Sony Mavica

Mavica (abbreviation of My gnetic VI deo Ca will mera) is a range of Camera numerical conceived and produced by Sony which uses removable disks as storage unit.

First Mavica appears in 1981. It is equipped with a sensor CCC of 279.300 pixels (Amstrad D950 which arrives at the same time on the market has 10 times of them less) and analogically stores the photographs on a minidiskette of a capacity of 50 photographs. With additional accessories, it is possible to visualize the photographs on a television set, to print them or send them by the phone network, without possibility of final improvement. The Mavica range reappears towards the end of the year 1997 with the MVC-FD5 which records the images on Disquette S 3,5 inches, format very widespread with the the United States. With the evolution of the numerical resolution in Mégapixel S, the arrival of the interface USB and the appearance of new memory supports of great capacity, Mavica proposes other solutions for the recording of the images: diskette of 3,5 inches, one passes to the Mémoire flash Memory Stick (with an intermediate phase while passing initially by a diskette of adaptation in which one comes to insert Memory Stick, then by a housing special envisaged in the apparatus itself) to finish by the last models of Mavica which use the discs CD-R/CD-RW 8 cm in diameter.

First Mavica with CD, it (MVC-CD1000), has an optical zoom of 10x, and only records the images on the discs CD-R, but one can use his interface USB for reading and capturing the images of completely not written CD (of CD with open sessions). The following models more compact, with an optical zoom will be reduced, but which can write on discs CD-RW.

The Mavica range is not produced any more to date. Sony continues to produce apparatuses photographic numerical with the range Cyber-shot and Sony α by generalizing the memories flash Memory Stick for the storage of the images.

Mavica models

Storage on diskette 3.5"

  • MVC-FD5
  • MVC-FD7
  • MVC-FD75
  • MVC-FD73
  • MVC-FD71
  • MVC-FD51
  • MVC-FD87
  • MVC-FD92
  • MVC-FD83
  • MVC-FD81
  • MVC-FD85
  • MVC-FD90
  • MVC-FD91
  • MVC-FD88
  • MVC-FD95
  • MVC-FD97
  • MVC-FD100
  • MVC-FD200

Storage on CD

  • MVC-CD200
  • MVC-CD250
  • MVC-CD300
  • MVC-CD350
  • MVC-CD400
  • MVC-CD500
  • MVC-CD1000

Similar competitors of design

There were other manufacturers of cameras which used the removable disk as storage units.

  • Panasonic PV-SD4090

  • Iomega Zipcam
  • Agfa ePhoto CL30 Clik!

See too

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