The $50 Film Camera You Should Actually Buy.

The Kodak Ektar H35 is the camera you should actually buy in 2022.

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[THICCTHICCTHICC]

I think, in all honesty, this camera is pretty much perfect for what it is.
It's cost efficient, the brown/yellow models are very fan-servicey in their retro design, it's light, it's cheap, it's compact, it's fun.
I'll definitely buy one.

[theowlfromduolingo]

Another good thing about this camera is that it’s a new product. So the mechanics, the electronics and the light seals should be somewhat reliable. Sometimes you can’t be sure about a camera that’s a few decades old.

[richardpen]

It’s a lot harder to get through a roll than I thought 😂 I’ve shot two weddings with it and still have like 20 frames left.

[tylerleroy]

Honestly dumbfounded it is that cheap - I swear that 97% of the time I watch a "Cheap camera" video it still shakes out to hundreds of dollars. Undeniably bought one just for the fun, killer recommendation (it hasn't even gotten here yet but love that it's legitimately an affordable item w/ neat aspect).

[bb_lou]

I've had my dad's old point and shoot film camera laying around for a while, seeing this really showed me I don't need super fancy equipment to enjoy shooting film. Thanks for a great video, hopefully I'll be able to go out and shoot some pictures soon!

[jas_bataille]

The main reason to get this would be to have something that forces me to slown down while working on my vertical aspect ratio skills :) Edit : also vertical is the magazine ratio which a lot of people seems to forget about...!! My teachers mainly Dominc Nahr from Time Magazine always said to practice shooting vertically, but it sucks to have to turn the camera sideways every time. So carrying one of those when you wanna do a critical single-page is a great idea too!

[jim_bocho]

The half frame idea is great for this kind of camera. Could see myself throwing this in the bag on trips with friends.

[TaylorJacksonPhoto]

This camera is so fun! Perfect for amateur bowling photography as well, which is a genre I'm attempting to get better at.

[bobjackson]

That camera is very similar to my first camera (bought in the late sixties). It was called a Kodak Instamatic and apart from the half frame aspect, it looks and appears to function identically. In the early 70's I travelled overland from UK to Australia this was the camera I took. I don't recall my camera needing a battery. My travel pictures still look pretty good.

[chiguire]

I bought an Agfaphoto cheap camera, very much like this one, a year ago, costed like 35$. Mine takes a full frame picture unlike this one, but I've had so much fun taking pictures with it that now I take it regularly with me for any occasion.

[lucakieft]

really nice camera. I wanted to buy one, but when i was talking about it in my family, . My aunt came with an old kodak camera which i instantly loved. The kodak retina IIIc from 1954. i was so surprised at the options you had back in the day and now im just really impressed how the cameras of nowadays havent changed alot, except its all smaller ofcourse

[lidotrijsturis]

One of my childhood cameras was a chaika, which also had narrow frames and could take 72 frames with a 36-frame film. At that time, slides were more popular, because you could get a relatively large picture on the wall in the 80's.This is an interesting camera, some pictures alone can't tell if the shadows were drawn dynamically in a photo studio, or if such a cheap camera really has such relatively good optics

[yuKfu]

Here is an alternative:

Find at flea market, garage sale, an Olympus Pen EE (EE2, EE3), even with a cell out of order for 5 or 10 dollars... and with the rest of the budget, buy yourself a few rolls of film

Why ? Even an Olympus out of service, the "flash" mode gives us a more than correct speed (1/40th), magnificent glass optics Zuiko with control from f2.8 to f22 and it is much more solid than the all-plastic H35 !

This H35 is just a much too expensive plastic bin, for that price there are much better alternatives:

-Agfa Parat/Paramat
-Belomo Agat 18k/Chaika
-Canon MultiTele/AutoBoy
-Fujica Half
- Ricoh Petri/Compact
-Yashica Mimy/Samurai
-...

[dlyon]

Your photos look great. Nice lesson in not getting hung up on expensive equipment, and maybe also shooting at smaller apertures, among other things.

[NickShvelidze]

This video reminded me that I have a BELOMO Agat 18K, tiny plastic half-frame camera from Soviet Belarus. It's really a hidden gem with f2.8 28mm lens and manual focus/exposure control, no built-in flash though.

[PinkBlueStripe]

Yep! Bought mine 4 weeks ago after watching Chis Chu! Great fun and a reminder that photo experiences don't have to be serious. Taken through London and Paris!

[Hector_Malot]

Kodak brings out the 1963 Instamatic! At the time he used 126 cartridges. It was an interplanetary success. A good idea to revive Kodak.

[Oscaru]

all those photos are beautiful 😍 i love how it makes everything feel so nostalgic

[hamzasahaf]

The pictures that you were showing while talking about resolution were all I could think of. NATURAL. UNEDITED. PERFECT.

[JamesHawkeYouTube]

It's just like the Kodak Instamatic I learned photography on as a kid in the 70's. Except we had to buy separate flash cubes and attach them on top. They took the 126 film cassettes.