Look What a $16 Digital Camera Can Do, Don't Spend $1000's on a Camera GE X500 Photography Class 243

[@ccmassis]

You are a great storyteller and I like your style. Please show us some of those 50 year old pictures that you took and make you look back with great amazement. I am sure that you have some of those pictures that you can look back and teach us some skills. Keep up the good work.

[@Pmckay04]

Thank you!!

[@Hemi_Thefox]

i love this guy like other youtubers yell in there videos he talks soft and puts calming music in the background

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Many thanks :)

[@Hemi_Thefox]

@@CarmineTavernaPhotography np and i aculy have this camera also

[@carlosalexander6653]

I recently got a GE X550 and really enjoyed the photos from it. Then I just got a GE X2600 yesterday. I will be using it this weekend.

[@clivecartey]

Fascinating review, thank you. Ironically I had already ordered one off Ebay, primarily for B&W photography. I am a Film Photographer but I wanted something digital as well that was easy to use, well built and low priced without having to be insanely sharp. I will never go full digital, far too expensive, and 120 film negatives are, simply, astounding ! Thanks again and please keep on getting that core message across - great photos are not made with £ Pounds or $ Dollars !

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nedkelly2035]

After watching this and a couple of your other videos about cheap CCD cameras, I bought 5 of them online. Paid under $20. for each, and under $30. with shipping each. 2 Kodaks, A Fuji, GE X500, a Canon. In my case it looks like the Fujifilm one is the best. But I had wondered why some of my pics with a Kodak C875 years ago somehow just looked better at 8.0 MP, than some I took with other cameras with more MP. I had attributed it to the Schneider lens on the C875, but it turns out that it was the CCD! Of course 8 MP has some limitations on big enlargements, but I rarely go big anymore anyway, and often I just email travel pix.

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Wow...you truly love CCD digital cameras...just as much as me :)

[@mayconizidoro6721]

Thank you for the excellent class. I received one of these as a gift and needed this information. 🇧🇷

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Glad it was helpful!

[@philipcupid6660]

Dear Carmine, I remember selling these as either Konica Minolta or Sony Bridge cameras and we sold them by the dozen for between £20 -75 back in 2006/8 when I was employed in Tottenham Court Rd in London, my rude boss bought them for much less than £20! CCD sensor as much as I remember, so that's why you have such great pictures. At the time, the shop was doing good business, but the dumb boss tried to be clever and always wanted to boost the sale by adding cases and memory cards; ok that's business of course, however being rude, offensive or shoving products that he wanted to sell at the public, never was how I tried to give the customer service. Yes, Carmine, I think the camera is great and the comparison between the Leica TL is good and I am a Leica R5 owner, but I use it very sparingly now that film pricing went through the ceiling! Oh, by the way I have a Panasonic Lumix TZ6, that's got a huge dust bunny in the lens, retired for a while, but, if I get the right tools I will fix it; other contenders for good cameras are the Panasonic Lumix FZ10, £20, the FZ82 w a 60x zoom but $300 USD now, using the digital and optical zoom got a photo of Jupiter and moons @ 2300mm, one night!

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Thank you for watching, and I love your camera shop stories, be well.

[@woodedape]

Sounds like this would make a good camera for landscapes and sunsets/sunrises.

[@jennacajalne6784]

would you recommend this camera to be used to take aesthetic / vintage type of pictures for concert photography?

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

YES, THESE ARE GOOD CAMERAS

[@cristineclingman8588]

Hi there what's the name of that editor app? Thanks.

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

My photo editor is Luminar 4 or Movavi 6

[@nedkelly2035]

Last post for the night: if you know a cheap way to shoot film, I would be interested. Of course I expect it will be shoot and scan, but if you can recommend anyone for processing there are some things I miss about it. I started out shooting with my father's Kodak Signet 35, then went into all kinds of Nikons as I went semi pro and pro for some years. Owned a bunch of F3s, then went what some people would think was backwards into FM2s, but the FM2s had a faster sync speed and were lighter to carry. Shot with a 500c quite a bit, mainly with the Planar. Had a Mamiya C330 system, various Rollei and Yashica TLRs. Probably the BEST thing I ever had was a Linhof Super Technika IV in 4x5, had some great old lenses for it, loved the movements. But the reason I would like to shoot maybe a little film again is nostalgia, might get a Signet 35 again, they are generally cheap and with an adapter take series 5 filters. If I could find a cheap SWC or SWCm (not likely to find a cheap one in either case), that would be great. Don't have the space to set up a darkroom again.

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

This is a video I made for film shooters..enjoy kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ2Zk4WtntiJe5o

[@maryjoansevilla6887]

where can i buy a battery cover for ge x500

[@maryjoansevilla6887]

Im from Philippines

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Hello, thank you for watching my channel..that is a common problem with older cameras...use black gaffers tape, available on Amazon or ebay. Never use black electrical tape.

[@fgwt6126]

Once owned a Polaroid digital camera that looked exactly the same as the one featured here. Would not surprise me if they were manufactured to the same basic design and marked using established company branding to gain sales. The copy that I had was not particularly easy to use and the battery life wasnt too great even with Eneloop AA's fitted.

[@isaganimendoza3832]

I have that too what rechargeable battery do you prefer to use it

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

I use regular disposable AA Alkaline batteries :)

[@masonmyers9072]

I just bought this camera from a friend of my grandfathers and I put brand new batteries in and before it said battery exhausted but now with the new batteries it won’t even turn on

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

Take a pencil with a new eraser and scrub the battery contacts very well..this MAY help.

[@MO-gk1ye]

Can it shoot moon photo)

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

@MO-gk1ye yes, you can take photos of the moon, the lens goes to 405mm telephoto.

[@nedkelly2035]

A fringe benefit of cheap cameras is that is someone robs you of one, BIG DEAL! I would place more value on my SD card if it had many pix on it than on one of these cameras. Right now I have a Nikon D3300 with a couple of lenses that are more valuable than the camera, so I will be careful where I take that. But after watching your videos, I have decided NOT to make the move up to a 45MP 850, as I realize it isn't worth it to me. And if I go somewhere "rough" I will take one of my cheap older bridge cameras! Reminds me of something- I knew a guy many years ago who bought a new Ferrari and sold not long after because he found he was so worried about it being stolen or damaged that it was not worth the pride of ownership. Buona fortuna, il mio fratello nello fotografia!

[@CarmineTavernaPhotography]

I agree :)