I saw some YouTube shorts of a girl buying a cheap camcorder off Amazon and recording her summer with it and since I'm gonna have my first ever decent summer experience with actual friends, I said "fuck it, let me dig for my dad's old camcorder"
Attempting to record my summer with a y2k camcorder
Day 1
So, I started digging in my house for this old camcorder I vividly remember from my childhood
Various trips to the attic and a horribly messy cables-drawer later, I ended up with
This ↓↓↓ big boy
I think she's pretty neat, what do you think?
With her I didn't find the manual, but luckily the battery was in.
I looked up the model to find a manual and then the realization hit me
I have to charge the battery
Chonky fella
I did not find the charger though, so my scavenge hunting in my house began
I present to you, the cable drawers
The middle one had me laughing my ass off because I tried to pull one cable and the whole thing came out
I was encouraged by the fact that being messy with cables isn't a me-thing but a family trait
Things I found that weren't the charger I was looking for while looking for the charger
An impressive 80s cassette collection (my mom was identified as the possessor because there was only one person with doctor's handwriting in this family)
Stretching manuals from the 90s
Other battery chargers with various sizes
More cassettes in places they did not belong in
A phone
A flip phone
Unknown 90s/y2k electronics I did not bother to identify
Finally once I finished looking in the dusty, messy, untouched, no man's land that were the cable drawers, I moved into the attic
I had to move a few cat piss smelling boxes, but finally, recognizing the logo on the manual, I found a box that not only had the whole ass manual in 4 languages (did my mom keep them all? Did we really need the German manual?), a... (Idk? CD thingy that was supposed to come with the camcorder?? I have no idea) and
An unopened universal battery charger
(Fucking finally, may I add)
This looks a lot better after diggings 2 hours in random cables, I swear
Updates will follow, have a picture of the bitch charging while I go to sleep
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