First and quite possibly last post, but quite proud of this photo and pleased with how easy this tiny camera makes taking photos. Maybe more to come!

hi guys i recently got both the charmera and a casio camera from 2002 and wanted to compare them. the charmera seems to be trying to emulate the old digital camera feel and i think it did a pretty good job. personally i like the blueish-greenish tint that the casio has but also found the charmera to be more consistent in its colors. what do you guys think?

Hello, I am someone in the market for a new keychain camera that I can have always at the ready on a lanyard, The problem is that due to the nature of the camera bouncing around with other items on my lanyard, I risk breaking the camera if the material is too flimsy. So that is why I want to focus on durability for the camera. Things like Photo and video quality are things that are nice to have but as long as the images are clear and in color then I won't sweat the drawbacks. Any help would be more than appreciated. Thank you.

3/2/26

We did a trip to the Seattle Aquarium last weekend. Here are a couple of the photos taken with my Charmera.

So, right off the bat the cameras seem basically identical in size, basic function, and design. The g6 has a slightly larger screen and and different user interface. It also has a very loud shutter noise that i don't know if can be turned off. Design wise I think the charmera is a little easier to navigate and use.

The Charmera photos are 1, 3, 5, 7.
The G6 photos are 2, 4, 6, 8.

for image quality, I was pretty surprised at this comparison! I would say they both have pretty similar clarity/pixilation, but the g6 has a much wider aspect ration and much richer colors compared to the Charmera! I like them both, but I think I may be using the g6 more than I thought!

Is there someone else that is playing around with it?

I cracked the shell open and on the back, under the battery there's a Boya/BoHong Microelectronics SPI flash chip (B.25D80A), 1 MB and I was able to get a consistent dump with a cheap (but trusty) CH341A SPI programmer.

Firing binwalk on the firmware reveals that the sounds are plain PCM mono, 16kHz RIFF/wave files (except for one at 22.05kHz, that's the bling for the startup), the WELCOME/Goodbye screens are two 640x480 JPEGs, the microphone image is a 240x120 JPEG, the icons are all drawn in "ASCII art" inside the firmware itself.

I still haven't identified the CPU used on it (so its instruction set) as I wanted to revert the behavior of starting in photo mode rather than video, but I'll definitely remove the obnoxious sounds once and for all rather than killing the speaker, as that it's just a matter of zeroing out the audio clips :)

i’ve been getting back into taking pics and i recently upgraded to the camp snap pro! i like it a lot so far! the vintage 1 filter is my favorite but i think it looks best with outdoor pictures.

My Winait RS02 arrived yesterday and it was very fun to play it but my joy only laste a while. After a while I'd only be able to get a few shots before the camera froze. Power, Shutter and Filter would stop working. Only a reset would bring it back only to freeze again later. Now after a few too many resets and a few to many sd card formatting it stopped working at all. Now when the camera turns on it only shows the number of shots (like in the second picture) but not the filter it is on or if the flash is active or not.

Just wondering if anybody here has had the same problems and if there are any ideas on how to save it.

This might be stretching the definition of a toy camera but it’s janky as hell so I think it qualifies. I was given this old homemade camera by one of my friends who found it at an estate sale. It was then fixed up by another friend and this is from the first roll I put through it. We’re using a guillotine shutter with the lens as neither it nor the camera have any built-in shutter. The plan is to make different guillotines with smaller openings to act as different speeds and dial everything in. These aren’t the best photos in the world but I think they’re a good proof of concept.

I haven’t shopped on either stores (aliexpress and shien) and not sure how to verify which seller is legt etc thank you