Sony Digital Mavica: 1997 Floppy Disk Camera Experience

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Trying out a trio of classic Sony Digital Mavica cameras! And of course, the big reason why I want to do that is because they use 3.5" floppy diskettes to store photos at anywhere from 640x480 to 1280x960 resolution.

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Car Game Showroom, Coffeeshop Lounges 2, Streetlight Conundrum 1, All is Good Again 2, Ain't That So 3
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If you'd like to see more of the photos I took with the MVC-FD5, check out this album of images!

LGR
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Its going to be a sad day if they ever remove the floppy disk as the universal save icon

ShamusOGrady
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I had an FD75. Just using it in public at the time attracted so much attention! I took a few pictures of a tourist couple and gave them the disk. Then a flashbulb went off. Take the Mavica and a pocket full of reformatted AOL disks down to any tourist destination and offer 5 shots on a floppy for five bucks when people asked about it. Profit!

barovelli
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I'm imagining some photographer taking photos and swapping floppies like it's a bolt action

shukterhousejive
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I bought an FD-7 in the ship's store on board the USS George Washington in 2000. I used it to take photos on deployment and email them home the same day. It was revolutionary at the time and my wife certainly appreciated it.

lcdrugo
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Living in Buenos Aires in 2002, it was kind of difficult to get your hands on a digital camera. So I was thrilled when I found out my girlfriend at the time had a Mavica. I wanted to do a stencil of the opening frame of "Dr. Katz, professional therapist", so I asked her to take a photo of paused VCR and email it to me. I couldn't believe it. A week later I made a stencil from that picture, and proudly wore that shirt until it didn't fit anymore. :)

diegov.miranda
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People hear “20 images per disc” and they think, “how ridiculously small!” But they forget that your average film cartridge only held about that many pictures... So people were used to having to swap out a new film cartridge (or a new floppy disc) after 20 pictures or so. You compare it to a modern camera that can store, literally, thousands of pictures and of course it’s ridiculous. But for the day, 20 pictures on a single disc was not bad at all.

I really liked how “1990s” the pictures from the FD5 looked. They literally look like something you’d see from a TV show back then. It was very nostalgic.

LMacNeill
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My Poppop had the 75, and he always used it to take pictures at family events. We recently moved him into an assisted living facility with my Grandma and started cleaning out their house, which we discovered was filled with thousands of floppy disks, all with pictures on them. I bought a USB floppy drive to go through them and have been having a blast seeing what my Poppop thought was important enough to take pictures of (which was pretty much everything.) Thank you for making this, it was nice to be reminded of simpler times and an amazing man :3

dailymdesdemona
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I work in the Argentinian patagonia, the desert part, and I foung one MD5 in an old storage. Still works and holds up battery charge.

wirlogx
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My dad used to take out the floppy and exclaim "oh no ! I exposed it to light!" Dads...

jamdis
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The people I worked for in 1998 were spending $700 a month on Polaroid film, so the $600 tag on the Mavica was a bargain and inspired them to digitize their whole reporting system...
The downside was that you had a lot of folks with various levels of competence handling a mechanical storage system...

postal_the_clown
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I used one of these in 1997 at the advertising company I was working at, and it made my life so much better. Thanks for the memories.

AmbientWalking
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These things were everywhere. I worked for an education agency that put together a grant to get these in the hands of about 40 teachers in our area. I still have archived pics and vids taken in 1997-98. I remember toting several boxes of floppies around in order to swap them out as quickly as possible when doing sporting events, etc.

davidinark
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I remember The 8-Bit Guy also did a video on this line of cameras. They are fascinating little cameras.

androidtechgeek
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Oh boy, I turned one of these up in a bin of old tech shit at work, and we had a field day taking pictures on floppy diskettes and printing them out. Good times!

TheExaminedLifeofGaming
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I remember playing with a Mavica that my grandpa gave to us back in the early 2000s. And a department at my work still uses one for taking photos for their projects!

gregtheturner
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I did IT work for a remodeling firm from 97-2002 and somewhere in the 97/98 era we got one of these. The project mangers basically fought over who got to use it, it was such a valuable tool. I was quickly used by management to consult for other companies like realtors, care sales men, the practical use of these cameras was incredible, but like you said, quickly eclipsed by flash memory enabled cameras, and higher resolution models.

spcialk
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Used these in 5th grade at my Elementary School. They were great except for when teacher would leave the floppy disks in the computer and the computer would not boot. I got called out of my class a few times from previous teachers to help them with their computer problems, because of this. Yea my teachers from previous years would call me out of class instead of calling Help Desk.

im.a.nickel
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My cousins in sweden had one of these, i remember we always got a huge package full of floppy disks from them every christmas in the late 90s/early 2000s.

stsurvivor
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I love it when you use posh words like "positively ubiquitous".

BigBeardBuilds