Thread 4473524

I have way better gear but this little fucker has become a great companion for vlogging, even with all the drawbacks

Do you have a favorite flawed piece of gear?

These were neat, just 10 years too early
A vertical oriented rugged video/photo hybrid that I can just clip on?

>>4473540
This look pretty neat

>>4473543
I have one on my shelf that I got for free lol
>>4473546
They sold like shit unfortunately, quickly discontinued, no one could catch up to GoPro for that kind of market, and now they go for the hipster premium tax

>>4473548
>I have one on my shelf that I got for free lol
Give it to me right now!

>>4473548
How is that Sony action cam?

i've always see the 1080 HD model of Facebook Marketplace

I wish I'd tried one of these. I'm sure it was stupid as hell, but look at it. It's like a sad quadraplegic, needs a bit of pitty.

>>4474747
It was a revolutionary idea that was ahead of its time. It put the camera first, and the phone second. The commoners of the world (You) simply lack the brain cells to comprehend its brilliance.

>>4474880
It was a solution to a problem that didn't exist catered to low IQ consumers to sell more spare parts in a different marketing package.

>>4474890
Good IQ and ergonomics on a smartphone without resorting to software gimmicks and ai bullshit was a problem then, and is a problem now.

Sony's shortcomings were twofold:
- reaching into the parts bin instead of iterating on the rx100 lens to develop a compact, collapsible design
- catering to apple fags and paying the price with apples gate keeping, when they should have aimed for the technically and intellectually superior android user first, who was capable of appreciating the products technological innovation.

The future holds a different solution (pixel shift a small sensor), but Sony's solution, despite its shortcoming, solved a real problem, and was ahead of its time.

>>4474901
The solution is to buy a camera instead of a phone. Making a camera and taking away the LCD screen doesn't suddenly make it an innovative revolutionary brilliant invention. And it was far from ergonomic.

>>4474903
>just buy a camera
The average NPC out there wasn't doing that anymore. Sony was trying to save the industry.

>Making a camera and taking away the LCD
You left out step 3, the trickiest step. Replace LCD with a fag phone and closed APIs. That was innovative, because no one else was doing it.

>>4474747
>>4473808
ok snapiness

>>4473622
I have one, they are quite ok but they are almost a decade old now. It is one of the few actioncams that has optical stability instead of digital which means that in lower light there isn't that weird jitter effect you have with digital stabilization. This type of model with a 1-inch sensor would have been a great successor.

I got this, and YouTube makes it seem cool, but the cocksucker keeps automatically rewinding rolls after like 4 shots and I don't understand why.

Ricoh RDC-300
It has really nice character for one of these ancient digital cameras and works surprisingly well in low light. My only wish is that it had a bit of zoom on it. It's also tiny, and looks enough not like a camera that no one really pays attention to you.

Second place goes to my converted CCTV camera. It's very unwieldy to carry around, but there are a lot of fun c-mount lenses around for cheap. I use it as a webcam and soldering microscope occasionally.