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Mavica is a brand of Sony Camera s which use removable disks as the main recording media. The brand is most associated with Digital Cameras that record on Floppy Disk s, but the name was first used for a line of analog Still Video Camera s announced in 1981 , and there were later digital models that recorded onto CD s.

The first Digital Mavicas recorded onto floppy disks, a feature that made them very popular in the North-American market. With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution (/ CD-RW media — was released in 2000.

The first CD Mavica (MVC-CD1000), notable also for its 10x 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.


MAVICA MODELS


3.5" floppy

  • MVC-FD5 (late 1997, early 1998, fixed focal length lens)

  • MVC-FD7 (late 1997, early 1998, 10X optical zoom lens)

  • MVC-FD75 10X optical zoom lens

  • MVC-FD73

  • MVC-FD71 (mid 1998, 10X 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 (14X optical zoom)

  • MVC-FD88

  • MVC-FD95

  • MVC-FD97 (10X optical zoom, 4X 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.



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