Sony Mavica

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Mavica FD5, the first digital model.
Mavica FD5, the first digital model.

Mavica was a brand of Sony cameras which used removable disks as the main recording media. In August, 1981, Sony released the Sony Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera) electronic still camera, the first commercial electronic camera. It was not a digital camera, as its CCD sensor produced videosignal of NTSC format. 570*490 pixels. Mavipak 2" diskettes (later adopted industry-wide as the Video Floppy) were used to write 50 still frames. These pictures were viewed on TV. Otherwise, this camera is positioned as "pioneer of digital era".[1] [2]

The later Digital Mavicas recorded onto floppy 3.5" disks in computer-readable format, a feature that made them very popular in the North-American market. With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution (megapixels), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk (FD) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible (initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot), and a new CD Mavica series — which uses 8 cm CD-R/CD-RW media — was released in 2000.

The first CD Mavica (MVC-CD1000), notable also for its 10× optical zoom, could only write to CD-R discs, but it was able to use its USB interface to read images from CDs not completely written (CDs with incomplete sessions). Subsequent models are more compact, with a reduced optical zoom, and are able to write to CD-RW discs.

The Mavica line has been discontinued. Sony continues to produce point-and-shoot digital cameras in the Cyber-shot series, which uses Memory Stick technology for storage.

Contents

Mavica models

3.5" floppy

  • MVC-FD5 (late 1997, early 1998, fixed focal length lens)
  • MVC-FD7 (late 1997, early 1998, 10× optical zoom lens)
  • MVC-FD75 10× optical zoom lens
  • MVC-FD73
  • MVC-FD71 (mid 1998, 10× optical zoom lens)
  • MVC-FD51 (mid 1998, fixed focal length lens)
  • MVC-FD87
  • MVC-FD92
  • MVC-FD83
  • MVC-FD81
  • MVC-FD85
  • MVC-FD90
  • MVC-FD91 (14× optical zoom)
  • MVC-FD88
  • MVC-FD95
  • MVC-FD97 (10× optical zoom, 4× speed diskette and Memory Stick slot, similar to MVC-CD1000)
  • MVC-FD100 (Floppy and Memory Stick)
  • MVC-FD200 (same as above but 2MP)

CD

  • MVC-CD200
  • MVC-CD250
  • MVC-CD300
  • MVC-CD350
  • MVC-CD400 (First camera to use laser-assisted low-light focus)
  • MVC-CD500
  • MVC-CD1000 (same as MVC-FD97, except a CD-R drive instead of diskette and memory stick.)

Cameras of similar concept

There were other digital cameras that used disk storage as memory media.

See also

References

  1. ^ нАЗЕЙРХБМШИ БГЦКЪД / ╧8 ъМБЮПЭ 2001
  2. ^ 1980s
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