Shooting Video with a 90’s Black and White Toy Video Camera

A couple years ago I bought a Tyco VideoCam on ebay, a black and white toy video camera made for kids in the 90’s to shoot videos in their living rooms with. At long last I have it up and running and have been shooting some shorts with it. It helps me create maybe the strangest lo-fi look I’ve come across, a weird mixture of bad VHS tape and black and white super 8 film. I hope to use it on some more ambitious projects soon, but in the mean time, here’s a video I made for Fotodiox about how I shoot with it.

And here are two recent tests/shorts I captured with it.