I thrifted two $5 film cameras...do they work?

HUGE shoutout to Tristan at Forbidden Cola Film Lab for turning around my b&w scans in LESS THAN 24 HOURS! If you'd like to support a small at-home-lab, contact Tristan on Instagram:
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[@4351steve]

Glad the cameras worked. Gone are the days of finding good point and shoots in most thrift stores. Having something new to you can be quite energizing as you shoot the first rolls of film through them.

[@NickWillMakeIt]

The reflection photo at 10:30 was my fav! These all turned out really cool. I can't believe you found both of these for $5 🤯

[@baharam98]

Wonderful images... LOVE how they turned out. Glad these point and shoots worked so we can enjoy your great work. Thanks!

[@Marialegts]

Favorite part of the video: you singing "my money don't jiggle jiggle it folds" lmao

[@graincheck]

Finally someone says it

[@Marialegts]

@@graincheck top tier content!

[@knibestolfoto]

Awesome shots! That cinestill looks mint!

[@nilssieper6648]

Ohuuu yesssss ahhhh that feels so good to watch! absolutely love it. some weeks ago, I found my yashica T3 in a super cluttered old store nearby. new bat. into it and now an own a superb point and shoot. and I love shooting with it.

[@henrahmagix]

seeing you go through the emotions of receiving the scans and seeing the photos you shot from so long ago! 😍

[@waawaaweewaa2045]

I'm actually a little surprised at how pleasant the image quality is on these 5 dollar cameras :). Great images! Proof that its the driver that matters, not the racecar. People are way too obsessed with having expensive cameras thinking they will turn them into "real" photographers.

[@photographyguru2135]

So true my friend, so true 😄😄😎😎

[@doughuras5407]

Loved how excited you got that the pictures worked!

[@seb_steimel]

haha I have the exact same amount of excitement and fear when I get my scans back - even with the cameras that I know that they're working. Loved the video!

[@andrewrothman7805]

So cool to find bargains that actually work. I think the weird sound you heard on the first camera may be that certain P&S cameras actually wind the entire roll onto the take-up spool, then gradually rewind the film back into the canister as you shoot.

[@graincheck]

Woaaahhhhh! Good to know 😅

[@golden22h8]

MAN THE PHOTOS LOOK GREAT

[@bernadette85]

The way I screamed when your exposures came back! YAY!

[@graincheck]

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[@jphoto7582]

Satisfyingly entertaining, sugar!!!

[@brianchan5615]

love your content and the spirit of throwing in film into unknown camera is so adventurous. Keep doing what you doing and share with us.

[@HudBud4444]

Just found your channel! Love the energy and legitimately was so happy for you when you got the scans back! Going to go through more vids later. $10 for fun point and shoots is insane!

[@MiniHD]

This was nostalgic! My parents had the SuperZoom when I was young. Strange camera but fun to see one today! 🙂

[@Distortz]

I have the same Olympus with the twin lenses!! Loved the shots :)

[@Lets-Take-Pictures]

Louis Theroux would be proud. Those cameras were awesome finds and the shots looked gorgeous. I really liked the side by side b&w and color

[@thevoiceman6192]

I love those cameras. I have several. The exposures are usually spot on. They have double exposure settings and go into long exposure mode at night without the flash if i remember correctly.

[@chrissybabyist]

Awesome! Glad they work! And nice shots!!

[@oringe7326]

loved the pics, also just wanted to say the colors and lighting in this video were insane!

[@hazelapuli]

wow I love the photos!!

[@gui4j]

love the pants !!

[@leonleon8619]

I saw a couple of your videos… .you look awesome! compliments! you have energy and sympathy to sell! good 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@David-ov3ej]

I bought the Infinity Twin on a fleamarket for 5 euros and I love it! How do you feel about the twin lens setup instead of a zoom lens? Great Video! I really enjoyed the beginning of the "starting to shoot" section. Don't know what it is but to me it looks like straight out of a movie! Maybe the colors and the angle. ❤️

[@jabez1409]

That Olympus zoom looks interesting. I would love to try that.

[@bigshooter461]

It's nice when you get all your ducks in a row!

[@ChuckAbles]

For sure enjoyed the presentation. I love your bubbly style. Speaking for myself, from time to time, karma, luck, a fluke will pop up in the form of an ol' 'point and shoot' camera sitting on a shelf in a thrift shop, say Goodwill, that says purchase and reuse me. My favorite is an Olympus Infinity Stylus I purchased for $3.99 that ranks to hang out on the shelf with all my rangefinder cameras.

[@graincheck]

A stylus?! For 3.99?! Hot damn

[@joey.leblanc]

@@graincheck I wish!!

[@AlexanderHernandez-sb7lq]

Another great video Taylor

[@UkuleleNinjaMan12]

Frickin sick pics

[@marcojones6736]

Its always nice finding cameras at the thrift store! Loved the video.

[@graincheck]

This was my first time finding any in working condition. SO EXCITING

[@benjaminaguilera8097]

The tennis court thing is just big facts

[@graincheck]

Facts on facts

[@reidh]

I sure hope so!

[@andyvan5692]

with the big camera, Don't worry about the frame counter, I shoot a hasselblad 500 C\M and the backs counter doesn't reset until the back is removed, as it sets back to S, so don't fret, be cool, calm and keep shooting. ( also on some cameras a 'warning' beep occurs, this alerts you to ONE shot Left on the roll, most point&shoots STOP altogether, aka nothing happens, until you operate the rewind switch, my mum's cannon P&S did that, Zip until it rewound, couldn't even close the lens (operate the cover/retraction mechanism).

[@rywilson2645]

Just bought the Ricoh mirai, pretty much the same the camera as the zoom, pretty curious to play around with the multi image function 👍

[@beneett6800]

Off Topic: Where did you get your tattoo on your forearm?? Love it!

[@EdwardIglesias]

Cinestill and Portra, you would be fun in Vegas.

[@dominic.shoots]

youtube suggested me here! a fellow film shooter! happy to see the images, both cameras seem to work quite well! I can relate the excitement and anxiety every time I receive scans..

[@graincheck]

Welcome!!! Stay a while ⚡️

[@dominic.shoots]

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[@mahmutsuner7560]

Amazing results 🎈🎈🎈

[@bellvuehillapart9782]

Cool photos. Nice work.

[@MakersTeleMark]

@10:31, sneaky, thought you had a double exposure there. Noice. End of the roll through a window? But it looks like a composite of a few of your shots. Either way, very nice work. Best of the roll actually.

[@short1961]

Fantastic.

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Have faith in older technology!❤️🙏❤️

[@deadpool6072]

This woman is talented af OMG Very great video

[@williamkeene6434]

Nice video, as someone who just got into film photography (I got a Pentax sp1000 with an f2 55mm lense) I'm still looking for a point and shoot

[@idk-cb2bo]

Can you make a video about how you treat color in your videos or photos? Literally so aesthetic 2000s flow

[@florian_kopr]

wonderful video and two nice cameras. thx

[@ToThePowerOfFour]

i found the Olympus Twin at a yard sale right by where i do groceries and it was only $2!! came with a nice lil bag too. i found that the tele lens had a focusing issue tho, not sure if you notice that on yours too. it's fine tho, because the wide lens works perfectly and that's what the camera defaults to when you power it up. anyway, it's a great sounding camera and i'm so glad i found it for that price!

[@Daniellethedaisy]

I love this video, and totally off topic but I love your bag, is it a camera bag?! Because I definitely would like one like that☺️

[@viper3269]

Loved the video, maybe in the future try overlaying the scans on the screen as your taking the photos?

[@graincheck]

I normally do that, but the whole point of this video was to see if the cameras work. If I showed you that in the first couple minutes…the suspense is gone.

[@viper3269]

@@graincheck Makes total sense, love your videos! just stumbled across you and binging a bunch of them

[@graincheck]

@@viper3269 stoked you’re here ⚡️

[@xSoYeahThatHappenedx]

Where do you get your film developed? My wife and I are trying to figure out the best spot in Vegas for it. Thanks for the video.

[@alexle7555]

I think the vlogging format worked!

[@jak-A127]

Thrift store pick up Portra test roll . I too like to live dangerously.

[@DarkstarDarth]

I just bought the R6, images aren't too bad either😃

[@beckerse]

Nice video!

[@JenL-y6w]

Wow! I love your photos! Price is only $5 but quality is amazing :)

[@andyvan5692]

yes, some 'interact differently', when you turn it on, or press the shutter, sometimes you need to take a shot, this advances the 'loading' film, so that the fresh can be ready to shoot. this is all the noise is, the wind-on, Some other mf winder cameras do it too (hassleblad 500el (when winding) H1 with film backs, 503cw- with the winder, Rollieflex 3000/6008 integral) even the 35 Nikon F4/5 do this too, just a bit jumpy when they do.

[@sbcinema]

Great Video, i like it 👍

[@CameraNostalgiaClub]

Are you using a tripod/monopod to film B roll or just placing it down on something? I've been thinking about getting a monopod as they’re less fiddly to set up when in public...

[@CameraNostalgiaClub]

Okay sorry I just got to the end and see that you do 😅 is it a tripod?

[@jabez1409]

Best Thrift is $30 SLR, fully functional.

[@hand.2]

do you keep your negatives? just bought my first film camera and i'm not sure what to do when i finish my first roll

[@emmanranara]

your channel just showed up in my youtube. aaaaaaand im digging your channeeeell already!!! keep it up!! new subscriber here!

[@john_murch]

09:34, 09:37, these gave me "goose bumps"...😀

[@graincheck]

😂

[@groovylouu]

What camera are you using to vlog?!? Such a crispy picture

[@graincheck]

XT4 :)

[@orestes1984]

It's certainly interesting seeing weird, obscure, bridge cameras.

[@stevensonrf]

I have to ask? Is that the Sacramento River? 🤔

[@markgoostree6334]

It's like you went panning for gold and found a couple of nuggets! Sounds like those two cameras give you some fun options when you're out on a photo walk! I've read that for every 100 mm of lens we get 1mm of moon. Glad you didn't open the camera until you could get to a safe place. I just lost half a roll because I was impatient. One frame could have had a picture of my wife... she passed 6/1/21. Losing that film made me sick.

[@IM-Silviu]

What should I watch first? Graincheck or Sunny 16? *sweating*

[@graincheck]

NO WRONG DECISION HERE

[@jebeq2007]

Great shots and great cameras. It goes to show that you don't need a 4 or 5k Leica to make great shots. If you ever get a chance try out the Canon Film EOS Rebel series, any of them. They are awesome underrated cameras. You can get them extremely cheap and the results with a Canon prime are as good as my Contax G2 for a fraction of the price. Great video!

[@graincheck]

Just realizing I originally read this wrong. I have an EOS 630! With a prime, that thing can produce images that could pass for medium format.

[@golden22h8]

im new to photography so apologies if this comment sounds wrong 😭. buf when you got the film developed, does it come in colour? or do you have to like edit colour onto them on ur computer

[@allankcrain]

I had never heard of an Olympus Infinity SuperZoom 300, then I found one in a thrift store, then I found *another* in a thrift store, like, a day later, and now you're doing a video about finding one in a thrift store. Getting Baader-Meinhof'd on the Olympus Infinity SuperZoom 300 over here.

[@allankcrain]

AND AND AND, I just literally bought an Infinity Twin TWO DAYS AGO in an antique store. Literally shot my first few frames in it earlier today.

[@graincheck]

DUN DUN DUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

[@graincheck]

the plot thickens

[@shanebeekman2228]

these gave me such a 1970's feel like when l was young an use my parents camera so much ,for 5 dollars each bargain wow

[@graincheck]

YES YES YES YES

[@26days]

loved this vid!

[@averytheamazingone]

I had a Minolta Maxxdum die on me on shot 15 lol it sucked but I didn't wanna loose the roll so I transplanted the roll into another camera and double exposed the first half of it

[@graincheck]

This is bravery. This is courage.

[@eddiegee2940]

I bought nikon n2020 for $35 from KEH Camera. Surprised it was prestine condition for "bargain" status.

[@peruperu-jj8zs]

I have about 10 35mm point and shoot and all of them were about 100yen lmao. They all work too.

[@codymont]

Glad to see I'm not the only 30 something who still freakin' loves sugar!

[@JoeYatesAlaskanFilms]

Ayyye!!

[@mrdrock]

Where do you develop?

[@rockyBalboa6699]

The cost of the camera is $5 but how much did it cost for films and developing ?

[@ЛеонидБахвацкий]

Testing camera with portra 400... You are bravest one)

[@graincheck]

I had a good feeling what can I say

[@ЛеонидБахвацкий]

@@graincheck did you use 10-24 on fuji?

[@dieterbruls4091]

I guess these cameras are quite alright as long as you don’t use them for the pictures an ordinary average photographer uses them for, like landscapes and family portraits.

[@seanc8054]

i wish i could form and maintain friendships with other human beings, it would be so cool to go on photography walks with people who like similar things i do, but i dunno how, plus i'm old, and also fat so how do you make all that work and meet people

[@Criszskatesz]

great job we need more consistency

[@graincheck]

I'm very consistent!! at 1 video a month!!!

[@JHurrenPhotography]

@@graincheck 🤣

[@seanc8054]

also, awesome cameras :) i hope they work (i havnt watched it all yet cuz i'm one of those weirdos who stops to comment in real time as i watch the video.) (edit) woot, they worked, i'm so happy, lovely photos too, very awesome :D

[@enshongmiranda]

Out of curiosity, what resolution does your lab send for your 35mm film scans?

[@r.wilson8095]

Wow almost got scammed by someone using your comment section saying I won a gift almost fell for it until shipping charges over 100.00 dollars and higher! I’m sure it’s not affiliated with Taylor’s channel. I’m glad I figured it out before giving out too much info.

[@graincheck]

Oh no. I reported all of those spam comments ASAP, but wasn’t fast enough it looks. Very glad you didn’t finish the process

[@sijilo]

☺️

[@herobear]

Cool Work

[@davidlong8217]

the thing about photographers is I do not know how they make money without shooting weddings

[@thismisunderstoodlonerguy]

Legit!

[@TheSlenzaks]

sick :)

[@MakersTeleMark]

How's that M3 coming along?

[@graincheck]

Oh, she's very much long gone. I returned her.

[@MakersTeleMark]

@@graincheck OK, then you can join behind my path getting my M3. It took 13 years from my father's death, me putting it in a pile after getting a pizza, and cleaning up the home the day of his passing and me taking the last photograph with his big hand, and a cardboard sign on top of a small pile that I couldn't fly with that said my name, along with all the photo books, my favorite records, and a coveted Nikon F that took pretty much every photo of my youth. Until my mother showed up a week later, said fuck that guy, and threw it all into a roll off trash container. You just have a few more years to go. After that much time, there is no returning. Just forward. Fuck point and shoots. Me and my own M3 are inseparable, or she sleeps in a very very safe space. I guess it was just a test to see if I could earn my own. I commented on your M3 video that you didn't have it that bad. Now you know.

[@Criszskatesz]

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[@tittfestx3]

Cutest girl literally EVER

[@utredutredson1686]

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[@antoniocastillo2691]

You. Eyes Miss. Beautiful.. Exellent ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥👌

[@CHRIZTION]

Lol ended up seeing one of these for $10 last year and didn’t buy it. Smh

[@graincheck]

OOF. That hurts.

[@theesbros]

YO TAYLOR!! ARE YOU DATING SOMEONE?