$195 Giant Untested Camera Purchase - Will it Pay Off?

This is a neat lot of a bunch of digital cameras that I purchased for $195. They're all untested, so hopefully this gamble pays off!
We've got 25 different point and shoot digital cameras from a variety of top brands in this lot of untested digital cameras, including and in order:
Olympus Fe-47 Digital Camera
Canon Powershot A590 Digital Camera
Sony DSC-W55 Cybershot Digital Camera
Pentax Optio 33WR "The Square" Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix S6300 Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix S3300 Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix S220 Digital Camera
Canon Powershot SX150 Digital Camera
Canon Powershot A620 Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix S230 Digital Camera
Sony DSC-W310 Cybershot Digital Camera
Pentax Optio WG-1 Waterproof Digital Camera
Kodak Easyshare Cd82 Digicam
Kodak Easyshare C653 Digicam
Kodak Easyshare C143 Digicam
Nikon Coolpix S4200 Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix S7000 Digital Camera
Olympus Fe-4020 Digital Camera
Nikon Coolpix L10 Digital Camera
Olympus Sp-560 Bridge Digital Camera
Sony DSC-W220 Digital Camera
Canon Powershot Sd600 Digital Camera
Canon Powershot SD450 Digital Camera
Sony DSC-W800 Cybershot 20MP Digital Camera
Canon Powershot Sd550 Digital Camera
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[@ametaljag]

Great video again. Love to see all the brave little used and abused camera's getting a change of another go.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks! Quite right, these poor little cameras may not have seen much use recently, but hopefully they get another chance at life!

[@DieselDucy]

I absolutely love watching your channel! Love watching the mystery of weather or not the cameras will work. I am thinking of buying one of your cameras for the sole purpose of unboxing it and giving your channel a shout out.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks for watching! I just responded to your in-ebay message as well! Your channel is really cool looking!

[@DieselDucy]

@@pricklypearcamera thanks so much. I’m really enjoying your camera videos. As somebody who loves older cameras I find what you do awesome. If it is ok with you I’m going to give you a shout out in a live stream.

[@jenniferwelch1835]

I had a very old nightvision scope, that got very sticky, I used hand sanitizer on it, worked like a charm, just put it on a old washcloth rubbed it off. Still looks good, 4 years later. Figured at that point, I had nothing left to lose. It was about 15 years old by then anyway. And still using it😂

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! I think there are a few things that can kind of neutralize it, I've heard hand sanitizer (alcohol) working well like you said.

[@ericj.w.ruijssenaars3421]

Yeah! Another digicam extravaganza with Prickly Pear 🥳. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 📷 🤠

[@pricklypearcamera]

Hello my Dutch friend! Had the pleasure of visiting the Netherlands about 6 years ago, visited Rotterdam and Haarlem, had a wonderful time!

[@ericj.w.ruijssenaars3421]

Great to hear!

[@rangersmith4652]

Ah! New box, new adventure.

[@wmwanderer]

I've noticed that one camera falling! I'm sure nothing happened though :) thank you for your videos!

[@pricklypearcamera]

She was fortunate enough to land in some bubble wrap and emerged unscathed!

[@billr6983]

Another fun video. Always fun to see these old cameras, and a nice guide to keep in mind when in thrift shops! lol That Nikon s7000 was a gem, looked like a nice camera, glad it was in working order for you.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks Bill, how's the bird photography going? Here in southern Arizona, the birds have been incredibly active the last few weeks.

[@WiseGuy02]

I have the Sony DSC W55. The night time setting is definitely an improvement over the standard setting at night. Setting it to black and white for night time photos is surprisingly very good.

[@alexandreb.1101]

Btw, Brandi Carlile had a smash hit here in Portugal back in like 2007, 2008, it was "The Story" which absolutely blew up in an ad campaign!

[@Mamiya645]

Old PowerShot cameras (and Ixus) get improved by the CHDK firmware a whole bunch. Depending on DIGIC version, you can turn the movie mode into a neat low-res pixellated thing in a way that sometimes works. Later DIGICs and it smooths itself out in the camera. Common for basically all of them with CHDK is opening up raw photography, which often saves a photo!

[@pricklypearcamera]

Excellent callout!

[@skjoldhansendahl8230]

Great video yet again!

[@user-we7vk5zg7l]

I'm almost envious of this job you have. :) If I had the money to start up I would do exactly the same!! Again, love your videos! :)

[@user-st4rp9eq4j]

Metal head here love Imminence, Disturbed and much more.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! I like Disturbed, but haven't listed to Imminence before, will check 'em out!

[@monty125874693]

Favourite musical artists? Been in love with Orville Peck and Manchester Orchestra lately. And Hozier

[@pricklypearcamera]

Awesome, I have been listening to MO and Hozier quite a bit recently. Hozier just has such a unique voice and such good vocal control, pretty crazy.

[@monty125874693]

@@pricklypearcamera Hozier really is something special. I have recently found a new artist I really enjoy. His music kinda reminds of like a mixture of Hozier and Orville Peck. John Lensing is his name

[@JeffHirsch]

I like your Brandi hat.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks!

[@whateverrobert]

I don’t buy cameras that used single batteries anymore. But if I do find one worth it I might .

[@ericj.w.ruijssenaars3421]

Favorite artists: (original) Smashing Pumpkins, Eivør, Chelsea Wolfe, Aurora, Darkher.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! I have not heard of the last 4 and will check 'em out!

[@sdevita5944]

Some of my favorite bands/artists are Heart, The Eagles, Elton John, Sting, Miranda Lambert, Phil Collins, Neil Young, Tina Turner...

[@pricklypearcamera]

That is a phenomenal list! Phil Collins and Neil Young are in my top ten of all time. I just JAM out to Phil Collins whenever he comes on any of my stations.

[@sdevita5944]

Very cool...Neil Young tends to be a polarizing "love him or hate him" artist...there tends to be no middle ground.@@pricklypearcamera

[@smidsy2k31]

That Pentax Option 33WR is awesome, shame you aren't in the UK as I'd be interested.

[@gustavopering8117]

Poor Sony DSC-W220, it has been through a lot, and you dropped it on the floor? hahaha @36:50

[@user-we7vk5zg7l]

Favorite artists..Tom Waits and Nick Cave. :)

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! I like both Tom and Nick, didn't Nick Cave and the Bad seeds do the intro song for the show Peaky Blinders?

[@user-we7vk5zg7l]

@@pricklypearcamera Never heard about the show, so I had to Google it. :) But yes "Red rigth habd" is from the album.."Let love in" I believe?? I'll have to Google that too. :D

[@user-we7vk5zg7l]

@@pricklypearcamera And it's correct. :)

[@sobolanul96]

Olympus and Fuji tried to push the XD proprietary form factor on the marketwithout success . I was forced to buy a 1GB one for my old camera, it was twice as expensive as a regular SD card and had no advantages over SD. It was always a pain to use as you always had to use the usb cable to download pictures as adapters were rare. Did I mention it was slow? It was SLOW.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Yes, yes, and yes! I made a video on XD about a year ago and before that I didn't quite understand the speeds or capacity issues with that type of card, but frankly I'm in your boat. Very slow to format and transfer.

[@brigganthewolf1461]

Total bummer with that SD550 - I have one in beige with the original box that a friend gave to me. It's an excellent point & shoot with great canon colors (put it in "vivid" and shoot away), very quick to shoot with, good quality lens, and has a surprisingly good VGA movie mode with exceptional (if grainy) low light sensitivity for movie mode (If I could link a couple video samples in google photos to share, I would)

[@pricklypearcamera]

That's awesome! I haven't shot too much video with the SD550 or SD600, good to know. Well built camera!

[@fromshadowlands]

The Beatles!

[@pricklypearcamera]

Solid pick! I have a soft spot for Blackbird and Here comes the Sun

[@alexandreb.1101]

Not even on purpose, i got my first digicam today, an Olympus TG610 i gor for a whole 5 bucks! And it works. Quite beatup outside though

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! That's a little waterproof camera right? Does it use regular SD cards for memory or XD?

[@alexandreb.1101]

​​@@pricklypearcamerawaterproof 14 megapixel camera, yes! And it already takes SD cards, thankfully, even SDXC if I ain't wrong. Greetings from Portugal!

[@dspain0214]

I have an MVC-FD73 Sony FD Mavica.

[@chickenchaser6284]

Flash fires!! When you moved from camera sales to selling preowned cameras did you buy a bulk set of lithium batteries/sd cards/usbs etc? Or is it generally more worth it for you to just sell the cameras as is? Favorite band is Alice in Chains, thanks for sharing!

[@pricklypearcamera]

Fire it up! I started doing this part time around 10 years ago now, and in the first year or two spent a couple thousand $ on batteries and chargers so that I could build up a charging network (I have found the universal charges to be wholly lacking in performance). I now spend about $6-8,000 annually just on batteries and chargers. Of course it's a business expense, but it's definitely one of the biggest costs of the business apart from shipping fees and packing materials. Nice choice in Alice in Chains, like them, and used to play best of Metallica on repeat in my first gen iPod!

[@forensicnny54]

You didn't mention knocking the camera off the table when you removed the last cameras from the box.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Oh I missed that during editing! Haha! It's fine, it landed in a different box that had some of the bubble wrap in it.

[@12VTalk]

HI I see a link to the microfiber cloths, but what solution do you use for the sticky rubber? I've used isopropyl alcohol, but it removes the rubber completely. I've seen some people say to use Armor All or WD40 as well. Thanks for the info.

[@pricklypearcamera]

I use a product called "Mothers Back to Black" restorer, and I've been pretty pleased with it, been using now for 4 or 5 years

[@12VTalk]

@@pricklypearcamera thanks for the response, I’ll check it out

[@derekmoffett3939]

You might enjoy War on Drugs if you like indie music. I have also been a fan of Future Islands for a while and more recently anything that is labeled as "Shoegaze". Alvvays is making a move up the billboards.

[@pricklypearcamera]

I do rather like both War on Drugs and Future Islands, but have not listened to Alvvays before, will check ‘em out, thanks for the tip!😀

[@yuriykishov9911]

Where do you get the cameras? Off a website? eBay? Any recommendations where I could start doing the same thing?

[@elundef]

It's such a joke. I am also wondering about it. He is literally hearting or answering every single comment and exactly ignores this one.

[@mha-xvi]

i wish i could do this or even just use ebay to get cameras, but shipping to south africa is so expensive 😢

[@pricklypearcamera]

Bummer to hear that! Do you have any SA only or African auction sites? I don't actually buy too many cameras on eBay, mainly sell there. We have so many USPS/UPS/Fedex hubs here in the US which makes shipping between the 50 states pretty seamless, so I'm indeed quite lucky!

[@mha-xvi]

not really we only have a decent market through facebook marketplace but they're overpriced or shady and then we have a few camera retailers but even then they dont stock that many second hand digital cameras@@pricklypearcamera

[@zoltanvarga1967]

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