I picked up one of these a while back it's good fun, I normally pair it with a video mixer for transitions though

Excellent!

Looking through old things of mine currently, and came across this. On the fence about throwing it in the dumpster or keeping. This video made the decision for me. I figured it might be fun to use for the sake of having the ability take nostalgic photos in the present year.

Thank you ❤❤❤

how do you get videos from cam to your phone

meanwhile, value village in canada (Savers in USA) does not format any drives and will put a laptop or desktop/whatever full of the previous users data on the shelf for anyone to purchase.

I found this in my closet; hadn't used it in years. Just ordered a charger on Amazon (lost the original). Should be a nice pocket "extra" camera. Thanks.

Спасибо братан)

What type of charger does it need

thanks for this video, my grandpa had one that he never used and gave to me so I've been trying to use it for a while

That's a proper unbiased review!

Bought a similar thing 2 years ago, probably the successor, for the same reason: rarely used. Fortunately, the swan's neck of the variant I purchased is firmly bolted down to the stage; that suction cup solution would most certainly drive me crazy.

What music did you use?

It looks very cool

i've seen modern phones with worse quality cameras

Do I need the AV our put cables to transfer footage to my computer? I just purchased one on eBay without them but it has the charging dock. Thanks in advance !

SD CARDS /FLASH DRIVES are like toothbrushes, they are PERSONAL devices forever. Quote from the video creator "I am not a forensic data investigator", that's right, somebody who is, CAN extract those files even though you wiped them. It's best if you never donate your cards or drives, just destroy them if you have had data on them that could harm you. You heard me right, just destroy them.

good picture quality and a slow interface? need to get one asap

I have bought items on ebay, and they had data, so I was able to contact the person to make sure it wasn't stolen, and they had a copy of their data. Then I explained that they should wipe them before selling or donating.

The video title is confusing to me: "Goodwill Could Probably Wipe These Better", It's up to the user to erase them before they turn them in!! It's not up to Goodwill or a pawnshop. Now, if they say they test format them, that's fine, but don't expect it to be a wipe, and if they don't do a full wipe and sector test, then the device can still be defective. Asking if it's ethical, again, it's NOT on Goodwill.

If you are going to recycle your old SD cards, it is your responsibility to wipe the data, not anyone else's Once you have relinquished these cards, your expectation to privacy goes out the window. Think of it this way, when you throw items in a trash bin either your own that you wheel out to the curb or in a public receptacle, you lose claim and possession of this trash. If I'm Goodwill I'm certainly not going to waste time worrying about other people's data and lose money in the process of trying to get these SD cards out to new hands.

It's the responsibility of the donator to clear their own data. It is also a responsibility for the buyer to guard against malware.

Goodwill & most other thrift stores do NOT have the time, expertise, or CARE about data stored on donated items. Have you never shopped at these stores? They sort, price & sell.

You're a good and ethical man for sharing this knowledge. 3:40 - Rembrandt’s iconic painting “The Sacrifice of Isaac." 3:15 - I liked the banjo-playing skelly.

I always take memory cards when I find them in thrift stores. Its fun to see the photos.

My ex girlfriend gave me one. She was going to throw it away! I told her I'll take it figuring that I can sell it to a pawn shop. But seeing how inexpensive they are used I figured I wouldn't get much for it anyway. I took it to a park today and got some good shots of some birds, ducks, and cranes. Maybe I'll sell it on Craigslist or Marketplace because the video quality is low. Most cellphones can do at least 2k. I also got a great closeup of a full moon.

Many HD platters are made of glass. Just toss your old HD up in the air to land on a hard surface. Pick it up and shake it. If it sounds like a maraca, you erased it.

Goodwill does nothing...their online auctions are money scams...they sell bogus smart phones, personal computers, and tablets...that do not fully operate...they do not give correct detailed descriptions of items up for auction. They charge you 3 to 5$ priveledge fee to win item. They offer no assistance afterwards.. pick up are limited to when they want you...some wait 10 days after paying before allowed to pick up items won. I had such experience with the mid tenn location. Refuse to patronize their online auctions. Charged me 42$ priveledge fee for 14 items . Goodwill does not help anyone in need...I was told by employees of storefronts...they are instructed to call police...naturally they do not. Most execs paid 6 figures...corporate treats ground level as less than human...and particularly bad mouth challenged employees...the bad just continues Salvation army are the good guys. Ask questions, learn, educate yourself first hand, do not believe until you find out yourself. I support my local Goodwill because of its staff... all kind and good hearted.

Goodwill does not have the time or resources or skilled staff to wipe harddrives or SD cards. It's up to you to be responsible and do the right thing and wipe them yourself. I'm not saying they are saints, they aren't, they get free stuff and then resell it for a profit... it use to be at a discount, but since the arise of "flippers" who ruined it for everyone and the poor, their sales associates now have to price things equivalent to ebay and amazon. Another example of bad apple greedy KZbinrs ruining it for everyone.... leave the Goodwill merchandice for the poor to pick through and buy used and old beat up equipment at a discount... based on other people's "goodwill" to donate it and have someone else get a few more miles out of it.

Thanks for sharing, Tomorrow I'll clean mine

i hope those geek squad employees got the cops involved when they found that cp

I dont think I would ever buy used drives, theres not much risk but id be afraid of viruses or even worse possibly illegal content that would have to be reported. Its a common enough occurrence that IT shops usually have a procedure to report stuff like that.

Why not use a VM to investigate these SD card?

THANK YOU! You are SO much better with your narration than the awful fake voices most YT videos are featuring these days. I appreciate that a lot!

I REALLY need the smaller capacity SD cards. The older scanners use the 1,2, and 4 GB cards Finding a new one of these is impossible anymore. I could really use these old cards for the scanners I have. The original cards have failed. Thanks

What do you use to verify the cards are actually the size they claim ? I found a LOT of cards, even from Walmart, brand name, it was half the size it claimed I am looking for a way to verify the size they actually are

I didn't even know that the goodwill had an online auction.

Some comments: Inserting a memory card, or flash drive into you system is only a risk if you haven't disabled Microsoft's virus/malware distribution system, AKA Autorun. Yes, you'll hear scary stories about how hackers can rewrite the card/drive's firmware so that even with Autorun disabled, it can infect your system, but show me one actual example of this happening. In fact, show me one program that can change the firmware on a flash drive. In fact, point me to written directions on how to do this. I've never bought used memory cards or flash drives, but in this area, we have bulk trash pickup twice a year where the city will haul away almost anything you put on the curb for free. I've found many computers that still had hard drives in them. My view is that if people leave the drives in them and don't erase them, then looking through them is fair game. As for those being the only copies of the images, trust me, if they ever backed up the files to a computer, they have at least three copies of every photo. Regarding finding illegal material: There really is no legal risk to you, unless you report it. At which point, you've opened yourself up to scrutiny, because even if you're just reporting it, you're immediately under suspicion. Unless you feel you absolutely HAVE to report it, you're better off just wiping the card/drive and forgetting about it. It's not like anyone will ever know that you briefly had it in your possession. Finally, I'd like to address the persistent myth that data can never be erased from a hard drive. I have a question for those who think that: If that's true, why can't you double or even triple the volume of a drive by just erasing the data, writing new data to it and still be able to access all the erased data? Hard drives, at least mechanical ones, are designed to store ONE, and only ONE set of data in each section. Once that data is overwritten, it's GONE. "But there's data on the edge of the tracks, and residual bit patterns!" The tests that found residual magnetic traces on the disk were done with one pass, overwriting the data with zeros, so they were able to detect faint traces that weren't zero. That method falls apart when you use random data to overwrite the disk. It should also be noted that the hard drive itself can't read such traces, you need ultra-expensive lab equipment, and even then it only works under ideal conditions. As for the data at the edge of tracks, again, no consumer level hard drive can read this. You need ultra-expensive lab equipment, and even then you're only going to get small fragments. It's not like it's going to magically reveal perfect banking passwords. Not to mention that there aren't hacker groups with this type of equipment. Why? Because it's not worth it. Anyone who gets your old hard drive is going to look at it for files, maybe run some standard file recovery software and if that doesn't turn up anything, they'll move on to the next drive. Unless you're a terrorist, nobody is going to waste hours trying to recover data from your drive. If you still don't believe me, contact a data recovery company, you know the ones who charge huge amounts of money to recover data from damaged drives, tell them that you accidentally zero-filled an important drive, and ask them how much they'll charge to recover all the data on the drive. Make sure to tell them that the entire drive was wiped, but it was only a single pass. See what they say about the chances of recovering your data.

I didn't know that a key puller was a thing. I may have to get one.

This is 100% ethical, they donated the storage and with the internet being an easy thing to access they knew the risk.

I have bought bulk hard drives and found some interesting stuff on them..... Some very personal.... and some I was able to contact the owner and let them know what I found and told them for their security I did a destructive...aka smash of the drive.... People if you donate old computers please pull the drives.....

This is a job for h2testw

Ask any cyber security company if they recycle their preowned storage devices, they all send them for secure disposal (aka destruction), you can wipe them securely but with storage devices nowadays you really can't be sure, and it also damages the drives lifetime.

The page that mentions the Department of Defense standards also says, you're still responsible for erasing your data. Also, I'm genuinely surprised that they even claim that they wipe your data. Testing if electronics work is already pretty uncommon for them so wiping data seems above and beyond for them.

I was looking for some micro sd cards for some raspberry pis and bought a lot of them off ebay, all were formatted, but most of them still had data on them. All of the used hard drives I've bought however seem to have had giberish written to them and there were no files to be found.

I stopped shopping at goodwill because I can obtain used electronics so much easier and cheaper now. I have to pull all equipment from the schools I contract with after five years. I perform a government wipe even if they are being recycled.

Never donate an electronic device with a removable memory card. I always remove mine and either reuse it or physically destroy it.

bit creepy but ehh

This would be the responsibly of the person who donated the storge device to ensure that all there data is gone and if it did contain sensitive info they should destroy it. Goodwill receives so many items that they need to move items fast and don't have the man power to check every item to see if they work or if someone forgot to securely erase a storge card or hard drive.

If you imagine the SD card is a book, when you format it, you're erasing the table of contents. The text and images of the book are still there, but anyone who looks at the table of contents would see an empty book. If your computer wanted to write something in your book, it would look at the table of contents for an empty page, write the data on the empty page, and then update the table of contents. The original data on that page is now gone and anyone who looks in your book sees just that new data. But all of the other pages are untouched, and the rest of the original book is still there.