Quoting Tom C <[email protected]>:
From: Darren Addy <[email protected]>
Step back in our little Time Machine to the summer of 1998
http://www.pcworld.com/article/7579/article.html
Just $799
The camera still has some fans: http://www.flickr.com/groups/mavica/pool/
Yeah I had the Mavica FD7. It was magic at the time, and fun! My wife
carried one around at the Seattle Garden Show in 1998 and was amazed
by how many people wanted to stop and see her (my) camera. IQ was
abysmal in retrospect, but for thumbnail and web images it was OK. It
also provided a use for all those AOL diskettes that seemed to arrive
in the mail on a monthly basis or packaged in with magazines.
Just last week I started a new project and had my picture taken for
the security badge. I was amazed to see the person pull out a Sony
Mavica FD91, a generation or two up featuring 1024 x 768 resolution
images, still recording on floppy disk. That model looked like a
camera with a grip instead of a patio paver. I purchased one of those
for my Dad in 2000.
I always wanted the CD-R version, but then digital imaging just
sky-rocketed and here we are today.
We had a couple of Mavicas in the office where I was working in the
early 2000s. At that stage , of course, all of our desktop machines
had floppy disk drives and the Mavica was a quick and easy way of
getting images onto a PC.
The quality wasn't wonderful - we mainly used them for photographing
info on whiteboards.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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