Oh wow, did not expect the fake DVD compartment

"Do not take apart" to me reads "Do take apart".

They're still making these things, 20 years later.

"I buy this crap so you don't have to." Funny, I was going to say just that until I saw your comment after watching the video. :)

That's like old-school mobile phone quality!

Scamcorder

Mitsuba, more like SH*TSUBA!

Make a teardown of it ! We want to see how crappy it is inside !

I will admit, it does make for a very nice quote unquote "digital versatile camcorder"

A Chinese camcorder with a Japanese sounding brand name. That's one clue, kind of like Seiki HDTVs.

It's so bad it's good

Wow seriously the top lens is just for the viewfinder? And theres a little shitty lens under it for the camera itself, thats hilarious

A camera with a Steyr AUG scope. Nice

Finally, an ideal camcorder for my cryptid hunting!

I thought these were only sold by street vendors in developing countries or the former "2nd world" countries where it's really easy to con gullible (and inexperienced) consumers into buying them. In developed countries there can't be that many "suckers" that reason "camcorders are camcorders" can there?

There's little keychain cameras that are a few dollars, I think this is one of those in a big pretty case.

“12.0 megapixels” VWestlife said :”It is in VGA”

I know a real Mitsuba if i see one. And look, there's Magnetbox, Panaphonics and Sorny. 😁

Crazy. Looks like a modern version of a webcam level camera I got in like 2004-5 complete with fake looking DVD writer bulge and viewfinder. For VGA its not bad video, but I cant believe these exist in 2016 lol!

requesting a teardown of this pile of trash please probally a small board with a lead weight inside

8:18 can you make a video where you take it apart? :)

teardown time.....

This is so depressing... and it's totally offensive to see that someone in China thought "We'll make a camcorder with a fake DVD compartment, the westerners fall for that kind of stuff. But we'll leave it empty, they are so stupid they'll never know the difference anyway" :-(

This is hilarious. Why put a DVD-slot in there if it doesn't even use the discs? Why that stupid arrangement with the viewfinder? Why the fake SD-card? I can't even begin to understand who designed this device and why. Great video.

'12MP interpolated' isn't fake, though very misleading(it used to be very common to do this), interpolated basically just means it's being scaled/stretched to a higher resolution, which presumably it does actually do. Utterly pointless, but technically correct. At least it doesn't look like the digital zoom is just scaling up the centre of the picture, albeit only because it records in low resolution so it can just crop a smaller portion of the sensor, to zoom in. The microphone looks like it might be adjustable for the direction it points, I don't know what the point would be though.

When the microphone is in place, is the sound quality any better? Anyway, it's not a bad camera. (but I still say that the video quality is similar to a Nokia 6300).

I remember in the mid 2000s over here in .au there were some TV stations that marketed themselve as being HD even though it was just a PAL signal broadcast in progressive scan. It was thoroughly ridiculous but our 'definitions' here based everything above 576i as some form of HD. Some channels remained so for many years too. So that super high VGA signal is of much higher definition than 480p, depending on your standards definitions; or definitions of your standards.

That sd card, sd slot and DVD really cracks me up. I guess they included a built in place to store the fake sd card and driver cd. Lol

That "extra weight" are just the drugs that are packed inside.

this whole camera is a lie

can you do more reviews on Counterfeit electronic products would love to see more :D

If it's cheap enough, something like that is nice for a weather balloon trip to space or something. It works, it weighs little and is worth less. As long as it works for a couple of weeks while getting something like that together, it's still something worth having for disposable situations.

The picture is passable but everything else is godawful

Video quality isn't terrible, though the audio sounds like it's coming through a telephone.

Reminds me of this POS $10 Vivitar camcorder I had one time. Boy was that thing a steaming pile! This is HD compared to that excuse for a video camera. It had it all, from the 3-inch fake lens with a pin-hole in the middle, to an LCD smaller than a postage stamp, to the 8X "zoom" which would make video look like it was made of 4 pixels. Only thing it didn't have is a fake DVD reader. That camera, and the cheap camera that came with my quadcopter are the only things I can think of that top this out.

I love these kinds of videos.

The microphone looks like a ray gun

The external microphone looks likes a Sony mic I have for my vintage Sony camcorders, when I first got it, it sat backwards, after dorking with it, I found that the base actually swivels, the hot shoe on the Sony sits up front close to the lens, I believe it was designed to stay mounted to the camera and when not in use, you were able to swing it backwards and place it in the camera bag....might apply, a little force to see if yours may rotate as well?

I bought an Audiosonic digital camera a few years ago from a K-Mart store here in Australia. I'll tell you right now, I ended up taking it back to the store(I think I got a refund) The camera was an absolute load of JUNK! WARNING: AVOID AUDIOSONIC PRODUCTS LIKE THE PLAGUE!

This reminds me of the goods sold out of white vans at the swap meet.

this thing is adorable

The camera's digital zoom really didn't like zooming in on the Office 97 box, the video started glitching. I wonder when this camcorder was made, I'd say probably early 2000s.

Fake SD card? CHINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's like a $5 toy microphone

Typed "Mitsuba" into Amazon UK and thankfully nothing by them came up.

Every time I think Funai and Nakamichi crap is the bottom of the barrel, I find a new bottom.

kinda got motion sickness from the shaky video... :S

I know you bought it just to review it but I have been burned on this knock off stuff. I got wrapped up in this video so much it made me nauseated knowing it also happens to everyone else. They put so much time and effort and material making a bad product that they could use the same material and make a good product with less hokey features. Thanks for the videos.

I guess they figure if you get fooled by the name, you'll get fooled by the "quality". Mitsuba, available wherever (lack of) quality Chinese camcorders are sold!

2:50 Thank the Lord! I don't think I could have coped with any more of that camera's video and audio.

Backwards facing microphone? Fake "DVC" drive? By interpolation? Reversed zoom lever? Viewfinder that looks like the lens on a decent camera? LED lights that flicker at the same rate as the camera records? That my friend is innovation.

I wonder when 4k video takes off if digital zoom would be acceptable to use with minor loss in quality if the end user was still watching it on a 1080p screen.

I'm shocked that you kept the "cameracorder" around! I'd have figured it met up with a microphone stand, golf club, car, bench vise or thrift store long ago... For 4:3 standard definition video, the output doesn't look too terrible. And the audio is arguably better (if still lacking high end) compared to the good old Panasonic Lumix. In fact it reminds me a lot of older digital still cameras with video modes. I'll go on record as the dissenting opinion -- for things that would be hazardous to a "real" camcorder or as a basis to build into something else, maybe something to give to a child...this thing's brilliant as long as one realizes what it is and doesn't pay too much for it. I'm surprised they went to the trouble of putting metal contact fingers on the fake SD card. Did you happen to plug it into something and see if it did anything?

I used to have one of those fake camcorders (mine was a DXG) when they used to be common in low-end department stores like Kohl's and TJMaxx. The one annoying thing about those camcorders is that for some reason, the video was recorded in the .MOV (QuickTime) format, which made it impossible to edit on Windows Movie Maker without converting the video to a compatible format.

1 pixel state of the art video at the end.

I remember that camcorder from the video about the eBay counterfeit camcorders that you uploaded around 2009 or so, it was a fancier model but it had the same body style as this one

Mitsuba = Pensonic

At 0:56 is anyone else reminded of the Starship Entgerprise? And I know the quality of the recording is pretty crappy compared to what we have, but I would have killed for this in 1990 when I was using my 8mm camcorder !!

I got a different named sub 100$ camera at Amazon... and it was very much like this one in the lousy category, although mine did have real SD card support. It featured bad picture and low sound. They got it back.

was this video recorded in 2016 or 2006?

I quite like the description of this video. I could *ALMOST* take Mitsuba seriously if their stuff was sold at TOYS R US, but just almost. The picture is bad, the microphone is so bad that Shazam could not even identify that awesome jazz version of "Amazing Grace" playing on the radio :(

I saw some 35mm cameras new on a few sites. I saw your video on the search. are the 35mm cameras fake also or just really bad quality? Mitsuba Camera 3504

Did you ever crack it open to see if there was a weight inside it?

The sound reminds me of my DXG lol. Does that microphone swivel? It has markings on it that suggest it would. It's funny how they put the fake DVD compartment in just for looks, but it's like the fake counterweight adjustment on a cheap turntable; All it does is make the whole thing look stupid and cheap. That's a cool battery adapter! I would love one of those to use in a pinch for a camera that doesn't use AA batteries. Have you tried out the 35mm camera in that other Mitsuba? I'd be interested to see what kind of picture quality you'd get out of that.

VWestlife, you should deem yourself as The Chinapride Critic.

These reviews of fake electronics are always hilarious. "Don't Take Apart" LOL, yeah right.

Video is not the worst I've seen (Because my old webcam was worse than this camcorder) But the audio sounds like something from the 90s for sure.

What a POJ! Reminds me of my Vivitar DVR508nHD mess.

This camcorder is not too terribly bad is it? i love the design though. Mitsuba.-it's where quality and satisfaction are guaranteed to meet.

I would accept NOTHING less from China.... This made me laugh so hard especially the fake DVD compartment.

the audio is pretty bad wonder if there any way to test the other mic or add one to it as not watched all the video. good they did put an LED light on there though.

Id buy it for a dollar tho

Vivitar once made good cameras

I must same quality camera best quality Guangzhou video mini dv camcorder GoPro full HD

The audio quality of that thing sounds like my old DV 4500 camera. I still have it and it does work. the best quality video is 640x480 at 10 (yes 10) frames per second. then it has 352x288 and 160x120. My canon cameras all have good video my newest shoots full HD video and my android phone shoots at 720p.

the sound is horrible

Much more like a crapcorder!

Fake DVD, fake SD and then that external microphone! Ha ha ha!!! :-D

And by the way, are you not interested on doing some MINIDISC Technology reviews? Its an obsolete thing now but i do still use it today... Thanks man...

My 2007 Nikon point and shoot camera has a similar video quality to this...

If I was given the option of either have to film everything I want to with the Mitsuba for the rest of my life, or having to chew on an extension cord, I'd chew on an extension cord.

Mitsuba in Japanese is a herb that tastes vaguely of celery. Sort of an acquired taste.

We are lives in 2017, This guy lives in 1997

Ha! The good'ole Sony miniDV (or even Digital 8) handycam made 15-20 years ago can easily outperform this plastic toy. ;)

Digital zoom is glitchy

Is that a Hitachi hifi at the end? I have the T-21 which looks slightly similar to that in the same style cabinet.

@vwestlife Did you see the new turntable technics are releasing later this year?

I wonder how fucking drunk the designer of this camera had to be to put a fake mini-disc drive on the thing. It's a waste of plastic and money! If you're going to manufacture a shit camera at least save as much money as possible making it.

what format uses? MJPEG in avi or MOV?

when was this released? I'm guessing 2008 by the quality and even low end for that era. So by what that fake sd card says this camcorder won't accept anything bigger than a 32mb sd card?

it's like watching youtube from 2005

The framerate is really good though REALLY stable unlike modern cameras that stutter like a 25fps movie even though they "say" that they're 60fps

What camera did you use to shoot most of the video? The 4:3 aspect ratio could mean some mini-DV camcorder.

Incredible bad joke :-D

I started laughing out loud when you showed the fake DVD drive. Why do they go through the effort to imitate a camcorder from 10 years ago? I did a quick check on Amazon and eBay and I don't even see for sale for really cheap. I think I will stay with my Canon ELPH.

My 80$ LG phone did much better

Its interesting to watch your vids :)

I just bought one for $6 on ebay.

How much did you pay?

i once got this camera it is HILLARIOUS! it will loose memory if the batteries are removed and had a lcd display wich just displays NUMBERS