I was so distracted by the absurd amount of saturation from the Ricoh, that I forgot to check out the differences in focal length. Standard mode on both would have been better in my opinion.

I’ve recently stumbled across your channel as I was looking for a review on the tiny toy camera I had bought from Japan. I watch more of your videos and I haven’t stopped in the last hour. Just wanted to jump on here and say pls don’t stop making videos they are so informative and it’s become the start of my love for cameras! Keep doing what you’re doing Matt! Thank you!

really enjoyed the series! Now do the opposite and shoot some slide film on your TC-1 or T3 😂

Love the rowboats.

Thanks for sharing Matt!

Great pics and memories Matt. I agree that the Swan Boats at Kichijoji are a great leg workout! Just booked our next trip, can't wait to return.

For me I prefer the contrasty & punchy GR III images but they are almost too contrasty. With post processing, I'm sure would be possible to get similar results out of the X100VI. The size of the GR III is also more appealing to me. I hope I will like the focal length of the GR IIIx, which I'm going for because I like the Pentax FA 43 Ltd on the K-1 (often on my camera) and the GR IIIx is only slightly wider than that.

They almost look like abstract paintings LOL! I like the size and look of it though. Even if they had made the lens a wider angle it would have been better (the longer focal length acerbates the problems). I also like silly little cameras. A while back my daughter gave me one that was even smaller than yours (no VF, a single button and still shots only) but the image quality was lower resolution and even worse than yours! It was just a bit too bad for real use. We had some fun and laughs though.

Nice photos Matt! HDF is an interesting look but I can't say I'm willing to pay a premium for the HDF and don't like the idea of losing the ND filter as I'm expecting I will use that (moving water, shallow depth shots). I have ordered a GRIIIx Urban Edition for Christmas (hope it turns up in time!) and can't wait to get it. I started my photography hobby nearly 50 years ago with film (showing my age now!) and in more recent times using Pentax (K-1 & K-01). The K-01 has been quite good for travel (paired with DA Ltd lenses) but love the idea of a more compact, light & discrete camera! Do you ever miss the ND filter?

I wanted to love the Ricoh but the results of your Fuji have a magic in every shot that would make it my preferred choice regardless of the Ricoh’s superior pocketablity and discrete profile.

Thankyou for this video I’m in my last day of Japan and buying one. I like the retro vibes

I was about to buy this cam, but unsure about the image quality and how does it works. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

Great video! Very informative to see these two compared in the same scenes. Have you tweaked the positive film sim on the GR, or done any post work? Thanks!

Can't stop using Classic Neg.

Thank you so much for this video as there are not much review about this film! Do love your photos especially with those light and shadow!

Amazing photos! Did you use of the Ricoh film simulations?

I owned this camera 2003 and 2004. After that I don't know what happened to it. Wish I had it still for fun.

Does it work with battery or without?

Thx your video!!!❤ This video helped me a lot👍

The white spot is known as a "Fern" per Polaroid themselves. And it does tend to come from a pressure point on the film (can even be the result of how the film was shipped), it can come from even a slight bend as you think you're pulling it out perfectly flat. You don't have to literally put your thumb on it and press. I had an entire pack have this issue and spoke to Polaroid who explained it in detail, and even replaced the pack of film for me. They're wonderful about helping with things like this 🙂

Should this work for the sony a6700? I like the size.

Where we can get the cam in this year?😢

You shoot with no flash?

Really great photos. Who needs souvenirs from your trips, when you can capture photos like that...

You can switch some you just can't use all functions

It will be publicly available in the US tomorrow :))))

A friend gave me a toy Coke Cola camera some years ago I put some 400 iso Rite Aid Film in it and I was surprised with the quality of the photos especially the one I took of him the photos came out with a 60’s or 70’s look and we know how much we like to look back at all of those pictures we took way back when. I have thought about getting another one and doing it all over again. The one I had I gave away to a guy who grew up with wife because she collected everyone Coke Cola. The END !!

Have to get in on this and Polaroid next year!

I didn't even know there was a world toy camera day! Funny the 20/10 is my birthday and I got a Kodak i60 on it, that kind of falls as a toy camera, what's the odds! Thanks for sharing Matt!

No UWS?!?

Fun video. Loved the Fanta and Kermit the Frog photos. The plastic on my Super Sampler became so sticky I don't like to use it. I also have the bad habit of loading my cameras with film, all with good intentions of shooting the film soon, but then they sit around until I've even forgotten I loaded them with film. I now have them lined up with more good intentions to use up all that (expiring) film!

ooh I adore toy cameras and its my bday., MEANT TO BE

Very nice shots. I'm not a big fan of toy cameras myself, but the shots with the exposed sprocket holes from the Superheadz Blackbird just work for me - and it doesn't hurt, that the camera looks like a TLR.

Such a fun video, I was unaware of these interesting and exciting toy cameras.

Very cool! It looks like Japan is the it country to visit.

Reala Ace is cool, classic negative gets the win for me though.

Cool finds!

So, you discovered champ camera. Nice 👍🏻 I do not always buy film there, because it’s regularly quite expensive, but they do have bargains from time to time. This weekend Kodak Color Plus 200 for ¥1.280 for example. That’s a steal. 😉 Another recommendation would be Kitamura in Shinjuku. Great source for used lenses. They do have literally thousands of them. Two weeks ago, I got a beautiful 28-105mm EOS lens for ¥3.000 there and a nifty fifty ( 50mm/1.8 ) for ¥8.000. They do have really everything imaginable on several floors. Definitely a paradise for every film camera lover.

I think you should have given some idea of what your camera settings were for some of the photos.

These colors are off the charts. Hats off to Fuji

Hey I was just wondering if in every shot of the sure shot was the flash going off? And do u think it would be okay to just cover it with black tape? Thanks, love the mix of c200 and that lens

I bought Walgreens Studio 35 film expired in 2005 and it's made by Agfa in Germany. However when I developed it, it didn't look anything like Agfa Vista.

Little late maybe, but how does did exactly work with pushing film? I do understand you develop it with pushing it 2 stops. But is the lighting normal, as you normally would lighten the photo? Because most of the photos do not look overexposed.

Excellente vidéo, comparatif très instructif, merci.

Kodak is expensive there

I have tried this film pushing to 800ASA and the result was not good. Very dark areas and strong contrast, it looks like underexposed

Thanks for the hard work doing this video! Very useful

That camera would make a cute keyring 😍 probably more useful than it's original purpose.😂 I thought you got a couple of decent shots with it 😃👏

Many thanks for the video. Have been trying so long to get information about this camera. I'm going to China in October. Do you know if it's readily available? I' ll be in Xi'an. From what I have been able to see, there seems to be more interest in digitals and haven't found a retailer. Many thanks for any help you can provide.

Please. Something like a Contax T3, as well as the other Contax T-series cameras, are like ticking time bombs. At _any_ moment they can die. And since there are no more electronic parts available any longer they can only occasionally be 'repaired' by replacing parts from a donor camera. Extremely high-risk to buy something like a T2 or T3 at those crazy high prices, unless you're a billionaire like Kendall Jenner. ha Besides, pretty much any inexpensive film SLR with a OEM lens can take the same or more often than not _better_ photos at a much lower price. 35mm film and gear just isn't all that high resolution compared to modern digital so it's much more forgiving. No need to spend thousands on 35mm film equipment to get good/great results.