THE POWER OF A KNOWLEDGEABLE COMMUNITY
I have a YT channel about film photography. I talk about vintage cameras, film and photography techniques of old. It's been a little slow these days since the lockdown, but I managed to put up a couple of videos last month.
One of the videos was about three cameras I found in storage. I couldn't recognise one of the cameras because the name label had fallen off. I had a pretty good idea who made it, by the design, but I had no idea what it was called.
I put it out on my channel and within minutes of the video going up, I had a few responses positively identifying the camera.
Amazing!
I was happy but not surprised. My audience is quite niche and geeky, so many of them actually know a lot more than I do about the subject. It's quite an interesting bunch. They all have long attention spans and are very pernickety.
One downside of such an audience is that I don't have much room to make mistakes in my videos. I still get comments about an error I made in a video 5 years ago :). An upside is that they usually watch the entire video, which is really rare these days.
The camera is a Vilia made by BeLOMO, in case anyone cares.
Peace & Love,
Adé
