super-useful new paradigm, just about every single camera *still* has the EVF atop the middle of its body. My Lumix GX8 has a really cool tilting EVF on its corner like an old rangefinder & Fujifilm makes an *amazing* tilting/turning external EVF for their medium format line... but otherwise almost no innovation has been applied whatsoever. 😔
Your video reminds me of Mr. Mobile's (aka Michael Fisher) series of yt videos on "When phones were fun" where he documents the crazy cool mobile phone designs from years past. Amazing experimentation happened in the Y2K-Frutiger Aero Era!
I love love love my Canon Powershot N. Feels like a camera that was truly designed to be digital from the ground-up, with no conventions at all from film controls. One of the best shutter buttons ever designed for a camera
I'm going to assume, that era of smartphone photography is not going to last forever. I've been #shotoniphone type of guy since iPhone 3gs. It was very interesting what you could possibly do with such a small sensor and is it really possible to create something artistic with just a phone. But after 10+ years of shoting with my phone, I've started to lose interest in it. iPhone's deep fusion makes pictures all the same, computational bokeh doesn't look realistic or interesting and in many cases, where iPhone can't see something, it tries to "draw" things with AI, it looks very unnatural. Got my Sony a6000 a couple weeks ago, it took a bit to learn what is what, but pictures and mood of pictures I take has changed very much! Considering, that I can put any lens on it, makes it even more interesting what I could shot with it! I would love to actually try some not standard lenses, some retro ones and to see what am I going to get with it. But yeah, phones are boring nowadays. Dedicated cameras is the future.
The Nikon Zfc seems like a fun camera and depending what region you live in it's available in 14 different color combinations. Unfortunately the US didn't get all of the fun color options.
@@oliverinmga the Q7 may look like a plastic toy, but it feels really well-built and solid. The Z fc looks like metal, but feels like a plastic toy. The Q7 will pleasantly surprise you, the Z fc will disappoint you.
At least the Nikon Z mount seems to have stuck around, their first attempt at a mirrorless "Nikon 1" with a 1" sensor seemed to get dropped like a hot potato and consigned to the memory-hole. The publicity photos of the Nikon Zfc certainly make it look like it has the build of a FM or FE, but I'm not surprised that it is electroplated plastic and not brass or magnesium alloy.
@@dj1NM3 the Nikon 1 system ran for 7 years, with 11 cameras and 13 lenses. Nikon Z has been around for 4 years, with 9 cameras and 31 lenses. Not only are there a ton more Z lenses, they seem to be far more reliable than the 1 lenses, which were so bad they had to start a free out-of-warranty repair service for one of them, and it really should have extended to others that also had similar design flaws.
Weird.. I actually dug my pentax q out a couple days ago to charge up the battery.. and then I see this video haha.. I also have a Sony a7iv..and I'm digging out the pentax.. its not a out the biggest sensor, or how many megapixels..its about what's fun and what gets you shooting photos. A time and place for everything
I have this broken camcorder that waa beautiful and felt so perfect in the hand... then they stopped making them.. i just want more cool in hand camcorders
If you want a small camera that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, the Sony a5000 has a flippable display, a similar mechanism on the flash, swappable lenses, a bigger sensor, and functionally can be an amazing hdmi webcam. Also it does come in 2 different colours so that's there.
This is not gonna be a popular opinion but the Nikon 1 is one of the most misunderstood and underrated camera systems ever. Yes it had some shitty marketing, positioning and pricing from Nikon but the thing tried to rethink everything, from body designs and the way we shoot. It could do some crazy stuff for the time. People who used and loved them know how fun they were. Always was a huge supporter and so so sad it is gone.
I think having a dedicated device sort of makes it more of a mini ritual than just having a cellphone camera. Hard to make something that's always attached to us and always on into a ritual
Pentax Q is quite an amazing camera. And in the right hands it can produce amazing results. One other amazing camera is the K-01. This camera had amazing results specially when used for landscapes and portraits. It had a few knockers. And the reviewers were allbsaming much the same thing which to my mind a lot of them never used the camera and copied others reviews. It was slow in AF but firmware upgrades fixed this. In my local photo club I won many honours for the results from this camera. I truly believe a lot of people are like sheep and go off people's heresay. Rather then do so basic investing to find the truth. Love your videos, Keep up the great work. PS the K-01 and the Q were two of the most fun cameras I have ever used.
Just picked up batteries for my Canon S300 Powershoot I got in 2001 (It seems like it still works, need a card), it was my 2nd digital camera. I've got 2 games left to shoot this season, so I may bring it to an NFL game and weird people out on the sideline by snapping a few photos with it LOL
Camera nerds don’t want to get ridiculed by their camera nerd friends for having a camera that itsnt black and silver or all black. It must be along the lines of someone saying “color photos aren’t pro”
Because these designs aren't practical and break after a few years of rigorous use, video over Edit: sorry if this came off as rude lol. But it's true, functionality is what really matters to photographers, and ease of use is what matters to consumers. There really isn't a place for these types of cameras anymore. Though interesting new phones may tell a different story.
I assume the Pentax Q you got was set to Japanese language? Was it easy to switch to English? I'm looking for a deal on one of these and most of the available options are in Japan. Thanks!
My first camera was a 110 film camera. I was like 8 in the early 90s and it was my Mom's camera from the 1970s. I loved that thing. I used to take pictures of my action figures in sequences that told a story. When I got the pictures developed I'd glue them into notebooks and write dialogs. haha
It'f not easy to get film for it (it's still produced by Lomography I think) and have it developed. I just bought the Pentax 110 Super camera just for fun, it's the smallest SLR in the world, even smaller than the Q. By the way, my first camera used 120 film, an odd format for an amateur camera.
When you build for the masses, you eventually make boring safe products. Look at mobile phones, digital cameras, computers, cars. All used to have a myriad of different shapes, colours formats. But the average person wants an average product. It's just how the world is. I still have a kyocera sl300, Nikon s5, Samsung S4, s5 or k5 zoom. All brilliant, but no longer popular
"Sorry", but for ME my phone is NOT my primary "Every day Carry" camera!, Yeah, I use it. But it's for "snapshots". I STILL use my Nikon P7100 as my "go to" travel workhorse. Yeah, It's "old", and it's "pixel count" is no where NEAR what my phone's camera "claims". (10Mp vs 48Mp!!!) But..Er Um.. It still takes better photos! And while it's video resolution is limited to 720, It has STEREO mikes, AND an external mic jack! But the REAL part is: It's a REAL CAMERA It has FULL manual mode and shoots "RAW". I'd also like to add that it has REAL "zoom" (Telephoto) and an ACTUAL optical finder. I'm old. I'm used to holding my camera to my FACE when shooting stills. (OK with a video screen for videos, LOL)
this video has such a beautiful coda! I love photography, and I love photography gear - they're interrelated hobbies, for sure, but I think it's important not to let fixation on the latter overwhelm and smother the joy we get from the former. Having said that, it certainly does frustrate and sadden me, the way camera designs have homogenised into boring black boxes. The recent trend toward 'retro' designs with the ZF, the continued popularity of the x100 series, and the upcoming Lumix S9 is heartening to me though. I think the instinct (which you see a lot in forums and comment threads etc) to sniff and scoff at people who care what their gear looks & feels like is ultimately conservative & stifling. We can create beautiful work, and we can enjoy beautiful & fun cameras - the two aren't mutually exclusive! In fact (echoing the advice of Mattias Burling to 'pick the cool one' when choosing a camera), they can be intimately connected. When it comes down to it, attitude & experience & practice are what matter the most; but it certainly can't hurt to have our gear give us a leg up along the way on a grey day where we're feeling uninspired :)
Everything was nicer looking from the 80's to the 00's, companies showed off their skills to produce unique looking stuff, nowadays everything is minimalist or brutalist.
so I've bought the Q7 and I understand why this line didn't go anywhere. I have the O2 lens and autofocus barely works and if I want to shoot in manual, then I'm hampered by the screen where I cant tell if stuff is in focus even on the highest "zoom" and with focus peaking on...and I want to like this camera and some of these problems might be from how slow the lens at 15mm is but I feel like forcing myself to use this over the MX-1...I will certainly mount my 150-450 + 1.4TC once i have adapter and then go looking into spacealien' bathroom windows and mount all sorts of crazy lenses beside that but using it "as intended" is really not the greatest experience
Ricoh GR digital 8.1 megapixel, had mine since 2005. I use it for black and white jpegs. The price of these have rocketed now. I also use a Canon Ixus 100s for colour. I bought it for £10. Pentax Q cameras used to be cheap, but with people like you bigging them up the price of them too will soar.
"The cameras that mostly sold look and act the same" - And I have no idea why no-one complains about this much more. Nikon, Canon and Sony cameras are a NIGHTMARE in usability. Downsides of film cameras and digital cameras combined. I want to choose time, aperture and ISO easy and quick. Is an aperture ring such a hard thing to do? Instead of dedicated controls for important stuff they have stupid endless jog dials where i have double or triple occupancy of functions. Horrible. There were SO GOOD examples of this. Hasselblad and Olympus had time, aperture and focus on the lens, which was a GENIUS principle. Or the ergonomics of a Contact RTS. A blast to choose focus and exposure. Or the straight forward simplicity of a Rolleiflex. This cost cutting of modern cameras made them slow, too complicated and not fun anymore. In my opinion, one of the few manufacturers who get it right is Fuji.
Pentax Q-S1 Mirrorless Digital Camera White With 5-15mm Lens Pentax Q10 Pentax mx-1 Sadly these are only available for me just want an expert opinion, would really appreciate it, which one should I go for ?
I remember having a lot of fun with the 1.3 megapixel Aiptek Mini Pencam many years ago. It was literally about 3 inches high and 1 inch wide and about 3/4 inch thick. I can’t explain why I enjoyed using it so much, but I think it’s tiny size had a lot to do with it.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-L1 from 2004 was a cool little camera I loved to throw in my pocket and take on morning walks or out to dinner, or anywhere. So tiny and neat looking. I dropped in a glass of water once accidently when out to dinner with friends. 😂 Managed to take it apart and dry it out, and all was well.
Minolta Dimage. Swivel and detachable zoom. You could link it to the body with a proprietary cable. Great for Point of View shots. Fuji's Porsche designed compact.
During the introduction of a new technology there are often new concepts. It happened when ms-dos was introduced and also when Windows 3 came. After some time these inspiring programs disappeared because the consumers didn’t ‘get it’ , the program wasn’t compatible, or the developers didn’t realise when the consumers favoured another product. Dos: Lotus Agenda, Ashton Tate Framework , Lotus Magellan Windows: Lotus Improv, WordPerfect infocentral . Then the interesting stuff disappeared and the boring but productive programs took over. Ah, I think that also happened to the frames of mountain bikes when fully suspended frames were first developed.
I had to search my feeble brain. Rollie 6006. 35 mm interchangeable back! Motor drive? Winder. Look into it. You have better resources than I have. Pentax Q, yes!
And stop be cool when people using smartphone that can shoot photo . Before that time, carry camera is only way to take photo . And after year, camera from vga to 2 mpx, now 8 and 12. With normal people no way they know what is autofocus, f, iso and shuter speed. And fb/IG is are go back. They only care about money and image only 2mpx on fb and 1mpx in ig. Most of smartphone shoot at 8mpx, so if u shoot a camera f8 and smartphone at daylighy, then compress to 2mp, realy hard to see which one better, unless u care about bokeh, shoot moving subject or low light. Even utral wide got 2mpx now. Now it time for smarphone can use lens. Soon many company will jump in , since smartphone gona use 1inch censor. In 1-2 year 1 inch gona be standard and 18mpx gona be real( not trash 108 mpx or 48 bla bla), the real 18mpx. Processor in smartphone i think way better than proxessor in camera. And they gona put censor bigger than 1inch and maybe can use the manual focus lens on that
Great vid, but you should really add a high pass filter on your voiceover track at 100-200Hz. It will prevent plosives from being so noticable and grating
Easy, Smart Phones blew up the market for cameras for fun. Cameras are now for mostly professionals and serious hobbyists, professionals don't want fun, professionals want a camera equivalent to an AK-47. Something they can use all day, abuse, drop, get rained on and it will just keep shooting for several years of hard use. They'll also buy new hardware every couple of years, so they're the one market that isn't going to just disappear. Hobbyists want to look like professionals, so they buy what the pros use. The people who used to buy 'interesting' camera simply aren't there anymore.
20 years living with digital cameras. How quick the time goes by. The camera manufactures and digital cameras had a boom to 2010 till it ends. The smartphone which become better and better killed the simple digital cam. The smartphone is good enough for most purpose. Now we have retro trend to the beginnings.
I owned that square Digital Mavica with the 3 1/2 floppy disk. Must have been one of the first digital cameras. It was fun to use and very novel for ppl who only knew film processing.
lytro. a failure ultimately though. The coolpix 990 was amazing for its time, but the design I didn't like. I realize mirrorless is boring, but the PEN cameras by Olympus were the first in a sense, and totally changed the game. It took a decade for others to finally admit it was the future; ir was a big risk for Olympus to release the OMD series considering how pros still preferred DSLRs at the time. Maybe we just take for granted the funky designs that stuck around, as they became the norm, while we romanticize the ideas that died out. The Z-cam E1 was a GoPro-sized MFT camera. The panasonic GH5S and Sony A7S are low-resolution low-light cameras; 12-mp is a bit of a risk to release for example, given how others were pushing 40-mp. Olympus had a pancake F8 lens that doubled as a lens-cap. 3D cameras by Panasonic and other brands were a big risk, and failed. 360-degree (dual fisheye) cameras are floating around; lots of recent innovation there still in a sense. Smartphones have several lenses these days; lots of innovation happening in that space, including with machine learning enhancements. Camera filters, snap camera, etc -- software is a big part of photography and video these days. thermal cameras are becoming more accessible, along with multispectral. security and wireless streaming cameras; those that may not even need a memory card. pro cameras that have USB webcam output; the bridge between photography and video has been gapped.
The real problem (at least in Australia) was (and still is) retailers not picking-up the more interesting model like the Ricoh GXR, because they were a bit too weird and niche in appeal, or this sort of "weird system" camera have modules which each cost as much (or more) than a whole other more normal digital P&S camera. ...and then mobile phone cameras exploded in resolution and features about ten years ago, basically killing the P&S camera market and making something like the GXR into just a weird, expensive toy.
There a link to be able to order an all blue Pentax Q7? Currently have a Metallic Blue K-30 Pentax which looks awesome and just happens to take awesome photos. Thank you for video on these wonderful unique cameras.
i started real photo with a F717 too, that camera was literally a monster, but solid and plain genius, the photos were excellent and the ergonomics top notch, my mother still uses it. Later found myself to upgrade with the F828, decent too and a Sony Alpha later. because the R1... Was the complete opposite. Yes a bigger zeiss but without handling it is pointless. Well the F828 is dead since a while, but hell that was innovative.
I recently went to visit my 78 year old dad and when I told him I had gotten back into photography he wouldn't let me leave without taking his spare Fuji Finepix S1000fd, which, I have to say, is a cool little digicam. Can't wait to give it a whirl
Curious to hear your thoughts on this. If you haven't already, check out my thoughts on the resurgence of old digital cameras: ruclips.net/video/7gPfR9fi4e4/видео.html
I think it's a very very small niche that will WANT to go out and shoot with a funky-looking camera, or a camera with many moving parts.
They are a product of the era; and the same applies to the millions of funky computer parts, accessories and gizmos that boomed in the 90's.
Sure, it might be nice to explore in retrospect.. They make great RUclips content.
@@bbasleigh6149 No, I don't think I missed the point.
I've NEVER seen a person on a shoot with a funky design. I think all those cameras with flippy parts and multicoloured options were meant to TRY to attract people, but it never worked, simply because no one in our westerner culture wants to look out of place.
These funky-looking things, are most often used by such an extremely niche market, that it's simply bad business.
And aren't "looks" a subjective thing?
I'm mainly a Pentax shooter, yet I prefer Canon for looks out of every maker. I think the 90D is the perfect-looking camera. It has the most snag-proof body with a "compact" design. Also really like the 5D-7D bodies very much.
But, last thing I would ever do is buy a camera for it's looks. It's a tool, I just want it to perform properly and to my needs...
It would be like going out to buy a ladder, a nailer, a drill or a hammer based on looks instead of need.
I believe I am the 1,000th like.
@@Shibes770 Thank you!! :)
@@GODSPEEDseven 9/11 kept us working together for a decade. Covid kept us working together for a couple years. Dropping the sun kept japan working together for a century.
Up until a few years ago, there was always some camera I really wanted to buy. There was always something interesting. Nowadays, I haven’t bought a new camera since 2018. The ones I have work great and the newer ones gives me nothing I really need. More resolution, smarter autofocus etc, basically better spec sheets that I don’t actually need or want. And like you I start to get more and more interested in older cameras
Yep, same thing happened with me! But that just means we live in a great era for photography. Lots of good options!
I agree to some extent: my 2018 fuji xt3 is still unbeatable compared to what you trade off for.
The 2021 canon R3 brought speed plus manageable resolution.
The 2022 leica m11 brought a practical and welcomed redesign, but lackluster performance, favoring spec over speed.
I remember back in my film days when I used Canon gear (A-1, AE-1 etc) and the industry at the time felt like it does now. There wasn't anything compelling enough to warrant a major upgrade or switching brands. Then auto-focus shook thinks up for a bit. Digital came along and for a time everyone was reluctant to switch. Now digital has come to a point where things are stagnating and it's really just about shooting whatever makes you happy. I wonder though... will something else come along and shake up the industry? Some new technological advancement that we will all start to consider a "must have"? Something that really makes a difference in the way you take photos or your results as a photographer? I can't possibly think of what that could be, but I also couldn't for see the success of auto-focus or digital. I think I'll just enjoy the current state of things for now. I don't have quite the GAS that I've had in the past. But... something, at some point, will come that will shake up the market there will probably be that killer "thing" that will make all cameras to-date seem that much older.
That’s why I’ve gotten into instant film and started dipping my toes into film
@@joshjacobson9846 Welcome to the rabbit hole! I went from a point and shoot Sureshot Telemax for about two years to an AE-1 Program and four lenses that I carry with me basically all the time now haha!
Everyone was trying to figure out what a digital camera could/should be since we were just moving from film. But with the rise of the smartphone camera and the precipitous decline of the compact camera market, all the companies are just playing it safe right now. Shit, never mind not making creative/crazy/wonky compact cameras, most companies aren't even making compact cameras at all-- safe/boring or not. I don't think this is going to change anytime soon. People are too hooked on their phones and okay with "good enough" images.
If the current trend of using ccd or instant film cameras is anything to go by, there is a space for weird digital cameras in the hobby / casual photography scene. Just give it time for 2000s nostalgia to get stronger and im sure we'll begin to see some more weird or at the least iconic compact cameras again.
Have a second hand (but perfect condition) canon compact camera from 2008 that I keep with me at work for "pictures of oppertunity", even with just 8mp it's still a fun camera to keep around and with a 32gig SD it's got room for 10,000+ pictures which is just hilarious to see on it's little display, been meaning to try loading it with custom firmware to I can make it take RAWs instead of JPEGs.
Also have a Canon M200 that I want to ship to Lifepixel for full spectrum modification since that's a trick no smartphones can reasonably pull off, really wanna try seeing the world threw IR, UV, and the full spread of light cameras can actually see when you get that pesky hot mirror out of the way, especially for Astrophotography
People aren't even using their smartphones because they're okay with "good enough quality." Most people are always demanding that their smartphones be able to do 6k240 and be as cinematic looking as possible, forgetting that it's a SMARTPHONE. If you want a cinematic camera, BUY A CINEMA CAMERA. Don't buy something with a camera thrown in because it's kinda useful and then cry because it's not the best camera in the entire world, people.
I'm 15 and wish that pocket cameras were still being made. As it is, a pocket camera is a great upgrade from a phone simply due to the optical zoom. On the plus side though, I've been wanting a pocket camera for a while, but could never find a good quality affordable one. Naturally, with camera companies stopping production on their pocket cams, eventually the existing ones will lower in price (hopefully 🤞). Still, quite a shame that people are delusional to think that phones will have the best quality ever. It just can't happen IMO. Like I said, it's thrown into an already complicated device. I feel that the best cameras will always be CAMERAS.
plus brain washed idiots that believe in Covid and Global warming aren't a very creative generation 😆😆😆😆
@@e_Dave Obviously the best camera will always be cameras. However, the best camera is the one you have on hand, and here smartphones have a HUGE advantage. Caring a 2k dollar camera around with you all the time can be quite uncomfortable. I always wouldn't feel comfortable bringing it with me on vacation to record boat rides or hiking. One wrong step and it's goine. A phone, on the other hand, is always with you.
In terms of quality, flagship smartphones offer insane levels at this point. I watch what I recorded on my iphone 12 on a 4k TV and it looks perfect. This was unimaginable like 6 years ago.
At the end of the day consumers made a clear choice that they didn't want this goofy, gimmicky cameras, sure they seem cool and interesting now but at the time these cameras were expensive as hell and were going for style over substance. A camera is an expensive purchase that for the average person that should last atleast five years and needs to work well, many of these cameras also had reliability and usability issues to go along with the gimmicks.
I lived in japan and remember a small camcorder with a built-in projector... sadly it could only project a small image a few feet away. There were others with similar gimmicks, but most were so limited or specific that they had no real use but still managed to double or triple costs.
I still have the original Q and a couple of Q7s. It's amazing what Pentax managed to pack into those tiny cameras, especially when one realises how much of the body is taken up with the battery.
It really is amazing. A fully featured camera in a tiny package.
I feel cheated
I loved the Pentax auto 110
It was an SLR camera for 110 format film
3 lenses
Motor drive
Flash
Before the q, I emailed Pentax asking them to please do a digital version of the 110
They wrote back with some flimsy crap excuse
A bit later - the q
Digital cameras in the 90’s and early 00’s went thru what would be the equivalent to what the automotive industry did in the 30’s and 40’s. Lots of experimenting with designs and configurations until what ultimately was decided on being the best. New technology brings about new innovation. It’s going to take some technological leap in the camera industry to get us cool weird designs again. Take a look at the action camera industry. DJI for example has built some weird things in the last few years, so., maybe you’re just not looking in the right places for weird new cameras?
I want a trans camera now
I did not expect that British accent lmao
Sometimes my dad side comes out lol
I got an xpro1 a few years ago, and just adapt old Minolta lenses to it, and it’s the most fun I’ve had taking photos in a while. I recommend anybody who has grown complacent in their photography try something like this or similar.
Yep. Fuji continues to target a segment of the market that no one else does
Gosh that mini Pentax camera is adorable!
It's not just cameras though, it's consumer electronics in general. Mobilephones, landlines, rice cookers, alarm clocks, watches... Remember how Nokias used to come in all kinds of fun and colourful shapes? Casios? Our landline at home was full on Memphis Milano style. My alarm clock would swear it'd never wake you up again, every morning after you'd hit it to snooze it. Even pocket calculators were super cute and could double-up as synthesizers. Manufacturers have forgotten how to be fun.
I read it as landmines at first and had a fit
@@SMTahmid Haha. Remember when landmines used to look cute?
@@lsamoa like it was the 80$ haha
When the digital camera was invented, they didn't need to be any particular shape because there was no longer a transport system for the film, so manufacturers could make them in the most bizarre styles. I figure that the market eventually settled down into expecting them to 'look' a certain way. I do have a collection of early digital cameras in a box which I have picked up for their interesting designs.
i feel sigma and pentax/ricoh are the only brands really worth getting excited for. Even fuji has become kinda standard but i do love the early X days which boasted some beautiful cameras. i actually rebought the X10 again since i remember it being so epic. And... it still is! A fully mechanically operated digital camera with the X-Trans sensor in it. You could take the low pass filter of those cameras and they would still work. i did that to a bridge camera for IR photography with no issues. that era was fun.
For one, camera companies take half-formed opinions on the Internet much too seriously. Comments on many digital camera review sites are dominated by herds of scolds and naysayers who reflexively hate on anything different, and who seem to love drama more than photography. It takes a lot of fortitude for camera designers and manufacturers to ignore that noise and see the audience for something unique and fresh.
I nearly bought the Samsung Android camera but my brother (photographer) talked me out of it.
Sigma is definitely making the quirkiest camera bodies at the moment like the DP compacts and the fairly modular FP bodies. Really looking forward to what kind of body they're planning on putting that full frame Foveon sensor in.
On the topic of Q cameras I seem to recall Pentax making some Evangelion themed special editions of the Q10 back when I lived in Japan.
I do also agree with the sentiment on Sony cameras. They might be the best tool for many jobs but whenever I don't need that super high end performance I'll reach for my Pentax kit. It's just more fun.
For modern and somewhat weird cameras not mentioned in the video the Pixii rangefinder from France comes to mind. It's a really strange combination of really old and really new technology.
Pentax Q...my wife applauded me, literally, when I walked in with one 8 years ago saying it was the first gadget I had ever bought she desired! I had already ordered another one for her!!
Couldn’t agree more! my love for cameras came with buying an old Panasonic Lumix from 2007 a couple of years ago, there is so much variety and cool things to discover with the old digital cameras! Also great video and channel 🤩📸
I'm going to have to check your channel out with a name like that ;)
@@snappiness Thanks appreciate that! 📸🤩
Lytro cameras come to mind. Any chance you would be tempted to get one?
Ah yes, I forgot about those. I have thought about picking one up but have never pulled the trigger.
I still have my Pentax qs1 I got in maybe 2017. One of my favorite cameras
Pentax q7 or qs1 with #8 wide lens zoom -> love
I take photos with olympus, pentax and pentax q and ppl always pick photos with pentax q for the best looking results ( thanks to many different fun lens)
Technology design is a lot like evolution in nature I'd say. Lots of variations are created, the the more successful designs are what have the better chance to "survive" in the environment. There's been... interesting, designs popping up for most everything; the smartphones, planes, cars, microwaves, televisions etc. we have now are adapted from their ancestors to be the most efficient design for the most uses (even if they're all looking similar is a tad boring).
The 1st generations of consumer digital cameras were exciting, and people wanted to "break the mold" with their products. Camera design had already had this evolutionary process however, so it didn't take long to migrate back to the shapes we'd recognized for decades. At its root, the Q cameras are basically shaped like a K1000 that was left in the dryer too long. Add the strong desire to integrate the existing lenses and peripherals... Photography is expensive.
I still own the q7, apart from not having an optical viewfinder it’s a fun camera to use, it seems to fetch a high price still not wanting to sell, I have the kill bill yellow and black variant.
I kinda feel that way but just last year i did buy a new camera and i absolutely love it a white sony ZV-E10
to truly have fun with it buy 1 or 2 small fast manual lenses which can be often had for less than a 100 bucks
it is so much fun add a lens from the sigma trio or the 18-50 for when you need autofocus and the sel55210 zoom for reach
the whole kit is tiny , cheap and light but can put many big bulky setups to shame , the best camera is the one you always have at
hand and this kit lives in my car so its always with me and when the moment presents itself it can create an amazing picture
what more could you ask for . It takes amazing videos too and the built in mic is probably one of the best out there
obviously not a replacement for a proper mic but actually good when you need to act fast .
Lets not even mention the unbelievable autofocus that literally has no match , it is just a perfect package .
man the amount of fun and great interactions i had because of that camera
people can not believe how that tiny little thing can take such stunning photos
and the imperfections and limitations of the fast manual lenses force you to be creative
for me that truly brings the joy back to photography
I have a pentax Q myself and only today I had it out and about with me..
One camera that I will never sell on
That's why, against all critics and advices and review, I own and use a Sigma fp, with the big back lcd viewfinder :-)
the DxO One was the last grasp of innovative design for me. It deserved a successor but obviously the market just isn't there.
I have a few of these featured but also a Powershot pro 1, a canon point and shoot with an in built L glass lens, the only point and shoot to ever get L glass
I shot with the Powershot pro 1 for a while! It is an excellent camera. Great lens and that 8mp sensor is really quite good.
I had a Sony R1, I am sorry Sony changed design philosophy when they purchased the camera division from Minolta, and I think cameras just are boring because they are meant more for professionals that are people I seldom follow because few are interesting and it shows in the type of utilitarian cameras they want; consumers moved to smartphones with their miriads of apps. By the way, my Fujifilm X100S is super cool!
I use the Sony RX0 a lot due to the tiny size and still has the image quality as the bigger RX100 series cameras. It’s literally about the size of the batteries for my Leica and Panasonic cameras and can be carried almost everywhere
The small cube one? I doubt it the same image.quality. I saw a bunch of tests and for some reason it just does not compare. Video from it seems to be fun
@@unbroken1010 probably the fixed F4 aperture.
How and where did you get that pentax? Are they still available? I would love a custom mini camera like that.
leica R9 existed
a film/digital hybrid camera, one of a kind
speaking as a happy owner of one 😉
My favourite camera is the Kiev 4, only because I'm not prepared to pay for the similar Contax II or Nikon S and M rangefinders (pun intended). They defy every ergonomic and operational convention, internal helical thread, manual focus by a small wheel, a shutter comprised of Venetian blinds, and a finger placement known only to classical guitarists, but they fine cameras and much cooler than the ubiquitous Leica rangefinders. Film, of course.
...although, Nikon did do the sensible iteration on the Contax II design and used a Leica-style cloth shutter, using the suddenly patent-free German designs for their Nikon 1 RF camera.
That an intact Nikon 1 is now worth more than its weight in gold means that I will probably never, ever even handle one, let alone own and use one.
I almost picked up a Koday Easyshare V610, the pocket camera with twin lenses. I thought it would be cool to have a twin lens cam rather than a twin lens phone, but the high rate of malfunction stopped me buying. Also, I'd love a Pentax Optio X with its swivel cam action, but it's hard to find a half decent one at a half decent price. I'll keep looking. Thanks for posting, always enjoy your videos.
Good point. Why doesn't Sony make a new floppy disk camera?
There were a lot of cool and unusual cameras: Sony DSC-F828, Minolta Dimage A-2 (I had one and it was the best handling), Agfa ePhoto 1680, Nikon V1 with it's tiny lenses and high speed shooting, the Sony point and shoots with the internal optical zoom lenses, Canon Powershot N (was the only camera that disabled people without use of their right arm/hand could use). I understand what smartphones did to the compact camera market was inevitable, but it's a crying shame to see all the innovation gone out of the camera market.
I had a Pentax Q10 when it first came out. Super fun, but some of the sloooooowest autofocus around.
This was one of the reasons I sold my original Q years ago. The other reason was I got into the Ricoh GR system which fit my need for a small camera better. Still, can't wait to get into adapting crazy stuff again!
The AF is getting beter. My first AF was the Pentax K110D, yes it was slow. My present camera, the Pentax K70D is much faster and more presice.
You might enjoy the Kodak Mc3, a mp3 and camera
Excellent video as usual, I'd love to see your Pentax Q in action and the pictures you take with it!😊
Many more videos in the future with it, I'm sure! Thanks!
I have finally gotten my k5. Great fun camera for parties. Esp with a Vintage AF 50mm
Congrats! Love the K5!
lack of mega pixels and full-frame sensors
This summer I took my Q7 to Europe, mostly to save space on travel. Fantastic system. Pity I never was able to afford the ultra wide lens (price keeps going up). I even threw in a 135mm f3.5 M (with adapter) as an ULTRA telephoto lens for the system.
trans pentax! that is truly such a great neat little camera :)
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I had a Nikon Coolpix 990 - it was great for its time and took adapter lenses, like a huge fisheye lens that pulled in low light pretty well :)
Love that blue Pentax u got.anytime I looking for one I will get one ..thanks again for showing me the new love for old cams...digi cams from yesterday are the bomb still..
They are! I'm really happy to have stumbled upon this special colored Pentax Q7. I wanted to pick up a Pentax Q camera again at some point anyway, so now this makes it extra fun :)
1:20 not me thinking it was actually making Bop-It sounds…
I wonder how many people thought the same xD
Props for featuring the Pentax Q. My Q7 in generic black (over there) needs some use. The pictures coming out of its 12mp sensor would absolutely fooled people into thinking it was even a full frame DSLR at least once. Its just a pleasure to have with you instead of the Sony a99II a-mount camera (over there with wonderful Minolta lenses) that really wants to make you feel like you're lifting weights. Also nods to the Sony floppy disc camera. Cool stuff. I BELIEVE when I last checked the Pentax Q system is discontinued. That makes me very sad. Its so unique I wish Richo decided to just keep it around as a show piece. Umm no. Discontinued. (sniff)
Trends come and go and come back again. One day people will get bored of phonography and look for something better and we will be ready to show them the way back to the awesomeness.
Honestly, it was this video that actually motivated me to pick up my own Pentax Q7. I love the little guy. It actually kind of looks like a toy!
It's pretty standard, but the crazy zoom lens on the Nikon Coolpix p1000 is so much fun to mess around with and see what kind of things you can see from ridiculous distances, like Saturn for instance (yes, you can see Saturn with a point and shoot camera)
"What on earth possessed me to buy this little fella?" - because look at it! I don't even need a good reason, it looks rad AF.
After binging your channel all morning, it's time to subscribe. Some fantastic videos you've got sir.
Electric motorcycles don't need exhausts or gas tanks so why do they look still like gas powered motorcycles? Carbon fibre can be made any shape so.why do they still look like trad bicycles? ....because the majority of people will stick with the familiar.....boring but true...
I think as far as weird wild cameras go, it's hard to top the Epson R-D1/R-D1s/R-D1x. The front half is a Voightlander Bessa film body, the back half is a custom Seiko Epson CCD digital camera, and it keeps the manual shutter cocking mechanism with the film advance lever. And they got it to market faster than Leica could build the M8.
I mean this all makes sense.
Companies jump onto a new technology that blows up, start competing and experimenting in its infancy and later they all pretty much resemble one another because the perfect hardware shapes and functions for most use cases have been found. After that it becomes a spec and material flex into this standardized, tried and tested bottle.
Everything I know of has been through this developmental history. "Fun" isn't really what people seek out of a system but it's always welcome, the purpose of devices besides toys is always clear and has a goal, fun is just there the most during the experimental phase.
I've got a Pentax Q10 and it's amazing. I don't use any of the Q-mount lenses though. The smaller sensor that's on the Q10 and original Q make them the most compatible with vintage D-mount lenses and C-mount CCTV lenses, which are what I exclusively use. It's such a unique little thing and I love it.
i used a D mount Wollensak Cine Raptar 13mm f1.9 on my Q cameras. Nothing else could make images like that combo!
EVF's really-really irritate me nowadays, because they *should* be able to go anywhere on virtually any given camera body since *almost no manufacturers use a mirror* anymore. Instead of designing deeper ergonomics into new cameras thanks to this super-useful new paradigm, just about every single camera *still* has the EVF atop the middle of its body. My Lumix GX8 has a really cool tilting EVF on its corner like an old rangefinder & Fujifilm makes an *amazing* tilting/turning external EVF for their medium format line... but otherwise almost no innovation has been applied whatsoever.
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Your video reminds me of Mr. Mobile's (aka Michael Fisher) series of yt videos on "When phones were fun" where he documents the crazy cool mobile phone designs from years past. Amazing experimentation happened in the Y2K-Frutiger Aero Era!
Where tf do i get that thumbnail camera. That’s totally my style.
Got it on eBay from Japan. It's the Pentax Q7. Finding this color took a long time though.
I love love love my Canon Powershot N. Feels like a camera that was truly designed to be digital from the ground-up, with no conventions at all from film controls. One of the best shutter buttons ever designed for a camera
I'm going to assume, that era of smartphone photography is not going to last forever. I've been #shotoniphone type of guy since iPhone 3gs. It was very interesting what you could possibly do with such a small sensor and is it really possible to create something artistic with just a phone.
But after 10+ years of shoting with my phone, I've started to lose interest in it. iPhone's deep fusion makes pictures all the same, computational bokeh doesn't look realistic or interesting and in many cases, where iPhone can't see something, it tries to "draw" things with AI, it looks very unnatural.
Got my Sony a6000 a couple weeks ago, it took a bit to learn what is what, but pictures and mood of pictures I take has changed very much! Considering, that I can put any lens on it, makes it even more interesting what I could shot with it!
I would love to actually try some not standard lenses, some retro ones and to see what am I going to get with it.
But yeah, phones are boring nowadays. Dedicated cameras is the future.
The Nikon Zfc seems like a fun camera and depending what region you live in it's available in 14 different color combinations. Unfortunately the US didn't get all of the fun color options.
Have you ever held one? It feels cheap and hollow, like a plastic toy. It's surprising the dials actually do anything because they feel so fake.
@@StephenStrangways I have not held one but this video isn't really about build quality. The Pentax Q7 also looks like a plastic toy.
@@oliverinmga the Q7 may look like a plastic toy, but it feels really well-built and solid. The Z fc looks like metal, but feels like a plastic toy. The Q7 will pleasantly surprise you, the Z fc will disappoint you.
At least the Nikon Z mount seems to have stuck around, their first attempt at a mirrorless "Nikon 1" with a 1" sensor seemed to get dropped like a hot potato and consigned to the memory-hole. The publicity photos of the Nikon Zfc certainly make it look like it has the build of a FM or FE, but I'm not surprised that it is electroplated plastic and not brass or magnesium alloy.
@@dj1NM3 the Nikon 1 system ran for 7 years, with 11 cameras and 13 lenses. Nikon Z has been around for 4 years, with 9 cameras and 31 lenses. Not only are there a ton more Z lenses, they seem to be far more reliable than the 1 lenses, which were so bad they had to start a free out-of-warranty repair service for one of them, and it really should have extended to others that also had similar design flaws.
Weird.. I actually dug my pentax q out a couple days ago to charge up the battery.. and then I see this video haha.. I also have a Sony a7iv..and I'm digging out the pentax.. its not a out the biggest sensor, or how many megapixels..its about what's fun and what gets you shooting photos. A time and place for everything
I have this broken camcorder that waa beautiful and felt so perfect in the hand... then they stopped making them.. i just want more cool in hand camcorders
If you want a small camera that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, the Sony a5000 has a flippable display, a similar mechanism on the flash, swappable lenses, a bigger sensor, and functionally can be an amazing hdmi webcam. Also it does come in 2 different colours so that's there.
This is not gonna be a popular opinion but the Nikon 1 is one of the most misunderstood and underrated camera systems ever. Yes it had some shitty marketing, positioning and pricing from Nikon but the thing tried to rethink everything, from body designs and the way we shoot. It could do some crazy stuff for the time. People who used and loved them know how fun they were. Always was a huge supporter and so so sad it is gone.
I think having a dedicated device sort of makes it more of a mini ritual than just having a cellphone camera. Hard to make something that's always attached to us and always on into a ritual
Pentax Q is quite an amazing camera. And in the right hands it can produce amazing results. One other amazing camera is the K-01. This camera had amazing results specially when used for landscapes and portraits. It had a few knockers. And the reviewers were allbsaming much the same thing which to my mind a lot of them never used the camera and copied others reviews. It was slow in AF but firmware upgrades fixed this. In my local photo club I won many honours for the results from this camera. I truly believe a lot of people are like sheep and go off people's heresay. Rather then do so basic investing to find the truth. Love your videos, Keep up the great work. PS the K-01 and the Q were two of the most fun cameras I have ever used.
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Just picked up batteries for my Canon S300 Powershoot I got in 2001 (It seems like it still works, need a card), it was my 2nd digital camera. I've got 2 games left to shoot this season, so I may bring it to an NFL game and weird people out on the sideline by snapping a few photos with it LOL
haha, that would be awesome!
Camera nerds don’t want to get ridiculed by their camera nerd friends for having a camera that itsnt black and silver or all black. It must be along the lines of someone saying “color photos aren’t pro”
Because these designs aren't practical and break after a few years of rigorous use, video over
Edit: sorry if this came off as rude lol. But it's true, functionality is what really matters to photographers, and ease of use is what matters to consumers. There really isn't a place for these types of cameras anymore. Though interesting new phones may tell a different story.
I assume the Pentax Q you got was set to Japanese language? Was it easy to switch to English? I'm looking for a deal on one of these and most of the available options are in Japan. Thanks!
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I see you finally have a sony R1. 😉😉😉
Do you like? Will you make a video about it?
Yes, and yes! Eventually :)
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My first camera was a 110 film camera. I was like 8 in the early 90s and it was my Mom's camera from the 1970s. I loved that thing. I used to take pictures of my action figures in sequences that told a story. When I got the pictures developed I'd glue them into notebooks and write dialogs. haha
I thought about buying a 110 camera used. Are they good for taking pictures of cats and other animals? maybe a beach pic or boardwalk picture also?
@@deadlycreature3359 I’d buy just a 35mm then. 110 is a pretty crappy format.
It'f not easy to get film for it (it's still produced by Lomography I think) and have it developed. I just bought the Pentax 110 Super camera just for fun, it's the smallest SLR in the world, even smaller than the Q. By the way, my first camera used 120 film, an odd format for an amateur camera.
@@ivarnordlkken8082 That is so cool that you got the Pentax. I hear they are amazing cameras.
When you build for the masses, you eventually make boring safe products. Look at mobile phones, digital cameras, computers, cars. All used to have a myriad of different shapes, colours formats. But the average person wants an average product. It's just how the world is.
I still have a kyocera sl300, Nikon s5, Samsung S4, s5 or k5 zoom. All brilliant, but no longer popular
"Sorry", but for ME my phone is NOT my primary "Every day Carry" camera!, Yeah, I use it. But it's for "snapshots". I STILL use my Nikon P7100 as my "go to" travel workhorse. Yeah, It's "old", and it's "pixel count" is no where NEAR what my phone's camera "claims". (10Mp vs 48Mp!!!) But..Er Um.. It still takes better photos! And while it's video resolution is limited to 720, It has STEREO mikes, AND an external mic jack! But the REAL part is: It's a REAL CAMERA It has FULL manual mode and shoots "RAW". I'd also like to add that it has REAL "zoom" (Telephoto) and an ACTUAL optical finder. I'm old. I'm used to holding my camera to my FACE when shooting stills. (OK with a video screen for videos, LOL)
This stuff is right up my alley! I hope you keep making videos.
this video has such a beautiful coda! I love photography, and I love photography gear - they're interrelated hobbies, for sure, but I think it's important not to let fixation on the latter overwhelm and smother the joy we get from the former. Having said that, it certainly does frustrate and sadden me, the way camera designs have homogenised into boring black boxes. The recent trend toward 'retro' designs with the ZF, the continued popularity of the x100 series, and the upcoming Lumix S9 is heartening to me though. I think the instinct (which you see a lot in forums and comment threads etc) to sniff and scoff at people who care what their gear looks & feels like is ultimately conservative & stifling.
We can create beautiful work, and we can enjoy beautiful & fun cameras - the two aren't mutually exclusive! In fact (echoing the advice of Mattias Burling to 'pick the cool one' when choosing a camera), they can be intimately connected. When it comes down to it, attitude & experience & practice are what matter the most; but it certainly can't hurt to have our gear give us a leg up along the way on a grey day where we're feeling uninspired :)
Everything was nicer looking from the 80's to the 00's, companies showed off their skills to produce unique looking stuff, nowadays everything is minimalist or brutalist.
so I've bought the Q7 and I understand why this line didn't go anywhere. I have the O2 lens and autofocus barely works and if I want to shoot in manual, then I'm hampered by the screen where I cant tell if stuff is in focus even on the highest "zoom" and with focus peaking on...and I want to like this camera and some of these problems might be from how slow the lens at 15mm is but I feel like forcing myself to use this over the MX-1...I will certainly mount my 150-450 + 1.4TC once i have adapter and then go looking into spacealien' bathroom windows and mount all sorts of crazy lenses beside that but using it "as intended" is really not the greatest experience
My first digital camera was a Pentax Optio MX4 It actually took pretty good pictures. The battery case would fold out and was used as a handle.
Ricoh GR digital 8.1 megapixel, had mine since 2005.
I use it for black and white jpegs. The price of these have rocketed now.
I also use a Canon Ixus 100s for colour. I bought it for £10.
Pentax Q cameras used to be cheap, but with people like you bigging them up the price of them too will soar.
"The cameras that mostly sold look and act the same" - And I have no idea why no-one complains about this much more. Nikon, Canon and Sony cameras are a NIGHTMARE in usability. Downsides of film cameras and digital cameras combined. I want to choose time, aperture and ISO easy and quick. Is an aperture ring such a hard thing to do? Instead of dedicated controls for important stuff they have stupid endless jog dials where i have double or triple occupancy of functions. Horrible. There were SO GOOD examples of this. Hasselblad and Olympus had time, aperture and focus on the lens, which was a GENIUS principle. Or the ergonomics of a Contact RTS. A blast to choose focus and exposure. Or the straight forward simplicity of a Rolleiflex. This cost cutting of modern cameras made them slow, too complicated and not fun anymore. In my opinion, one of the few manufacturers who get it right is Fuji.
Pentax Q-S1 Mirrorless Digital Camera White With 5-15mm Lens
Pentax Q10
Pentax mx-1
Sadly these are only available for me just want an expert opinion, would really appreciate it, which one should I go for ?
I remember having a lot of fun with the 1.3 megapixel Aiptek Mini Pencam many years ago. It was literally about 3 inches high and 1 inch wide and about 3/4 inch thick. I can’t explain why I enjoyed using it so much, but I think it’s tiny size had a lot to do with it.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-L1 from 2004 was a cool little camera I loved to throw in my pocket and take on morning walks or out to dinner, or anywhere. So tiny and neat looking.
I dropped in a glass of water once accidently when out to dinner with friends. 😂 Managed to take it apart and dry it out, and all was well.
Minolta Dimage. Swivel and detachable zoom. You could link it to the body with a proprietary cable. Great for Point of View shots.
Fuji's Porsche designed compact.
During the introduction of a new technology there are often new concepts. It happened when ms-dos was introduced and also when Windows 3 came.
After some time these inspiring programs disappeared because the consumers didn’t ‘get it’ , the program wasn’t compatible, or the developers didn’t realise when the consumers favoured another product.
Dos: Lotus Agenda, Ashton Tate Framework , Lotus Magellan
Windows: Lotus Improv, WordPerfect infocentral .
Then the interesting stuff disappeared and the boring but productive programs took over.
Ah, I think that also happened to the frames of mountain bikes when fully suspended frames were first developed.
I had to search my feeble brain. Rollie 6006. 35 mm interchangeable back! Motor drive? Winder. Look into it. You have better resources than I have. Pentax Q, yes!
And stop be cool when people using smartphone that can shoot photo . Before that time, carry camera is only way to take photo
. And after year, camera from vga to 2 mpx, now 8 and 12. With normal people no way they know what is autofocus, f, iso and shuter speed. And fb/IG is are go back. They only care about money and image only 2mpx on fb and 1mpx in ig. Most of smartphone shoot at 8mpx, so if u shoot a camera f8 and smartphone at daylighy, then compress to 2mp, realy hard to see which one better, unless u care about bokeh, shoot moving subject or low light. Even utral wide got 2mpx now. Now it time for smarphone can use lens. Soon many company will jump in , since smartphone gona use 1inch censor. In 1-2 year 1 inch gona be standard and 18mpx gona be real( not trash 108 mpx or 48 bla bla), the real 18mpx. Processor in smartphone i think way better than proxessor in camera. And they gona put censor bigger than 1inch and maybe can use the manual focus lens on that
Great vid, but you should really add a high pass filter on your voiceover track at 100-200Hz. It will prevent plosives from being so noticable and grating
Easy, Smart Phones blew up the market for cameras for fun. Cameras are now for mostly professionals and serious hobbyists, professionals don't want fun, professionals want a camera equivalent to an AK-47. Something they can use all day, abuse, drop, get rained on and it will just keep shooting for several years of hard use. They'll also buy new hardware every couple of years, so they're the one market that isn't going to just disappear. Hobbyists want to look like professionals, so they buy what the pros use. The people who used to buy 'interesting' camera simply aren't there anymore.
20 years living with digital cameras. How quick the time goes by. The camera manufactures and digital cameras had a boom to 2010 till it ends. The smartphone which become better and better killed the simple digital cam. The smartphone is good enough for most purpose. Now we have retro trend to the beginnings.
I owned that square Digital Mavica with the 3 1/2 floppy disk. Must have been one of the first digital cameras. It was fun to use and very novel for ppl who only knew film processing.
lytro. a failure ultimately though.
The coolpix 990 was amazing for its time, but the design I didn't like.
I realize mirrorless is boring, but the PEN cameras by Olympus were the first in a sense, and totally changed the game. It took a decade for others to finally admit it was the future; ir was a big risk for Olympus to release the OMD series considering how pros still preferred DSLRs at the time.
Maybe we just take for granted the funky designs that stuck around, as they became the norm, while we romanticize the ideas that died out.
The Z-cam E1 was a GoPro-sized MFT camera.
The panasonic GH5S and Sony A7S are low-resolution low-light cameras; 12-mp is a bit of a risk to release for example, given how others were pushing 40-mp.
Olympus had a pancake F8 lens that doubled as a lens-cap.
3D cameras by Panasonic and other brands were a big risk, and failed.
360-degree (dual fisheye) cameras are floating around; lots of recent innovation there still in a sense.
Smartphones have several lenses these days; lots of innovation happening in that space, including with machine learning enhancements. Camera filters, snap camera, etc -- software is a big part of photography and video these days.
thermal cameras are becoming more accessible, along with multispectral.
security and wireless streaming cameras; those that may not even need a memory card.
pro cameras that have USB webcam output; the bridge between photography and video has been gapped.
The real problem (at least in Australia) was (and still is) retailers not picking-up the more interesting model like the Ricoh GXR, because they were a bit too weird and niche in appeal, or this sort of "weird system" camera have modules which each cost as much (or more) than a whole other more normal digital P&S camera.
...and then mobile phone cameras exploded in resolution and features about ten years ago, basically killing the P&S camera market and making something like the GXR into just a weird, expensive toy.
There a link to be able to order an all blue Pentax Q7?
Currently have a Metallic Blue K-30 Pentax which looks awesome and just happens to take awesome photos.
Thank you for video on these wonderful unique cameras.
i started real photo with a F717 too, that camera was literally a monster, but solid and plain genius, the photos were excellent and the ergonomics top notch, my mother still uses it.
Later found myself to upgrade with the F828, decent too and a Sony Alpha later. because the R1... Was the complete opposite. Yes a bigger zeiss but without handling it is pointless.
Well the F828 is dead since a while, but hell that was innovative.
I recently went to visit my 78 year old dad and when I told him I had gotten back into photography he wouldn't let me leave without taking his spare Fuji Finepix S1000fd, which, I have to say, is a cool little digicam. Can't wait to give it a whirl