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Don’t buy a cheap camera from Wish – they can’t even compete with an 11-year-old camcorder

Sep 3, 2020 by John Aldred 4 Comments
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Some people seem to like to punish themselves. One such person is YouTuber Ashens, who seems to regularly buy the crappiest things he can find in order to consistently waste his time and money or simply risk his wellbeing. And true to form, he bought several cameras from Wish (yes, Wish again).

The four cameras ranged in price from £25 up to £71 (~$33-95). Given that they were cheap and, well, from Wish, it wasn’t really fair to put them up against a modern mirrorless camera or DSLR. So, Ashens pitted them against his Panasonic HDC-SD90, released in 2011. Surely they could compete with an almost decade-old consumer camera… right?

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These guys bought the cheapest 800mm zoom lens on Wish just to see if it was any good

Sep 1, 2020 by John Aldred 5 Comments
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I’m a big fan of cheap lenses. I don’t care even care if they mostly suck. Sometimes, a really cheap terrible lens can offer you exactly the look you’re going for – and it can get you there much more quickly than trying to degrade your image manually in post. But in this case…

Tommy, Stephen and Mitchell at TMS Productions decided to order some cheap filmmaking gear from Wish to see how well it actually worked. They got a cheap “4K” action camera and a 420-800mm f/8.3-16 telephoto zoom lens. So, why does the thumbnail say 3200mm? well, they bought a couple of cheap 2x teleconverters, too.

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