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?

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@mareius]

Decades of film photography left us so many great tools

[@ddfann]

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

[@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.

[@chu0nthat]

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

[@ColetteNoir]

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

[@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

[@fgdfghsfg]

always fun to see you and Lok together

[@AntBangBang]

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 😜

[@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! 👌🏻🙏🏻

[@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

[@TheDarkRane]

I especially love vids like this. Always gonna turn up to give these a watch.

[@Faded.Visuals]

I managed to snagged an imported Japanese model of the Mju ii, love taking it around town and shooting what I see!

[@NielsdeKemp]

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

[@SilverfoxJB]

9:15 Kai thinking, just kill me now.

[@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.

[@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

[@coffeebaronhall7896]

Excellent start to the Bokeh Bro's new venture! Look forward to seeing more on this series.

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@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!

[@zacharykennedy4045]

for the past 6 month or so I've been shooting a pentax Zoom 60-x I got at a thifty for 4 dollars. It's a really excellent little autofocus camera but there's very little documentation online. I've grown very close with it and develop all the film I shoot myself. Film photography is often seen as a pricier niche hobby, but just like digital photography you can do so much for so little if you don't get hung up on having the most expensive gear.

[@JohnsonF]

I still have the olympus u1. That was our family camera back in the 90s It’s still in really good condition. Probably even better than in this video

[@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.

[@wongjefx980]

I have North American market Olympus Stylus Epic…and old XA and 35SP. Took it with me across Europe in the 90-00’s. The portability, fast lens and decent metering, so much fun…which is why I wish digital compacts could be, but GR’s and X’s and RX’s are $1000.

[@webagent90]

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

[@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

[@flickrchannyuk4396]

I am intrigued to see the quality of photos from this cute little Olympus compact fixed lens film camera. Having recently digitised (using the Nikon D850 with ES-2) some old 35mm film taken on a Pentax Espio 140 (compact zoom film camera), I was able to see how soft the lens was on that Pentax and how it often missed focus. Maybe the Olympus here will be a lot better as it has a fixed prime lens? Autofocus on these old compact cameras might be a bit suspect though...

[@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+

[@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.

[@BlueSky-ub4fx]

I LOVE your videos! :D

[@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...:)

[@andrewstorm8240]

This was my first film camera - didn’t realise at the time it was so good

[@bbmdesignsco.1049]

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

[@RhettAnderson]

I have that Olympus. I got it new and it's got a great little lens on it.

[@NullStaticVoid]

Tx1, my Xpros grandpa, which I will sadly never own. I did own an Olympus pocket camera back in the 90s. One of the great things about is was that it detected the speed of your film from the standardized markings on the can. But that meant you couldn't push or pull the film by changing the ISO dial. It was a swell camera, but I downgraded to another brand, Minolta I think, that had manual ISO setting, but was still pocket sized.

[@onif1054]

why won't you get ur grandpa's xpan?

[@Oscar-xs9cv]

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

[@magnusnordstrom9594]

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

[@RealBesty]

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

[@GregSReigh]

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

[@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

[@LE672AJ]

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

[@HMJPHOTOGRAPHY]

Man I really want to visit here!!!

[@artistjoh]

With those coats I can't help but say "Go Go Gadget."

[@BlueSky-ub4fx]

LOL!! 😅 Those questionmarks around Kai's head 😅

[@zwerker]

My mother had (has?) an Olympus μ zoom. Have to ask her if it's still around.

[@LAHegarty]

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

[@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

[@nathanvrvrt]

hahahaha the microwave story, very funny hahaha

[@extrajava9175]

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

[@pokeken]

Kai W Attenborough in the wild

[@samprstn]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@jenohogan9254]

the Olympus miiu (spl?) has tripped in price over the last couple of years. They're the next contax T2-4.

[@atsuki7199]

My dad gave me his mju and I really love it

[@hseuphoria8922]

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

[@photographer-ordinare]

I love the microwave tangent

[@squirtreynoldscinema]

Honestly, fuck shelling out extra money for certain brands or cameras. I feel like people buy their identity from a brand because the brand has done all the work of cultivating the image they want associated with it. Anyone who wants to associate with that image could, in theory, just pay to get it without having to go through the troubles of personal development, like "I'm a Leica shooter, therefore my photography is good" kind of association. Just go out and shoot with whatever good basic film camera that works. I've shot for 8 years and in all those years, I've bought a total of four cameras, all of which are used and were bought for their function, not brand.

[@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.

[@aromaticsnail]

We need a modern well-built TX1/ XPAN succesor

[@RhawiDantas]

Welcome to the microwave oven show, this week: 10 reasons why you should get a good microwave oven and 5 reasons why you should not get a bad microwave oven.

[@bunmeng007]

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

[@jamesdecross1035]

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

[@batchint]

I suggested a pin registration detail with olympus..

[@thenexthobby]

Lok understands good design. As for most of the mju models being "affordable," that's debatable.

[@chrizzz]

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

[@jacksonbrown4112]

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

[@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!

[@TheyreStillOutThere]

You couldn’t give away these little Olympus cameras a decade ago. Now the prime lens models are so valuable that the zoom lens models are going for over $100 sometimes purely due to market substitution (aka “I can’t afford that one, so I’ll get this one”). I used to dig these up at flea markets for $5 all day long, and now I’m happy if I can pay under $100 for one. The zoom lens models I would just pass up. If I had kept all the ones I’ve owned over the years and cashed in on them now, I’d have a small fortune

[@jedunboxing4127]

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

[@RyanHellyer]

I find that the best microwaves to buy, are the cheapest ones. Mine cost me 50 bucks and it came with two dials; a timer dial and a power dial. I don't need or want anything else. Super simple and it nukes everything just as well as the super expensive computerised ones :)

[@_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

[@calk12345678]

The sony camera color looks abit off, but the color of the camera on the table is way better

[@bimmerfan2126]

just need some rotolights and mics :P

[@relaxingnature2617]

We need a digital sensor cartridge that will fit in film cameras

[@LOOPRUNBUNKER]

I sometimes use my vintage glass from my 35mm cameras on my dslr if I want a quick digital but with a creamy look.

[@punkrachmaninoff]

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

[@philcrowphoto1]

That Olympus is pretty much a next generation XA but the XA range was still way better than the mju 🤓

[@MicahGoldstein]

Y'all just need to make a weekly show with Kai dropping expensive shit.

[@alwinbenjamin]

😍

[@darrenmkj]

when can we see TOY CAMERA CHALLENGE VOL.2 ?

[@HesselFolkertsma]

Can you believe how expensive those mju’s have become? Hype price

[@quis80jab]

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

[@gilbomat]

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

[@GrainyWorld]

Sample photos?

[@lazyspacenoid1627]

Sherlock & Watson talks about cameras

[@erkn99]

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

[@HPBurstyn]

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

[@coucamaya]

Ermaghad!!! Just like Game Of Thrones they left a Starbucks cup on the table!!!! Disasterrrrrr!!!!!! Lol

[@citizengar]

Inspector Gadget X2.

[@stevenpam]

😂 Thumbnail is one of the most popular cameras

[@myhappygecko2895]

With those jackets you look shirt lock Holmes and Watson.

[@itspiet8876]

mju is expensive tho