I bought this MiCam Video Camera for 1 DOLLAR! But...is it any good?

[@SMOOREZ]

*just to update everyone with the SD card stuff that I didn't go over in the video. I tried a 64MB MMC and 64MB SD card and both had the same issues. I did try so many different cards!* Well...this is the One Dollar Camera. I'll literally be going out to the flea market each week to see if they have any more cool stuff for a dollar! Let me know what you thought of this camera and if you've used a similar one :) Also I hope you have all enjoyed the string of uploads this week, you all have been very kind and you deserve it. I appreciate you all so much! TIMESTAMPS: Introduction, Timestamps & How I got this thing: 0:00 Reviews from others & only info I found for it: 1:16 Around the Camera: 2:13 Battery Compartment, USB Connector & SD Card issues: 4:19 Power On, Screen, UI & Video Settings: 6:08 The Camera, Flash, Photo Settings & General Settings: 7:20 Basic Playback & The SD Issue: 8:59 The Very Long Camera Test: 10:18 Going over the quality of the Video & Photos: 15:56 A basic conclusion & Pre-Teardown: 18:12 Teardown - Part 1 - Getting into it: 19:48 Teardown - Part 2 - The Guts: 23:47 Teardown - Part 3 - The Sensor: 25:09 Does it still work & the Sensor Explanation: 26:42 Spec Sheet, The LCD & Final Thoughts: 27:46 Thank you all for watching, timestamp stuff & Rambling: 29:09 Outro: 29:48 Be good people!

[@FUCKSampleClearance4U]

these random uploads are what give me life

[@edwardfletcher7790]

That's a micro HDMI connector. The cable has full HDMI on the other end. EDIT : WRONG ! Faulty memory, it's a micro AV cable, composite RCA audio and video ! It's likely it can't accept a SD card of more than 2Gb. (Old standard maximum) The CCD is definitely static sensitive.

[@igotes]

If you're talking about the "USB-like" connector, it certainly isn't micro HDMI. I just went and found my Raspberry Pi Zero just to make sure I'm not talking shit. That connector was quite common on digital cameras from that era, it has composite video, audio and USB (maybe RS232), on the cameras I've owned, anyway.

[@igotes]

Well the egg is on my face somewhat. RPi Zero has Mini HDMI. However, my comment stands, that is not an HDMI connector.

[@georgeyreynolds]

Even if it is 64MB check the formatting in Windows as I've had an old voice recorder not work until I reformatted it FAT.

[@vsprdln]

While Floss and other big tech guys are reviewing 1500 usd Chinese folding phones no one could ever buy. At least not in Australia or North America. Our friend Smoorz is reviewing something anyone could stumble across at a local flea market. I prefer Smoorzy. Much appreciated my friend

[@igotes]

The poor man's DankPods. I mean no disrespect by that.

[@Royal_R3GALIA]

He reviews things that I can actually afford lmao

[@user-dingus-dingus]

@@igotes dankpods kind of also reweiws crap, but mixes it with normal stuff

[@user-dingus-dingus]

To me, I can actually get a 2k€ phone easier than that bootleg shit, because I never shop on wish and such, so it is still very fun to watch

[@johnbillings5260]

I came for the Muzak.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

You're totally right. It's charging up a capacitor to prepare the flash for use. That's a decent proper sensor for a $50 camera. The thing a lot of people don't often take in to consideration with small sensors is the ability to capture enough light. That sensor was large enough to capture a good amount of light. Bravo Mi Cam. Good find smoorez

[@whollymindless]

That was some actual engineering in that. Impressive.

[@igotes]

I'm surprised he didn't get bitten by the capacitor. I took a cheap camera to bits when I was a kid, touched the cap with my (all metal) screwdriver. Blimey, it gave me quite a jolt.

[@JustGolight]

​@@whollymindless over a dollar wow and actually better than my tablets camera quality

[@bouxlis]

Out of context but just so you know. One quick tip for when you find rare items: If you only bring that exact item and ask for the price, it is going to be higher. Most of the time they don't know the true value, and think that because you picked it, it is something worth a higher price. Instead, pick two items, including the one you want, item 1, and the other one you aren't really interested in, item 2. Say that you are interested in item 2, emphasize it as much as you can, and then just say: and maybe item 1 as well. It always works, I once found a GameBoy, got it for 20$.

[@WareNetwork2000]

I once bought a digital camera at a thrift store for $1 USD. It was an Olympus Camedia C-4000 Zoom. The funny thing is that it was originally $7 USD, but the employee thought that the seven was a one so he sold it to me for $1 USD.

[@kyrauk]

Had a Vivitar camcorder of this design back in 2010. We were going on our first out-of-country family trip, but as I was on a lower income at the time, I wanted a camcorder that was cheap but somewhat decent. Can't remember how much exactly, but it was within my budget. It served us well, and looking through the photos and videos I took with it years later, they held up reasonably well in quality. Better than some lower end pieces out today. Felt like decent quality too, though I don't quite feel that confident now after having it so long.

[@igotes]

I like to say VIVITAR like some kids' cartoon villian, like Doctor Claw. I had a Pentax digital camera in the early 2000s, thought it was decent, proper camera brand and all. A mate of mine had the exact same thing with Vivitar branding. Probably cost half the price too.

[@SianaGearz]

@@igotes It's not gonna be the same thing, Pentax made all their cameras themselves and the rebrands are exceptionally rare and come from engineering partnerships, like when they were developing DSLRs with Samsung for a little while. I have a waterproof Pentax W10 and i love it. It had to have a minor repair done and i've seen the innards, the engineering on there is insane.

[@igotes]

@@SianaGearz Yes, quite possible that the electronics were the same but mine had a Pentax lens. Which doesn't work so well after being dropped on the floor, so I discovered.

[@TeraByte38]

4:44 My dad and I have panasonic lumix cameras (dad has TZ1, I have TZ25) and the port is a charging/data transfer/analog video cable

[@TeraByte38]

9:50 Mabye it supports SD (SDSC) only (not SDHC or SDXC)

[@WolfgangMahringer]

I would say there is nothing wrong with the SD card slot! The camera's firmware does probably only support SD, not SD-HC, so you are limited to maximum size of 2GB SD cards. The physical slot and the electrical interface of SDHC is the same as standard SD, but there are little but important differences in the communication protocol.

[@dpvng.dpvng.]

same. camera is too old. no led flash, giant sensor, ics from '92...93

[@igotes]

It could be MMC, although I think that was pretty much obsolete by 2014.

[@benjamintan2733]

Well, actually, I think that camera may not be able to support more than 256MB SD card, giving the RAM size is only 32MB. Maybe 512 MB still doable, but 1GB is not likely to work at all.

[@TbM]

I had one old SD-Card that was NOT SDHC but had 4GB of memory, was the biggest at that time that was working in my old camera...

[@Tatwinus]

Seeing someone who makes a living out of reviewing tech products not know about storage compatibilty/format limitations was actually kind of grating. Like seeing someone trying to install 64gigs of ram on an x32 system.

[@HuntersMoon78]

I recently got a Sony PJ-530e for not much more than you paid for your MiCam and wow it's an amazing camera, full HD, 60x optical zoom and a built-in projector - works perfectly too.

[@bigblackbadger1]

The reason some shots are out of focus is because you were too close to things, and when you moved away from something and zoomed in, the reason why it looked sharper is because the object was now in the focusing range of the camera, and you can zoom in to see it closer, like if you were right next to it. I use this technique on my phone all the time. If it cant focus on something really close to the camera, move away a bit so that its just in focus, and then zoom in. It is important to remember that every camera has a limited focusing range, whether its a welcome or an iPhone. In your camera tests, you come really close to things, like the xenomorph and the frogs and the brick wall. When testing a device that has focus and you are taking close-up photos, take a moment to find out the closest distance that it can properly focus on. Or, if you arent taking a close-up photo, then this step isnt necessary. I would consider every photo except the far away air con to be a close-up, because you wont believe how small the focusing range is on some devices. I have an iPhone and to take a pic of a lollypop I need to move it so far from the phone that the lollypop takes up like 5% of the photo before its in focus, and then zoom in so it takes up more like 70%. Any closer and it will be blurry. Edit: since this camera is fixed focus, you werent outside the focusing range, but rather outside the specific point where the focus is set.

[@BobLu]

I believe the connector is a USB 8-Pin Mini B. Quite commonly found on Nikon and Sony point and shot during 2010s.

[@jameschamplin1742]

Mini-USB. I came to comment to say that.

[@JFPickus]

Wow I love the music you chose during the photos slideshow!

[@webinatic216]

It will work with a 2GB card. I bough a few old cameras and anything above 2gb gives error-.

[@Jdbye]

This is a clone of a Sanyo Xacti camera. I had one, it was waterproof, had the same shape, same button layout (even down to the 2 oddly positioned buttons beneath the flip out screen with nothing around them), battery is in the same place with a similar lid design, even the silver accent on the hinge is the same. At the time, the vertical design was quite unique to the Xacti cameras, so I don't think it's a coincidence that this looks so similar. Some of the little details appear to be slightly different from the model I had, it might be based on a different model, but it's very close.

[@TheSaemiProduction]

Wow I have come across cameras like these in the past... thank you for testing it out!

[@GAMERIN-rn6dj]

Man i am disappointed of KZbin, you need more subscribers and view this content needs more recognition Keep it up i love the content ❤ Sorry for bad English 😅

[@scottcol23]

This is a re-branded Vivitar DVR850HD-12-RDBXPR 2.4-Inch Underwater Digital Video Recorder

[@coondogtheman]

Not a bad camera. I have the Aiptek DV4500 camera and I used it for all my old youtube vids. Recording format was .ASF container mpeg 4 video 160x120(30fps), 352x288(30fps) & 640x480(10fps) 8khz mono audio. Audio now has a slight humming during video recording. It could take up to a 512mb SD card but I bought a 1gig card which worked in it. Haven't tried larger cards. The reason for the error is probably due to the card you are using being too large in storage size.

[@d.j.manjares9830]

Smoorez x DankPods x Ashens collab when Since you three love to review things I do find weird lol

[@BaileyMagikz]

Yes Vivitar used to sell this waterproof camera in like 2009/2010 just with their name on too so must just of been a whitelabel product (also it was waterproof i used it in the pool all the time when i was a kid recording silly stunts and stuff but probably wasn't a good seal)

[@techntell6684]

Surprisingly good pics for a cheap camera. Sensor looked super cool

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

Hmmm i do have a camera it's an olympus i think, it has the same connector as this one. It works kind of, as for this one well it wasn't bad or good either. I'll give a solid 6/10 for a cheapo camera.

[@Nicolelovesoldtech]

I had a Sony camera with the same error and I put in a generic no name card and it worked but when i put in a 2GB card it just doesn't work sooo try a generic one❤

[@BG101UK]

You might be able to hear the capacitor charging circuit, usually the pitch changes as the voltage comes up. I'd almost forgotten about that. Of course, assuming you could get it working again! (Maybe put the parts in a box & flog it as a project for someone to have a go at reassembling. Might make your money back! haha)

[@Phr3d13]

I have the same screwdriver kit. Love it!

[@cindyr7407]

A $1 camera that has better video quality than gas station security cameras!

[@SianaGearz]

The styling of this thing is made to be reminiscent of Sanyo Xacti. So no surprises that it's attractive looking. Those are actually waterproof, and they use this same similar sort of sealing strategy for the waterproofing, but of course Sanyo is a PRECISION company, so the seal actually works. Bet these guys forgot something or just the general warpage doesn't do it major favours.

[@ValdikSS2]

Why does it make whole lot of noise on 7700 Hz when you power it on? Does it interfere with your microphone or do you also hear it with your ears that loud?

[@s0men00bb]

Nokia 1110i has such USB connector. Not 1110 , but 1110i , which also has - aloud clock telling when you hold * button while phone is unlocked.

[@rumjar1986]

I had something similar and it wouldn't work with anything above 4gb

[@hillalalghafri4980]

What is the name of the music playing in the background during the camera test?

[@Space_Reptile]

that connector looks like the same cable my Nikon coolpix uses

[@mordokch]

Well I've seen worse being sold recently, so there's that. Pretty sure you need a very small capacity card for this - maybe 2gb ? If it's waterproof I'll eat my own beard 🤣

[@rootintootinkamen]

Great video!

[@nullwii]

thats the old kodak digital camera usb cable! lmao i hated those!

[@s8wc3]

Looks like an approximation of the Sanyo Xacti C8

[@pmrsfr]

Damn... this is entertaining AF :)

[@xenopanther]

Is it just me or is there a high pitch whine at times? I'm not talking about the camera test

[@ericpode6095]

Maybe it doesn't support an SD card larger then a certain size?

[@benjamintan2733]

Too bad this thing doesn't have auto-focus. The CMOS sensor seems to be very good.

[@chrisstyles4630]

It certainly did better than a lot of those welcome phones it was definitely worth the $1 you paid for it

[@paranoiia8]

If that would still work I would do next review using that camera :D

[@edwardfletcher7790]

$50 in 2014 ? That's a rip-off for a 480p camera ! It's like something a Grandparent with a flip phone would buy to record Bingo...

[@s8wc3]

Yeah I'm not 100% sure but I think you could buy a camera from a real camera brand for less than $100au at this point, problem is it would be dead within a week if you gave it to a kid. Telescoping lenses, cheap ones especially, were super fragile.

[@SianaGearz]

This is a 5MP camera. Show me something better to buy for $50 though in 2014. It was all garbage. If you want a camera, you'd be paying above $150 for sure.

[@SianaGearz]

@@s8wc3 No, you couldn't buy something this cheaply, at least not new, you could maybe hunt down something on the flea market. And ability to break things is neither here nor there. Also periscope lenses rock, they have really low fringing, 3x or more optical zoom, and you can't really break them, i'm sad they don't get used more often.

[@steelplasma256]

I just found out "Big W" does not stand for Walmart. The stores name is literally "Big W".

[@christiann7320]

1AUD? Or 1USD?

[@s8wc3]

1 Zimbabwean dollar.

[@JolteonSparkius]

The only timestamp i always skip is the timestamp one

[@MrJ0mmy]

this kinda looks like a knock off of the Sanyo VPC-E2 i got for $5 from a slavation army store here in new zealand

[@Liamshadow05]

The camera reminds me like Nokia N90,N93 and N93i

[@Markandpreston]

Hello

[@wheelotime2581]

You have to record all your future videos with this

[@AcornElectron]

Just realised, $1 Aussie is about fifty pence. Bargain even for components

[@The_fan_of_sigma]

27:04

[@babarhassan99]

I think you mean Xenon flash

[@summergolden]

😮

[@immameme]

Oh CoolTechImma1st

[@EmberwolfXR]

i mean for 1$..would be great to record win98 to win 3.1 videos.

[@kutru]

nice

[@shadowdinotech1]

👋

[@ZeeBeeZB]

Froggo

[@Mizai]

rip camera

[@worldsendace]

Oh heh Look super8 digital 😅

[@rmx77]

this camera looks like a clone of the sanyo xacti cameras but just a cheap knockoff or clone i would think.

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

8 mp camera eww that's not even close what the camera my Samsung galaxy s21ultra has can do lol

[@felixargyle5033]

first

[@LastofAvari]

Video is trash, photos are half decent. Not bad for a $1!

[@lablackzed]

You really butchered that poor little camera you nasty man .😱😱😆😆😆😆

[@glospiwniczaka]

This connector is Mini HDMI.

[@user-hq2fy5cs1k]

why did you delete my comment ? There is a phone called Happy Hentai G31

[@nikitastpnytskyi7899]

🤣😂🤣😆😂😆🤣

[@Dr.-Smart]

sanyo. xacti camera bootleg ~