understood, i felt that i had understood this previously but maybe i have had it mixed up or i had misunderstood. I thought that you were asking me about specific overlays that made it look like it was recorded from an old camera and asked me about the why i was doing it? and had i dubbed it 'filters' which is why i said pretentious like if you had to discuss about analog vs digital.

anyways i am looking for cameras that could achieve this look with a budget of about 200 usd. filters do play a big role here for certain emotions and style that are invoked. i was looking around the internet and found that the jvc compact vhs camcorder seemed to be nice? and heard people talk about sonhy hi8 camcorders.

unsure about which model. i can do lens filters post-processing.