We purchased our first MVC-FD7 in January 2019 for $5 and fell in love with it. The SONY MAVICA MVC-FD7 (together with its little brother, the MVC-FD5) was introduced in 1997 (retail price $899). The package includes a sturdy neck strap and a battery charger.Mail questions to CompuBug, P.O. The microphone allows you to record comments about the images, and a built-in speaker lets you replay the audio. The camera formats and copies disks, which can also be done on any IBM-compatible PC.Īn intelligent flash is built in, along with a mouse button for navigating the on-screen menus, a self-timer and threads for attaching a camera stand. And the convenience of the floppy disks means that you can keep shooting until the battery runs down (about two hours with Sony's InfoLithium battery). The right-hand grip rests snugly in the hand, the shutter button is properly located, and the zoom control falls neatly under the right thumb.Ĭycle time between pictures is about three seconds, not good for a sequence of action shots, but fine for almost everything else.
The lens cap is attached to the camera body by a lanyard so it doesn't become misplaced. The disk-eject procedure requires pushing two buttons, which makes accidents less likely. The camera has a 2.5-inch color LCD viewfinder that allows you to frame and play back your shots, so you can judge immediately whether a follow-up shot is needed. The camera did a good job in the low-light situation, and working Adobe PhotoDeluxe from the floppy was much easier than uploading the image. The CCD (charge-coupled device) that captures the picture has 800,000 pixels.Ī nighttime shot of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and skating rink in New York, taken from the third floor of a nearby building, produced a 133,000-byte file and a spectacular image of the tree's thousands of lights glowing above the skaters and sightseers. Its talent is reflected in its retail price $899 (about $100 less on sale)ĭepending upon what you're shooting, file sizes at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels can run to 130,000 bytes, meaning you could fit about 10 pictures on a floppy disk.
It uses ordinary PC-formatted 3.5-inch floppy disks, has a three-power zoom lens and built-in microphone, and will even do a full minute of MPEG video and audio. Real-estate agents, insurance adjusters and others whose jobs require taking pictures ought to check out Sony's MVC-FD81 Digital Mavica camera.
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