Cameras They Wish They Could Take Back

[@trulsdirio]

400 GB per freaking SECOND?!? Holy cow, how did they imagine this works? Just take your pocket sized sever farm with you on shoots?

[@CongThanhContent]

That had an insane portable DAS/NAS server connected to the unit!!

[@markkempton4579]

They were secretly a spinoff of a large-volume storage company. :-)

[@mielvanvelzen5967]

And the camera itself couldn't exactly be used on a shoulder rig.

[@Tugela60]

Given the size of the camera, it is not like you would be taking it anywhere other than a dedicated studio.

[@hoilst265]

Who the hell convinced them to do that? Western Digital? Seagate?

[@TheRealMarxz]

7:28 the company that released the Y35 had no connection with the Yashica company of old, Yashica was acquired by Kyocera in the 1980's well past their 1950's and 60's glory days with classics like their many TLR medium format cameras, the various Electro 35 models and their FFT, FR and FX SLR cameras. Kyocera then manufactured a multitude of cameras models under their own name, Yashica's name, and the Contax brand (which they also acquired) Contax was their premium brand using Carl Zeiss designed lenses (made both by Carl Zeiss and Cosina/Voigtländer with most of the body and parts made by Cosina), after Kyocera left the camera business in the mid 2000's the Yashica name was sold of along with other camera IP to various entities, with the Yashica trademark going to a Singaporean based IP company who then licensed the name to a Hong Kong company set up specifically for kickstarter campaigns such as this Y35 camera. as such the connection to the original Yashica company and products is thrice removed

[@tsbrownie]

I worked in a camera store in high school and college. Our manager ordered a Bessler camera (same company that made great enlargers). It was AWFUL. Heavy, clunky, loud, few lenses, bad control placement, the film advance felt like it was grinding sand, it looked like it was a junior high school shop project, .... THE WORST ever. We could not sell it. That's not quite right. We could not sell it to anyone who would not return it. She finally told us to sell it for anything we could get for it, no returns allowed. That did not work. We put it out on our yearly "sidewalk sale" and somebody finally took it away for almost free. Did I mention it was bad? Like really bad? That was 50 years ago and it still haunts my dreams.

[@JonathanMcCormack]

Light also worked with Nokia to make the camera technology for the Nokia 9 Pureview phone. Like the L16, its software is a big buggy, and when the battery gets below 50% the camera app constantly crashes. It uses 5 lenses and stitches the 5 pictures together into one. It also shoots RAW. I have one, it can take fantastic phones but it’s very hit and miss.

[@DavidKRandom]

Good round-up. However, Konica first merged with Minolta as the digital era ramped up; Sony later bought the combined company. Konica made some terrific high-end P/S film cameras (Revio, Hexar, etc) but reliability was a weakness. As for other camera fails: Kodak's EasyShare One, their first digital camera with a flip-out screen, huge built-in storage, and wireless image transfer, came to market about a year after its announcement and failed. They also made a hybrid APS film camera with digital capture (mainly for on-screen review), and it reached the market, but its second iteration never arrived. Thanks.

[@CongThanhContent]

I originally had the Konica Minolta partnership in the script but opted to cut it out just keep the video going! I'll definitely look into those round ups tho!

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

I remember being hyped about that Light camera, and I'm happy I didn't try to get one. I would have thought another company would have tried to do it right in the past 10 years but I guess it's quite a risky endeavour.

[@CongThanhContent]

Modern phones is essential a similar concept, but manufacturers have found ways to do it on with physical optics rather than software!

[@hoilst265]

Polaroid also went after Fuji for their instant film back in the eighties; the US courts sided with Polaroid, natch, but in the rest of the world - especially Australia - Fuji was allowed to stick around, and became quite popular. Their passport cameras - which had four lenses projecting on to a single photo sheet - were a common sight in every Australia Post post office, and pro photogs shoot Hasselblads used Fuji instant backs to check their exposures, since their instant filmed (broadly) lined up with their pro films.

[@wearetrackclub]

Love your video style! Really insightful stuff, nice editing too 👌

[@jus.2ne889]

The production quality is great! Keep at it!

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks!!

[@dj1NM3]

The Yashica Y35 was basically a scam: being a cheap-o plastic P&S with teeny-tiny sensor and a slug of metal inside to make it feel like it had "weighty quality". Of course, the real company Yashica was long dead (1985 or 2005, depending on what you considered "dead") by the time the Kickstarter campaign happened (2017).

[@Campake]

this is honestly really well made, you definitely deserve more subs, keep it up!

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man!! 🥂

[@noisevieux]

That *Yashica* jingle was sick 👌

[@monojit12345678910]

man i feel like im at the beginning of a truly great youtube channel. all the best brotha

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man!! Appreciate the support! More to come!

[@annekedebruyn7797]

The Zeiss ZX1 felt like an R&D project being put out out to test the water tbh. It had a great lens tho. I feel like they should create a more normal camera without the editing apps gimmicks. There is a market of people who are into the premium fixed lens camera. But just not for 6500 usd. Also a honorable mention: Sigma's Foveon sensor adventures. I hope that they bring a modern version of that sensor in a mirrorless body.

[@CongThanhContent]

The dp1 was a disaster! I wish zx1 was a normal fixed lens camera, probably would of done way better that way

[@quite1enough]

What bugged me the most with ZX1 is the camera only has SSD, but no sd card slot. In case of SSD fail you'll end up with a quite expensive brick 😢

[@CongThanhContent]

Yeah definitely not very practical in that sense. Maybe it's not soldered on 😂

[@lsdc1]

Just like your iPhone, iPad, and macs…. Good backup regime essential…

[@quite1enough]

@@lsdc1 iphone and ipad didn't cost $6k and for completely different tasks you can find tons of people using cameras like Nikon d700 which is still amazing, or even older I don't want to spend that much money for 100% breakable camera in the very near future, moreover I have film cameras like Nikon F4s and Nikon f-301 that more than 30 years old and still works perfectly fine moreover this kind of "disposable tech" attitude from companies creates a lot more of e-waste, polluting environment

[@unbroken1010]

Quite a shame and insane price. Samsung did it before too bad they did not stick around

[@omeletta9801]

How do you have so few subscribers with such quality content! Probably one of the most underrated channel out there

[@CongThanhContent]

Just started a couple months ago! Hopefully the subs come soon!

[@fatmangaming2720]

I picked up a Light L16 and the camera is actually pretty good. It's a better camera than most realize, this is like due to the reputation it got upon release.

[@outfield1988]

I hade a konika film camera.learned a lot from it.

[@CongThanhContent]

Konica were solid!!

[@robd2467]

Absolutely loved this video- well made too. Keep up the good work 🤣🤣🤣

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man!!

[@al_in_philly5832]

This was a really nicely done video! Well researched and presented with the right balance of depth and brevity. Thanks.

[@CongThanhContent]

Much appreciated! Hopefully I'll make it one day

[@pittyman]

Yes, I am still sad about Konica VX100... The perfect match for my needs. I still have one Fujica ST701 (silver body), awaiting for VX100...

[@richardvallonjr.6716]

superb line up of flops!

[@TheASM196]

Very interesting video! Subscribed.

[@DixonLu]

The Sony QX1/10/100, (& the Olympus Air) where users have to supply both the lenses and the screen & controls. Basically a sensor sold at the same price as a camera.

[@CongThanhContent]

I'm not going to lie I always wanted a Sony QX 😂

[@akashdefonseka]

Just got my first camera, a Sony ZV-E10. Keep this up and you'll become a major influencer the likes of which would rival MKBHD and MrWhoseTheBoss. Absolutely spectacular production quality, massively engaging and informative, thoroughly fascinating in every way. Happy to subscribe while you're still at 600 followers, looking forward to 600k in a couple of years 🔥

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man! Happy to have you on board!

[@unbroken1010]

Mr who and what? Sound like sagger lovers to me.

[@akashdefonseka]

@@unbroken1010 They're both tech KZbinrs who have immense production quality and a very high number of followers. Their videos are also fun and entertaining despite being packed with a lot of info.

[@SandBag29]

I'm just getting into photography and that was genuinely interesting and well presented. +1 sub :)

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man! Best of luck on your journey!

[@cypherdk85]

One small fail as a mention. Nikon D600, it did sell well and is still regarded as a good camera, but when released it had a major issue with oil on the shutter that could end up on the sensor.

[@azimow2905]

This and similar problems were in many Nikon cameras, but the company went to the meeting and all problems were corrected in service centers. Now shutter parts on the sensor are a regular problem with Sony cameras

[@unbroken1010]

That is quality control issue not a tech issue. Ffs

[@unbroken1010]

​@@azimow2905 unfortunately they did similar in the d750. Which Sony camera are you whining about specifically?

[@azimow2905]

@@unbroken1010 All sony except the a7r4, it has the least shutter problems

[@unbroken1010]

@@azimow2905 my a7 mark one still works. The rotary button is the only thing broke . Mostly from me . Plenty of people have working a7 mark 3. They did have some shutter problems here and there .Meanwhile. My Olympus has frozen hardware, Fuji all have some defectls. Xpro 2. Melted flux, t30 broken bayonet, v100 shutter just stops , lunix pieces fel off the vf, who should I sack top for now? You buying me a Mark 4?

[@EvanMonsma]

The Hasselblad rx100 reskin is actually kinda sick I didn't know that existed

[@CongThanhContent]

Oh its gnarly looking! But damn 3g for a wooden grip 🤣 I picked up a wooden grip for my rx100v and it's pretty sweet but not the same

[@KrisHomemadeBaking]

not gonna lie the Kodak handle song is a total banger!

[@CongThanhContent]

It's a like a 45 second jingle if you search up the whole video!

[@KrisHomemadeBaking]

@@CongThanhContent yeah i saw it. my mind has NOT changed the slightest!

[@CongThanhContent]

Could maybe make a new song using it as a sample 🤔

[@Nocturnal_Mind]

Great video man.

[@CongThanhContent]

Appreciate it!

[@vincentgraffeo9030]

Awesome video, well researched.

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man! 😀

[@desmondmasikhwa1700]

When I read your title, I actually thought you'd speak about cameras that were so good for their time, that the manufacturers regretted throwing in all the technological leaps all at once. 😅 I loved this video nonetheless

[@CongThanhContent]

I mean some of these were kinda like that! Just not implemented well 😂

[@artbydesmond1415]

@@CongThanhContent Haha, fair enough 👌

[@davidjazay9248]

These really hurt my brain. Great video!

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man !

[@GabrielMisfire]

Holy shit I had forgotten about the Hasselblad Stellar. We had them in store in John Lewis Oxford Street, London. Pretty little things, but holy shit were they an infuriating concept.

[@Macs]

how was the photos quality outcome?

[@GabrielMisfire]

@@Macs literally the same as a RX100, which is what they were

[@CliffHairston]

I was selected as a tester for the L16 but never received my unit. I was gutted as I was really looking forward to testing that thing.

[@Ventrux]

I own a Lytro Illum is an amazing camera, there is nothing like it. Is like learn to take photos again. Mostly in close planes, miniature, food, is pretty fun to shoot with. The software is a crazy thing by itself, it runs win Windows 10 almost perfect.

[@fpeezdoo9859]

Lytro was way ahead of time and existing technologies; I think the light field cameras will take over in like 30-50 years

[@Ventrux]

@@fpeezdoo9859 there is a paper from a scientist from India using light field technology to map entire rooms with a single beam of light, the military and security uses will be amazing.

[@EditioCastigata]

4:45 Large sensors in undercomputed cameras: As soon as something moves just slightly it’ll get diagonal distortions towards the bottom of the image.

[@collodionpositive554]

Good video, subscribed.

[@CongThanhContent]

Awesome! Next video come out soon!!

[@Emlt]

you could have added the nikon D600 which was able to dirty its sensor on its own. Nikon had offer a free cleaning service for over ten years.

[@jasongold6751]

Darth Vader's rig! My worst camera , Bronica-C.C=Crap. Shortly after Nikon took over control! Bronica used Nikkor lenses. Great Film!

[@malmcowy]

very interesting. thanks!

[@unbroken1010]

Thr Darth Vader looks fun actually 😂. Hasselblad was smoking some Molly back then. Just saw a Lytro for $74 Dollars.

[@eltee5696]

APS cameras, remember? Mid 90s I work in advertising and there was a tender to launch APS (not to be confused with APS-C) APS, developed by Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Konica, Minolta and Nikon, used a new film No sprockets so the camera was smaller Anyone who's played with cameras knew it'd fail Professionals won't buy APS SLR because each camera brand had a new lens mount And even though amateurs queued overnight for the compacts, the image quality sucked (The camera guys said a built-in clock factored in when a shot was taken But lighting conditions at 3pm in summer is v different from 3pm in winter) But of course management took the words of camera makers over a gear head Think in less than 2 years, APS was disconned And while old 35mm SLR lenses still have resale value, APS lenses can hardly move

[@MasticinaAkicta]

APS was just a film format too small. Sure there has been smaller like 110 but even that is more for spy cameras and super small snapshotters then anything serious. The good thing about APS though was that it forces better chemical emulsions, which all found their way back up to 35mm and higher again.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

I do like these weird cameras, and sometimes buy them. For instance the Sigma's DP's or Lytro's but only if it is REALLY REALLY CHEAP. At that point they are toys.

[@CongThanhContent]

I'm on board for that!

[@CodingWithLewis]

I am actually curious how you can store 400GB/second???

[@CongThanhContent]

They connect it to huge multi bay NAS/DAS

[@static-san]

I remember the Lytro! Too much marketing nonsense and not enough technical explanation. Plus the weird unconventional camera shape. The ZX1 was such a miss. They should not have ditched the Play Store. There have been others who have tried putting a decent camera on an Android device, BTW, but they always sacrifice something major, like hardware speed. LTT reviewed one from China. It was slow and buggy. A good idea with sub-par execution.

[@andreaslack8379]

Th worst I personally used was a Kodak disk film camera. A point and shoot from the 80s. It auto advanced the film (a disk) when you clicked the shutter. It was all automatic but it mean't that the photo was a fraction of a second delayed. Forgot taking candid photo of a cat with it. The cat would her the mechanism advancing and be able to turn its head before photo was snapped. Many a good photo got lost with a distorted cat face as it rapidly looked at the camera.

[@daniel_svs]

Hey man, amazing video! And btw congrats on 1k subs! Your video quality is great and I can really see this growing quite quickly. As a rather small KZbinr too I can see that you dedicate to this, and also hope this video's success can show how important that balance between clickbait and genuine content is. No one really likes clickbait, but it's part of the job, hope you'll be able to perfect all the small tricks and evolve this channel, best of luck to ya.

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man I hope soon too! I didn't think I made it clickbaity though 😰

[@daniel_svs]

@@CongThanhContent not really much clickbaity haha, meant more like an attention drawing thumbnail with a broader audience topic. Videos about like specific camera gear or something similar are cool, but also only interesting to those very active in the hobby or looking to buy some, while this video can also reach general tech nerdy people

[@StripedTailz]

good video, extremely good quality editing for such a small subscriber count

[@rickdeckard4434]

You might want to add the hasselblad HB 4116 to the list of flops, still i bought one for 20€ and that's about what it is worth.

[@CongThanhContent]

Maybe this will video will get a sequel 🤫

[@rickdeckard4434]

I've got the lytro and the kodak EK6 as well if i didn't got them for free to "examine" them i might be questionning my choise of cameras LOL @@CongThanhContent

[@Shuttterbugg]

U forgot about the the alice fail startup bs that supposedly is still goi and sharps first camera to be 8k

[@deltacx1059]

11:07 and people like that are why things suck now, people can handle a little glue and especially two flathead screws.

[@brugj03]

That Light thing. How on earth could they come up with that. Just by the looks you could see it would flop.

[@yanixx_x8784]

nice video men

[@CongThanhContent]

Thanks man!

[@realpain84]

Thumbs up,subbed😮 cheers😊

[@CongThanhContent]

Thank you!

[@geraldyurekiii3089]

btw there are light L16s sold on amazon for $120 USD sealed in box

[@MrBaskins2010]

fam shocked you didnt mention the intial flop of the canon eos m marketed mostly to women with AWFUL autofocus that wasnt corrected for at least a year after release

[@CongThanhContent]

Oh nooo, part 2 possibly?! 😂

[@quite1enough]

2:30 "Hasselblad making the best cameras in the industry" Phase One users: 😢

[@CongThanhContent]

Phase one is great cameras tooo but they've never really made any consumer cameras, most of their cameras are for industrial use

[@quite1enough]

@@CongThanhContent this or for some reaallly wealthy consumers

[@CongThanhContent]

Personal satellite for Astro photography

[@Hydermehdi]

Then comes Leica.

[@evo271]

I hate it when cameras are rebranded, with Hasselbald and Leica essentially being Sony/Panasonic

[@oc2phish07]

Nice video. I have a vintage Yashica Electro 35 AND a Kodak EK160 Instant film camera. I collect old cameras. The issue with Kodak, and the reason they failed, was they infringed the Polaroid patent.

[@CongThanhContent]

Well not necessarily! At peak Kodak was worth 30billion! The patent infringement was definitely a big blow but for them was really just chump change. Polaroid was actually sueing for 5 billion and the settlement was 919Million. Kodak's biggest problem was that they never transition to digital. They made most of their money from selling film and chemicals. Digital is a one time purchase. So the Life time value of a customer dramatically dropped when digital entered the market

[@artistjoh]

Didn't the Pentax K-01 fail because most people hated the bright yellow design?

[@hiemsx]

Lol 10:22 I just learned about that case in my accounting class @ uni💀

[@CongThanhContent]

Comes full circle I guess 😂

[@hiemsx]

@@CongThanhContent Indeed, i definitely enjoyed the video more than the three hours of advanced accounting though 😂

[@CongThanhContent]

Hahaha Im sure the legalities were interesting 😂

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Konica hexar was my friend for many years

[@molybdnum]

I'd add the Pentax K-01, maybe the Pentax Q and NX-Mini, the Ricoh GXR...

[@CongThanhContent]

Loool the Pentax new line definitely will hit the next video. The NX mini wasn't tooo bad!IMO I think Samsung was pretty awesome. The NX1 was WAY ahead of the time. If Samsung stuck in DSLR/mirrorless market I could almost guarantee they would be the top dog right now. The NX1 was from 2014 and it still it's still pretty comparable to the newest cameras

[@chucku00]

Gotta love trypophobia-inducing smartphones...

[@CongThanhContent]

The worst!! 😰

[@Ventrux]

Camera flops? Advantix and Disc

[@BubbaBearsFriend]

Hasselblad still exists... BUT it's majority owned by DJI. So a Chinese company with its headquarters in Sweden.

[@unbroken1010]

Samsung did it before Zeiss but with a sd card. Great camei. If only they stuck around.

[@NDakota79]

Why was Hasselblad failing with rehousing other cameras when Leica does the same thing till today and is fine?

[@CongThanhContent]

hmm hard to say, I dont know too much about these Leicas in particular, but if i had to guess I couldnt imagine many people opting to pay a Leica premium on panasonic camera. The D Lux 8 looks pretty cool though. Could maybe see people picking this up as their seudo mini Q1 lookalike. But probably far a few inbetween. Also the Hassleblads designs for their rebrands defintely isnt everyones cup of tea. lol

[@leonnoel9702]

Pentax mirrorless K-01 was a flop but I think they quit to fast

[@actionimagesphotography]

Will we be adding the Pixii camera to your list? We'll see.....

[@annekedebruyn7797]

I hope not. The Pixii concept (affordable-ish upgradable rangefinder) is too good for the photography industry.

[@TheASM196]

How about the reverse: the 10 most successful cameras? ...maybe you will want to limit that in time since there were a lot of successes...

[@CongThanhContent]

I was thinking about that! Got a similar subject that aligns with that. Still writing it and fact checking but hopefully will be coming out soon!

[@MonBerry]

Hasselblad is one greedy company.

[@adelbettayeb869]

Check diy perks lens

[@rovingearth7028]

DJI owns Hasselblad.

[@pixelpusher3589]

I have one of the Lytro light field cameras, the software is the key :/

[@markrigg6623]

Canon R7. 😢😢😢😢

[@Randomthoughts944]

Are you yonger brother of potatojet

[@CongThanhContent]

brotato

[@PeterPrism]

X pro1 x ever

[@CongThanhContent]

Some is trying to put a target on my back 😂 (everyone knows you can't bad mouth Fuji)

[@davesoverthere]

The Sony α line is descendant from the Minolta Maxxum series; Konica had nothing to do with it other than the merger.

It's kinda funny that the EOS Rp didn't make the cut, it should have. That camera is just terrible for what it's worth at launch, coming from Canon no less. At least the EOS R8 is a downsized R6 Mark II and released at the right time as more RF glasses are available now. The Rp is just straight up bad, it doesn't push anything forward, it's actually inferior to the DSLR it set out to replace - 6D Mark II and also inferior to the A7 Mark II - a 2014 camera, the EOS R gets a pass for being first, but the EOS Rp was just staight up a scam/noob-trap at the $1.399 price tag at launch. That's not to mention the RF mount wasn't matured at the time, the "budget" Rp was literally stuck with $1,299 L lens because there wasn't even 5 native RF lenses at the time, how did that even happen is beyond me? So anyone actually bought into Canon's "friendliest way to go full-frame" literally got scammed hard and they even doubled-down on that because well they are Canon shooters and just spent $1,399, stupidly, gotta justify it somehow. Canon didn't even promise anything with the Rp, customers didn't even expect a revolutionary step and they still under-delivered. It's actually incredible they managed to effed it up and effed with their customers this badly.

[@CongThanhContent]

I originally had an honourable mentions, that fell into bad bad marketing position or underwhelming categories but made the video way too long 🤣 you should check out the sigma dp1! Was 10k MSRP For not a whole lot!

[@reinhard8053]

But wasn't it just a cheaper version of the R ? So how could it be better ? And with the RF-EF adapter (was it available at that time?) you could use any existing EF lens.

[@JohnAldred]

The EOS RP was just an instant-gratification camera to satisfy the folks who wanted something that could shoot video better than Canon DSLRs that didn't completely suck for stills. That's all. A transition piece to keep video guys happy while Canon worked on what came over the next five years. And for what it cost at launch, it did it very well. I almost picked one up as a vlogging/walkabout camera but went Panasonic MFT in the end for video.

[@alexandrethethe1412]

I loved the video. But PLEASE don't use AI for your thumbnail.

[@chingymofo1]

"this guy for sure has like 100k subs" *looks at 972 sub count* "nah I must be tripping"

[@CongThanhContent]

973 Strong 💪 One day we'll make it!