If you want your ditital photos to look more like film then why not try my go to lightroom preset, available here - www.lucylumen.com/shop/p/lucys-warm-film-preset

Something that's also a benefit of digicams over phones I think it's that people are less afraid of it when you aim one at them. Like, if you aim a phone at someone there's often the anxiety that "oh no, this person is going to post this on the internet to make fun of me" or "this person is stalking me" because phones are just so immediately adjacent to social media/how we communicate, but I think using a digicam just looks so silly (in a good way) and "out there" that it puts people at ease I think? Like, "oh they're just experimenting with a thrifted item/something they found in their grandma's house". It makes you way less intimidating and sus on the streets, which is a huge benefit for candid street pics. Idk, what are your thoughts on this? As someone with severe anxiety I'd definitely be way less spooked by a digicam shooter than a phone shooter haha.

Also these old digicams give you the same excitement when you see the photos because the LCD preview is usually so terrible. Plus the sensors and low megapixel is a whole new look. All of a sudden it is fun to take photos as an experiment just to see how the camera will render them. It's the surprise of film, but you don't have to pay and wait for a roll to get processesed.

I thrift with my wife and kids all the time and we always find an old digicam! All my kids are interested in photography and they’ve all found their own digicam now. It’s so cool to watch what they create with these 😊

DIGI THE WHOLE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER?!! Oh do I have a birthday present for you! Can't wait to see what you shoot and I'm blushing from all the sweet shout outs

Yay digicams! My fav benefit is that when you point a goofy little champagne colored digicam at someone their reaction is better than any other type of camera. Nobody ever gets nervous or takes it seriously. Absolutely the best for candid shots. I love my old Coolpix camera for this reason primarily.

CMOS overtook CCD in image quality a long time ago. But for a while before that, CCDs were the king of dynamic range.

Been a professional photographer for 18 years and I’m loving getting back into these older CCD sensors. However, like you mentioned, it’s little effort using a point and shoot and they end up looking like snapshots instead of photographs. If you want to scratch that filmic itch with a CCD sensor camera, I’d suggest the older Nikon and Fuji DSLRs. You will get that great filmic look but you are more engaged rather than using a point and shoot. If you don’t want to mess with larger cameras and lenses but still want that look, I’d look at the upper end of Canon Powershot and Nikon Coolpix cameras. Fixed lenses, smaller footprint and more point and shoot style but you still retain DSLR features and full control over your settings. I paid under $100 for my Nikon Coolpix P7100, same for my Canon Powershot G11. Fun little cameras.

Another great video Lucy! I stumbled on Ali’s channel some time ago, but your interview sealed the deal and I’m now a subscriber and officially obsessed with the CCD sensor. I knew I’d have to go back to shooting more digital, but knowing there’s an option for something kind of in the middle is amazing.

The Film Guilts are a real thing lol. I like the freedom that a digicam gives you to experiment with composition and see what works for you.

i dont know if Heaven is talking to me but some weeks ago before watching this video i suddendly, out of nowhere, was watching videos of presets and Adobe premier, and remenbered i got a Sony Cybershot DSCW220 12 megapixels from 2009 and mannnnn it works!!! i just bought an extra memory card, batteries adn charger and gonna play with it!

I knew I had one of these around the house.....somewhere!! Lo and behold I found a Canon Power Shot SD1100IS an 8.0 Mega Pixel digicam. I'm in the process of getting it up and running and intend to do some out and about shooting to see what transpires. The idea of creating a 'zine or a small book of images really appeals to me. Thanks for the inspiration to get some creative juices going and carrying this super cool digicam around at all times. Cheers.

My favorite digicam is a 4MP Nikon that we got as a backup camera for a trip to China in 2006. It was so easy to always have with me that I took some of my favorite photos of the trip with it. Now I use it occasionally for street photography. So unnoticable compared to when I have my M5. And the colors are wonderfully vibrant.

The first reason is one is my reason to buy a Fujifilm FinePix JX550 The CCD sensor really gave crazy colors

One thing that I've really enjoyed about old digicams, is that by carrying a basic usb c sd card reader, you can easily share your images while out taking them. In some ways it's almost easier than with a modern camera and having to rely on wifi or Bluetooth, and an app.

I have family pics starting from 2000, all shot on digicams…maybe I should get them out! I took lots of really nice pics with them back in the day, and they are still on my hard drives! I often have my 4 year old granddaughter shoot with my waterproof, shock resistant camera …way less stressful! I still have a CCD Nikon DSLR….might combo that with my vintage Nikkor AIS glass to see the effect?

It feels like the main reason we need Digicams is for KZfaq creators to make their clickbait videos based on trends (the hidden gems that are not so hidden anymore...). Compact point and shoot cameras with an agressive jpg rendering? It is exactly what a smartphone can do. And that is exactly why the Digicams fell out of favour, because we all have one in our pockets. You want a proper camera but the old school look? Any CMOS sensor camera with built in "creative filters" or shooting RAW then applying specific profiles will do the trick. The trend of "get a cheap camera" is getting so omnipresent than the cheap factor disappears and the lack of quality stays. In the end it leads to people selling you for big money, the distorted perception of an era most haven't even lived. Like all vintage trends.

Digicams sound cool but I don't buy anything 1st Gen. I think I'll wait 'til they start making the digicams with phones built in.

Literally my stream of consciousness when I finally switched to digital (Kodak C360) in 2006 after my film camera broke.

Totally agree. I recently got a Sony DSC-S40 (I wanted to buy one back in the day but I was a broke teenager), and so far it's been great. Yes, the stabilization is not the best, the settings might be limiting, but it's a great option for when I go for a walk and I find an interesting place/scene, it makes you play with the lighting, composition, and it's a good middle ground between a pro camera and a smartphone. I'm definitely getting an older digicam, or a Sony Ericsson CyberShot smartphone from back in the day (I got a k850 a few years ago, but I broke it when I took it for a run to use as an MP3 player and fell on it. I'll live with regret for my whole life). EDIT: And YES, Salvation Army thrift stores and Facebook Marketplace are a go-to place when looking for almost anything vintage/retro. At least here in Argentina, it's the only place where you can find cool things at good prices that hasn't already been 'gentrified', if you know what I mean.

Love this! I have definitely been in the CCD rabbit hole lately and fortunately the cameras are still inexpensive. And the comments about getting through a roll of film hit me hard I have 3 cameras with half shot rolls in them. I was like I guess I'll at least see if this camera works. Months later still have 10 frames left.

I recently bought a couple of Canon IXUS cameras, the IXUS 90 (SD790), IXUS 85 (SD770) and IXUS 40 (SD300), because to my eyes these are design classics. Turns out they take great pictures as well. All have the CCD sensor type. But honestly I don't think the colors are more natural nor do I think these JPG images have a more filmic look than JPG's I have taken with my Fujifilm X100s and images I have seen taken with current cameras. ("Natural" is very subjective. The somewhat colder JPGs of my Sony RX100 IV taken in bright daylight appear to be more natural and honest to me, in many cases. At other moments I perceive them as clinical and digital. Reality or perception of reality? Taking shots at evening in low light, with light bulbs on, images taken with a poor auto white balance are warmer, have more reddish or yellow cast. In many cases (probably most cases) this looks more natural to me than with the perfect auto white balance of my iPhone, that renders the image like it it is taken in bright daylight)

I linke vintage digicams too. Have a tiny collection. My favorite is the Panasonic Lumix LS3 :-). With greetings from lower Bavaria.

Great video thanks Lucy 😍

Brilliant vid Lucy! I found the charger to my PowerShot! It was in the toy bin next my kids FischerPrice toy digital cameras which they still use! So excited to shoot with the PowerShot 😊 Thanks for the video and have a good weekend!

omg i got same p41 it lovely! its gorgeous camera btw

I have the Ricoh GRD 8mpx digicamera! It’s a lot of fun to shoot with. Very film-like!!

Olympus E1 CCD-Sensor Olympus E-P1 Olympus XZ-1 or XZ-2.

Fuji X10 X20 X30 might be fun for not too much money. X100 if you want APSC sensor.

Kool video. I went all in to dslr and mirrorless from film several years back but recently broke back out my canon SD1200IS digicam I got new in 2011 and am having a great time with it again.

Excellent video, watched it because I've been given a bunch of old digicams lately, probably have a dozen now lol. One particular digicam I've been using lately is a Sony Cybershot DSC-P72 (made in 2003) which is 3.2MP, had to order a 2nd hand Sony memory stick to use it. Anyhow been testing it to see how well it holds up for 2023 standards in image quality, have to say some shots it shows its age but other shots it still holds up well enough, depending on the subject and lighting conditions, I want to feature at least one shot at my local camera club meeting and surprise them that I used a 20 year old digicam instead of a 12-24MP DSLR, I found a number of shots I think I can fudge it with Topaz Gigapixel to look displayable on a 4K monitor. Anyhow I'm into old analog and early digital tech and got a kick out of using the Cybershot. Speaking of early digicams my first digicam was an eBino binocular camera I got in 2004/05 which gave rather gritty low res looking images, then in 2005 I had the Nokia 6230 phone (my 1st mobile phone) which gave compressed 0.3MP 640x480 images that look like oil paintings and it had this wickedly cool looking ring like lens effect when pointed to the sun, the video quality of it is so woefully crap 128x96 resolution everything is barely to not even recognizable to watch lol, if you're also into old phone cameras and get your hands on one of those 6230s or similar please do a video on it.

My cybershot died a few years ago. RIP my old friend 😢

So funny. I posted my first digicam shots on my digital Instagram account yesterday. I've been bringing my very first digital camera from my younger days, the Canon PowerShot S50 with me as my daily carry this week, and yesterday I got some shots after a rain shower on the way home from work. I also had my Canon EOS 300v with a few frames left on a roll of Ektar from my vacation, so the red berries and leaves, I shot was the perfect subject, I thought. I already shoot with a few DSLR cameras with modern big sensors, and what immediately became clear was how much easier it was for my computer to deal with the 5mp raw files compared to 20-30mp raw files from my DSLR cameras. In the past I have also used another digicam (my second digital camera) to practice shooting B&W before putting B&W film in one of my film cameras.

Some of my coolest photos, and most sold images came from using my Sony Cybershot DSC-S650 7.2mp camera. Close up shots can be made from mere inches from the subject, and the ccd sensor does render images less sterile looking than modern high mp cameras. I paid $80 new on sale in 2008 I believe, and it lasted unti a couple of years ago when I stopped using it because a hair somehow got inside and showed up in all the images. They are everywhere at thrift stores for a few bucks.

The only annoying thing about these digicams is how slow they can be sometimes when saving photos and the amount of weird memory cards they take. Olympus digicams literally takes a memory cards named "xD"

My Kodak cd82 takes great photos. Had it before I owned a smart phone

My daughter just asked me, “do you think you could get me a cheap digital camera? like one that i could just throw in my bag, and take pictures of my friends and stuff? because the cheaper ones have a cool look to them”. I immediately remembered your video and went back to rewatch it. I think I have her Christmas stocking stuffer picked out-thanks Lucy!

I'm telling ya! Have loved my Kodak EasyShare CX7300 for almost twenty years now. The measly 3.2 MP sensor really has it's own personality since it really has to work. It's fairly quick, pocket-sized compact and worry free, making for stress free shooting.

I highly recommend the Fuji f40fd which seems to be the most unsought F2digits line, but has a slightly bigger 1/1.6" sensor while previous were 1/1.7", and IS a real p&s without beeing semi-auto cumbersome. To me noise lvl is on par with f30/31 (but actually i'm pushing iso on fujiz and ricohz...they're so good at this...), lens is as sharp and B&W profile got that great balance between high contrast and details i like F40FD: safe bet

I have a few on my 'camera shelf' I have to taker them down and see if I can get them working when life returns too normal :)

Canon stuck with CCDs for a while. None of my cameras (other than my Vixia HF R52) have CMOS chips. And my newest one is a fairly high end point-and-shoot model (PowerShot SX170 IS) from 2014.

Excellent video thanks! I'm guessing that it is best to look for digicams that take standard AA size batteries, rather than the tiny rechargeable ones that came with the tiny Canon cameras etc? Most of those batteries are probably dead by now.

Film is what got me into enjoying photography, before then I hadn't been interested as my experience with photography had been with digicams which my family would always bring out on Christmas, birthdays etc. and interrupt everything. The time I got to borrow the family camera, a bronze coloured Ricoh Caplio R4, for a school trip I felt compelled to take photos of just about everything which quickly became annoying and was entirely pointless, I've never looked at any of those photos to this day. However after realising that photography was more than just bad posed family photos I've started using a digicam for photos I'm not sure are gonna turn out or want instant feedback. We still have the Caplio R4, it's been a bit neglected as of late as it only works with windows XP which is a shame coz it's my favourite digicam to use. It's a nice size, not too small like my aunt's old one which I dropped coz it was so tiny and fiddly and while it can be slow to focus it's better than the camera we bought to replace it which struggles to focus and the battery goes flat very quickly. I think I'll take it out more or at the very least have it as a back up camera for when I run out of film.

Wow, this vid made me dig out my old Olympus FE-190. I might have to get new batteries for it.

Ok im gonna give you some info on these older digicams cause i had and still have some of the better 1/1.7, 1/1.8 ccd sensor cameras. When they were new in the 03, 04, 05, 06 era . So some of the best are Canon s400,s410,s500,sd500/550 S40,45,50, A80,A95 A610/620 Olympus c5500, c7000 FUJIFILM F10,F11,F20,F30,F31fd, F40fd

Someone gave me a Kodak Easyshare and it’s been fun to let me kids capture some images with it. Love the 14mp ad well.

Love the video but how can something produce a truer to life look whilst also providing a more filmic look?

I'm curious how many of your film-shooting viewers don't also own a modern DSLR or Mirrorless camera. I collect, repair, and regularly use film cameras, and I own several digicams now. It's out of a love for photography that I've gone down this route - a love I discovered with more modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. At 33 years old, I would be surprised if that wasn't a common progression for many of your viewers as well.

I think the Sony W830 is probably one of the newest cameras with CCD sensor. It has a 20MP CCD.

I just found two polaroid xs 100 sports cameras. i want to mount them to get a stereo effect. The cameras are 10 years old. Would it be possible to find the drivers, would they even work for windows 10? I would like the adjust the settings but not sure if its possible without the drivers.

The issue with digicams is the sensor size. Most of them have 1/2.3 inch sensors which is the same as most phones. Another issue is the lack of creative control. I think, for a bit more money, I'd rather have an old mirrorless like the Olympus E-P1 or even older DSLRs that can be had for next to nothing.

my casio zs5 died 😕 all the pics on my last few youtube vjdeos were shot with it. Now back on the cybershot but the lens is actually too sharp. The casio was softer and somehow less digital looking...now looking for casio zs10 ...

About 5# - try using smallest SD card you can find. This can make your shots more intentional, when you know you have a limit, like when shooting on film.

Canon has lots of cameras that take really good pictures that only cost 10 or 20 bucks or so at a thrift store. I probably had 30 or more of them at one time. They have great colors they look more like film the sweet spot is usually between about 4 and 7 megapixels those cameras are really good. Most of the other cameras are not very good they don't get good colors the pictures are over sharpened they just don't look near as good. But the only way to really tell how good a lot of these cameras are is if you actually make a print from the photos. I've made thousands of prints from both digital and film cameras I don't think you can really tell on Instagram or Facebook how good a camera is especially if you are looking on a smartphone.

I have a 20.1 megapixel point and shoot digital camera with a old CCD sensor. Also it's a Nikon Coolpix s2800 btw the camera got it cheap second hand off eBay.

I love the background song. What is it? It’s giving old Boards of Canada vibes

I still using a lumis fh1

I wouldnt personally bother. For just alittle bit more you can get a more dslr which allows more out of each shot. Theres a reason the best shots are rarely done on compacts

I want to enter this world of digital cameras and that nostalgic aspect, I saw a nikon easyshare z650 (6mpx) from 2006 with cdd at a good price, what do you think? It also has manual mode that allows you to play a lot

Can any one give the exact name of these cameras, especially the second one.

Hi lucy how much memory are you using and how much memory can be added? I am planning to get a Sony DSC P93 and the memory size is not listed anywhere.

I have been trying to use digicam but the images end up looking like pics taken from a phone.. how do I get the film or vintage look?? Even tried the P mode but it gives the vintage effect indoor only.. i would really appreciate if anyone can help me out how to get the vintage effect in sunny streets !! Thanks.. i have a canon Power shot sx130 is..

I have one in my cupboard. It is brand new... or it is nearly brand new. I never used it.

Link to the digicam discord server?

I have that same Sony Camera you have :) rediscovered it a while ago from our closet and have used it until the lcd broke

Does my 2007 Nikon D3 qualify?

I thought the first Red camera changed everything?

Take pictures that you can save without Google capturing your capture.

5 reasons why these cheap cameras will get stupidly expensive over the years

Which ones are good?

but if I want a digital camera in my pocket, I have a phone?

what kinda sony is that??

It's very interesting how things that we find to be crap, kids these days think it's cool and "vintage" :)

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I think the main point you're making here is it's cheaper than film.

Are you Australian? :-)

Indie sleaze? Lol

Why are you wearing your son's Top!

Analog revival I totally get. Digicams revival?? Awful. Nothing looks worse than low res digital. Sometimes the crowd is wrong.

Films costs in Italy are too high Digicam with ccd and early cmos + raw shoot are better . Imho

I don't follow any new style or fad, just my gut, and it made me buy a Fuji Finepix F30 back in 2008. Still use it, awesome camera, but sure.. I'm also an old fart at 68 now, vintage for sure.. !

Ccd sensors old cameras is new film cameras ))