The world's worst camcorder - Sylvania SY-4000

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Old footage recorded in 2008 using the Sylvania SY-4000 pocket-sized video camera (also sold as the DV-2100). It was a much cheaper alternative to the Flip cameras that were popular at the time -- but with much lower quality. In addition to the terrible rolling shutter wobble effect, the graininess and chromatic aberration makes it look a bit like old 8 mm movie film. And the microphone picks up more noise from the camcorder's buttons than from what you're trying to record!

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  • @mxslick50
    @mxslick505 жыл бұрын

    When someone wonders what is meant by "filmed with a potato" just show them this footage...

  • @windowsfan95

    @windowsfan95

    5 жыл бұрын

    NinjaBoy and the Old Man seen worse than this and that is the camera on old mobile phones and The first digital camera my dad had which was an Canon ixus s400!!

  • @mxslick50

    @mxslick50

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@windowsfan95 Indeed, the first mobile cameras were really bad, limited by the tech of the time. I think the worst ever camera I saw was the one Fisher-Price made for kids, it recorded on an ordinary audio cassette and the quality was horrid!

  • @markm0000
    @markm00005 жыл бұрын

    Ow yeah I remember these things. Total piece and nothing but a cash grab to get money from people that don't know any better. This was from the very beginning of sharing video with friends online.

  • @Trekkie4
    @Trekkie45 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of my old Kodak digital camera, from 2004. My first digital camera to be exact, think the model number was CX4200.

  • @fffUUUUUU
    @fffUUUUUU5 жыл бұрын

    Blair Witch 2 confirmed

  • @awhooley
    @awhooley4 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see you still have the Passat!

  • @NinjaDeathtrap
    @NinjaDeathtrap5 жыл бұрын

    Its nice if you want that 70:s feeling =)

  • @wildbilltexas
    @wildbilltexas5 жыл бұрын

    I remember CVS or Walgreens were selling these or similar cheap video cameras for Black Friday in the late 2000's.

  • @CKT1138
    @CKT11385 жыл бұрын

    I remember when everyone had cameras this crappy

  • @mattmoreira210
    @mattmoreira2105 жыл бұрын

    *SY* in the model name stands for *"Shit!* *Why* did I buy this?!"

  • @therealbluedragon
    @therealbluedragon5 жыл бұрын

    It’s like a phone camera from 2005

  • @prebenjaeger

    @prebenjaeger

    5 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @EastAngliaUK
    @EastAngliaUK5 жыл бұрын

    the footage looks like its from the 70s to early 80s LOL

  • @CGQuarterly
    @CGQuarterly5 жыл бұрын

    It's like Super 8, only worse.

  • @KylesTechChannel01
    @KylesTechChannel015 жыл бұрын

    I think I had one of those, I just used it as an SD card reader for my PC

  • @legoman8960

    @legoman8960

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @coondogtheman
    @coondogtheman5 жыл бұрын

    I have a couple of flip style camcorders. One is the Shift 3 USB video camera and the other is some orange colored no name camera from Kohl's. They work OK but the sound is weak on both. The shift3's audio is terrible so it sounds grainy like Aussie50's old camera if you watch his oldest videos. The orange one was broken when I got it (no sound) so I took it apart and found a broken wire on the speaker. The quality isn't the greatest on those but they work.

  • @bakonfreek
    @bakonfreek5 жыл бұрын

    I'm looking at this and thinking back to my first digital "camcorder" (Google search VCamNow 2.0). That one might have this beat (might still have videos laying around from 2006/07), but to be fair, it was sold as a toy and I was 11 (production value nonexistent even compared to the crap I currently put out).

  • @AussieTVMusic
    @AussieTVMusic5 жыл бұрын

    The original Potato cam®.

  • @kbhasi
    @kbhasi5 жыл бұрын

    (reads description halfway) Yeah, and it's clearly a knockoff of the Flip Ultra series

  • @JonnyInfinite
    @JonnyInfinite4 жыл бұрын

    This looks like 8mm

  • @Connie_TinuityError
    @Connie_TinuityError5 жыл бұрын

    At least it's not as bad video quality wise compared to those videos recorded with feature phones

  • @mnmtk
    @mnmtk5 жыл бұрын

    Not bad. Similar quality to PS Vita's built-in camera from 2012 :)

  • @alejoromero
    @alejoromero5 жыл бұрын

    Some times looks like 8 mm film. It's not that bad.

  • @d0tbr3w
    @d0tbr3w3 жыл бұрын

    literally just a rebranded flip mino

  • @Rennyputansu650

    @Rennyputansu650

    3 жыл бұрын

    No. I have both a flip mino and it. The flip mino has 1 gig of inbuilt storage, while it has an as slot

  • @PhilXavierSierraJones
    @PhilXavierSierraJones5 жыл бұрын

    Retro is the new future, so how about reviewing some camera using this or worse camcorders? Or maybe at April 1st like Techmoan did :)

  • @andymadden8183

    @andymadden8183

    5 жыл бұрын

    Link to the Techmoan video, please.

  • @PhilXavierSierraJones

    @PhilXavierSierraJones

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@andymadden8183 I think he removed the video, I can't find the thing ("techmoan pxl 2000") The video starts with him saying "People said I should do a review on PXL 2000 video recorder, so here it is" then the entire review is recorded with PXL 2000.

  • @RuviaPawz
    @RuviaPawz4 жыл бұрын

    What prably because it was made by a light bulb company

  • @wilkes85
    @wilkes855 жыл бұрын

    Haha that's the same camera as my Curtis. Absolute piece of junk, but at that time when digital cameras were expensive, it was better than nothing.

  • @MedelProductions
    @MedelProductions5 жыл бұрын

    There's still worse quality: flip phone cameras

  • @RVMOriginal

    @RVMOriginal

    2 жыл бұрын

    How can it be worse, this one doesn't even focus

  • @xaverlustig3581
    @xaverlustig35815 жыл бұрын

    It's in colour though

  • @KC4RAE
    @KC4RAE5 жыл бұрын

    What was I using in 2008? Oh yeah, a $100 pawn shop Sony Hi-8 camcorder. I made a lot of money off that camera and recorded a shit ton of videos with it. Looked better than this hot mess.

  • @gmcnewlook
    @gmcnewlook5 жыл бұрын

    Yeesh just as bad as the camera on my phone at the time (actually this was marginally better which is saying a lot)

  • @stuartdavis9853
    @stuartdavis98535 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Awful!

  • @Tutelarysine
    @Tutelarysine4 жыл бұрын

    It’s a rip off of the flip camera

  • @mercuryoak2
    @mercuryoak25 жыл бұрын

    When I seen this I think people if they got this they wished they got a handy cam or heck stuck with their VHS. Camcorder. Heck my LG Cu400. Cellphone had better quality then this and that was a flip phone from Cingular wireless my first real cellphone vs the tracphone nokia blue with flashlight

  • @maxpowers2168
    @maxpowers21685 жыл бұрын

    LOL it looks like a cheap iPhone clone camera.

  • @andymadden8183
    @andymadden81835 жыл бұрын

    My Canon FS200 from 2009 is MUCH better than this.

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