The Best Film Cameras Aren't Always Popular [VLOG]

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[@Pete292323]

I completely agree with Lok, nowadays it's implied that a good quality product has to be complicated with many modern features. It's hard getting a product that has the basics nailed down, is of high quality and nothing more.

[@TheLokCheung]

Someone gets it~ Thanks for sum it up for me, you put it better 😁

[@allanroney]

@@TheLokCheung it’s one of the reasons I love my Q2M; solid, simple, reliable, and with the desirability factor on top.

[@NissanSkyline901]

Yep, and it seems like it's worked it's way into almost every market, unfortunately. In terms of cars, what used to be considered luxury was better build quality and better materials and a little bit of modern technology, but still keeping everything minimal. Now luxury is just shoving useless technology into a car, over complicating it, and MAYBE having slightly better build quality and materials.

[@Gj_frames]

It spells Leica :) I bought my first Leica 6 month ago and it’s a joy, no features, high quality!

[@santiagopbecerra]

K1000 probably?

[@adisetyadi39]

As a student, I can no longer afford film photography. Prices of film rolls have increased significantly in my area that even buying the basic kinds feels way too expensive for me (compared to when I started). Also, this is not counting the price of processing. So, for now, I'm staying away from buying another roll and my camera been sitting as a decoration 🙃. For those who can afford it, I hope you make the best of it and capture your best memories along the way.

[@Kenaroni]

You are very correct. Film photography is very expensive, just to shoot and develop a few rolls. If you’re willing to shoot black and white, home developing is no harder than learning to bake a cake. The chemicals are easily affordable, but they are unpleasant and will ruin your clothes. One thing that film has going for it are the negatives to hold in your hand and store forever. 100 years from now they can be scanned and seen by future generations.

[@ddfann]

I love the old Olympus compacts. I’ve got the XA XA2 and the mju ii, all great cameras.

[@peterkapunkt6783]

The TX 1 is a mere 4500€ on Ebay.

[@cyrxl]

Love my MJU 1 but I would never have bought it on the used market. Prices are just too high for a camera that is incredibly hard to fix if it breaks. Fingers crossed mine won't

[@Christian_from_Copenhagen]

I was expecting something less popular and massively overpriced at the moment for what it is, but okay ✌ I got an XA instead and love it to death, it takes a little more space with the flash attached but I'm told it'll last last longer than a mju and I love the aperture priority and rangefinder focus 🤙

[@dj7ply]

I dropped my XA on concrete the other day (had it in between my lap while driving and got out of the car forgetting it was there). Nothing happened to it, didn’t even see any noticiable scratch. Pretty surprised cause I’ve heard it breaks easy but it still works fine!

[@borderlands6606]

@@dj7ply I dropped an XA3 on my garage concrete floor. The flash sacrificed itself to save the camera. The mju/ mjuII and XA series are small and funky but nothing special and very difficult to repair. I had a mjuII from new and the autofocus died eventually, which is not uncommon. The XAs have a delicate shutter magnet which goes south sooner or later. A bargain 10 years ago but I wouldn't pay current prices for Olympus clamshells.

[@dj7ply]

@@borderlands6606 yes thats what I was afraid of. I heard once they go bad you just have to buy another one

[@dogwalk3]

i had an xa3 that worked for about a week then the shutter crapped out so i returned it, but i loved it. i got the xa & while it's *nice* to have a rangefinder, i found the zone focus to work perfectly fine/even better at quick shots in the street, so i sold it & got another xa3 & been happy every since. i want to get the a16 flash to see how it is compared to the a11 but it's a low priority purchase at the moment. my roommate had an mju prime & i had an mju zoom but i still prefer the xa3 over all of them - both the look/feel of the camera & the actual results. love the size of it without the flash when shooting outside & it's still tiny with the flash on when attached.

[@SilverfoxJB]

9:15 Kai thinking, just kill me now.

[@patrickjclarke]

Yeah, my "Full Frame" EDC is the Olympus XA. True Rangefinder, f/2.8 35mm Zuiko and TINY...yeah, the shutter is super sensitive, and yeah, they are about $200 now, but if you love Rangefinders and want something that will always be with you...Go XA.

[@Christian_from_Copenhagen]

I got mine a few months ago for about $130, worth every penny!

[@zachswy]

I got mine in 2012 for $5 at a thrift store. Several dozen rolls of film later, and I left it on the commuter train in 2017, never to be seen again. Still miss it

[@borderlands6606]

@@zachswy Ah, the good old days. Bought a box of 25 compact cameras for £5, including a few XA cameras and various Japanese fixed lens compacts. All in original bags, many with boxes. Poundland sold film for a quid, and 30 metre tins of Orwo, Lucky, Efke mono were cheap. A C41 kit and Bob's yer uncle. Even Portra 400 wasn't too spendy. The Golden Age of budget film cameras 2005-2013, RIP.

[@thirdmort]

Thats the camera that my grandmother gave me in elementary school!!!! I used it to take a photo of Cape Hatteras lighthouse back in elementary school. It was the first large print I ever did. Started me on the path...

[@pofijanika]

Thanks, now these will skyrocket in popularity and price! 👌🏻🙏🏻

[@GregSReigh]

i need to know - what is that jacket you're wearing? I know it's a levi's, but it's dope

[@ColetteNoir]

Years ago I had a MJU and loved it. I let it get away sadly but have Mju II now. Love the video!!!

[@Ruylopez778]

Waiting for somebody to make a fortune from introducing a new 35mm camera and/or instax or polaroid camera that is reasonably priced, great quality and no unnecessary gimmicks or junk. Something like a Contax T2 or SLR680 that doesn't cost a fortune, but isn't like a Lomo camera, either. Or an instax square/wide where you can actually control focus and exposure.

[@hseuphoria8922]

Does anyone know which film camera/film would be good for concert photography?? And not too expensive?? Thank u!

[@webagent90]

I had the Olympus, but newer model and in my opinion it was the best compact camera that I ever had.

[@bbmdesignsco.1049]

I have one of those Olympus, best pocket camera I had in my live!

[@jedunboxing4127]

I still have the mju ii but don't really use it now..

[@bunmeng007]

Mju is far from unpopular. Its demand is off the roof. Olympus om1 is underrated.

[@nathanvrvrt]

hahahaha the microwave story, very funny hahaha

[@jamesdecross1035]

Sherlock and Watson… eat-your-heart-out, Benedict and Martin!

[@RealBesty]

I’m reminded of my trusty old Minolta AF-E ii 👍

[@ARlELATOM]

For a camera channel the video quality of the set up is terrible, looks like it was filmed on an iPhone. I’m sorry 😅 Still love all your content though 😂

[@LE672AJ]

Those cameras definitely won the coolness-factor whenever one came out with a sliding cover like that.

[@erichz]

看到设备树出现手动@Tim哈哈哈！

[@test40323]

Too bad films are so expensive these days. I love shooting film - switching films are like switching camera sensors!

[@compounddavid]

Once again Lok is correct.

[@lazyspacenoid1627]

Sherlock & Watson talks about cameras

[@southendsites]

My Mother had one...

[@patrickjclarke]

In medium format (I shouldn't say this as I love that they are so cheap), the Bronica ETR series is a complete STEAL. I saw a full kit with the 50mm PE, AE III prism finder, and power winder for (this is all top of the line) for a crazy $700. Most of the time you can find an ETR system for $300 or so. Quality is amazing, size is great, and for and additional $800 you can get a 135w pano back that basically gives you an X-Pan.

[@artistjoh]

Quite a good camera, but suffers from significant problems, the first of which is that hipsters think it is wonderful and so it sells for 10x more than what it is actually worth. Next is its age. Having just spent a very high price, they just stop working without warning due to age. They do not have a great reputation for reliability, and mostly they cannot be repaired - it is obsolete 90's electronics after all. The lens is sharpish but only f2.8, which is faster than many point and shoot cameras but not as good as a cheap SLR of the day that can take a lens with f2 or faster. If getting an cheapish old film camera the K-1000 is still king of the hill. The only thing electronic is the light meter, super reliable, repairable, and K mount lenses for it are plentiful and mostly affordable. The little Olympus is junk in comparison.

[@Johnnystrangeways]

K1000 was my first film camera, love it to death, fully manual even without the light meter! I own a MJU 2 and unfortunately the shutter button fell off and also suffers from light leaks still works though but build quality compared to the k1000 is poor.

[@borderlands6606]

@ artistjoh Agreed on all counts except the K1000. The Japanese K1000 is superior to the later Chinese built version, but still attracts high prices for an ordinary manual SLR, of which there are loads to choose from (including Spotmatics). Owning most 35mm compacts from Aiborg weirdos to Olympus clamshells, my preference is for fixed everything plastic models, or zone focus manual advance cameras. The plastic jobbies are basically disposable cameras with a rear door, and older zone focus compacts lack the electronic and/or noisy parts that inevitably fail and require odd, expensive batteries.

[@artistjoh]

@@borderlands6606 I was giving the answer that most people would appreciate. The older the Pentax, the more likely it needs the door seal replaced, and most people just want to buy and take shots without further maintenance. The camera I would personally buy would always be the MX. That is my favorite 35mm film camera of all time, but most Pentax cameras of that vintage have door seals that have turned to goo. The MX combines the best of the Spotmatic (shutter mechanism) with the small size of the M series and I just adore the simplicity of the aperture display in the viewfinder. I used an MX professionally for more than 20 years until I switched to Canon. However, the K-1000 is still my standard recommendation. I had hundreds, maybe thousands of students over the years who got an equipment list on the first day that had Pentax K-1000 at the top :)

[@borderlands6606]

@@artistjoh People looking to purchase an Olympus 35mm compact camera aren't buying one for practical reasons, generally speaking. It's a fashion accessory to impress friends. As a creative image making tool there are many better options, in film and digital.

[@artistjoh]

@@borderlands6606 Got in in one.

[@L4busaures]

Ironically, the mju-1 is now extremely expensive, and is almost half the price of a T2. Sorry Kai, but you're losing touch.

[@StormyP101]

What market are you in? In the US, a Mju1 can be had for between $150-200 typically, while a contax t2 still runs $1+

[@thickpee1493]

@@StormyP101 European market the mju is closing in on 250-500 cuz of youtubers suckings mju’s dick. My guy really lost touch

[@chengdong4548]

Kai老了

[@mathieucithi]

Found mine in a waste disposal perfectly working....

[@relaxingnature2617]

Loc and Kai ..hold the camera steady ..too much darting

[@jingruiyu6854]

I like the mju1 over mju2, I makes better photos.

[@samureyefilms7140]

[@jacksonbrown4112]

Blue tin foil*

[@lukes5533]

Get that Sony shit out of the way,LMAO.

[@ivan9066]

Lmao all Olympus point and shoot cameras are very popular right now. ..ok all mju series, and all clam shell ones, the trips are still garbage.

[@RakshitC]

Now all of these will get popular

[@Skux720]

All of these models are hugely popular already. Mju and Mju II prices are crazy for a point & shoot and they're even inflating the prices of the mediocre Mju zoom models just by name association.

[@grahamfil777]

@@Skux720 they're expensive and always sold out even if they're dinged up and the paint is off

[@justineroviccenal7121]

mju in the Philippines has been hugely popular not only amongst film enthusiasts but also amongst social media influencers. demand has risen ever since and prices even reach almost 400 usd for the prime lens variants. i sold mine for 100 usd, it was a mju iii 120,and people were flocking my on my offer.

[@rovidelarosa]

I have the prime lens version mju ii I bought for 500 pesos back when the hipsters and bandwagoners still don't know about it.

[@Ranger_Kevin]

I am not sure who is better at accidentally dropping expensive stuff - Kai or Linus from Linus Tech Tips ^^

[@bimmerfan2126]

Linus breaks things more often though :P

[@Nedumgottil]

I have an Olympus Mju I, man I LOVE this camera. I can’t get over how convenient it is, I can bring it around with me all the time and that’s led to me enjoying photography again. No more worrying about the perfect shot.

[@bionicnomad]

same man but idk i can save a lot of money

[@steliokontos7448]

This piece of terrible plastic has hyperinflated in price in switzerland, there are so many more fun cameras for the price of 250-300$

[@mareius]

Decades of film photography left us so many great tools

[@CJDavies]

The Mju & Mju II have been prohibitively popular for well over a decade now. Used prices were already pushing £80-100 around 15 years ago when I bought my Mju II & if you search completed listings on eBay today, recent clean examples have been selling for nearly £300!

[@felipew101]

I swear the mju has been and still is extremely popular. Costing hundreds of dollars for the 35mm fixed lens version. 🤔 Maybe I'm misremembering my "incessantly researching every compact 35mm camera I read about" phase.

[@NielsdeKemp]

I just now press upload on my video on the Olympus Mju II, what a coincidence 😎🔥

[@TerriblyCinemaddict]

This was a joke right? Those camera's are the most $$$ cameras on the market now hahaha.

[@MuffFlux]

Any affordable film camera reccomendations? All your previous ones from a few years back are in the thousands now.

[@appleshampoo324]

Anything Minolta like the x-700 x-300 XG-M are all cheap. Pentax spotmatic are all dirt cheap. Just go to a flea market and you often find canon ae1 and such for maybe 30 euro. Might need some TLC but most are ok to ise

[@magicgfingergrant6751]

I recently picked up an Olympus OM-D 10 MK2 for street photography. That and the 45mm f1.8 cost me £250 all together. (Used but in great condition) I hate using expensive cameras in and around town in case I get mugged like a friend of mine did. This camera is my perfect B Cam. I save my Fujifilm for more purposeful occasions

[@jacksonbrown4112]

These cameras already retail for 100+ Luckily the shutter broke on mine so I can't use it 😭

[@debalways]

I love this camera, but the auto focus misses really frequently! Like 8/36 photos have missed focus, which is kinda a lot considering I’ve had cheaper p&s’s that would only miss maybe 2 or 3 shots. I bought mine for about $80 and have been meaning to sell it but I can’t get myself to do it lol. It’s crazy that even the zoom olympus cameras start at around $100 - ridiculous! My Rollei 35 is my go to compact camera :)

[@samprstn]

Not quite sure how you mean that the mju1 isn’t popular. But by comparison to contax and yashica I guess it is

[@Burritosarebetterthantacos]

I was shocked when I got my first rolls developed. Very expensive. It’s a completely unreasonable hobby.

[@SgtPnkks]

Is the mju1 popularity different over there? Because I've seen people selling copies with some kind of issue (flash doesn't work, light leaks, the switch for the sliding cover that turns the camera off/retracts the lens is broken) for $100+... And fully working examples are more likely going to run $200-300+

[@SeanAndersonMedia]

I don't get the title? The Olympus MJU line is incredibly popular with film shooters and camera collectors right now, making it prohibitively expensive for a budget collector and shooter like myself. How is it not popular? You say it's not Instagram popular but it's the epitome of Instagram popular right now :P

[@thickpee1493]

This, wondered myself what they were on about. I just realised these sre hacks who have no idea what they’re talking about.

[@erkn99]

Olympus Mju is so Hyped and prices keep going up there are better and cheaper Options than this

[@itspiet8876]

mju is expensive tho

[@fgdfghsfg]

always fun to see you and Lok together

[@JoriDiculous]

Getting cameras on budget i fun though; i impulse bought one for €3 - €5; Praktica SC1? with 3 lenses, a 2.8/135mm, 2.8/28mm and, 1.8/50mm. Pretty solid Øst German thing. :P

[@john_murch]

I liked my Oly mju i so much from back in the day, I got a deal and recently bought another one. I also call it my plastic fantastic...:)

[@Oscar-xs9cv]

Oh wow my mom used to own that camera from the thumbnail when I was a kid. That brings me back

[@_oe_o_e_]

I’ve had so many Mju-1s over the years. Love them but they tend to die :( got them all cheap tho, so not a big deal at the time

[@spaqin]

God I got a Mju-1 for below market value and I still hated the tiny viewfinder and super slow autofocus... and the image quality wasn't nothing to get excited about. Got the job done, yes, but I ditched it after one roll.

[@jameslevine6137]

I have an mju ii that I bought about 20 years ago, and took some of my favorite travel photos with it. The battery door stays shut thanks to a snip of scotch tape; other than that it's still good as new. Here in the US it was named Stylus Epic rather than mju. With creative use of spot mode and half-press you can influence the exposure quite enough. I always loved how pocketable it is and how it made me feel silly for investing in an SLR.

[@AntCooke]

I wondered if we’d be getting an update on your basement space! Should be really handy. Hope you are going to light the studio better 😜

[@gragrn]

My first real camera was an Olympus AF1. It took fantastic photo's. I still have it somewhere and after watching this I might dig it out.

[@chu0nthat]

The editing of the sound effects and subtle jokes are on point. Props to Lok for the slick editing

[@citizengar]

Inspector Gadget X2.

[@chrizzz]

My wife saw me watching this and said "You watching Safari Detectives?"

[@FookFish]

lmao wait till he finds out how much mjus are going for on ebay i got a pentax me, a 50 f2 and a 28-80mm and a helios 44 and a m42-pk adaptor for less than a mju

[@MassimilianoGallieri]

Sorry, clickbait and poor video. Stop saying muji it's not popular. Cheap and not popular mean 10 bucks. Bye

[@bringo4392]

"The best film cameras aren't always popular" lol. So now you put these cameras on blast so they become popular and more overpriced than they were before? Whats the end goal here lol? The point is to make film photography accessible to the folks that wanna get in it and especially affordable to the people like me who've been shooting films for years and years. Film camera prices are already too high as is... this only makes it worse. Some of the "less popular" cameras are less popular for a reason, and thats okay. Everything doesn't have to be a popularity contest. All this video does is make people go out and buy the "unpopular" camera which makes the price skyrocket which then causes less people to be able to get into film photography. Its causes a negative reaction. But hey lol people with high followings will still post these kind of videos and camera prices will continue to get out of hand. There is no reason a canon ae-1 should be close to 200 dollars. But yall keep making these videos and soon only people with alot of money will be able to buy film cameras.

[@GrainyWorld]

Sample photos?

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Not your best show, boys. Different generation of photography… (The lower video camera exposed so much better than your straight on camera….)

[@chu0nthat]

In the background, on the table, Is that a Speed Magny Polaroid back for the Nikon F? Hope we will get a review of that

[@HPBurstyn]

What do you think is today's digital equivalent of the analog Olympus.

[@batchint]

I suggested a pin registration detail with olympus..

[@quis80jab]

i spy that nikkor medical 200 5.6 ;) i have one myself i love love love it.

[@MrCochise71]

They need to bring back the 5D mark I menu. It's one page . Not 15 pages of bullshit that just crank up the price for useless crap.

[@AlexRuzicka]

I just bought a microwave I didn't need...

[@DrRetro11]

olympus mju is overpriced nowadays and this video will make it even more expensive xD.

[@birdyw]

Microwave... is what Lok care about...

[@andrewturnbull1027]

I agree with lok" and so bought a regular microwave ' warming of food good terrible photo's mate what ?

[@extrajava9175]

really can't believed I snagged this camera off ebay for 35USD a few years back. Need to get out and use it

[@michaelbruchas6663]

You goofs! “The Benny Hill Camera Review Troop” - ask an older Brit about Benny Hill….

[@ReinoldFZ]

But film is getting quite expensive where I live Y_Y

[@myhappygecko2895]

With those jackets you look shirt lock Holmes and Watson.

[@magnusnordstrom9594]

I have a Mju II, which i bought in -98....still works fine.

[@onemanband3579]

LOL, you guys are looking very Blitish.

[@punkrachmaninoff]

Can you make a video about how Sony has no good 50mm lenses?

[@darrenmkj]

when can we see TOY CAMERA CHALLENGE VOL.2 ?

[@LAHegarty]

I only have one question, how was the safari trail?

[@photographer-ordinare]

I love the microwave tangent

[@birdyw]

And that Olympus is called ∞ Stylus in the U.S.

[@pokeken]

Kai W Attenborough in the wild

[@TheSakuraGumiLTD]

Just need a little acoustics in your cave

[@gilbomat]

„A good camera doesnt have to cost a lot… shows TX1 😂

[@urin1337]

wtf you cant get a mju under 150 here.