EvilBay Bargain Cameras(From China)

Substandard Cameras - An opinion piece

EvilBay should ban many Chinese businesses/accounts. selling 24mp cameras for 30-60 pounds and in reality, they'd 8-12mp effective, it's a total scam. Iso will be low poor, there will no no stabilisation, limited controls over settings, the lens clarity will be mediocre, and if you're lucky you have no standards and think buying new is enough. Maybe the benefit of your bias towards your choices will make you think you got a bargain, but you can get much better video(and audio) and image quality from a mobile or a second-hand camera by a known name.

So why buy what might be called a pro-camera by a Chinese company that literally created a chunky compact and listed it in the DSLR or Mirrorless second of the eBay Digital Camera second?? If you want the same quality as the faux 24MP(really 8MP) Chinese knockoff that tries to look like the homeless cousin of an Olympus, well, why not get an older Olympus or Leica? if it's just for common use a model from 5-8 yrs ago will be cheap enough, look better, and offer all you need. Or, for vlogging, buy any half good compact camera that offers 1080p video quality and image quality doesn't need to be high in the megapixels for it to matter. after all, you cannot see the difference between a 14mp camera and 16 or 18mp camera unless you check the details in depth or if other factors to the camera and sensor have varied too.

An 8-year-old Canon or Nikon DSLR(Digital Single-Lens Reflex) camera will offer you everything you need for fairly good photos, and you can pick from a variety of old and new lenses. And with some older cameras, they're a great cheap option for full frame photography on a budget, or at least good quality images with a fair sized sensor. Unlike the Chinese cameras that get onto ebay, which are very amateurish products that often cost more new than a good cheap camera second hand. And you may see them for 30 pounds if you buy from another person who saw one for 60, they then realised they got screwed on the product and couldn't return it. So the used market on the crappy camera is an option if you buy one.

The Chinese cameras you see on eBay are made to look different to most cameras, they're the ones that don't strictly cross the copyrights of other companies, but those sometimes appear too. A Nikon camera look-a-like with a screw mount for the lens and a battery that barely holds charge. Often the power used in a video will mean you can't use it for vlogging with ease, and the compact Chinese knock-off cameras often run on AA or AAA battery types, meaning you'll need a good set of rechargeables that offer great performance and a battery charger, so now you cost isn't 35 pounds for the compact but 50 including good rechargeable batteries and charger. And some don't accept modern SD(SDHC)cards above 8gig.

So a few drawbacks to a would-be bargain.

Hypno-Bullshit Wendi the pseudo-expert on "hypnotherapy"

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and I also decided not to edit Penn & Teller clips into this video since it is easy enough for people to go watch the full episode on youtube or netfix or something]

Bullshit Hypnosis - Critical Review Of Wendi.com

Response to a woman called Wendi Friesen, who appeared on P&T Bullshit! - Hypnosis, and appeared on other tv shows a few times, she is one of a growing breed of pseudo-scientists.  She is a hypnotherapist who creates CDs and downloads to do that which hypnotherapy just can't seem to do, but because she is making big money she is happy to advertise breast enlargement hypnosis, if you gotta a problem she would have an audio therapy session to help you, help you to give her a big income.  In the Penn & Teller episode on hypnotherapy she said her site makes millions, and that show was made over 5 years ago, so how much money is she making now? [I dread to think!].  I chose to critique her works due to her lack of scientific standing and her radical claims, I'm sure she is a nice gal and yet I just can't let such quackery pass without serious criticism, it's not personal, it's just business.  I find it interesting how her work covers everything you may need, the claim are great and yet a great deal of loose language means she is covered legally within alternative therapy, and still the great claims draw in millions of people and have made her quite rich.
I personally disagree with people who say they know anything that can't even half prove, and if they make a buck off a cancer victim to make a buck or play on human weaknesses that really annoys me, and that is what wendi does, not just prey on guys with tiny cocks.

she claims to be able to hypnotically cure cancer
http://www.wendi.com/html/cancer.html

and she has a guarantee, where basically she claims if you do what she says you'll get results, but if it's motivation then who needs hypno-bullshit?
http://www.wendi.com/html/guarantee.html

Testimonial page is interesting, and proves nothing, considering even Peter Popoff and Benny Hinn, as well as most quacks, have many testimonials.
http://www.wendi.com/html/testimonials.html

look for yourself, don't laugh too much ;)
http://www.wendi.com/

Wendi's Youtube channel, WendiFriesen (yes, she has a channel)
http://www.youtube.com/user/WendiFriesen

Penn & Teller's Bullshit! - Hypnosis  (full episode)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BM34ViAxk

Penn And Teller Website
http://www.pennandteller.com/

And Go Like The Penn And Teller Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/PennAndTeller

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http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

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response to a linked comment.

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a comment left a day ago states 'let he who is without sin, cast the first stone', firstly that story seems improbable to be historical, even if it's meaning is moral. the stone cast by myself is to say of Wendi, that her claims are false, or so far fetched as to be highly probable to be so.  As for my own 'whiter than white' aspect, I am not without wrongs, past, present, and I would not doubt in my future, yet sin is a construct invented by religion to enslave generations, feel free to disagree.  To say I must be 'without sin', 'whiter than white', to 'throw mud' is an odd idea, since no one person is perfect, or at least it is highly improbable, and my going on are only my critique of such money making pseudo-experts as Wendi and her quackery website.  so, if you please, consent to give humanity more credit, and indeed freedom, to doubt the unreal and illogical, than to follow and remain faithful to the peril of quackery and con-artistry.  We need not be better or even brighter than the people we ask questions of, nor do we need to stand as the meek before all as the inheritors of the earth to call out an untruth, for it is not a need to be pure to point out some obvious errors.  And I doubt that my audience, or at least most of them, think that I would be unwilling to retract my points if show scientific evidence of the claims of Wendi.com.