REC / Cameras
The camera bag
23 retro video cameras
Each one is a whole machine: the frame rate it ran at, the resolution it really resolved, its colour, the sound of its audio track and the display you framed through. All of them are in the free download; your first take is free.
Camcorder 10
From the shoulder VHS deck to the pocket camera that replaced it.
VHS The '80s home-movie tape 30 fps · 4:3
VHS-C Compact tape for '90s handycams 30 fps · 4:3
Hi8 Sharper tape, cleaner color 30 fps · 4:3
D8 Tape look with a digital edge 30 fps · 4:3
MiniDV Bright, sharp 2000s home video 30 fps · 4:3
VX-1 Fisheye skate-video deck 30 fps · 4:3
Beta Soft broadcast-era color 30 fps · 4:3
G-7 Crisp pocket vlog camera 30 fps
Digi Y2K pocket digicam video 30 fps · 4:3
AX-1 2010s action cam 30 fps · 16:9Cine Film 3
Film gauges: gate weave, frame judder, dust down the print.
Fun 10
Security feeds, night vision, a 2005 flip phone and other oddities.
CCTV Grainy surveillance feed 12 fps · 4:3
Night Infrared night vision 24 fps · 4:3
Glow Dreamy toy-cam bloom 30 fps
Thermal False-color heat vision 9 fps · 4:3
Webcam Blocky early-2000s video call 15 fps · 4:3
PXL B&W toy camcorder on cassette 15 fps · 4:3
GB Cam 2-bit dithered handheld cam 12 fps · 1:1
Flip Blocky '05 flip-phone clip 12 fps · 4:3
Bodycam Chest-worn patrol camera 30 fps · 16:9
Trail Motion-triggered trail cam 15 fps · 4:3At a glance
| Camera | Real-world counterpart | Frame rate | Frame |
|---|---|---|---|
| VHS | The full-size VHS camcorder, the shoulder deck families carried from the late 1980s | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| VHS-C | The compact VHS-C cassette that went into the smaller handycams of the 1990s | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| Hi8 | Hi8, the high-band version of 8 mm video tape, popular from the late 1980s into the 2000s | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| D8 | Digital8: Hi8-size cassettes recorded digitally, around 2000 | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| MiniDV | MiniDV, the small digital tape of early-2000s home video | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| VX-1 | The MiniDV camcorder behind a fisheye that filmed 2000s skate videos | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| Beta | The Betacam broadcast deck that news crews shouldered from the 1980s | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| G-7 | The pocket vlogging camera of the 2010s and 2020s | 30 fps | Any |
| Digi | The video mode of a mid-2000s CCD digital camera | 30 fps | 4:3 |
| AX-1 | The waterproof action camera of the 2010s | 30 fps | 16:9 |
| 8mm | Super 8, the home-movie film cameras of the 1960s and 1970s | 16 fps | 4:3 |
| 16mm | 16 mm film, the documentary and student-film stock | 24 fps | 4:3 |
| Kino | The modern cinema grade | 24 fps | 21:9 |
| CCTV | A security camera recorded to a time-lapse VCR | 12 fps | 4:3 |
| Night | An image-intensifier night-vision camera | 24 fps | 4:3 |
| Glow | No particular machine: the dreamy one | 30 fps | Any |
| Thermal | A consumer thermal imager | 9 fps | 4:3 |
| Webcam | An early-2000s laptop webcam on a video call | 15 fps | 4:3 |
| PXL | The 1980s toy camcorder that recorded video onto an audio cassette | 15 fps | 4:3 |
| GB Cam | The camera cartridge for a 1990s handheld game console | 12 fps | 1:1 |
| Flip | The video mode of a 2005 flip phone | 12 fps | 4:3 |
| Bodycam | A chest-worn patrol body camera | 30 fps | 16:9 |
| Trail | A motion-triggered trail camera strapped to a tree | 15 fps | 4:3 |
Pick one and press record.
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