My First Camera - Samsung NV3

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[@feklee]

A lot of what holds back cameras from that time is actually processing. With the old Panasonics from that I revived after my GRⅢ got stolen, I found that if you underexpose by 0.7 EV, then you can pull up exposure with ACR and get decent dynamic range without clipping. Without correction, these Panasonics tend to overexpose (JPEG only). Of course, no freezing of action or shooting in the dark. Still nicer colors than with my new Samsung phone, which over saturates even in neutral mode. I like your pigeon image! My first camera in the 80s was a vintage Agfa Optima, shooting black and white films only, which my dad developed for me.

[@EYExplore]

I agree with that for the most part. I think there are some limits though with the older/cheaper digital cameras, but as time goes on the difference between the latest gear and even 10 or 20 year old gear will diminish. It's not like old cameras suddenly get worse when new ones come out. :) And that is a cool camera to start with!

[@ianssight2785]

First camera was a Kodak Ektra 200 which use the 110 film cassettes circa 1980 followed by a Canon AV1 when I got my first job. Good times

[@EYExplore]

Wow, that's cool! There were a lot of really creative camera concepts back in the day. It seems like everything is very samey these days by comparison. :)

[@thegirlwholeftthefridgeopen]

Built-in music wow! Thinking about that, that would be cool if you could upload music files into the Ricoh GR's built-in 2GB storage and then listen to music through bluetooth enabled earphones. Cool video going back to your roots!

[@EYExplore]

Yeah!! That's the same idea. I guess it might hinder the battery life. And with smartphones it's kinda pointless these days. But back in 2007 that was a super cool feature. I didn't own an MP3 player at the time so this was a perfect gadget for me. :)

[@paulplus3830]

I started with a Beirette VSN and my digital days started with a Casio QV-5700.

[@EYExplore]

Very cool old school camera! :)

[@AlexSinclair]

Even though it's objectively not good, the night shots you showed from this are really nice in a very nostalgic way. While a lot of people feel nostalgic when looking at film photography, for me, it's early digital aesthetics that really get me. Great video! Both of you always deliver!

[@EYExplore]

I agree!! It definitely evokes a sense of the 2000s. Lots of low-fi point-and-shoot camera images were around in those days. I know there will be a time when we feel just as nostalgic for that look as we do for old film photos. :)

[@ratgirl13]

I have always liked compact cameras, the idea of carrying big cameras with heavy lenses never appealed to me-I use a Sony RX 100vii and it’s compact, light weight and fun to use. I enjoyed your video, always a pleasure to spend time with you via KZbin. (My first camera at 11 years old was my grandmother’s Leica, I took terrible photos, but had a lot of fun using that camera).

[@EYExplore]

Thanks! Yeah, though I'm cool with big cameras these days, there something so fun and free about compact, simple cameras. It's why these days I use the GR so much! :)

[@ratgirl13]

@@EYExplore 🙂🌺

[@TheScarnak]

Loved this episode, one of my favourites for sure! What a lovely camera, really great to hear about your history with it too. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@EYExplore]

Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@gojkodjurkovic]

I love the video. Besides the memories that are made with camera, camera it self is a memory. I keep mine and cant sell it. :)

[@EYExplore]

Yeah! Actually, I tried to give it away a long time ago when I was cleaning up my place and no one took it. I'm so glad that was the case, because I'm happy that I still have it now. And now it still stick around as a souvenir. :)

[@ppssmmvdpol]

My first digital camera was the Samsung NV-10 in 2008. My last analogue camera was the Minolta Dynax 5 bought in 2004/2005.

[@EYExplore]

Nice!! The rest of the NV line was pretty cool. I had my eye on an NV5 back in those days. :)

[@nunodeazevedo]

Love this videos

[@EYExplore]

Thank you!! :)

[@rockandrollers]

Yo tuve esa cámara por allá por 2007-2008 no recuerdo bien. Cuando la vi en la tienda fue amor a primera vista, era tan sexy, bien terminada, elegante que me la compré de inmediato. No podía creer lo versátil que era en su tiempo, ya que tenía lo que yo necesitaba en aquel entonces que era una cámara y un reproductor de música todo en uno. Ciertamente luego con la aparición del iPhone 3G la terminé vendiendo. Esa cámara tenía un problema con la resistencia a los pequeños golpes, se dañaba el sensor muy fácilmente por lo que las fotos salían con una mancha oscura al centro de la imagen. Qué buenos recuerdos.

[@EYExplore]

It was definitely a sexy little gadget! :)

[@EnKiey]

I was born in 1991, and I received my first digital camera, a CASIO EX-Z1080, in 2008. I continued using it until I acquired my first smartphone in 2011. Although it's no longer in working condition, my family and I have fond memories associated with it. Thank you for sharing this video about your very first digital camera; it reminded me of the good times from my childhood.

[@EYExplore]

Nice memories! Our old electronics are more than just plastic gadgets. They are part of our memories! :)

[@quattuorphotography8107]

At night it have a nice looking filter

[@EYExplore]

Agreed! :)

[@daliamosesp]

this is so cool

[@EYExplore]

Thanks! :)

[@admiralsquatbar127]

I started with my dad's Minolta SRT101. I still have it, it holds a very special place in my heart.

[@EYExplore]

Wow, that's a great camera to start with. Glad you still have it! :)

[@RobinNoah]

actually the photos are more than ok looking. great video guys btw. good to see that the patreons are growing. must be awesome

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, when I dug them up to add them to the video, I thought the same. They're not so bad, all things considered. Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@skebir2506]

I started with a Nikon F3 when I was a teenager :)

[@EYExplore]

That's a great camera! :)

[@HaiTomVlog]

Wow, talk about nostalgic! The first camera I ever bought was a Kodak 110 when I lived in Japan back in the ‘80s. I loved that camera! But my first digital camera - and the one that got me into photography, was the Nikon Coolpix L4 😅 Some of my favorite images came from that little camera… 🤙🏼

[@EYExplore]

Very nice! Gotta love the digital compacts! Kodak 110 looks super cool. I wish someone would make a digital camera like that nowadays. :)

[@zl5667]

Remember this series of camera. In China it was called "蓝调", implying Blues the genre in music. Not sure if this is just my imagination, but I seem to recall the voice in ads saying "三星蓝调".

[@EYExplore]

That's cool! :)

[@TheHawaiianc]

I love the old pics,, the color of things it has jeux cest quoi to it the way colors just match and blends well

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, it was my old editing style. I used to use Picasa to edit the JPGs back in these days. I actually had Photoshop and knew my around it a bit, but found Picasa to be easier and more fun, haha. :)

[@andrewanyplace]

My first EYExplore video! I know you from when you've been on Norm's Tokyo Lens channel. As a kid, the first camera I used was probably something using 110 format film and after that a couple of fixed focus 35mm film cameras. The first camera I bought for myself was also a Samsung - a Slim Zoom 130S 35mm film camera with 38-130mm F4-9.9 lens. The AF system used Fuzzy Logic apparently! I took this camera on my first trip to Japan which was 20 years ago this week along with my first digital camera which was a Fuji FinePix 1300 which had 1.3 megapixels and a fixed foal length lens. I sold both of them many, many years ago while they were still worth something but I've still got my Minolta DiMAGE F200 from 2003 and a Panasonic DMC-FP1 from 2010 which I chose for the very compact size. It's a similar design to your NV3 with a folded optics zoom lens inside. I can see the shortcomings of the images now compared to a modern cameras but it served me well.

[@EYExplore]

Thanks for watching! Wow, that Samsung had quite the zoom lens on it! Looks almost comical when fully extended. I looked up all of these cameras. It's amazing how many different camera designs there have been over the years. They all look, and presumably handle, so differently. And I totally forgot to mention the internals of the NV3. I was aware of the folded optics design, which I think is a pretty neat way to cram a zoom lens into such a tiny space without having anything sticking out the front. Glad you're aware of it already! :)

[@bfs5113]

The first camera that I bought was a $5 plastic Made-in-China TLR some 50 years ago, when I was in grade school. Although the first real/good camera that I bought in the late seventies was a Nikon F2A + Motor Drive.

[@EYExplore]

Excellent! I was thinking to get a Nikon from that era, maybe an F3. :)

[@DavidTothill]

When you do a video featuring your grey anorak, I’ll still be here hanging on every word and giving a ‘like’

[@EYExplore]

Haha, thank you! I may do a review of the jacket lol. :)

[@GrainyWorld]

I don't know what u did! But this video is different to me! It very looks warm and cinematic. Keep doing this.

[@EYExplore]

Thank you for noticing that! I was quite happy with these colors too. Sometimes I get the color grading just right. It's tricky because the Z50 we used does not shoot raw. We shoot with a flat profile and I do my best to edit from there. Sometimes, the uncooked video is conducive to a nice edit. :)

[@alphaguide2023]

This was also my first camera 📷 . Great device of 2007 . I just took it out after this video and it is working still . And also got some old photos 😁

[@EYExplore]

Ah great!! Another NV3 owner. :)

[@MyHumanWreckage]

I kept my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, then I went to a Pentax Spotmatic and a Pentax SF1. Now I have too many to list. Great video. I’m looking forward to your next one. Regards from Canada!

[@EYExplore]

Wow, that Kodak is a cool little cameras from the good ol' days! Thank you!! :)

[@SamuelHeinrich]

Maybe it is just because of how KZbin compressed visual quality to near oblivion, but I could barely notice that big of a difference between the Samsung and the Ricoh's pictures of the dad and his kid sleeping. The other pictures looked really nice too, considering that camera's age. Really goes to show how important it is to find something interesting, and to compose it properly in the frame! I feel quite fortunate to have started on a Nikon D5200, which was capable of a lot of things as it was a proper DSLR. But I feel that it is also because I was never deprived of such features that I took them for granted (and wasn't forced to learn composition), and just tried to aim for getting those romanticized blurry background shots with heavy before and after edits. I now own a Canon M50 (impressively small, but still fully featured), and have been focusing *only* on finding interesting scenes. And I give you a lot of credit for that, every time I watch one of your videos each dreaded Monday, I go out at least once a week for an hour or two to just take photos around my city!

[@EYExplore]

Yeah in this case it's not so much about compression as it is just resolution. They are both pretty small in the video. But if you see them both on a big screen at 100% there night and day difference in the detail. But it just goes to show that in many context those extra details don't matter much. and yeah, a D5200 is a pretty nice camera to start out with! And the M50 is great! I've had a number of people bring one to our workshops. Super cool. Glad you're finding inspiration from our videos! Challenge your eye!! :)

[@SamuelHeinrich]

@@EYExplore Always will, thanks!

[@derribos]

Funny episode. My first camera was an Olympus mju II and my first digital an Olympus mju mini. I have comeback to my mju II nowadays.

[@EYExplore]

That's a cool camera!! :)

[@simoncharfuelan3989]

I actually got my hands on one because my mother happened to buy one like 13 years ago and now I enjoy it as a sort of vintage and simple camera

[@EYExplore]

That's great! It definitely has a vintage feel! :)

[@alexxx4434]

It really doesn't matter much on what camera you shoot. Much more important is your skills as a photographer. Masters of old didn't have access to the quality level of gear we have available right now, but they still left us masterpieces.

[@EYExplore]

Yes, very true! :)

[@etwilli2]

I agree. I used to carry this camera all the time while mountain biking way back after I got it on clearance 4 years after camera came out. . Some of what I consider my "better" photos I have put on Flickr were from this camera. Its all about how you use it, you are correct.

[@meowsefer]

Actually love the images from that camera.

[@EYExplore]

Great! :)

[@elwick_photo]

My first camera went for a swim with me in the sea off the coast of kos 😂 was a Casio exilim ex-z60, 6mp, 3x zoom, and I loved that camera, focused quick and took shots without hanging about. Wasn't waterproof though 😂

[@EYExplore]

Ah, that's too bad! :)

[@TMM6900]

Your old photos don't look bad at all. Other than the heavy editing xD

[@EYExplore]

Haha, yeah, not too bad I must say. I shouldn't be so hard on the little camera. :)

[@kathrynorcales]

this was my first camera too. I was probably 10 years old when i got it as a pass-me-down when my mom got a new digital camera. still have it and it works well with vintage looking pictures. i take more pictures with this than i do with my phone.

[@EYExplore]

It's great to hear that someone else knows this camera and still has one! :)

[@philhasacamera]

Cybershot something or other. But great for getting into photography and some nice memories too. Great video!

[@EYExplore]

Nice!! Thank you! :)

[@mattrn58]

I had a plastic Kodak film point and shoot when I was a kid, but my first “real” camera was a Nikon EM, which I still have.

[@EYExplore]

Very nice!! :)

[@joes8346]

Gee you just brought my good old memories with my finepix f402 back in 2002... Sure it had such a small sensor with only digital zoom but memories that I had with that camera was priceless.

[@EYExplore]

The good ol' days!! :D

[@justindurnen3828]

My very first experience with a camera was when I was ten years old in 2005. My mom had a disposable kodak max camera that I stole from her and shot a bunch of random pictures with, needless to say she was quite angry, haha. My first personal camera I got in 2013 after I graduated from high school, I forgot the model, but it was a little blue canon point and shoot. I carried that thing on my hip for a while. Sadly I lost most of the pictures I had from it but I remember having a lot of fun with that little thing. Photography was a huge part of my childhood. Growing up with my mom and aunt who loved to document everything there was always little canisters of film laying around. I remember taking trips with them to that little kiosk called "Kodak Picture Maker" about once a week or so once digital started becoming more prominent. Anyway, thanks for sharing your stories. It's always interesting hearing other people's stories on what got them into photography.

[@EYExplore]

I like your early photo adventure with a stolen camera, haha. I also took photos sometimes as a kid, using disposables or my dads camera here and there. But it didn't really hook me. I just messed around with the cameras mostly on family trips. It didn't become a 'thing' till I came to Tokyo. And I kinda regret that. It could have been really interesting to look back on childhood photos now. Thanks for sharing as well! :)

[@NintendoPlayBox360]

My first camera was the Canon sx700hs. Great little bugger that I still have. Honestly, its not horrible, in fact I think it would still be great for street photography due to its great reach (30x optical zoom), and super small size. Nobody is gonna give a damn about you taking photos with it. Damn, I now feel like charging it and going out to take some photos.

[@EYExplore]

Go and shoot!!! :)

[@snapsbylan]

Hands down best camera. No other camera can play music as well as take a picture these days.

[@EYExplore]

Haha, yeah! Most versatile! :)

[@Project_2501]

Actually, these images look pretty damn cool! They have that nice mid 2000's nostalgia feel, fuzzy "griddyness" and color scheme to them and I really consider getting a used one to have a bit fun with it. I looked up the resolution, it's around 7MP, which is really not much, these day no problem with modern interpolation apps. Don't know what you guys all think, but I actually dig it!

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, you know I hadn't looked at them in a loooong time. They are not as bad as I thought haha. They look a little better scaled down here in the video. 7.2 mp meant they were a bit outside of the 4k video frame. But if you see them at 100% they are quite rough. But it's part of the charm! I think for me the biggest issue using this camera, even for fun, is not so much the IQ but the slowness of the camera. It's kind of tedious to use after you get used to snappy GR. :)

[@notinabox6715]

I was about to say the same as it send back to that time, surely due to the way the jpg was processed back in those days. As we will say now, there's a mood in those pictures ^^

[@Project_2501]

@@notinabox6715 Absolutely. ^^

[@GrainyWorld]

My first camera was a Samsung st64 2013, a point-and-shoot camera!

[@EYExplore]

Very nice! Seems to be a descendant of my NV3. :)

[@AlbertoUrra80]

"And you can bet your ass I did that..." that killed me hahahahah!! A camera with speakers to listen music, what the hell? lol!!!!!!!!! I bought my first camera in 2008 for my first trip to Tokyo, a compact Canon Powershot A520 (4.0 MP). I bought it with no idea what the specs were. I only bought it because Canon was a familiar brand, and because its design seemed cool. I felt like a pro with it. Back then I wasn´t interested in photography at all and I had no idea of composition, but well, I think I got some interesting photo by chance. All daytime photos of course, who would want to be walking the streets at night taking photos?

[@EYExplore]

Haha, had to impress the college girls somehow (they were not impressed, lol). Yeah for me the camera just looked cool and could double as an MP3 player so I was sold. I did not think about the specs at all haha. I thought 7.2 megapixels was a lot. :)

[@NickNicholson13]

Great video! The pics from the NV3 appear to have a cool "lo-fi" feel to them, but maybe that was the processing style you were going for back in the day! The first digital camera I ever bought was a Canon PowerShot A10, about 20 years ago, but I didn't use it all that much. I got into digital photography more seriously in 2012 when I bought a Leica D-Lux6. I bought a Fujifilm X100S in 2013 and that became my primary camera for many years, but recently I've fallen in love with my D-Lux6 all over again and have been shooting with it exclusively for the past couple of months. The camera is 10 years old, but the images it produces still have that Leica magic!

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, it's definitely the style. I was using Picasa to edit them, which had some preset filters like this. :)

[@NickNicholson13]

@@EYExplore I remember Picasa! It was one of several image editing apps that I tried out years ago.

[@EYExplore]

@@NickNicholson13 Exactly! :)

[@luismartins3262]

Weird, just this morning I decided to take out my beloved orange Nikon Coolpix S6500 that I bought around 2013 to take to Hong Kong. At 16 MP I actually got some really nice shots. and I remember missing some too! Why feel dorky? Doesn't Daido still use this type of cameras to this day? As far as my first cameras, it was an Olympus Trip 35 (film camera back in the late 70's), or a Nikon Coolpix 990 as my first digital one, in the early 00's. That was a 3 MP beast. And yes, I miss the days of just having something small but pretty decent to carry with me. I have never been a big fan of taking pictures with my phone. Take your camera out more often and show it some love!

[@EYExplore]

There were some huge leaps made from 2007 to 2013. I'm sure that Coolpix is still pretty decent in terms of image quality today. Anyway, I wasn't super serious about feeling dorky haha, just kinda observing my inner feelings and sharing them with you guys in a funny way. Wow, that Olympus is a beautiful camera. I know it's not cheap, but the GRs are great and very portable. No need to for the GR3, the GR2 is plenty and much more affordable. :)

[@Lorenzo_Melocchi]

My first digital camera was a jvc gc-s5, so weird 😄 it's from 1998! The very first camera was the analogue Nikkormat of my father.

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, those early digital cameras were all so inventive and weird. Nikkormat is classic! :)

[@paulm8157]

Uplifting post, trip down memory lane. My first “real” camera was a used Argus C3 35mm rangefinder; everything manual, built like a tank, 3.5 f stop wide open, max 1/300th sec shutter speed, manual shutter cock separate from film advance, noisy like a cheap bed spring. BUT, it taught me the fundamentals. First “proper 35mm film SLR” was a Pentax Spotmatic purchased at Army PX near Tokyo. Early Sony digital was the 1MG Mavica/CD storage - remember that one? Samsung could have been a strong competitor to Sony, in this arena, IMO. Too bad Samsung got out of digital camera line. Agree? (Controls layout of NV3 looks similar to the Sony NEX/A6000 line.) Glad you escaped the “danger zone”😁. Will you be posting an episode featuring cherry blossoms?

[@EYExplore]

Whoa, that's a old school cool camera! the Pentax looks much more practical though, hehe. My dad got that Sony Mavica with the CD storage. I believe it was our first digital camera. I was blown away by the tech of it as a teenager in the late 90s. Felt like the future! And yeah, I do agree. I think Samsung was onto something but then they just gave up. Yeah we should do one on cherry blossoms, now that you mention it. The challenge for us these days is that Axel doesn't live in Tokyo currently, so we can only shoot once in a while. I will pester him to come to Tokyo during the bloom so we can shoot something. :)

[@sergejkurakin]

Nice video and thanks for sharing your memories. Back in the days different companies produced interesting hybrids with very different functions inside. Like how you hand automatically wraps strap around fingers, seems like muscle memory still works :D In theory first camera was film... but it was something cheap and plastic point and shoot, don't remember the name... and no knowledge about photography. Making family photos. So this doesn't count. Second camera was Canon PowerShot A530, still no knowledge about photography. Making family travel photos, but sometimes I did rare photos of things that attracted my attention. This barely counts too. Then it was mobile phones: different Nokia, Samsung, Huawei. Still point and shoot. In 2019 on Christmas break I've read Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure because I was interested how photography works. But I've missed some info about composition - we all can point and shoot, but making interesting photos is hard. So I've started digging around about it and find out that you can learn composition without having real camera, but using just a phone. So, my first camera when I've started to think about how to make photos (instead of point and shoot) was iPhone X. Around same time I've discovered your channel :D Later, in beginning of 2020 I've bought Nikon D3500 with Nikkor 18-140 lens, still using it for weekend walks as beginner :D So, I guess my first camera was iPhone X, but with move to "dedicated camera" I enjoy photography more than with phone (and get less distraction from phone during my walks).

[@EYExplore]

Haha yeah, and also I hold my GR in basically the same way. So, it comes naturally. :) I also experienced a few cameras before, thanks to my dad's interest in photography. But I was just messing around with his cameras and they were not truly my own. Yeah, composition is what it all comes down to. We have to learn about exposure and all the other technical details of how to use the camera. But to create art, it is basically a process of deciding what is in the frame and what is not, and how the things in the frame relate to each other. Glad you are walking down this path! :)

[@-grey]

You know, I actually like the low dynamic range look of the Samsung. It has this pop in the highlights that looks like a retro digital aesthetic. I think it's the same highlight clip pull down look that I appreciate about the 2nd generation Fujifilm cameras like the X-T1. My first ever camera was the Canon 7D with the 28f1.8. My friend got me a deal on the display model, and I had no idea what I was doing. I actually got it for filmmaking, and used it for that 1 time, but liked the images. I shot a lot of wildlife like deer and foxes by sneaking up on them like a maniac. Later sold it for the Sony A7II, because of the size, but I hated it, so I sold it for the Fujifilm X-E2S and the 27f2.8. I loved that camera, but I sold it for the X-T2 thinking I needed faster AF. My X-T2 broke the mechanical shutter and I've been too poor to buy a replacement since. So I'm using my old X-70 until I can afford something new. Luckily, I haven't really been tempted, but Nikon is making a convincing case.

[@EYExplore]

It's definitely retro! I think as time goes on people will appreciate these old digital cameras a bit more, much like we enjoy the look of lo-fi retro film, so too will we enjoy the retro digital look. A 7D is a nice camera to start with! I'd say if I had a limited budget but wanted full frame I would be looking at the Nikon Z5 very very closely. Or even a second-hand Z6. :)

[@-grey]

@@EYExplore the Z5 is very tempting. I love the idea of the new 40mm and your fast 28. I saw a possible patent for a cheaper entry level Nikon which omits the viewfinder as a cost saving measure and competes with the Canon RP or Sony A7c. It might be exactly what I'm looking for to be honest. ✌️

[@EYExplore]

@@-grey That would be cool as well! We could use one to replace our Z50 which we use for shooting the videos. The viewfinder is totally superfluous for video use. :)

[@TheChosenOne_]

I don’t remember which one specifically but it was some Casio Exilim in like 2012? or something. Although I mostly liked it for it extreme slow low video capabilities (to record firecrackers and so on).

[@EYExplore]

Nice! Yeah, slomo video was kinda rare I think in those days. :)

[@crazykenbei]

The first camera I personally bought to shoot photos on was the canon sd10.

[@EYExplore]

Nice!! :)

[@yakamo]

pretty good results on that camera. my dad gave me a Canon TLB when i was 9 i used it a few times and it sat in a cupboard after that, then i started taking photos in 2019 with a canon 100d, still using it.

[@EYExplore]

Nice!! 100D is solid with a good lens. I think it pairs great with the tiny 40mm from Canon. :)

[@yakamo]

@@EYExplore Yeah that 40mm is fantastic, something about the focal length i really like,

[@ChritsianBucic]

Awesome idea, It reminds me when I was the first time visiting Tokyo with my second digital camera, the Nikon D100 in March 2009. However my first digital camera was the Nikon COOLPIX E800 in 1999, that was an amazing moment, a new discovery, a new approach to photography for me. Imagine the resolution was only 1600x1200 pixel, 38-76 mm, 2.1 megapixel. I was feeling free when I had it at that time, with a compact flash card since no rolls wasted. And it really changed how I was thinking to take photos.

[@EYExplore]

Thanks for sharing! Yeah, I remember those early digital days too as my dad was very into it. I think the first digital camera he bought was a Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000, which used small CDs to record photos. It was such an awkward and unique looking beast. :)

[@ChritsianBucic]

​ @EYExplore I thank you for responding Lukasz, I see, the Mavica with cd was maybe not really ergonomic to use at that time, I didn't know that model and as you said had a unique design look.

[@theslowwalkers]

Really enjoyable video and great to see you being so enthusiastic as you travel down memory lane. My first was an Olympus OM-10 (1981) but my imagination turned out to be better than my abilities. Many years passed and the first digital camera was the Samsung Digimax S500 (2008) The one constant tho, seems to be my imagination still exceeds my abilities.

[@EYExplore]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it! "My imagination turned out to be better that my abilities." Man, that is exactly right! I still feel like that all the time, haha. :)

[@theslowwalkers]

@@EYExplore If you feel like that and produce such fabulous shots, I've got no chance, haha.

[@EYExplore]

@@theslowwalkers I think the point is everyone feels like that all the time, no matter how good their work is. :)

[@theslowwalkers]

@@EYExplore Interesting to see you say that and I'l keep it in mind for my glacial improvement. Haha.

[@rf.photographs]

My first camera was the "GE Power Pro X500" back in 2011-ish. Lol Then upgraded to the Nikon D3100, used for 9 years. Upgraded and currently using a second hand D800. Planning on upgrading to a new Z6II this summer.

[@EYExplore]

Wow, I had no idea GE made cameras! Those are some nice upgrades too!! :)

[@bubble0bill]

Those old photos from the p&s have an aged quality to them!

[@EYExplore]

Thanks!! Yeah, I haven't looked at them in a looooong time, so I was pleasantly surprised about that. :)

[@bubble0bill]

なつかし

[@L0nkero]

My first camera was some equally cheap and crappy point-and-shoot from Olympus in 2009. I didn't manage to use it for too long before I loaned it to some family member for vacation and it came back broken lol. I later got more seriously into photography and bought Sony A7 II and Ricoh GR II (and they were followed by A7C and Fuji X100V).

[@EYExplore]

Nice! It seems in the 2000s everyone started on a crappy compact digi-cam haha. :)

[@gerrykomalaysia2]

nice

[@EYExplore]

Thanks! :)

[@AzureStarline]

😂😂 "That's ikebukuro for ya"

[@EYExplore]

:)

[@dansuzukiphotography]

Wow, my first camera was a glorious Sony T1 and it’s amazing 5MP lol

[@EYExplore]

That's also a cool design. Definitely in the same vein as my NV3. :)

[@fenrisulfr88]

My first camera was a Kodak Z915, which I got in 2010.

[@EYExplore]

Nice! It looks very compact as well. :)

[@rofi3930]

I actually start photography with my smartphone the asus zenfone go back in 2016 its a crap thing even for a phone but then i replace my phone with vivo v11 and actually i do a lot of photography with that thing and it produces a good image. And now i have canon 450d that my grandpa bought back in 2010 and very happy with it.

[@EYExplore]

That's great! I imagine as time goes on more and more people's first camera will be their phone. :)

[@TMM6900]

I would say the photos from this camera created that "mood". The vintage mood. Probably that's why people are buying point and shoot now?

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, for sure! I kinda of underestimated how 'moody' the photos are. I haven't looked at them in a while and it seems a lot of people like their texture! :)

[@SatanSupimpa]

Since Ricoh managed to fit an aps-c sensor with IBIS in such a small camera body, I think some brand should try to fit a micro 4/3 sensor in the smallest body possible, even if it's kinda gimmick, would probably find a market.

[@EYExplore]

Haha, yeah or even a smartphone size sensor into a pen-shaped camera or something. :)

[@Babumoshaaai]

Panasonic GM5

[@oncleschultz]

I'm still using a compact Samsung pl50 from 2009 (10M zoom 35/105 )

[@EYExplore]

Nice!! If it works, why change it. :)

[@oncleschultz]

You're right and it's so tiny. Btw, you're very good, simple and clear...🙂

[@EYExplore]

@@oncleschultz Thanks! :)

[@2_Potato]

Im pretty new to photography i use a old nikon f3 film camera

[@EYExplore]

That's amazing camera from that era! :)

[@notinabox6715]

Did the single use camera can count as first camera ? I had a bunch when i was a kid and had fun with them. My first digital camera was a Powershot A75 (3.2 megapixels) who was great to keep memories of parties i had with my friends, then life happened, nothing much went related with photography .. Then I've produced some videos using a Canon XM2 ( and i had nightmares with the drawer who won't open and kept the tapes stuck in the camera ) Finally, back to photography in 2017 and got a Lumix G80 (G81 for Germany, G85 for the USA) which is the camera I've started to dig in the Photography subject and to learn more with it

[@EYExplore]

Sure it counts! Nice early adventures with photography! And the G85 looks like a great camera! :)

[@notinabox6715]

@@EYExplore Thanks ! This is a great camera for a M4/3 in the range of price it was when it got released, perfect to learn Photography during years without selling a kidney :)

[@Luwispurpul]

Really enjoyed this one! I love going back through cameras and remembering the things I shot with them. My first digital in Tokyo was the Sony MVC-FD7 in 2000. Took plenty of sketchy stuff with that including a porn shoot happening at 9am on a Saturday morning in front of the eikawa I was working in. That's what happens when your company rents an office building that is Kabukicho adjacent lol.

[@EYExplore]

Thank you! Hahaha, man, it's not Tokyo without a random porn shoot in the street. I've witnessed similar activities around Town. And a camera that saves image to floppy disks. Now that's old school digital. :)

[@Luwispurpul]

@@EYExplore Lol yeah. Always something weird going on in Tokyo. I used to live in Ikebukuro. That place was nuts! Yeah the Sony camera was nuts. Actually I wish I still had it. There was a certain something about the images you got from it.

[@alhOOO2O]

"My editing was so heavy handed back in the day" - Every single photographer has had this thought at some point 🤣

[@alhOOO2O]

Wow absolutely loved the photo at 11:57 and 12:00 in particular!

[@EYExplore]

Yes!! The first one was probably the earliest candid street moment that I shot with any success. And the second... that rain and light is something I am still attracted to years later. It never gets old. :)

[@shaananwalsh7513]

I carry a Samsung nx mini in my pocket at all times. Big shame that Samsung went out of the camera business. They were ahead of their time.

[@EYExplore]

I think so too!! :)

[@aznieraazman6767]

Hi, does this camera can record video?

[@EYExplore]

Yes, but the quality is very low. :)

[@RHelenius]

I feel old when I see people on KZbin who's first camera was a DIGITAL camera...

[@EYExplore]

Haha, actually truth be told I did have a film camera as a kid, but I barely used it and really didn't know what I was doing, so it was not worth mentioning. I also played around with my dad's Praktica, but again it was not MY camera. The one in this video is the first one I bought myself.

[@quattuorphotography8107]

Interesting video, I didn't know that you could listen to music with a camera🤣 Even if you used that the photos you made still look good, just a bit of fringing in the first photos but it's normal

[@EYExplore]

Yeah, they're really not so bad all things considered!

[@orosteguii]

Hola cómo cargo la música a la cámara ??

[@EYExplore]

I think you just have to put it on the SD card. :)

[@chuchy5576]

I just found this camera in my parents room. And i remember it from when i was younger. I am goign to be traveling real soon and the only issue i have with it is i cant find the charger. Do you know what kind of charger this camera uses? Would be very grateful for a reply.😅

[@EYExplore]

As far I know, it was a 100% proprietary charge. So, you have to search for a Samsung NV3 charger. I think you can get one on ebay.

[@shakenobu]

its been a year since you posted the video, but does your nv3 have any problems filming videos? i just got my nv3 and for some reason when it started recording, it stopped responding to any buttons pressed (i cant even turn it off) and i dont know where can i ask for help

[@shakenobu]

now im just waiting till the battery dies😅

[@EYExplore]

I don't think it has such a problem, but don't use it much anymore so I cannot be sure. But sounds like something is wrong with it that may not be fixable. Have you tried removing the batter for a while? Sometimes that helps reset things on some electronics.

[@shakenobu]

@@EYExplore thanks for your reply! after the battery died and i recharged it - the problem mysteriously disappeared! now im happily using the camera, and enjoying its low-quality photos and videos for nostalgic feel

[@EYExplore]

@@shakenobu Great! :)

[@snoogly]

You forgot to mention that it is also an ebook reader :-)

[@EYExplore]

OMG is it? I had no idea haha. :)

[@snoogly]

@@EYExplore OCR function too, so they say!

[@muratkeskin1157]

how do i change the iso ?

[@EYExplore]

I'm not sure. I don't know if it's possible to change it directly. The camera does not have a full manual mode.

[@muratkeskin1157]

@@EYExplore ahh thank you so much for information 💙

[@outtathyme5679]

Film-ic

[@EYExplore]

Nice! :)

[@osohista]

So I'm watching this video and to me the NV3 photos look pretty good. Can somebody explain what makes a camera in the price range of GRIII four times better? Because I struggle to see the difference. Maybe it's just handling or some useful features not immediately visible on a pic to pic comparison? I'd like to buy a nice fast snappy camera to just use instead of my phone with no professional ambitions and maybe I've been looking at unnecessarily pricey cameras?

[@EYExplore]

Well, you're only looking at them on a small screen. If you compare them at full size there is a massive difference. But beyond that, the the cameras has totally different features. For example, you get no manual control in the NV3. But if don't care about image quality, then yeah point and shoot might right for you! I wouldn't get an old NV3, but something similar that's on the market today.

[@osohista]

@@EYExplore Thanks for your response! I think I'm going to get something below the price range of the GR iii, but not too cheap. I think I want something that can let me ease into learning photography and motivate me to keep using it.

[@elconqueror8480]

So I weirdly found this same camera model in my parents basement. I’m interested but it doesn’t have a battery. Would anybody have a link for a universal battery for it and a charger. I would really appreciate it

[@EYExplore]

That's cool! You can find the batteries for it on Amazon.

[@spshiva243]

I have this camera but I need to bee camera battery sir plz I need camer battery 🙏 pl sir tell mi solution sir .........?

[@EYExplore]

I just found it on amazon! :)

[@spshiva243]

@@EYExplore sir send mi battery photo plzz

[@allen.9]

Are the viltrox referal links gone?

[@EYExplore]

Ah yeah, I took them off. It felt like no one was using them, so I just cleaned it up. They are still on the old videos of course. :)

[@allen.9]

@@EYExplore Oh okay that makes sense. I bought the 85 and might get a wide angle lens from them too. honestly super surprised with the build quality for the price, but they are HEAVY 😂

[@EYExplore]

@@allen.9 Yeah, they're a bit weight but I like the weight! I recently got the Nikon 40mm f/2 and although I love the images it produces it does feel a bitch cheap and plsticy.

[@allen.9]

@@EYExplore i was actually thinking about buying the 40mm but i hear the same thing from all the reviews: it feels very cheap. it is a cheap lens, but still i was hoping for a nicer build. also, do you have any good z lens recommendations for wide-angle? sorry for writing a lot but i was looking into buying a wide lens in case i need one.

[@EYExplore]

@@allen.9 it's no problem! Yeah it feels cheap, but it's worth it. It's like a nifty-fifty. Cheap, but relatively low cost. And the image quality is all that matters really. As for wide-angle, I only use the 14-24 f/2.8 and it's awesome, but I hear the 14-30 f/4 is also good, though I haven't use it myself.

[@Black83Flag]

My first camera was film and it's still better.

[@EYExplore]

Great! :)

[@PaulWon]

My first camera was the Fujifilm Finepix S1800 bridge camera. I still have some photos I shot on in my hard drive somewhere. That thing took 4 AA batteries 🤣🤣

[@EYExplore]

Bridge cameras are a great entry into photography. They give so many options thanks to their typically mega long zoom ranges. :)