snappiness

snappiness

I enjoy classic digital cameras. While other people may look at these cameras as obsolete, I can see that they can still take amazing images and often at bargain prices. I also enjoy looking at the back story behind these famous or forgotten digital cameras. It's these cameras that shaped the camera industry to where it is today. Whether it's a cheap old camera or just a weird old camera, I like to feature my adventures with my finds on this channel.

Reach out to me if you share a passion for older cameras and want to collaborate, or simple to chat :)

I can be reached on my forum at snappiness.space, on Instagram, or via email.

-James

Nerds Love This Old DSLR

Nerds Love This Old DSLR

Tiny Camera Big Lens

Tiny Camera Big Lens

How Kodak Nearly Won

How Kodak Nearly Won

Why the Pixii Camera?

Why the Pixii Camera?

A Brand New M42 Lens

A Brand New M42 Lens

Пікірлер

  • @mihaiserbanescu8676
    @mihaiserbanescu8676Сағат бұрын

    With that little flash it looks like one of those robots from the pixar movies.

  • @station-7
    @station-73 сағат бұрын

    A floppy disk fit 1.44MB of data on it. So those photos must’ve been tiny KB files.

  • @CzejenAndCodaj
    @CzejenAndCodaj4 сағат бұрын

    best camera you ever use? Try xpro

  • @rollingtroll
    @rollingtroll6 сағат бұрын

    Lovely little overview. Small correction; the first mavica was in 1997, not 1999. 1999 is when they got good though :D.

  • @winheiMR
    @winheiMR7 сағат бұрын

    Keine Alternative für mich, dann eher eine Zeiss ZX1

  • @unkreativnet
    @unkreativnet7 сағат бұрын

    funny to see the plugs instead of glued cable connections. This one is more servicable then most cameras today

  • @chris24hdez
    @chris24hdez9 сағат бұрын

    I’ve missed the foveon tech!

  • @steverobinson9801
    @steverobinson980110 сағат бұрын

    I was lucky to be able to purchase the K-1 in May 2016 the first day it was on sale in the US. It is one of my favorite Pentax cameras. I have a collection of old Pentax lenses with some from 1958. They all work wonderfully on the K-1. I have also used the Canon D6 and the Nikons D700 and D810. The K-1 is still my favorite.

  • @iarosnaps
    @iarosnaps11 сағат бұрын

    you can use a gameboy camera even as a webcam! p.s. i wish you used a pixel resolution instead of megapixels, it's like a "1 million dots" display - hard to understand and compare

  • @FT__Cool_Stuff______-of5pi
    @FT__Cool_Stuff______-of5pi15 сағат бұрын

    that'd be great if it cost like $600

  • @lachlanlau
    @lachlanlau18 сағат бұрын

    1:12 arent those gumstick batteries for walkmans??

  • @moroph
    @moroph20 сағат бұрын

    I have only and only used cameras with a Foveon sensor for 10 years. Developing the raw of a Sigma with a Foveon sensor without going through SigmaPhotoPro, is to miss the only real advantage of these cameras with stellar image quality. Even using the alternative DNG format is useless. The only way is X3F+SigmaPhotoPro.

  • @pepengjelek8599
    @pepengjelek859920 сағат бұрын

    1 photo/floppy

  • @adamlazic493
    @adamlazic49321 сағат бұрын

    I had a 2011 olympus camera and it had a pretty ugly screen quality and now i see someting even uglier

  • @Fourpads
    @Fourpads23 сағат бұрын

    could you adapt it the other way round, m4/3 lens on the Pentax 110?

  • @global001
    @global00123 сағат бұрын

    That phone didn’t exist in 1999. You’d be lucky if the camera did. It would be attached to a desktop computer or laptop and uploaded to a blog, line by line after connecting over a landline moderm which would stretch like a distraught cat for 10 mins to get an internet connection. Then it would it take 2 minutes to upload, line by line.

  • @7evive
    @7evive23 сағат бұрын

    Whats the difference between ep-2 and epm2?

  • @dollarinhand3443
    @dollarinhand344323 сағат бұрын

    Wow i have one of these just sitting collecting dust lol

  • @losfogo7149
    @losfogo7149Күн бұрын

    Did you just put a floppy in a camera

  • @miguimau
    @miguimauКүн бұрын

    I hava a Sony DSC R1, A Sanyo IdShot and a couple Sanyo Xactis and they are definitively more fun to shoot with than newer rigs.

  • @NorthWolfPhotography
    @NorthWolfPhotographyКүн бұрын

    One small correction: The Floppy Disc based Sony Mavica actually came out in 1997 not 1999. The first models were the MVC-FD5/FD7. It's just really rare and hard to find, so the second gen (for example the FD73) are what a lot of people are able to find and pick up and shoot with

  • @snappiness
    @snappiness23 сағат бұрын

    That's right, that's my mistake. The irony is that I checked in my drawer right now after you said that, and I also have an FD5. D'oh xD

  • @siphozikalala7834
    @siphozikalala7834Күн бұрын

    Closest things to social media in 1999 were chat rooms and email.

  • @MickR0sco
    @MickR0scoКүн бұрын

    Have a look at astrophotography cameras. They're about as small as you can get.

  • @mhdgs9944
    @mhdgs9944Күн бұрын

    I've found a p6000 for 10 euros in really good condition should I buy?

  • @snappiness
    @snappiness23 сағат бұрын

    That's a good deal!

  • @torizanmai177
    @torizanmai177Күн бұрын

    What lens did you use to take the first lizard photo?

  • @snappiness
    @snappiness23 сағат бұрын

    If I remember correctly it was the Sigma 150mm f2.8 macro

  • @Francoisacker
    @FrancoisackerКүн бұрын

    There was no social media or influencers in 1999. There were no phones with color screens.

  • @roberttown2816
    @roberttown2816Күн бұрын

    Nice video! How are you getting such nice browns and skin tones from this camera? Many thanks 👍

  • @phirewire110
    @phirewire110Күн бұрын

    I have my original GameBoy Camera and GameBoy Color still. Can you elaborate a bit more on your setup to get the files off?

  • @snappiness
    @snappinessКүн бұрын

    Look up "retrospy". You can buy premade stuff or diy it yourself. Pretty cool community around it!

  • @Alexander_MM
    @Alexander_MMКүн бұрын

    Best small mirroless camera is Olympus air.

  • @98karlh
    @98karlhКүн бұрын

    Very cool setup

  • @panther105
    @panther105Күн бұрын

    Try being in Japan at that time. They were light years ahead of this and just released tech to the rest of the world slowly cause it would be too shocking...

  • @popularzero
    @popularzeroКүн бұрын

    Tell me you weren't old enough to remember the 90's without telling me you weren't old enough to remember the 90's

  • @siphozikalala7834
    @siphozikalala7834Күн бұрын

    My first thought when I first watched this was, "This person clearly wasn't around in 1999."

  • @IFD2
    @IFD2Күн бұрын

    But why tho, also does it have mini hdmi?

  • @CPD0123a
    @CPD0123a2 күн бұрын

    I LOVE my Mavica. I have the 2mp version that was very late in the line, and gets 4 frames per floppy. It's a really fun camera to use for stupid things.

  • @cstpa1
    @cstpa12 күн бұрын

    the shape immediately reminded me of the voigtlander bessa r

  • @Toschez
    @Toschez2 күн бұрын

    ’90s, not 90's

  • @snappiness
    @snappiness2 күн бұрын

    Lol, thank you! I'm surprised no one pointed that out earlier

  • @Edskinny
    @Edskinny2 күн бұрын

    I was going to buy a polaroid cam. But the storekeeper said goodluck finding film anywhere for these......our supplier cant even get us film......

  • @FisherKot11235
    @FisherKot112352 күн бұрын

    I go outside to look at the world, not a tiny screen. Mirrorless sucks.

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10592 күн бұрын

    Go get a piece of glass cut to put in there, ut should fix the focus issue. Yes thats how some professional conversations do it.

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10592 күн бұрын

    3:38 because i needed to bleach my area with a giant LED.

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10592 күн бұрын

    Yay more waste rather than a real camera, dont want a screen? Get film, want easy? Use a phone or notmal point and shoot or q phone. Dint hand the kid technology if they cant handle it reaponsably.

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10592 күн бұрын

    AA filters are kinda stupid, they degrade the data for everyone regardless of if they want it or not, it can always done in software.

  • @joe_tographer
    @joe_tographer2 күн бұрын

    Great series, would love another

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10592 күн бұрын

    With the price of that thing you would figure they would pony up the cash for a full frame sensor.

  • @kennerfee100
    @kennerfee1002 күн бұрын

    A cheaper option was 35mm disposable cameras. You take the photo, wind it to take another one, you go to Walgreens to get the photo(s) developed, wait about 2 buisness days or longer, pick up the developed photos, put them into a digital scanner , and save them onto your computer... or just keep them in frames.

  • @blekfut5763
    @blekfut57632 күн бұрын

    6:18 this would be a great photo if there wasn't so much free space above the head and the elbows weren't cut off.

  • @daniilstryukov1437
    @daniilstryukov14372 күн бұрын

    Cmr

  • @noily8974
    @noily89742 күн бұрын

    MDHD, MD2HD, MF2HD

  • @jolladevices
    @jolladevices2 күн бұрын

    what's that floppy camera? Mavica...

  • @paologiordano.photos
    @paologiordano.photos2 күн бұрын

    Pair this with a 20mm pancake and you have the perfect street camera