Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
If you've been into photography long enough you've probably
gone through the kind of endless loop of getting equipment for certain situations.
You're really interested in something and your current stuff just doesn't feel
right. I'm in one of those situations right now. I want the smallest camera as
possible, but also decently featured. Also, you know, decent amount of buttons in it.
And it would fit well in a pocket. So what I've been using of course is the M100,
22 millimeter lens. This is the smallest decent camera that I've got at the
moment. Thing is, it's still pretty tall. So in.. it does fit in the.. I wear cargo
pants a lot. It does fit in the cargo pants pocket, which is alright. But I want
something even thinner. So I can take it around a lot easier. And it's not super
heavy in my pocket. So.. Been thinking of ways to do it. And then I go through this
whole wasting.. I guess, wasting time kind of not wasting time. Getting into it.
Looking for that perfect camera for the given situation. I'm trying to think of
things like the Ricoh GR. The original probably. Something lower.. cheaper. I don't
want to spent any money of course so that's another thing. Been looking for
prices and cheap stuff. So the Ricoh GR. Have a bunch of webpages up. Some of the
micro four-thirds are kind of interesting because they have.. Olympus
has two body-cap lenses. Now, they're not super versatile and they're manual focus.
But they're thin and they're pretty interesting. Let's see...
That's a 15 millimeter.
And then we have the 9 millimeter, but the apertures are small in this case.
They are interesting though. So they're kind of.. kind of exciting to me. Those
lenses for some reason.
And then KEH, you know, any type of used camera website.
I've been looking at the cheapest possible micro 4/3rds cameras. So that's
kinda interesting. And then an look at CameraSize.com to see if it's
smaller or comparable to the M100. It's all this weird stuff that.. I get into.
To try to find that perfect camera for the situation. Which is.. I do the filming of
course. And I make videos about photography. So I need to have something
to film. And I want something to take photos with. And I've been actually using
two different phones. I did this yesterday. I took these two out, because I
was out. And I was just wanting to really take some photos and potentially make a
video with it. And it works, but camera phones, or phone cameras.. are not amazing.
So I was even looking at different phones. Like super cheap ones on eBay and
the like of LG V20 or V30. And even the super junked ones that have bad data
Bad.. you can't even register them with phone companies anymore.
They're still not cheap, so I don't know about that. But that's another option and
then I was even looking at the small compact cameras. Like this Pentax MX-1.
But then, you can see the prices are still pretty high for this and the sensor is not hu...
Larger, but it's not huge. I was even looking at the waterproof cameras.
There's just so many options. But it's hard to decide and find something that
works price-wise. But also fits the needs that I want. Which is more buttons or at
least enough buttons. And maybe custom modes, and things like that. But also thin
and fits in a pocket easily. Easily carried, of course there's the RX100
series of cameras. Which the original doesn't have a flip up screen. So that
kind of cuts down on the usefulness if I'm gonna spend $300 or whatever. So many
options. It's kind of frustrating because I keep getting into it and I'm excited
to try to find something. But then I'm wasting time I could be doing.. making..
some videos or whatever else. Which is what I'm doing right now, but
I'm curious if you have similar issues. Similar things that you do like
this trying to find that perfect piece of equipment for a given situation.
Or if you have any suggestions on cameras. Of course, as cheap as possible,
but still some decent buttons on there. And I want a sensor larger than 1/2.3"
generally... There are some waterproof ones that are kind of
interesting like that Olympus Tough TG-5. Something like that. But that's still
pretty expensive. Sorry my hands are getting tired. So I'm gonna cut this
short. Hope you found this video interesting.
Trying out something new. Kind of a desk vlog I guess you could call it... About a
little goofy weird stuff. So anyways hope you enjoyed this video. Again, if you have
any suggestions or ideas on this I'm curious!
Scott from Photography Banzai. Thanks!