What's the best camera-related bargain you've ever found? Let me know!

Ah this video is brilliant Em! You've put this story together so well, and I'm beyond happy that you bagged this bargain 😂

Love it, this is how I got my S5 for $400. I think the default is “it won’t turn on,” but turn on it did. The shutter had some dust stopping it from actuating. Blew it out, cycled it a few times, camera win🎉

My Lumix G1 has taught me 2 things about "old" cameras. They still have magic, and the Lumix menus were brilliant from the start of m43! After owning maneeee Lumix cameras, knowing the menu system of one makes it so easy to pick up any other Lumix camera! There's a third thing for anyone who takes a chance with and old Lumix m43. They're delightfully tiny compared the modern BBB (Big Black Brick) cameras! Come on Lumix! Give us a modern tiny GX7!😂👍 By the way, my G1 would love to be the star of one of your videos! Happy to send it to you as a contribution to the channel!😊

I loved this! Even though I was sure I knew the outcome I enjoyed the drama (and planning) that went into this video. At one point I thought it had shades of an Indiana Jones adventure but in the camera world..some practical advice, plus a little bit of mythology. Nice! Just don’t paint this one!

I have a gh2 bargain experience too. I saw a bundle of camera gear on an auction site and it included an Olympus om10 film camera - so I bid on it and won the om10. Within the bundle was an immaculate e-m10 mk I (5k clicks) and an equally immaculate red gh2 (12k clicks) - all for £50 + £10 delivery! This was how my m4/3 love affair started. I tested the em10 against my Nikon df and was amazed by the sharpness of the Olympus compared to the df.

My two biggest MPB flips were back to back a year ago, a LUMIX G9 for $180 and an Olympus 40-150mm 2.8 pro for $240. G9 just needed to be charged and the lens just needed a firmware update lol.

3:31 in... I love the storytelling of this! On my photowalk I met a lad with a Gh5 mk2, as a Fuji user I fell in love. Lumix and Fuji for me this year! Love the odl gems... 'old' to say that is crazy!!!

GH2 has a piece of tech similar to the LX100 and some other compacts. An oversized sensor that allows for multi aspect ratios when shooting stills or video. I don't belive they have included such a thing since the GH2 in their m43 bodies and the closest thing may well be the open gate system today. The GH2 sensor went on to be used without the multi aspect feature in the G5 and G6 (hence the G6 having excellent video).

I recently picked up a pristine Lumix g85 for $275 which I thought was an amazing bargain but that doesn't compare to 27 quid! 😮

Honestly, Emily, I'm subscribed to 150-plus channels, mostly to do with photo/video (add thousands of channels visited), and your videos are simply beautiful, easily in the top three. Thank you for the delights. See you soon; take your time.

Well-played. Great luck with the camera & it's great to see your shots around Liverpool. Love that city.

All hail Queen Camera Nerd!!!🎉🎉🎉 I absolutely loved this video. I appreciate you taking a look at older gear and showing what a talented photographer can do with older cameras and lenses.

Wow. That was a cinematic adventure I was not expecting to go on, but so glad I did. Fantastic work all around. I was enthralled in this whole process. Keep up the great work!

Man, this is some high effort video production! I hope it gets a ton of views! Nice work.

One of my new years resolutions is to find video styles I love and learn from them. This was such a well-told story with so much attention to detail!

DANG, the production on this video, WOW, top shelf! And WOW what a steal! 🧡

Brilliant video! Love the narrative and story telling And what a bargain!! Even to just be a camera you keep in the car or something like that - it's idea!

Love the storytelling of this video, well done!

I love my GH2, I recently had it out for the new year, and it still feels great in the hand. I have downloaded a few driftwood hacks and the cinematic video does look gorgeous as well. I was going through my collection to try to sell some of my older gear but I will probably never sell my GH2.

Great video as always, thanks for the upload!

Fantastic cinematography, editing and content. You've now set a new baseline, uh oh

Love this! I’m becoming a big fan of tackling the mysteries of not fully functional gear. It’s rewarding on many levels, getting a bargain, developing skills around diagnosing and repairing the equipment and as a result keeping great gear in use and out of the landfill.

GH2, I (or better my dad) got it for free, new. Back in 2012. How, Mediamarkt sold it in a blowoutsale. With the 14-140. For €645 euro. A lens that costed as much of that alone. So I ran to my dad, who was looking for a new GH as an upgrade for his G3. We drove to the Mediamarkt, grabbed the box (which was still there), went through the payment booth, forcked over the cash, and walked out having the feeling we both just stole a camera. And indeed, back in the day, it was pitched against Alexa's and Red5's and Canon's at a shootout at the Skywalker Range in the presents of a few minor Hollywood directors, like George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. And they all were amazed by the little bugger.

Happy collecting, I love your joyous energy!

Amazing editing and storytelling!

This video is so well made , great job !

so awesome haha love the editing of this one xD

Really, really impressed with this video . Nice job! This is how you do it! Informative, engaging, fun. You are a great presenter/producer/editor.

Beautiful vid em! What an absolute bargain you got there, the GH2 was the first LUMIX cam I ever used! I'm so tempted to try my own luck...

What a great video and bargain! Love the creative touches you added to this one.

Awesome editing, awesome lighting.

Great job on this video Emily! Loved the coin and battery toss especially 😄 Oh how much I want MPB to come to Australia!

Brilliant grab 😮😊 thought of this cam the other day. I had a gh3 that likewise didn’t suffer strange batteries very well - recorded several ‘corrupt’ files using them. Congrats!

The GH2 was the first camera that got my mum and me into the M43 system back in the days. Still got this marble around here and took it with me as a photo cam when filming stuff. It looks pretty funny combined with the Oly 40-150 F2.8 you mentioned in your newest video :D 5 Years ago, i got a pretty good deal on a broken GH4 for 150€. The touchscreen was dead. 10€, 30days waiting and some screws later, the touchscreen flex cable was fixed. My current lineup consists of GH2, GH3, GH4 and today, my bargain deal G9 arrives. I could not be happier.

What a fascinating, charming video!

Really well delivered story of a wee bargain. I very much enjoyed the pacing of the storytelling. Texhnically superb! It reminded me of a problem i had with the back wheel of an old, much-loved Oly em1. The back wheel was packing in and the prognosis was not good. I bought a battery pack for £7.00 and used that wheel. Result!

Such a great video!

This was one of the most entertaining camera videos I have seen on KZfaq!

That was my first M4/3 camera and I loved it. I've had every GH camera to date except I skipped the GH4. I remember at the time it won The Great Zacuto Camera Shootout which was just amazing! Or was it the Revenge ... Shootout?? So embarrassing for all the more expensive cinema cams! Congrats on your good buy-a very fun video!!

Lovely, lovely! You are the speaker of my enthusiasm too. This is the camera that opened it all up after my 20-year absence from photography and lead me into digital photography and affordable video realm. I understand that the hack was not at all that dangerous, but Lumix came up with a firmware update many years after we all forgot about this model. It fixed color science at long last and showed what the real value it was. Check it by all means! I've got two of them and won't be selling them any time soon. They indeed have that sinematic look that just asks for a bit more light, preferably sunshine to tame the contrast, and it will have that special character that we now try to simulate with some silly means.

You're such a great story teller 👌

I love this channel so much, I wanna cry!

Great story, great video Em, I still have a GH3 and I doubt if I’ll part with it✌️🇦🇺📷

Awesome video!

I enjoyed this video. I got into m43 kit last year after feeling a bit frustrated with some of the results from my 1" sensor Sony RX100 III. It's often great but sometimes a small sensor just can't cope. I bought the cheapest used m43 camera with lens and viewfinder (when camera LCDs get as good as my phone's I'll start composing with them) in decent condition that I could find on ebay and ended up with a Lumix DMC-G3 with 14-42 kit lens, battery, charger, original software (and access to latest Silkypix), and manuals, all boxed and like new for £70 delivered. Not bad! I loved it. I have since bought a G80 & GX80 for a considerable improvement in sensor & image quality and stabilisation and now I have some other lenses too. But to get a camera capable of seriously good results for £70 was fabulous. It is tiny, I guess the G3 has the same body size as the GH2, super light and has a big bright viewfinder with a wide range of dioptre adjustment, and 100% visible even if you wear specs. I think back to when I shot with film and used stuff like Minolta XD7, XE1, SRT-303, Pentax MX and then got into digital with a Dynax 7D and Canon G2. None of that stuff was cheap. This 10 year old £70 Lumix is so good and cost a ridiculously small amount. And Lumix viewfinders are amazing! Really nice to use, even the older ones. The autofocus is astonishingly good and my G80 even has a Touch AF focus with your nose facility! I switched it off.

Damn what a score. I love hunting for deals haha. I also love your battery organization. A video on that would be cool!

I love this video. My deal of a lifetime was an Olympus E-510 wth both Kit lenses for $20 Cad or 11 GPS. It only had a shutter count of 10 and was in perfect condition.

U just won another subscriber. U brought so many memories back while i was hacking my gh2!

I got the GH2 in 2012 when I started to get serious about video. Absolute workhorse, took a hell of a beating, fell out of the first floor of an appartment in Brazil, the lens detached, clicked it back on, put the battery in and out and it worked again. It's still with a friend who has it, it's still working. Image quality for that time was insane.

Nice storytelling ! 😁😁

Wonderful video, really well put together! She who dares, wins, Rodney 😁

Sounds like a nice deal. Don't need another camera myself, though I am sure I have far fewer than you do! I have 6, assuming I don't brick my EM10 while replacing the flex cable to the screen. Most recent bargain was a Lumix G9 at a very fair price from another member in your FB group who upgraded to the MkII. Huge compared to my other Micro 4/3 cameras, but really liking it.

Loved this story! Can you get any hardware updates for this camera?

I'm 9 days late! Emily never fails to impress, but this video is just CLASS! What a masterclass in story telling!

I did the same with a G2, theyre the same A camera shop had it listed on ebay 'does not turn on', in the images were 2 clone batteries I also had a GH2 some years earlier and liked it a lot. A lot more than the red G2 I ended up with. ENjoy it, theyre tiny and light. Despite being told clone batteries lack the electronics for the camera, I suspect clone batteries trip out a physical switch somehow the hack doesnt change much, especially for stills

Still have my GH2 - never sold it (even not being a m43 user anymore), because was my first "serious" camera. And yes, some myths are true - and I could give some info from long time ago. - About the "not turn on" - there is a good reason for that. Firmware. Panasonic made the 1.1 firmware in Dec 2011, and...a long time after, in July 2018 (!), released the version 1.2, with just one item: "Improve the compatibility of Panasonic battery." Which means: make it harder to use with 3rd party batteries. See the firmware version on your unit, good chances that it is version 1.2 (I've never updated mine past version 1.1); - The sensor: besides being the last m43 oversized multi-aspect sensor (don't remember with the GH5s one it is also), it was the last m43 sensor made by Panasonic (after that, all m43 sensors are made by Sony - the GH6 / G9 II one could also not be Sony). And the Panasonic CMOS sensors have colors that remember the colors of the CCD ones. That is the "sauce" of the GH2. - Go ahead and hack your unit - the image quality in 1080p with hacks is WAY better than the stock one, is another world. I recommend the Driftwood ones, but if you want to test with something more "conservative" (the Driftwoods are kinda CD card sensitive, but Sandisk Pros are cheaper now), I recommend the Sanity ones. Regards!

wow I thought I got a bargain when I recently bagged a gh2 with 14-42 lens for 80 quids on the fleabay, I bow to your superior bargain huntingness. i love it by the way.

Very nicely and amuzing

My best bargains are where people have given me cameras.I have the GH!1 and GH2 which I bought both from my son at a good price including 2 lenses.The best camera given to me is a Mint Rolleiflex TLR wide angle with lots of accessories. I enjoy your channel. I now have four M43 cameras and 5 lenses. cheers Geoff

Bravo well done happy shooting .......i got an XT1 fuji for £190 and fixed it up works great no worries

GH2 is one of my all time favorite cameras. I hacked my GH1 but ended up not hacking my GH2 as it was sufficient out of the box for what I was doing at the time. I did get a GH3 but I actually think the video image was worse than the GH2. I shot my student thesis film on it. Upstream Color is a gorgeous movie and was shot on it. Had moire and other issues the GH2 didn’t although benefitted from being one of the firs hybrids with an all I-Frame recording option. But the body was bigger and yet felt cheaper despite the move to metal construction. These cameras were a case study in Panasonic listening to the community and giving them what they wanted.

That's so funny. My local camera store has one for $40, and I'm planning to go in later this week to see if it's still there!! :O) always fun to see your videos!!

Can you make a video explaining why m4/3 is so great over apsc and full frame or what is something u love from m4\3

I saw this and almost bought it so am glad you got it and that it works😊. However I did get a gh5 from mpb at £345😮. Was supposed to be well used and scruffy body, but there was hardly a mark on it. Saved almost £200 on the other bodies they were selling. So really pleased with that😊.

Great video. Can I ask you what Camera you would buy for Vlogging, for Photography, or both, at an affordable price. And what Microphone you would use? Cheers

I once found a GH4 for good price at pawn shop but had to return it within 24 hrs because would not turn on. Will stick with my current stable G7, G95, and EM10Mii. Nice review tho, you make great usefull videos.

1:52 ummm we are gonna just gloss over this awesome gear rack! Please tell me you have a studio tour somewhere on your channel! This look efficient and a dream!

Great video. I too am bargain hunting and I have my sights set on getting a used LUMIX G9 for video ( and the occasional wildlife pic.). My question for you is this: Is there another camera that offers similar specs but maybe a better value for the money? Thank you!

Beautiful video.

Great story telling, Nerd Camera Queen! 😂 Thanks

Nice one ❤

Thanks!

I believe my GH2 do have auto ISO in video. You might have to turn it on in the menu. In movie mode I filmed in S mode and used auto ISO for run and gun stuff. Also by default the auto ISO for stills and video is ISO 160 to 400 but you can change it to ISO 3,200. I know the newest firmware supports the newerrst batteries but also removes the hack.

I like this type of stories

Great story! Reminds me of my most recent purchase of a GF3 and Panasonic 14-42mm kit lens for... MINUS AUD2.20. I bought the kit for $100 on FB Marketplace, just a body, less than 1000 shutter count, lens in pristine condition (just some discoloured silver paint stripe), neck strap, GENUINE battery and even a small SD card. Reason for cheap sale was... lack of battery charger. I had 3 compatible batteries for TZ90, so brought one with, the camera worked so I already won... then I sold the lens on eBay for...$120, so after fees made $102.20... I kept the camera as my third M43 body for home spiders macro because of the built in flash 😂

Have you thought about the Lumix G5, it's surprising small and has great image quality out of the 16 megapixel senor

I've purchased used lenses but never camera bodies. With current new offerings being high in price, I'm considering KEH or MPB for used body options.

This video makes me so happy. I bought a Samyang 8mm fisheye lense for 30 pounds. It was so cheap due to a loose hood. When i picked it up the seller gave me his panasonic G6 because the shutter was stuck closed and he couldnt use it any more. When i sat down 5 min later i opened the shutter with my finger and set the camera to electronic shutter. Then i tightened a screw on the lense and now it all works. I also just bought a Olympus OM-D E-M10 for 80 pounds with kit lense. That was pretty good to.

What a great video! I’m not much of a gambler so I will happily live vicariously through you…also, what a gigantic coin!

I LOVE MPB, too..😊

Now that was a story to grab the attention. And enjoyable to boot. How long did it take to create from idea to being finally rendered? I'm guessing longer than the time it took to watch.😂😂

Great story telling in this one. Lovely integration of risk and coin tossing

She spun the wheel of fate and came up a winner!!!

The happy pirate adventure music. 😂 That was awesome.

Shroedingers camera! 😂👏🏻🎥

This should go straight to a short film festival 🎉😊

I own two Panasonic Lumix GH2 a lot of models have really bad bugs and I heard Panasonic even said that's the way the camera is. There is a really bad banding issue in video starting around ISO 640 or 800 is the light is low you will getting this banding line at the bottom. The work around is too drop your shutter to 30th or 25th of a second. The other issue is in low light when you hit record the camera has a huge shift to green. I've talked to other GH2 some don't have the banding issue. And I've taking to one GH2 owner saying the hacks made the video worse. I don't know why some GH2 cameras work fine and others are buggy?

I bought my GH2 new back in 2012. Hacked it and loved the image quality ever since. Just a pity that Panasonic never gave us a 4K version of THAT SENSOR. Although I've owned the G7, G80 and GH5 since then, NONE can compare to the image quality of the GH2. Although I don't use it anymore, I would never part with it. 😀 ... out of my cold, dead hands ... 😀

I still have my GH4! The flippy screen is busted, but it still truckin!

I have the gh2 since 4 years and got it for around 180-220 euros , cannot remember . But my pictures are so flat in color and even the iPhone X has a much higher dynamic range. How did you manage to get these colors and specially the BW? My Olympus ep1 had a much better color profile and dynamic range. That’s why don’t under a newer camera is so much worse.

I owned a GH2 at one time. Mine "bricked" with the message, "Turn camera off, then back on" (OEM Battery) Seems to be a common issue. Searched, but did not find I fix??

Sometimes it pays off to go deeper down the rabbit hole than 95% of everyone else.

Now you've got us all wondering what is the 'Secret GH2 sauce'? This could be your next video: Camera Myths - Fact or Fiction? Meanwhile MPB bosses who thought they were stuck with broken Lumix cameras, are pleasantly surprised with a spike in sales...

Is there much difference between a GH2 and G2? Got a G2 with kit lens for £50, boxed, looked like little use from new.

you are the best

I bought a GH4 for 370 pounds in 2020! I was tired of the D7000 29.99fps in 1080!probably buying a Sirui 24mm anamorphic lens since they cost less than a months rent now!

Probably my favourite edit of 2024 so far!

The GH2 was my second camera ever back in 2014, and it felt like I had leapt light years ahead vs my Canon 60D! I couldn't believe how great it was, once it was hacked (it's really EXTREMELY hard to brick it while hacking, you'd have to be trying to deliberately I think). I still use it even today in emergencies for videos. I later got the GH4 then the GH5, and still have all three, and I think it's actually better than the GH4. The video is not much worse (when hacked), but the ergonomics are so much better. Plus the in-body flash is absolutely incredible. I have taken some of my favourite photos of my life with the GH2, some Lumix pancake primes (14mm and 20mm primes), and its very own flash - in 2023. Even preferring it over my full frame Sony A7C in some situations. It can even do rear curtain sync in body, and I only learnt this last week! The GH2 is my favourite camera of all time. I save the vintage lenses for my GH5 though. This thing pairs so well with the pancakes that I never even use my Lumix G Vario 2.8 set with it. Go micro and have a blast.

The GH2 footage really looks like film. Was it color graded to look like film?