You might have heard of recession pop, but do you fw tariffcore?
In the spirit of the times, I recently “splurged” on the cheapest Chinese tech for the absolute lowest price I could find for the biggest hype. This is supposed to be “4K” and “60 megapixels”—i.e. more than my most expensive photography purchase to date, my Fujifilm XT4—which is a claim so hilariously audacious, you have to love it. Chairman Mao would be so proud. President Trump would call it genius.
This is legitimately the worst camera I’ve ever seen. It’s even worse than my PowerShot from 2007. You have to go back further in time to find quality this atrocious. Here is truly the aesthetic of our new dark age, these mid-to-late 2020s.
I took these while running errands this morning.
This is essentially another “test” of my three crappy cams (a glitched Olympus Stylus, a no-brand AliExpress digicam, and a ‘Y2000’ micro-camera, also made in China) to see how they look together and what I could potentially use them for. But it’s also just something I want to do just because.
Doing things just because is a very good antidote for doing things because we must, or doing things because no one else will, or doing things because we’d be out on the streets if we didn’t, and all the other reasons we do what we do when we don’t really want to keep doing them.
The idea popped in my head while listening to this song for the first time. I really hope they don’t pull it down for copyshyte infringement.
This is a comparison shot between the no-brand “4K Digital Camera” I got from AliExpress and the LUMIX LX10 (SOOC .jpg and processed RAW). It’s of a Mormon church I’ve never seen before.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate.