The Nerf Digital Camera.

[@cptdumplin]

It may genuinely be worth getting your toledos sharpened and redone. Those are good scissors, made to last.

[@EnderBanned]

I was just thinking that. If you know someone locally, they could do it in an hour for cheap.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Unbolt, derust, strop the edges, and put them back together. Good as new. EDIT: Might need a little bit of an edge grind if they're really knackered but honing is probably enough.

[@mrcmoes]

I bet James could fix them up

[@sadmac356]

​@@OtakuUnitedStudioyeah I was gonna say they don't look too *bad* actually

[@davidbredewold]

Didn’t he break a pair like a year ago? 😂

[@balladofthemightyi]

Comparing the Sony to the Nerf is like comparing a Space telescope to a bank security camera.

[@Vfulncchl]

But honestly it’s way better than I expected! The sofa noodle pic (pic number 2) was decent on the nerf

[@imanassole9421]

Meeeehhh, I would say more like a convenience store outside camera. 😂

[@lamvu2082]

Meh, more like the picture in a classic spy movie before hacker doing some weird impossible shit that turn the image from nerf quality to sony quality

[@quinnmarchese6313]

a Cashies security camera

[@oxymoron02]

Comparing the Sony to the Nerf is like comparing an actual gun to a Nerf.

[@Pandamaxx]

James touching the Eee PC, and it instantly functioning, is so on brand. He merely has to observe a piece of tech and it'll start working all of a sudden.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

James wills the machine into doing what he wants it to do.

[@RinIsArty]

james understands the value of appeasing the machine spirit

[@Parthemonium]

​@@RinIsArtytruly a techpriest.

[@karvast5726]

Technology fears nothing…but this man… it scares it

[@spingleboygle]

james is the god of all technology if a machine isn’t working from his mere presence it means it’s dead, send it to a farm upstate

[@LegoBob4123]

9:24 If you told me that's a SUV driving up a sand dune, I'd believe you.

[@yourfilmindustry]

4:00 so... through the magic of buying two of them, we have one working camera

[@ikermitai]

Went from shaming the Nerf camera to a Frank Appreciation video and I'm all for it

[@namenamename390]

I feel like he only bought the camera so he has an excuse to take more pictures of Frank and talk about her. Not that I blame him, I'd have done the same

[@IdiotRace]

@@namenamename390 come for the nuggets stay for the snek

[@_Buggin]

good to see the strap CAPABILITIES of the nerf nugget are still holding up after all this time

[@Ashie690]

THE STRAP IS THE BEST PART!

[@bxck]

Built to the highest standard.

[@indecisivecountdooku1340]

such features...

[@makitard]

the OPERATIONS sure are operating

[@Norp-i7m]

My favorite ELEMENT.

[@raptor2265]

There might be something to do with the fact that modern phones use an infrared laser for auto-focus that ends up drawing Frank to it. After all, thermal vision cameras detect infrared heat emissions, so Frank might be able to see / sense the flashing infrared focus laser on the phone and is thus attracted to it.

[@Shotblur]

That's what I was thinking; might look like prey to Frank.

[@Mister_Brown]

wrong infrared for heat, thermal ir is an order of magnitude longer wavelength than the maybe 1000nm ir used for "laser autofocus" however he might be able to see the ir led and be drawn to it anyway. more likely it's the modern phone being hot af with the camera running and interesting frank that way

[@spingleboygle]

@@Shotbluryummy phone

[@GoofyCooks]

Sandpaper, WD-40, and a single file is all you need to fix those scissors. Absolutely worth the effort to fix em up

[@krovek]

You've mentioned before that Frank gets weirdly interested in some of the newer iPhones. I'm pretty sure they use infrared dot projector or something as part of camera focus and faceID. I first noticed this when I started welding and went to take a selfie in my welding hood. My iPhone 13's selfie camera will trigger the auto darkening function of the hood. I would 100% bet that an IR projector is what Frank is responding to.

[@pvshka]

So what you're saying is that we can use the new iPhones as IR remotes?

[@SpeedKing..]

They have an app for ghat right

[@realchronal]

i dont think its an actually usable IR sensor, just for the system aspects, but hey, maybe?@@pvshka

[@fartexplosion4480]

So you can actually download an app to summon Frank is what you're saying

[@nigerianprince4017]

I literally just had the same experience with my new hood lol

[@Mar-uc7kk]

Okay but can we appreciate how good those Sony pictures are of frank. Like I'm not even specifically talking picture quality. Im talking like posing, framing, whatever fancy camera words you want to use. They're just great pictures. Something you'd see on a professional Instagram or something. Proper portraits of the frank.

[@Ourii]

yeah it reminds me of those nature videos they put on TVs in the store the pictures look really good

[@nooneinpart]

Maybe I'm just too used to cameras on phones but while the Sony pictures win on detail by far, they look very undercooked. Dull and underexposed. It would still win if you punched it up in Adobe Lightroom but by itself (and especially on social media where the images get downscaled and compressed anyway) I would kinda lean towards the iPhone 5C shots, at least those that were actually in focus and without motion blur. Although to be fair he did say, "I don't know how to use this properly."

[@abzhuofficial]

Frankly, you're not wrong Mar-uc7kk

[@anitaaranceta780]

Frank was the one who configured the camera, he just took the pictures

[@harshlarose6670]

​@@nooneinpartI actually do not like how phone pictures may look in comparison, they look overexposed and/or oversaturated depending on the scenario. But professional cameras typically take duller pictures having more data so you can use software to take advantage of the extra information for better colour grading.

[@jamescoyne4559]

I really love the dynamic of Frank being like… your roommate who also pays rent but isn’t like a friend so she just kinda does her own thing and doesn’t really listen to you

[@possibly8180]

Pretty specific mate, is this "roommate" with us in this room right now?

[@ktgame2640]

But she IS a friend and DOESNT pay rent...

[@robertbernard7844]

​@ktgame2640 And she owes Wade a LOT of money.

[@traumfxngertv]

I was completely flabbergasted when i saw that tail poiture of Frank with the Nerf Camera. It looked SO MUCH BETTER than i expecred it to be. It's still awful but i was just so shocked

[@SyRose901]

It just sucks at low light, I guess. Otherwise, actually not that bad.

[@Rickyp0123]

Yeah that was probably the only shot with enough light. I’d be curious to see comparisons outdoors.

[@Placeholder71]

Not to be the grammar police, but I think you meant to say “posture”

[@Dorraj]

I don't think it's low light that's the issue, since the one of frank under the pillow didn't look too bad either. I think it's the auto exposure on it being terrible (as auto exposure often is). There is a stark difference between the first one and the others

[@traumfxngertv]

@@Placeholder71 i actually meant picture* my Hand are just really jittery haha

[@0ArmoredSoul0]

I agree that the Toldeos can and should be repaired, it's HARD to find quality full metal scissors anymore. My mom has really nice set of sewing scissors that she uses to slice through leather and she maintains them between professional sharpenings by chopping into fine sandpaper and occasionally cleaning with vinegar. It works really well!

[@mtmsammetal9124]

The Nerf camera photo of Frank is almost a stunning replica of the quality of bigfoot pictures

[@remkokoelewijn3880]

This has to be the most civilised dankpods video so far, the absence of yelling just feels weird.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

Besides the AAA, of course.

[@sheabrockhoff2279]

I love it when out of the box products come with borked screens. The rubber wasn’t the only cheap material trying to return to oil.

[@catnbearsavedaworld]

i love how you can tell how much an owner loves their pet from how obsessed and gushy they are for the pet and Frank is SO loved, you can tell.

[@AaronSkone]

James is a true technician. Any time you hand a broken piece of equipment to a technician, it’ll work without flaw.

[@iantheone2648]

He truly is the Australian version of The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived™, Andy of Salem Techsperts.

[@mjp121]

3:45 I’m offended there wasn’t a “by the power of buying two of them” joke there

[@jappelgreen]

Hearing about those brilliant pair of scissors being retired makes me cry! They can be restored to former glory!

[@AstralTeaLeaf]

Through the magic of buying two of them, we were able to experience this nuggetry.

[@jacksong6226]

Technology connections enjoyer

[@jayyydizzzle]

​@@jacksong6226same

[@jamesstewart7784]

This is just a video where our man Dankpods gushes about how much he loves Frank and how much he think's she's cute and it's absolutely wholesome!

[@pompey333]

6:25 about dead center it looks like frankie got a ghost. That's one cool snake.

[@alexsalinas8419]

Best guess as to why this exists is that Nerf made a blaster with an integrated camera “sight” to record your battles from a first-person perspective around this time; probably just had a buncha parts laying around and made this

[@NinAmuro57]

Frank being a precious noodle as always ☺️

[@Serhii_Diemientieiev]

I wish I could snuggle Frank so much!

[@JamesR624]

@@Serhii_Diemientieiev Yes, Frank snuggles would be the best thing ever. ❤

[@Trihawk7]

what specie is frank

[@Myriadys]

​@@Trihawk7 noodle (Murray Darling carpet python)

[@QuebecNinjaTV]

@@Trihawk7 I heard somewhere that she's a ball python.

[@freeuploads4290]

7:43 I've never heard someone refer to a snake as "goofy looking", and after hearing that I can no longer think of snakes without thinking they look goofy.

[@ZenithStuf]

This man deserves his own youtube channel or somethin'.

[@gameborge]

that's what I've been saying

[@JrIcify]

This

[@caffeinecreature]

@geogres Wade. Frank already has a channel, it's this channel.

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

I would love if Wade would go back to reviewing headphones. I think the Dan Clark Aeon lineup could give you some good content. They are trash headphones and are a borderline scam.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

hmmmmm

[@quinnobi42]

you should take the famous toledos to a sewing shop and have them fix them up for you. Sewing scissors are meant to be taken in to be sharpened every so often. So they'd probably have the stuff to be able to make them nice again.

[@gotouchgrassmyboi1574]

Seeing dank pods, go back to his original roots, reviewing crappy technology has genuinely put a smile on my face to this day I still go back and rewatch his old videos, enjoying myself and laughing ride along with him. If you find any more old nuggets, please make videos on them because it really does make my day whenever you release a new one.

[@Klick404]

3:33 his voice sounds like how that display looks

[@insane7718]

Real I thought the screen was making the sound for a second

[@DavidButler]

As someone who collected nerf stuff for the better part of a decade, I love that the nuggets (especially the mp3 player) share design cues with the actual blasters of the time. I recall the camera being about 50 USD but I may be wrong. There was also an action camera in the line that shortsightedly didn’t attach to nerf’s attacement rail system, and a standalone package of nerf branded dirty buds.

[@tiagobelo4965]

iirc they later released a blaster with an included nugget camera

[@blakksheep736]

Okay if they were 50 USD that's a ripoff.

[@michaelfinlay1412]

@@tiagobelo4965 the cam ecs-12 is a wierd stryfe reskin indeed...

[@toufusoup]

This was less a NERF nugget review and more a Frank glamour show. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Also hurray for the return of the EeeEeePeeeCEEEee

[@radanju3]

1:48 "AAA" lol

[@ncs_el_w3440]

4:49 Killed me omg lol. the nerf camera won 100%

[@HeisenbergFam]

Any electronic gadget: *exists* Wade: *"so you've chosen death"*

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

Wade is a very villainous name tbh

[@youareanidiot7985]

Its you again?!

[@Slobbynobby]

I'm sorry I thought his first name was dank?

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

I would love if Wade would go back to reviewing headphones. I think the Dan Clark Aeon lineup could give you some good content. They are trash headphones and are a borderline scam.

[@philsherwood5447]

The first picture of Frank with the Nerf camera looks like the pictures people take of UFO's. Actually all of them look like that honestly.

[@PaulTheFox1988]

Pictures of UFOs and Bigfoot or Loch Ness monster always look like they were taken with a piece of sweaty lettuce, so perfectly on brand for this Nerf camera. 😂

[@keithwoodcrest]

I remember the first time I heard a python fart/poo and was absolutrly gobsmacked at how loud and humanlike it was. My roommate at the time and I were watching tv when it happened and we both initially thought it was each other until we looked over at Monty and saw him committing an act of war lol 🤣

[@thedrexter]

8:01 that’s a horror image, some SCP stuff right there

[@Gohan_Fanboi]

I’m convinced this video exists just to show Frank photos. My guy, you can make an entire video talking about Frank pics and I’ll be all for it.

[@tommylight1312]

Came for the Nerf Nugget, stayed for your danger noodle Frank. Also I love the gag of replacing the scissors with larger ones every time they break. Hope to see a set of garden shears or hedge clippers next. Maybe 5 years from now we’ll have a pole saw 😂

[@anonymousname6238]

Fronk being a dapper lady as always even on a nerf potato camera

[@vadnegru]

"Through the magic of buying two of them" i felt that Connection, even if it was unintended.

[@ConnorHere]

8:08 looks like a crime drama watching security footage and yelling "enhance" at the screen. Except instead of a murderer or something, it's just a long stinky frank.

[@Vladimir_Kv]

5:20 From when I last touched a snake - it was one of those "photo with an animal" tourist attraction - I remember it being like a warm, taut with muscles, thick polyethylene bag to the touch.

[@MonoCano778]

Fun fact they have made atleast three other cameras as well. One was a camcorder, the camera attachment for the battlescout and then the cam ecs-10 which had a camera built into it.

[@robertfaix4029]

I remember being a kid in a Toys R Us and looking at these and really really wanting it, but couldn't get it. Now I work as a photographer, funny how that works haha

[@toamastar]

Frank is so adorable :3 I used to watch a lot of Nerf modders on KZbin back in the day and i remember there being an accessory which was a video camera that you could attach to the blasters, hopefully you can find one of those ol nuggets! :)

[@A_Rose_OC]

There was a nerf accessory that turned your phone into a scope for your blasters. It had a ton of janky and unnecessary things you could do with it but it was really fun when I had it. Highly recommend looking into it!

[@megamarkd]

This was actually a really good comparison of an earlier A7 series to a brand new iPhone 15. Oh yeah, I did refer a friend to your review of the 15 and they were very happy to get a bit of a tute on using it as a video production tool 😊

[@j_hon_ey]

Frank looks so mesmerizing with the nerf camera

[@BLAZE-1001]

This was one of my favorite camera comparisons of all time, and I’ve watched quite a few. Your choice of an older iPhone 5c camera that many people had at the time was a great way to show the differences. I especially loved that you added the Sony Alpha 7 for what images from a quality modern MILC looks like.

[@gameboi20]

2:16 a moment of silence for the Toledo scissors🫡

[@RadeonVega64]

o7

[@Aithalothes]

It was me, DankPods. I asked for it. I specifically requested NERF make me a camera, and I refuse to use any other. After all, it's NERF, or nothing.

[@fltngmmth]

I love how all of your videos start with 3 seconds of deafening silence followed by the most Australian noises I've ever smelled

[@slytherinprince1000]

Im so excited your getting more into cameras I love photography

[@sandwich2473]

Those photos were really nicely framed :)

[@TristianMaximus]

That's a narrow apature for a dslr. The darkness in the pillow shot would be because of that. Try opening it up a little bit. Turning down the shutter speed to compensate for it would help with bluryness when you open the apature.

[@aukondk]

Little tip for when you have gooey rubber on something you want to keep, a bit of alcohol rubbed on it cleans it off. I had written off an old joystick until I saw LGR fixing some rubber buttons with alcohol. I gave it a try and low and behold it became usable

[@JustaMuteCat]

The rubber coating returning to its primordial origins.

[@BubblesKBS]

You got me into drumming, thanks!

[@Paulnt04]

It’s actually quite a small lens (since it’s the lens that comes with the camera)! Sony professional lenses are amazing but it’s really hard to be inconspicuous with them. The a7S is meant as a hybrid video camera but it still takes pretty good photos.

[@blakksheep736]

5:47 so my brain has decided that this is the funniest thing it has seen all day. 😆 The Nerf digital camera truly has stunning quality, just in the same way a baseball bat to the back of the head is stunning. I suppose "staggering" would be more accurate.

[@swxxtpea999]

i thoroughly enjoyed the many photos of Frank in this episode. What a good noodle she is!

[@davidthepianoplayer]

Wow the image quality on the nerf camera really got "nerfed"

[@NHT2]

For some reason I never realized snakes have pupils. Thank you for the snake anatomy lesson DP!

[@morgaboy01189]

I love that the lcd preview screen even looks bad in the promotional picture on the package

[@bigbrogrounds]

Nothing beats waking up on a Friday and watching some dankpods!

[@freeuploads4290]

Jokes on you, it's Thursday for me.

[@RoseElias]

​@@freeuploads4290jokes on you, its night for me haha

[@dragos240alt]

Excuse me, it's clearly Monday

[@nathansstuff1547]

A fellow Aussie I'm guessing

[@Crudely-Drawn-Cupcake]

@@freeuploads4290 same

[@yaziyo]

I never thought I'd find a snake cute, but those Sony glamour shots did good work.

[@Izayoink_Saccuy]

9:14 the nerf camera turn frank into a frog

[@Kitteh.B]

1:02 "I don't hate the design, I just don't get why it's Nerf." BECAUSE IT'S NERF OR NOTHING, WADE!

[@blakksheep736]

5:13 that's to be expected, but it is a very nice photo. I love the focus.

[@Bonk_Bonkus]

The Nerf Camera gave ol Frankie the Gen 1 Pokemon sprite treatment

[@jmerridew124]

8:24 A lot of recent phones use blinky infrared lights to help focus. It's likely she's reacting to that.

[@Bururaian]

The second Nerf Camera reveal reminds me of cooking shows when they have a prebaked cake already in the oven to save time

[@blakksheep736]

0:13 idk where Wade got this extremely sarcastic "mmmm, so good" line from, but I'm deeply enjoying it.

[@burakkusagi7767]

This whole video was an excuse for Wade to show us Frank again like a dog parent or cat parent.

[@ArcNeoMasato]

it's actually sort of funny to think back to Nerf's attempt to get into tech more. I actually have a case for a DS (might be 3DS, can't remember now honestly, need to dig it out) that's branded Nerf. To be fair, it's GREAT for drop protection, but it makes your system like 3 times bigger XD

[@jamul_cos]

I feel like the Nerf camera perfectly exudes Frank energy in her photos

[@gettysburger915]

My new favorite thing is when dank does camera stuff with frank

[@alexvp9344]

We need more camera episodes so we can indulge ourselves with more Frank pictures

[@WoahCuber]

I really wish that after wade said "The rubber zone" he said "Ohh boy we better stay outta that"

[@Dodgelayne]

We found the camera they use for all the Bigfoot sightings

[@l.meadows2956]

What I'm learning is that every paranormal/cryptid photo ever was taken with a Nerf digital camera

[@NONAME_098]

Gotta love the glamour photos of frank

[@redcarkyle123]

Clearly, you can't have a good digital camera without a "Rubber Zone"!

[@kevinboiiiii]

big corporate companies doing cash grabs is too common

[@taffy4801]

Big corporations live, eat, and breathe big corporate garbage.

[@Code7Unltd]

Well, anything Nerf that isn't a gun usually is a sign that Hasbro was trying to grub money. I have one of their Nintendo DS cases.

[@taffy4801]

@@Code7Unltd I had one of their DS cases too, when I was little. Those were actually pretty damn good.

[@Kitteh.B]

3:55 Through the magic of buying two of them! Thanks, Technology Connections!

[@Yuri_the_Dragon]

so this is the camera everyone uses to photograph paranormal things

[@sorosaltgaming]

People coming for the camera review ❌ People coming for the frank review ✅

[@cajakit]

When this camera came out I just turned 18 and I never thought that "the future" would have been me having dinner watching a man showing me pictures of his snake taken with three different cameras on the Internet - and loving it - but here we fucking are

[@maximal10]

I remember seeing these at work and they were always returned as defective...or garbage quality. I wonder if he's ever gotten ahold of one of the V-tech cameras...especially the one with the built in thermal printer

[@bibasik7]

I had a terrible Vivitar camera from the same era. Not surprised that this nugget is made by Vivitar too, the picture quality is about the same.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Any bargain bin brand back then would have looked just as terrible. 2.1 MP was something that went into gimmick products back then.

[@saebasan]

You know he's a true Australian because he has a pet python snake as a pet. Frank is a total cutie

[@levchelyadinov5966]

Oh man I love this video! It's such classic DankPods

[@ryanriggs9963]

6:07 "Gratuitous amounts of noodleage" is now the only acceptable way to refer to the length of a snake. We shall now ask the question "how much noodleage she got mate?"

[@GrieveIV]

For clarification, i believe “nerf” as a brand is more about the soft foam plastic than being about dart guns specifically. Like how “nerf” in video games tends to refer to how a character or weapon was made softer and less effective. As if it were made of a cheap soft foam plastic. I’m not 100% on all that. But that’s kinda what I got, and how they can justify a nerf version of everything lol There’s probably a nerf drum set out there

[@EmaAlvarado_iku]

To my knowledge it was actually the other way around: "nerfing" became a term in game culture when they added the foam padding to nerf darts as a result of injuries

[@GrieveIV]

@@EmaAlvarado_iku oooooh crazy

[@LeonardChurch33]

Don't toss the Toledos those look like nice scissors. I'm sure they could be refurbished. Might make a fun collab with some tool repair channel.

[@brolfudon]

This is the best dankpods video so far just because it's so much Frank action

[@lonelyshrimpart]

the comparison between the Sony photos and the nerf photos are hilarious omg. going from pretty photos of an adorable Frank to CRYPTID FOUND? YOU WONT BELIEVE THESE PHOTOS! amd I love it