Wow its rly been that long hasnt it. I was pissing my pants to his "whole chicken in a can" video in high school. Pretty sure people still said "swag" back then.
@@spectoreonee8750 I'd like to think he cut the back, top and armrest cushions off and put them on a folding board that he just sits on his desk as a sort of tiny filming set. And just does all his reviews in an office chair
@@user-st7rq3sn7v I once poked my member out through the surface of a lake and they've been circulating the picture as footage of the Loch Ness Monster.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Sure these things could be designed and manufactured recently, but the specs were obsolete by at least 10 years so its safe to assume the final goal of these products is to utilise unwanted electronics in one way or another. Actually it is common practice in China to use obsolete tech and repackage it into something else for sell since it would sometimes cost more to dispose the parts than to manufacture some crap out of them.
Yeah , i don't know why these junk technologies are sold is beyond me . We got so many of these junk stuff in the late 80's and in the 90's . That are since long into the bin . It is just a waste of everything . Similar goes for these Crosleys record players and other junk record players can't they just stop selling junk garbage materials which isn't ecological at all . I'm so angry and mad with all the plastic garbage we have now . I still have an old Pentax camera from the 70's and it was in metal today's cameras are in cheap plastic .
I have a fake camera which have converse as their brand name. They're terrible, probably webcams, awful to use, but their photos are charming. Not any good, but somehow comfortable.
Bring back the "cheapo" intro for Wish videos like you did with the Poundland ones, it makes sense since Wish is essentially online poundland but everything doesn't cost a pound and is probably somehow worse than poundland.
Honestly the white balance on the old camera is WAY better than his current one. WAY too "red" for the white balance on the current camera. That and this will sound weird but there's less distracting reverb on the old camera's mic as well. The latter may just be nostalgia but the former really is better in terms of white balance.
@@footrot17 Disposable cameras are disposable and can only take a few pictures and you need to develop those pictures, which also costs extra money. So yeah cant really compare a 25£ digital camera which can be used to take thousands and thousands of pictures without any cost to a 10$nz disposable camera...
The power-on sound from the first "camera" was the sound my Walmart onn branded "dash cam" used to make before I returned because it was $20 trash and then spent $60 on a real dash cam, lol
Linus Tech Tips made a video on dash cams, basically all of them, cheap and the expensive ones use the same crappy components, I have a $90 dash cam bought new in 2022 and it also makes this sound...
I would love to get some of these cameras and walk around famous tourist spots.. leaving my camera unattended so thieves can get it. Just for me to imagine their faces when they see what they stole.
No joke, there's actually a video on TH-cam where a guy got suckered by the White Van Speaker scam (speakers in very pretty boxes that are full of lies, and have an listed MSRP of around $2500 but sold for a few hundred dollars by guys on parking lots), and took them apart. They were actually filled with concrete to weigh them down. So he left the box on a sidewalk and just waites until someone took it.
@@protheu5 are you referencing the old film scamra that had a lead weight in so people thought it was "high quality " became you know weight means quality
I think in Ashens case that has been to his advantage, he's never tried to follow the current reviewer trends from across the years and given how some haven't aged well, Ashens just sticking to his guns has helped.
And ghosts, everyone knows they're afraid of high def. Best ghost deterrent there is, If your house is haunted set up a good digital camera and you won't have to worry about them again.
Considering how many more cameras there are and how many new campers there are (there was a surge with COVID); you'd expect that we'd have some footage if there was a bigfoot.
You’re lucky you were even able to upload any of this footage. I’ve bought some of these garbage cameras, and I couldn’t even get the files to play on my computer.
@@Connie_TinuityError the files seemed to be corrupted as they had weird lines all over the screen and played like 2 or 3 frames with garbled audio. That’s about what I remember from the experience. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t faulty camera hardware
I have a dashcam with the same loading sound but menu and video quality is real 1080p and sound is really good. I bought it in 2016 so these must be ancient tech.
Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. I have a dashcam that uses the same software, only difference is the sensors they use are much better, but the software is literally the same and it has the same exact menu with the exception of having the ability to choose how long segment of recording will be (since it's a dashcam)
if your dashcam is the same camera you might aswell bring a parrot in the car to record events for you for all the good 240p video is going to do for you in the event of an insurance claim xD
@@kinoirvoidjustice even better, learning film photography is such a great hobby - tho I suppose not for everyone, and paying for film can get pricey :')
(6:00) Yes, digital zoom is pre-cropping. The only benefit is a smaller file size. It's better to not digitally zoom at all and do the cropping in post, where you have full control over it.
The teardown of the camera at the end was absolutely fascinating! To imagine that someone has actually engineered that thing and there's a factory somewhere where people are soldering all those wires and assembling those cameras because enough people in the world actually want to buy this junk.
When I see stuff like this, and these cameras are just stuff, all I see is the damage these pointless useless items are doing to the planet. Imagine the precious resources that have been wasted to produce something that will be thrown away almost as soon as the box is opened. I'm not an environmental mentalist but it does make my heart weep to think we live on a finite planet with finite resources but millions of tons of crap like this is eating it all up. Let's not forget the precious resources needed to dispose of it all too! Tragic!
I'd been looking for a back up camera ... seeing those makes me feel truly grateful that I didn't just get some knockoff piece of junk just because the price was good. Thank you for the review.
I thought that surely you were exaggerating, but no that camera actually does sound like the beeswax recording of Florence nightingale, you can find that on Wikipedia by the way.
seeing the recordings not in widescreen made me realize ive been watching ashens since before youtube had widescreen. thats terrifying. i think i was 9, im 22 now, thats over half my life. christ
The sad part is that it's wish's fault Aliexpress has some legit good cameras and projectors, for half the price of one in the stores in here. Wish sells shit for the same price but for a much lower quality.
@@JotaC It boggles my mind how Wish got so popular when Aliexpress was already established. Although now that I think about it when Wish was new to the scene tons of influencers had videos about ordering from Wish, so it's down to sneaky marketing and scumbag influencers who don't declare when it's a sponsored video.
@@Alex-ve1og Aliexpress is for actual business and people who buy wisely. Wish is utter trash, whereas Alie is actually professional manufacturers finding buyers.
@@Alex-ve1og it's also a lot due to marketing and ploys to get you to buy stuff. All the time on wish you get pop-ups like "BUY NOW AND GET 5% OFF", when it's all lies, cause if you log into incognito and browse there, the prices will be much lower (they raise the prices based on what you search and click). And also people think wish stuff is cheaper cause it's $5 for the item and $5 shipping, and they only show the real cost when you are about to pay and enter your credit card, so you're less likely to leave the website, when in aliexpress you find the same thing for $8. Not to mention the "free" items that have $15 shipping, ridiculous.
I really like how you've kept your videos the same as when you started. I came across your channel a decade ago when you reviewed the fake iPhone by Airphone. I recently re-watched it this year wondering what happened to Airphone Inc. I appreciate how unform you've kept your videos.
@@jrworthy I can watch the GPS clock for 37 weeks and my pulse and breathing will earn me more handout money than than that price simply because I am me...It costs $3000 to arrest someone and only 33 cents for a bullet.
This is probably the most underrated channel I’ve been watching you since I was about 12 I’m 22 now I remember watching your pound land videos and go how tf does this guy get things so cheap (12 yr old me didn’t know what a euro was nor could see any scale laying around lol. All in all I love you videos @Ashens
I use to have one in black that stated “TH-cam ready” it was a damn good camera and decent optical zoom and battery. I sold mine to pay my phone bill :(
That final camera managed to both look and sound like your first review from over a decade ago. I saw someone else say this, and it bears repeating: you should totally make some "lost reviews" with it. It'd be a great way to get some use out of it, and keep it out of a landfill for a while.
Fun little tidbid no one will care about: The sound that plays when turning on the third camera at 13:16 is the same sound Microsoft ActiveSync 3.8 did when you connected a Windows CE device to a host computer.
I had a Fisher Price analogue camera when I was a kid. It was well-made, robust and could actually take decent photos (although most of the time, there wasn't a film in it and I just pretended there was). It also had a really strong flash that you could scare your younger sibling with...
"Looking for a new camera on a budget? Then this video will be completely useless for you, as it only features cameras that aren't any good!" Thats the best honest and funny description I've seen in a for a while here on youtube.
I did a video project for uni a couple of years ago where I recorded footage on my dad's ancient Hi-8 camcorder and then digitised it with a cheap dongle thing from eBay that exported the video in MP2 (!!!) format and even that looked better than the footage from those first two cameras.
JonasLue then lord knows what it was - the software the dongle came with said it was MP2 and I never bothered checking further - in any case it was *bad* but still better than these lol
@@theidealcopy_ My guess is that "MP2" meant M-JPEG AVI files with MP2 audio (used by digital radio and Video CDs). Either that or QuickTime .MOV (I had a cheap "camcorder" that used that. Made editing video an absolute hell on Windows XP).
Gage M. Could well have been - I didn’t use the audio from the footage since it was for an installation that I did music for, but what little of the audio I did hear would’ve been unusable anyway - whatever digital conversion the dongle did absolutely murdered the bit depth and sample rate, and also cut off all frequencies above about 1kHz 🙃 it was comically bad
Brilliant! I think you've just provided some clear (ha!) evidence of why nearly all video coming from the man on the street throughout China looks as if it was captured with a 1987-era camcorder.
Male Neighbor: honey, that ashens git is outside talking to his plants again! Female neighbor: is he at least wearing trousers this time? Male neighbor: *surprised Pikachu face *
Best humourous couch product reviews I've ever saw and heard!!! Thanks so much, "Ashens" god bless you mate!!! Your straight forward no B.S. "REAL" entertaining reviews brightens up my day made my day better!!! Thanks, "Ashens" from a loyal subscriber from the USA!!! Just a reminder if you order crappy stuff, you will also get crappy stuff you get what you pay for!!! I guess!!!
@ohnoitschris I'm pretty sure you're right. Same sounds and video quality as mine too. What an odd thing to do sticking a dashcam in a full size camera shell.
@@AndyLundell That's pretty much it. Chinese garbage factories print random English on things because "that's the way it's supposed to look". It's actually considered important and a point of pride, because the success in producing a product is in almost a cargo cult ape-mimicry of the product rather than trying to do a good job intrinsically. Back when firearms were less restricted, you'd find Chinese guns made with random characters stamped on the side, random numerals where range marks would be on the sight, etc. China has had trouble eliminating these practices because they're a natural evolution of the "mimicry of the master is the path to mastery" cultural attitude. There are hundreds of thousands of incredibly talented Chinese engineers and artists who produce truly great work but they get overshadowed by the hordes of literal millions of copycats (who also immediately mimic anything the Chinese innovators create). It's very demoralizing for the people who are working tirelessly to create a true Chinese domestic market for innovation.
Most manuals would not need to state that, but after using that one, what's the first thing you want to do? But the book says No! No colliding with hard objects! Doesn't say anything about being rolled over by soft but heavy rubbery objects!
these would be perfect for someone wanting to produce vintage looking YT videos like they were from 2005 edit- im very impressed with that little electric screwdriver at the end
Haven’t watched this guy in YEARS... it’s good to see he’s doing good, still sitting on the floor using his couch as a desk 👌
Lolz
Same haha
Wow its rly been that long hasnt it. I was pissing my pants to his "whole chicken in a can" video in high school. Pretty sure people still said "swag" back then.
that's the magic of ashens, you can watch a video of his from 4 or 5 or 7 years ago and he will still be the same
How dare you -- the couch is all grown up now, with all them long legs Ashens has to sit on a chair to propery use face the couch
A: "What's that?"
B: "A camera."
A: "What brand is it?"
B: "Camera."
Welcome
Goodbye
🤣
It's actually branded as welcome
Photo Camera!
I actually had to laugh when the Camera just said "Goodbye" after 5 seconds of use lol
All it needed was a middle finger on the screen
I got it
Z zx xx
So the perfect types of cameras to get pictures of bigfoot and UFOs.
Just needs wax on the lens for extra good results
And basil
Dont forget that these are the perfect camera to use as security cameras
Good for any sighting really
I have a $5,000 camera and you still wouldn't be satisfied with the quality.
"Let me get my screwdriver and we'll take this apart because I want to know"
100% expected a hammer to come down and break it open 😂
He needs to borrow Bigclives "X-ray"
Same.
Ha, or DankPods’ 1 grit.
Photonicinduction would have said let's pop it!
@@NOWThatsRichy I want flames!
I can't get over the visual image of this man kneeling in front of, and speaking to his couch.
He's acc got the couch on legs so he hasn't got to kneel
This man is kneeling on his couch for damn years now
@@spectoreonee8750 I'd like to think he cut the back, top and armrest cushions off and put them on a folding board that he just sits on his desk as a sort of tiny filming set. And just does all his reviews in an office chair
Visual image eh?
@@JackPorter i can imagine that lol
I NEED lens caps that say "Camera," so I can go outside in my shirt that says "Shirt" and take photos from my car that says "Car."
I want a shirt that says shirt.
I found one. Apparently one of the Paul brothers ruined it for everyone who doesn't want to look like a 12 year old fan.
On a side note I searched Google for "shirt shirt" and the first result was a $900 designer short sleeve t-shirt stapled to a long sleeve shirt.
@@Tb0n3 I mean, you got what you searched for. There's something in of itself.
And halfway dow the arm of the shirt, a little label that says "Elbow", and on the seat of your trousers.....
When I turn my Wish camera off, it says, "Goodbey" Almost worth it for that!
If says 'Farewell' most probably :-)
its trying to say "good buy" because its telling you that its a good buy but because its cheap it cant spell it right
Goodbey? LOL 😂🤣
"I had to put the batteries in otherwise it would _fucking float away_ ."
I really cackled at this part too.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 🤣🤣🤣
"And it was a fairy 🧚"
These are all actually the same cameras used to capture every recorded instance of cryptid known to the public.
I'm sure if you ran by any fast enough in a dog costume, you could catch Bigfoot
@@user-st7rq3sn7v I once poked my member out through the surface of a lake and they've been circulating the picture as footage of the Loch Ness Monster.
@@catharticc i didn't realize the zoom was so good.
@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 they overuse the digital zoom, that's why it's so pixelated.
I believe they gave some of them to the UFO community as well.
These products are also extremely wasteful.
Literally manufactured landfill.
well since those parts were very obsolete and pretty much worthless they might as well put together something to sell
@@edwardmsr But there's a good chance they're not "left over parts", but actual new units of an old design.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Sure these things could be designed and manufactured recently, but the specs were obsolete by at least 10 years so its safe to assume the final goal of these products is to utilise unwanted electronics in one way or another. Actually it is common practice in China to use obsolete tech and repackage it into something else for sell since it would sometimes cost more to dispose the parts than to manufacture some crap out of them.
Thank you! I hate this "Wish" trend on TH-cam. If people didn't buy this junk it wouldn't exist in the first place.
Yeah , i don't know why these junk technologies are sold is beyond me .
We got so many of these junk stuff in the late 80's and in the 90's . That are since long into the bin . It is just a waste of everything .
Similar goes for these Crosleys record players and other junk record players can't they just stop selling junk garbage materials which isn't ecological at all .
I'm so angry and mad with all the plastic garbage we have now .
I still have an old Pentax camera from the 70's and it was in metal today's cameras are in cheap plastic .
While the quality of these cameras is in the garbage, they do offer this aesthetic that's low key appealing? Very indie horror almost
Record some footage, add some music to it and then boom! I find it appealing
Its 25 dollars you fool. What do you expect.
yep, great for filmmakers if they want to capture that old aesthetic. however, you could just use a webcam for the same effect
I have a fake camera which have converse as their brand name. They're terrible, probably webcams, awful to use, but their photos are charming. Not any good, but somehow comfortable.
Yes, very "28 weeks later" like
Bring back the "cheapo" intro for Wish videos like you did with the Poundland ones, it makes sense since Wish is essentially online poundland but everything doesn't cost a pound and is probably somehow worse than poundland.
I miss the cheapo intro too!
He could have the Wish logo appear where his eyes go instead of the pound coins.
+1
Except, given the quality, these weren't cheapo, the were fecking expensive o. The €2 spypen cameras give better footage.
he needs a "WISH ALERT" graphic ala the Pop Station alert IMO.
Hearing Ashens use the old internal microphone made me feel weirdly nostalgic.
I didn't watch for a while and thought he sounded different, when he switched I realized
I really prefer it
really does take you back, doesn't it?
Yeah, me too
Honestly the white balance on the old camera is WAY better than his current one. WAY too "red" for the white balance on the current camera. That and this will sound weird but there's less distracting reverb on the old camera's mic as well. The latter may just be nostalgia but the former really is better in terms of white balance.
It's amazing we have such devices for cheap these days. I would have loved one of those for 25 pounds back in 1990.
That's when they were probably made.. lol
I thought the exact same thing.
1990 in NZ we could get disposable cameras for 10 bucks ae, surely you fancy cnts in looondon had that
honestly, I think a super 8mm camera can get better video
@@footrot17 Disposable cameras are disposable and can only take a few pictures and you need to develop those pictures, which also costs extra money. So yeah cant really compare a 25£ digital camera which can be used to take thousands and thousands of pictures without any cost to a 10$nz disposable camera...
You could make a fake "lost video" from years ago with these. Extra points for prophetic sayings about current events.
could probably have done it for cheaper using the wonders of post processing.
@@Corkoth55 But then it wouldn't be "authentic"!
I love this idea. Bring back noseybonk for a quick second
Illuminati wants to know your location
@@Corkoth55 but these are quite cheap, so your comment makes no sense.
The coolest thing featured is the auto screwdriver at the end.
I think that's called a "Wow Stick" or something like that, if you're interested. Maybe that's just a similar model, IDK. Just thought I'd chime in.
Spoilers
It's a SainSmart ES120 or ES121 as far as I can tell.
Is that from Wish too?
It’s the most ashens thing in this video
The power-on sound from the first "camera" was the sound my Walmart onn branded "dash cam" used to make before I returned because it was $20 trash and then spent $60 on a real dash cam, lol
What dash cam did ya end up getting?
I've had a Sony Cybershot since around 2011 and it makes the EXACT same sound!
@@thebigworldofnz My CyberShot makes the same sound as well. Surely it seems it's a common sound for cheap cameras to rip.
I got a fake Chinese GoPro that makes that noise lol
Linus Tech Tips made a video on dash cams, basically all of them, cheap and the expensive ones use the same crappy components, I have a $90 dash cam bought new in 2022 and it also makes this sound...
extremely thermal circumstances sounds a whole lot like being on fire
These cameras deserve to die in extremely thermal circumstances.
It also sounds like a cool band name
@@JonathanLewispartypenguin AGREED.
Think of the Monks! Don't be cheap on air conditioning.
Oh man, just that camcorder microphone is nostalgic. I've been watching this channel for too long lol
Same
Me too.
Chintendo Vii!
I've been watching since I was in middle school, and I am very, VERY glad that he's still the exact same.
Remember the airphone 4?
Finally i know what all the UFO sightings were filmed with.
Amen. It always kills me, everyone has a 4K smartphone, yet every UFO is filmed in 240p, which cameras starting from 10 years ago don't even support.
Yes and all bank security companies must buy their cameras of wish as well
@@smashexentertainment676 Don't blame the photographer on those blurry big foot shots. Because big foot IS blurry.
I would love to get some of these cameras and walk around famous tourist spots.. leaving my camera unattended so thieves can get it. Just for me to imagine their faces when they see what they stole.
Put some lead inside, so it's not instantly obvious it's a cheap plastic with air inside.
Put some coke in it to make your own drug ring.
No joke, there's actually a video on TH-cam where a guy got suckered by the White Van Speaker scam (speakers in very pretty boxes that are full of lies, and have an listed MSRP of around $2500 but sold for a few hundred dollars by guys on parking lots), and took them apart. They were actually filled with concrete to weigh them down. So he left the box on a sidewalk and just waites until someone took it.
@@protheu5 are you referencing the old film scamra that had a lead weight in so people thought it was "high quality " became you know weight means quality
Sounds like entrapment. So everything that's lost should be left in obscurity.
I love that his humor has never changed
You can watch his videos from 2006 and he acts exactly the same
I think in Ashens case that has been to his advantage, he's never tried to follow the current reviewer trends from across the years and given how some haven't aged well, Ashens just sticking to his guns has helped.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
And his couch
Consistency!
"It would f*ckin float away" 😂
I like how the fourth one makes the windows 3.1 shutdown sound when powered on.
this is exactly what I was thinking lol
I associate that sound with closing down so it’s disconcerting.
"These are perfect for filming Sasquatch footage!" -Anyone who has tried filming Sasquatch, apparently
They go- Ay!! That's pretty good.
Also UFOs!
Yummy Dralon background
And ghosts, everyone knows they're afraid of high def. Best ghost deterrent there is, If your house is haunted set up a good digital camera and you won't have to worry about them again.
Considering how many more cameras there are and how many new campers there are (there was a surge with COVID); you'd expect that we'd have some footage if there was a bigfoot.
You’re lucky you were even able to upload any of this footage. I’ve bought some of these garbage cameras, and I couldn’t even get the files to play on my computer.
did you try using VLC? usually that allows to play just about _any_ video file and codec that I could possibly think of [from the top of my head]
@@Connie_TinuityError the files seemed to be corrupted as they had weird lines all over the screen and played like 2 or 3 frames with garbled audio. That’s about what I remember from the experience. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t faulty camera hardware
Every time Ashens reads a manual, I get a little bit of hope in the fact we may just get another Antonio Stella Bottom Tile moment,
oh... oh that brings back such joyous memories.
That violin was legendary and should be used by professional orchestras globally!
Ah yes it still feels like it happened yesterday good old Antonio Stella bottom tile
Sadly, so far any of those manuals have failed to activate the funny laughter keys
Definitely a top 3 Ashens moment, I forget how many times i re-watched that
Which video was that?
The first one is literally a dash cam in an SLR plastic case. I’ve got the exact dash cam that has the same menu and turn on sound
I have a dashcam with the same loading sound but menu and video quality is real 1080p and sound is really good. I bought it in 2016 so these must be ancient tech.
Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. I have a dashcam that uses the same software, only difference is the sensors they use are much better, but the software is literally the same and it has the same exact menu with the exception of having the ability to choose how long segment of recording will be (since it's a dashcam)
My dashcam (bought from AliExpress) has the exact same ui and software, except it's 10 times better lmfao! Paid 150$ for it.
if your dashcam is the same camera you might aswell bring a parrot in the car to record events for you for all the good 240p video is going to do for you in the event of an insurance claim xD
That on and off sound was taken from Sony cameras
The funny thing is that for around the same price you can actually get a really decent old camera
most of the old cameras is film though, but still good point
@@kinoirvoidjustice even better, learning film photography is such a great hobby - tho I suppose not for everyone, and paying for film can get pricey :')
@@pigmentpeddler5811 im not concerned with the price, im concerned how i cant find movie cameras on a budget level of 1000 dollars
@@kinoirvoidjustice i mean you can shoot a movie on a motorola razer if you want
21:20 that is the coolest Drill thingy ever
NovelLife ES120
@@andrewcook2397 I came into the comments specifically to see if anyone had a line on that drill, thank you hahaha
@@andrewcook2397 Miniware* ES120. Bunch of companies just repackage it. Credit where credit is due.
Third camera uses the chimes.wav sound effect from Windows 3.1 from 30 years ago.
I'm pretty sure it was the fourth
(6:00) Yes, digital zoom is pre-cropping. The only benefit is a smaller file size. It's better to not digitally zoom at all and do the cropping in post, where you have full control over it.
The teardown of the camera at the end was absolutely fascinating! To imagine that someone has actually engineered that thing and there's a factory somewhere where people are soldering all those wires and assembling those cameras because enough people in the world actually want to buy this junk.
I bet Stuart owns HUNDREDS of those generic micro USB cables from doing these reviews
Those impractical low watt short ones that are terrible but useful in emergencies...
@@christopherangeli1141 Quite useful until the cable breaks or your Micro usb port xD
its mini not micro. micro looks like a charger to a phone (not usb type c)
edit:nvm im stupid
@@sussybaka6106 xD
Could probably make a raft out of them
I think, that the "Camera" is only cheap dashcam in larger housing ( that startup sound )
Was thinking the same thing, sounds like my cheapo $30 dashcam I've had in my car for a year.
Same UI & Sounds.
These camera modules are not only used in dashcams, but you can buy them for simple Arduino/Raspberry Pi projects
When I see stuff like this, and these cameras are just stuff, all I see is the damage these pointless useless items are doing to the planet. Imagine the precious resources that have been wasted to produce something that will be thrown away almost as soon as the box is opened. I'm not an environmental mentalist but it does make my heart weep to think we live on a finite planet with finite resources but millions of tons of crap like this is eating it all up. Let's not forget the precious resources needed to dispose of it all too! Tragic!
The duality of tat, it can make us laugh at how ridiculous can be (as we see in Ashen's videos), but with a cost, a fairly irreparable cost
Take it up with governments
@@cannibalbunnygirl Easy as that eh? I'd be wasting my time. Better I use that time on a more productive and useful cause
@Jay Arre 'oil is infinite' has to be one of the most moronic things I've ever heard
@@deaniweenie oil is made from decomposition of organic matter. Oil is like the blood of the earth.
I love that the most expensive camcorder has the Windows 3.x startup sound.
And a rip off version of what looks like Canons video firmware
I'd been looking for a back up camera ... seeing those makes me feel truly grateful that I didn't just get some knockoff piece of junk just because the price was good. Thank you for the review.
These must be what the people recording UFO's use.
And film ghosts
😄👍
These are what they put in Banks for security
I want to meet up with you for a fight?
'Anything is a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying things'
The third camera’s mic sounded like you were recording on a beeswax cylinder.
thomas edison is shaking in his skeletal boots
I thought that surely you were exaggerating, but no that camera actually does sound like the beeswax recording of Florence nightingale, you can find that on Wikipedia by the way.
Those are the lightest looking cameras I have ever seen lol
I love the excitement with which you say "that would probably work!"
seeing the recordings not in widescreen made me realize ive been watching ashens since before youtube had widescreen. thats terrifying. i think i was 9, im 22 now, thats over half my life. christ
Which means Dr. Ashen's been part of your growing up.
You shouldn't have been allowed online!
@@Clay3613 dear god youre right about that, it would have saved me a lot of trauma lmao
Haha got a flashback to when he hade a video where the monsters came out of the scary black sides 😅
@@CandyKnas That one's got a hat on!
It’s crazy how much plastic is wasted for shit like this stuff...
that explains why China has the most polluted air
The sound from the last “camcorder” as you opened it up is actually a notification sound from windows 98 😂
When he did the camera switch, I smiled inside a little bit. The nostalgia...
"Oh that still photo doesn't look too bad OH NO IT'S MOVING NO STOP"
“Analog” retro filter for your Instagramz built-in.
Dare you to test Chinese projectors. "HD 1080p" actually means 320x240.
40x27 = 1080 pixels, who said that they only have to count the vertical ones.
The sad part is that it's wish's fault
Aliexpress has some legit good cameras and projectors, for half the price of one in the stores in here. Wish sells shit for the same price but for a much lower quality.
@@JotaC It boggles my mind how Wish got so popular when Aliexpress was already established. Although now that I think about it when Wish was new to the scene tons of influencers had videos about ordering from Wish, so it's down to sneaky marketing and scumbag influencers who don't declare when it's a sponsored video.
@@Alex-ve1og Aliexpress is for actual business and people who buy wisely. Wish is utter trash, whereas Alie is actually professional manufacturers finding buyers.
@@Alex-ve1og it's also a lot due to marketing and ploys to get you to buy stuff. All the time on wish you get pop-ups like "BUY NOW AND GET 5% OFF", when it's all lies, cause if you log into incognito and browse there, the prices will be much lower (they raise the prices based on what you search and click). And also people think wish stuff is cheaper cause it's $5 for the item and $5 shipping, and they only show the real cost when you are about to pay and enter your credit card, so you're less likely to leave the website, when in aliexpress you find the same thing for $8. Not to mention the "free" items that have $15 shipping, ridiculous.
I like how it says "Camera" on the lense cap, just in case you didn't realise it was a camera you bought. Although, to be fair, that IS debatable.
B1G _ B4D _ J0HN - And some people can’t even spell the word ‘Lens’.
@@AtheistOrphan So, I made a mistake. What's the problem?
These cameras do give a quasi-90s feeling
I really like how you've kept your videos the same as when you started. I came across your channel a decade ago when you reviewed the fake iPhone by Airphone. I recently re-watched it this year wondering what happened to Airphone Inc.
I appreciate how unform you've kept your videos.
this whole video i am most amazed by that screwdriver 21:24
I didn't know i need it until now.
lol i was just thinking that i needed this screwdriver! So practical. ^^
if interested its a miniware screwdriver ES121 :)
@@oliverdavies8369 awesome thanks man!
@@oliverdavies8369 you my good sir is what we need in this world !!! ❤️❤️
I have the exact same camera, only it's in the form of a $10 dashcam.
Same UI, same software, same quality.
Wild.
do you like it?
@@alexm566 No, it's fucking awful.
I think Vivitar is the original brand
@@Rhidongo i own 2 of them, they're ok.......
@@rxgtv You must have depressingly low standards. I could buy a $20 burner phone that is better suited for the role.
21:20 Forget the cameras, I want to see review of that SCREWDRIVER!!!
Funny enough that screwdriver is worth more than all of those camera's combined LMAO!
Its called the ES121 screwdriver. There are some vids of it on youtube i saw. Its quite expensive though 😜
Haha I was looking for this comment. That screwdriver is sick
I NEED a lens cap with "Camera" printed on the front.
They sell, them separately on Wish, 0.15$ :-) + 14 $ shipping
@@erwinmaes780 Sweet! I can't wait until it arrives in 37 weeks.
@@jrworthy epic :-)
@@jrworthy I can watch the GPS clock for 37 weeks and my pulse and breathing will earn me more handout money than than that price simply because I am me...It costs $3000 to arrest someone and only 33 cents for a bullet.
just in case you're unsure what it is
This is probably the most underrated channel I’ve been watching you since I was about 12 I’m 22 now I remember watching your pound land videos and go how tf does this guy get things so cheap (12 yr old me didn’t know what a euro was nor could see any scale laying around lol. All in all I love you videos @Ashens
The companies' motto: "We cut out the quality, and pass the rest on to you!"
The same motto that a chinese toilet company has.
LOL
Wait, but you don't even get the quality back...
Jesus! 🤣
The "control" camera still fetches close to £100 even 8 years on!
it's a damn good camera. not top shelf, but around the same level of a blue yeti in terms of viability.
@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 I'm pretty sure blue yeti's video capture ability is a bit limited
@@myownsite lol, i deserved that one. i meant in terms of low end quality a/v equipment.
I use to have one in black that stated “TH-cam ready” it was a damn good camera and decent optical zoom and battery. I sold mine to pay my phone bill :(
Sold mine for crack. Jokes on me though it wasn't even real crack.
These cameras are really cool, they give you the late 90s early 2000s home footage type of aesthetic.
Love the "camera " logo in Canon font
That final camera managed to both look and sound like your first review from over a decade ago. I saw someone else say this, and it bears repeating: you should totally make some "lost reviews" with it. It'd be a great way to get some use out of it, and keep it out of a landfill for a while.
I would 100% believe it was footage from a decade ago. If not more.
"Mom, can we get a camcorder?"
"We've got a camcorder at home!"
Fun little tidbid no one will care about:
The sound that plays when turning on the third camera at 13:16 is the same sound Microsoft ActiveSync 3.8 did when you connected a Windows CE device to a host computer.
I also believe that the fourth camera uses the windows 3.1 shutdown sound at 17:31
I KNEW I'd heard that before! Thanks!
The only thing that had a quality LED display, was Ashens screwdriver.
Do you know which one that is? Looks nice...
TheRailroad99 NovelLife ES120 I do believe
@@jamie2051 thanks it looks dope
I was just about to ask
But it cost around $100 on amazon... Ill buy it if I have the money though!
Ashens was around for more of my childhood than my dad was 🤣🤣
I got two $5 cameras for my twins last Christmas. The cameras are garbage, but 7 year olds don't really care.
As long as it's cheap, non toxic, and my kids don't break it in the first 5 minutes, we're all happy.
Sincerely, 2 toddlers.
@@fuckgoogleforever 2 toddlers share a youtube account? ?
@@deetvleet In a tall coat.
I had a Fisher Price analogue camera when I was a kid. It was well-made, robust and could actually take decent photos (although most of the time, there wasn't a film in it and I just pretended there was). It also had a really strong flash that you could scare your younger sibling with...
But how old were your kids when you ordered the cameras?
jesus christ it was like actually going back through a time tunnel back to 2012 ashens with that control camera
I love that first camera that says "Camera" on the lens cap. Gives me the same vibe with shirts that say "T-Shirt" on the front.
5:00 I love how it says "Camera" in the same font that "Canon" uses.
It also rips off the body and appearance of the Canon Digital Rebel T4. All a coincidence I am sure.
@@johnathin0061892 Yep.. Just a coincidence, happens all the time 😂
CANO...MERA
I'm the most impressed by your screwdriver, what is that!
Here for the screwdriver, I want that thing. What is it?
@@MGiordano It's a NovelLife ES120
@@thespicehoarder Thank you
I love how it says Camera on the lens cap.
I’m So early I remember Ashens having a will to live
Wow thats early
Me toi
so, what? 1995?
Rubbish that never happened
The only thing in this video I’m interested in is that screwdriver he used at the end.
Yeessss anyone know what make it was?
someone answered below : Mini Es121
@@terenceokane Thanks for the information. I don't think I will be getting one though because in my country (Canada) it is $125.
"Looking for a new camera on a budget? Then this video will be completely useless for you, as it only features cameras that aren't any good!"
Thats the best honest and funny description I've seen in a for a while here on youtube.
10:57 I love how the weight is listed as "About 220G", did they not have some scales nearby?
They were probably from 'wish' too
I did a video project for uni a couple of years ago where I recorded footage on my dad's ancient Hi-8 camcorder and then digitised it with a cheap dongle thing from eBay that exported the video in MP2 (!!!) format and even that looked better than the footage from those first two cameras.
MP2 was only for audio, not video
JonasLue then lord knows what it was - the software the dongle came with said it was MP2 and I never bothered checking further - in any case it was *bad* but still better than these lol
@@theidealcopy_ My guess is that "MP2" meant M-JPEG AVI files with MP2 audio (used by digital radio and Video CDs). Either that or QuickTime .MOV (I had a cheap "camcorder" that used that. Made editing video an absolute hell on Windows XP).
Gage M. Could well have been - I didn’t use the audio from the footage since it was for an installation that I did music for, but what little of the audio I did hear would’ve been unusable anyway - whatever digital conversion the dongle did absolutely murdered the bit depth and sample rate, and also cut off all frequencies above about 1kHz 🙃 it was comically bad
Brilliant! I think you've just provided some clear (ha!) evidence of why nearly all video coming from the man on the street throughout China looks as if it was captured with a 1987-era camcorder.
"An excellent work horse."
"Well this is not a wide field of view"
“I used this for videos forever.” Me: Oh he probably used in in like 2010 for like three years.
Ashens: I got rid of it around last year.
Says Geoffrey Excellence
Just imagine Ashens neighbors looking through his window and seeing him talking to his sofa...🤔
Male Neighbor: honey, that ashens git is outside talking to his plants again!
Female neighbor: is he at least wearing trousers this time?
Male neighbor: *surprised Pikachu face *
GAMEPRODELTA Ashens: *wearing trousers on his head*
@@toxictrumptube7763 proper attire is essential for attempting to summon cthulu.
I picture him kneeling in front of it too, but with like a full pillow setup under his knees.
neighbour:dont mind him....hes married to that sofa
Best humourous couch product reviews I've ever saw and heard!!! Thanks so much, "Ashens" god bless you mate!!! Your straight forward no B.S. "REAL" entertaining reviews brightens up my day made my day better!!! Thanks, "Ashens" from a loyal subscriber from the USA!!! Just a reminder if you order crappy stuff, you will also get crappy stuff you get what you pay for!!! I guess!!!
In 2001, this would be pretty decent.
Also, wish cameras are perfect to film UFO's, Sasquatch and Loch Ness monster with.
in 2001? My CyberShot took better photos and videos than this, and that was my first camera, for a birthday or christmas.
no, it's just plain bad.
"You got what you bloody deserve!" -British joker
I love how your intro hasn't changed. It's brilliant.
That last one is probably based on a security cam module, hence having infrared as an option.
The first camera is a lot like my dash cams ui, sound effects and HD
Yeah same, seems like these are just cheap repurposed dashcams
Same. Mine's a viofo which is of course chinese. It's not bad though for what it is... Obviously not something I'd want as a camcorder.
Yeah, that first camera makes the exact same startup and shutdown sounds as my car dashcam.
@ohnoitschris I'm pretty sure you're right. Same sounds and video quality as mine too. What an odd thing to do sticking a dashcam in a full size camera shell.
Yup!! Same sounds and UI of old dash cams
This review is delivered with classic British sarcasm, tone and humour. Very enjoyable review.
6:00 That's the same sound my dashcam makes when it turns on. That's what I get for bolting a DSLR to my windshield, I guess.
It's stolen from Sony cameras
I’m more impressed with that electric screwdriver!
Just gotta love the "Camera" and "DVC" logos. Take that, Canon and JVC!
The “Camera” lens cap is supposed to remind one of Canon?
Maybe it's more convincing if you don't read English.
@@AndyLundell That's pretty much it. Chinese garbage factories print random English on things because "that's the way it's supposed to look". It's actually considered important and a point of pride, because the success in producing a product is in almost a cargo cult ape-mimicry of the product rather than trying to do a good job intrinsically. Back when firearms were less restricted, you'd find Chinese guns made with random characters stamped on the side, random numerals where range marks would be on the sight, etc.
China has had trouble eliminating these practices because they're a natural evolution of the "mimicry of the master is the path to mastery" cultural attitude. There are hundreds of thousands of incredibly talented Chinese engineers and artists who produce truly great work but they get overshadowed by the hordes of literal millions of copycats (who also immediately mimic anything the Chinese innovators create). It's very demoralizing for the people who are working tirelessly to create a true Chinese domestic market for innovation.
@NozomuYume Thank you for the lecture Professor!
The whole camera looks like my Canon one, though a million times worse
@@AndyLundell That's exactly it. I've been thinking about buying a mask on Amazon lately. The brand name? PIGBINGO.
“All these sexy, sexy lies” 🤣🤣🤣
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...
I love his garden with all the plants and flowers!
"they're using webcams from 1847" 😂😂😂
When you haven't watched an Ashen video in 4 years and the intro and the couch are still the same 😌
I love that the lens caps say camera, just so you don't forget what it is. Wish all whatchamacallits had that!
"Prevent the device from colliding with hard objects"
Dankpods: *1 Grit*
I see we have another Dankpods fan.
@@Bugatti_Master Imagine an Ashens & Dankpods collab
@@techbaffle That would be funny.
na no
"Prevent the device from colliding with hard objects". For some reason that totally cracked me up.
Most manuals would not need to state that, but after using that one, what's the first thing you want to do? But the book says No! No colliding with hard objects! Doesn't say anything about being rolled over by soft but heavy rubbery objects!
these would be perfect for someone wanting to produce vintage looking YT videos like they were from 2005
edit- im very impressed with that little electric screwdriver at the end
the boot sound for the 4th camera is the shutdown sound for windows 3.1