Q&A In which decade home-use portable video camera became available in South-Asian subcontine?

[Suresh Naresh]

Nowadays even small children have video cameras with them. But In which decade home-use portable video camera became available in South-Asian subcontinent? Which decade did South-Asian subcontinent's middle-class got access to portable video camera? And can someone tell more about when and how common South Asians began using video cameras at home?

 

[Old School]

Ask this question to a south-Asian consumer electronics forum. This is the wrong forum for this kind of question.

 

[TheNewb77]

Ask this question to a south-Asian consumer electronics forum. This is the wrong forum for this kind of question.

The "PKTweets" Forum was made for other related topics as such as these, so it should be fine to ask here.

@Bagheera0084

Among the popular models in India & Pakistan were the Canon EOS 200D Mark II, Nikon D3500, Sony Alpha a6000, and Fujifilm X-T30 in the 1980s.

 

[Old School]

The "PKTweets" Forum was made for other related topics as such as these, so it should be fine to ask here.

@Bagheera0084

Among the popular models in India & Pakistan were the Canon EOS 200D Mark II, Nikon D3500, Sony Alpha a6000, and Fujifilm X-T30 in the 1980s.

Those DSLR models you mentioned are not home-use portable. OP asked about consumer camcorders such as JVC GR-D240EK MINIDV CAMCORDER like one below :

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[Old School]

Canon EOS 200D Mark II, Nikon D3500, Sony Alpha a6000, and Fujifilm X-T30 did not exist in the 198o's.

 

[Suresh Naresh]

The "PKTweets" Forum was made for other related topics as such as these, so it should be fine to ask here.

Thank you. Aren't you @newb3e of that old PDF?

 

[Suresh Naresh]

Among the popular models in India & Pakistan were the Canon EOS 200D Mark II, Nikon D3500, Sony Alpha a6000, and Fujifilm X-T30 in the 1980s.

Those DSLR models you mentioned are not home-use portable. OP asked about consumer camcorders such as JVC GR-D240EK MINIDV CAMCORDER like one below :

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Canon EOS 200D Mark II, Nikon D3500, Sony Alpha a6000, and Fujifilm X-T30 did not exist in the 198o's.

Very difficult to even Google such miscellaneous questions. I tried but didn't get the answer from my attempts.

@TheNewb77 said 1980s. Was that all? I thought hand-held home-use type video cameras must have been available since the time of black & white era, at least to rich people.

 

[Suresh Naresh]

 

[Sharma Ji]

Around the 80s maybe

 

[Paitoo]

Around the 80s maybe

Yo @Sharma Ji @Vsdoc @Bagheera0084 et al

 

[Vsdoc]

Yo @Sharma Ji @Vsdoc @Bagheera0084 et al

Yo puppy.

 

[Suresh Naresh]

Yo puppy.

Remember I told you about Padamchen? @Vsdoc is that guy. Very entertaining political posts, even for those uninterested in politics, like you.

 

[Paitoo]

Remember I told you about Padamchen? @Vsdoc is that guy. Very entertaining political posts, even for those uninterested in politics, like you.

@Vsdoc needs no introduction
And who said I am not interested in politics. What I am not interested in is defence matters lol.
But political discussions always get ugly and then you risk getting banned, and what is the point getting banned when you cannot participate. Bit of a slippery slope eh? So I end up mainly being a spectator. It's mainly WA groups for me, with people I have met personally

 

[Vsdoc]

@Vsdoc needs no introduction
And who said I am not interested in politics. What I am not interested in is defence matters lol.
But political discussions always get ugly and then you risk getting banned, and what is the point getting banned when you cannot participate. Bit of a slippery slope eh? So I end up mainly being a spectator. It's mainly WA groups for me, with people I have met personally

Same. Defence geekery is very typical Indian IT coolie mentation.

 

[Paitoo]

Nowadays even small children have video cameras with them. But In which decade home-use portable video camera became available in South-Asian subcontinent? Which decade did South-Asian subcontinent's middle-class got access to portable video camera? And can someone tell more about when and how common South Asians began using video cameras at home?

I had a Sony handycam in 90s. A hand-me-down from a rich uncle. Didn't use it much because I looked too rich in my friends group hanging around with, so finally ditched it. It had those small cassettes, which went into a sort of cassette holder of normal size video tape when you wanted to play it. It might still be lying at the bottom of a trunk in my parents' house

 

[Guru Dutt]

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bhai ji i saw video camera or for that matter personal videp camera latest in 1990 with some tourists from USA when they came to owr market

it looked something like this

 

[Sharma Ji]

There's such great tech nowadays, get a gimbal for any mid-range and above smartphone and you can do wonders, for apple, there's even a bunch of lenses on the market. Making vids has never been easier and more fun. There's also lotsa great free editor softwares for movies and pics.

 

[Suresh Naresh]

I had a Sony handycam in 90s. A hand-me-down from a rich uncle. Didn't use it much because I looked too rich in my friends group hanging around with, so finally ditched it. It had those small cassettes, which went into a sort of cassette holder of normal size video tape when you wanted to play it. It might still be lying at the bottom of a trunk in my parents' house

Can you answer few questions?

1. Rich uncle means how rich? Was he an industrialist?

2. Can you give a rough estimate exactly which year HE purchased it?

 

[Paitoo]

Can you answer few questions?

1. Rich uncle means how rich? Was he an industrialist?

2. Can you give a rough estimate exactly which year HE purchased it?

How rich in those days? No idea. Currently must be worth about 60-80 Cr. Not an industrialist. Had a computer peripherals business to start with. But mainly into real estate.

I have no idea when he purchased it

 

[Suresh Naresh]

Sony Handycam Sports, the CCD-SP7 1988.