so for once I'm quite pleased that social distancing is in place at
the moment nobody gets to see me use this!
Ever woken up regretting the night before? That cold realization of the
previous night's actions! Well this this is my latest regret. Yes it's
one of those really cheap cameras that you see advertised on eBay,
Wish etc and they always claim it's such a fantastic camera and I thought well, I had
a few drinks so naturally I thought it would be a good idea to buy one see it really how bad it was.
Before we unbox it, let's look at some of the marketing adverts. Such images imply
that this camera has HD video quality that it can shoot 16 megapixel stills and genuinely
that it's a capable and usable camera. Lots of the photographs give the impression that
the camera is capable of taking good images and they're used within the adverts so you
see them on the back of the screen and the back of the camera anything oh yeah, looks promising.
so let's pluck this turkey and get it out of the box. There we go the
camera! Now I don't know if you can see this already but I've got my Nikon D3300
and even Panasonic Lumix FZ82 and already the box is looking pretty
tiny by comparison to these two guys out of their box. So let's see what's in the box.
we've got a user guide [laughs] which it's user guide on I mean
if you've ever bought a DSLR you know how thick the guides are that come with them,
this is just a sheet of A4 folded up. We've got a transfer cable when the camera itself
and nothing else and inside the box. Camera is wrapped in bubble wrap and yep it's one
of those it's got the red ring on so obviously a Canon [laughs] Canon users will go mad. Yeah
it's pretty lightweight in fact it feels really flimsy cheap plastic and yeah beginning to think
that's money wasted but there's only one way I find out and I'll give it a try out.
So here are a few still images from the camera and as you can see they are pretty much garbage.
I was so suspicious that in fact what I did was I dropped the images into Photoshop and
check the dimensions and the camera is actually recording those images are 1280 by 920 pixels.
If you actually compare that and calculate how many pixels of this it's actually only
1.18 megapixels. I mean that's that's ridiculous this is just a complete con of a camera. If you're
familiar with the channel you will recognize this next image from a previous video I did
I thought I'd pop along and take a shot just to make a comparison between this camera and
my Panasonic FZ82 so this was the image of the coloured fence boards at the local farm
and I'll compare the two images so he can see really how good the quality is on this camera.
So for once I'm quite pleased that social distancing is in place at the moment nobody
gets to see me use this I'm no camera snob well this camera is really, really bad
Well what do you think of the images after the world but it reminds me of an old mobile phone
camera from the early noughties, the kind of image as well they look alright on the back of
the screen but as soon as you blow them up they just merging you're a big mush of some kind of
impressionist painting rather than a coherent and sharp image. The video well that's more of the
same I mean if you're a fan of something like The Blair Witch Project and you really want a camera
that can capture that kind of shaky, amateurish quality about all of the footage it takes then
this is the camera for you. So in conclusion I did wonder who the market for this camera was for,
was it just intentionally created as a con for people who know nothing about cameras
and they parting with their money for something that's really worth about $5 in parts. That's
kind of really my concern with a camera like this, it's sold worldwide, I'm sure they sell
thousands of them every day and I'm sure they sell to countries where people can't afford
basic cameras and I really wanted to get into YouTube, want to get into photography
and maybe make a living and it's those people have who I feel sorry for if they've actually
part with their money and bought our camera like this and were thinking they were getting
something decent. I feel sorry for people who probably by these presents for people and expect
that they're doing somebody a favour by buying them this camera. People whose families aren't
familiar with what goes into making a decent camera or what they should be looking for,
see the pixel count 16 megapixels sounds great, it does HD video that'll be great for our little
Johnny and he's on a college course that he's doing in photography or you know somebody who
thinks this is an ideal camera from aspiring photographer and the prices of them vary as
well are paid £18 for this which is not a lot and I didn't mind spending that kind of money on this
to see what it was really like but obviously there are people charging up to £30 for them and really
it's it's just a ripoff for that kind of money. You are far better going down to a second hand
camera place or second hand technology place and picking up something older but actually a
true SLR. It might cost a little bit more but in the long run it's better than using this
which is basically junk. Thanks for watching I hope you found this informative and I hope it
makes you stay clear of buying this if you were thinking that this was actually a good camera.