Specifications
The Godox C100 is a camera, and also a video camera and a light meter. I didn’t use the light meter or the video camera and I bought it specifically for one purpose, which was to record memories, just memories.
I took it on our trip to Copenhagen. along with my Ricoh GRIII.
This is what the camera looks like. It measures about 100mm x 70mm. So I can easily cover it with the flat of my hand.
As you can see it is very thin, and at 64g you can definitely slip it into a pocket and not notice it is there. The button in the middle takes the shot.
You charge it with a USB C cable, so you can charge it with the same cable you use to charge your phone, and no need for a separate charger. And the charge seems to last forever.
You aim with the window and files are saved to a removable micro SD card. As you can see, the C100 has no actual display. You ‘aim’ by lining up the window as best you think.
I used it with the camera about a bent arm’s distance from my eye and seemed to get the framing right most of the time.
Most digital cameras images are 3:2, with some even more towards a square at 4:3, whereas the images from the C100 are a longer, letterbox shape like the screens on widescreen TVs.
You cannot play back and see the photo you have taken. There is no playback. You only get to see the photos once you upload the files to a computer.
Why Bother?
Why bother with a crappy little camera when you have your phone? And if like me you like taking photographs then you probably have a camera with you, so yes, why bother?
Why bother with a camera that you can’t really use on a bright sunlit day because everything will be a blown out white.
Why bother with a camera that you can’t actually tell for sure where it is pointing?
I can only answer for me, but when I am in a place unknown to me, there is fun and interest in snapping things that aren’t going to be great photos but just grab my interest in the moment and I want to fix them in my memory.
Take this next shot of a street in Copenhagen, with climbing roses growing against the wall.
I just wanted a memory of something I observed, that lots of buildings, with walls that front onto the pavement have climbing roses growing against them. You can see them even in the middle of the city.
So for me it is a camera for memories, without any expectations. And because the file sizes are so small, you can put thousands of shots onto a card. I shot nearly 250 photos and they only take up 140MB.
Because of the way JPEGs are saved, the file sizes depend on the complexity of the image, but the photos I took in Copenhagen range from 350KB to 900KB with most of them at around 400KB.
I put a 32GB card into the C100. which means that about 60,000 shots will fit on that card.
In other words, you really don’t have to think when snapping. Just be aware of weather conditions and avoid bright, contrasty days. And don’t expect much in very low light like night shots or dimly lit interiors.
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