Sony Mavica Digital Camera

toneman · Unread post by **toneman** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:58 pm

Its an old model, but in top nick. Very low res, 640x480, non zoom model. Hey, it was the bee's knee's in its day!! One plus though, it uses standard 1.44 floppies as its media, image size is around 50k, so it has a purpose, I am unsure what it is, but it sure would have one.
Offers? It cost me $1200 new... so I am after $600... na just kidding. Think of a number between 50 and 100 and the camera, li-ion battery (still really good) charger and carry case with a BONUS new box of floppies could be yours!!

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 11:14 pm

I'm interested.

Can you post some demo images?

Edit: There's a hellavalot of Mavica models. I was getting all excited over the Mavica CD2000, then realised this is not it

Please post the model number.

toneman · Unread post by **toneman** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:18 am

Its an MVC - FD 5
If you go to www.hobartpainting.com.au and look at the photo gallery. all shots are taken with this camera.. The thumbnails expand to larger images.

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 9:34 pm

Thanks, comparing price/performance now.

For anyone else looking at it. Here's some stuff:

Some demo images showing the different quality modes.

The manual

some user reviews

cool accessories!

Shooting the moon with a FD5.

prototype · Unread post by **prototype** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 5:18 pm

i don't supose this still exists?

If it does i'd be Extreamly interested,

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:10 pm

Dunno... last I heard he was going to drop it off at my house for a bit of a demo... then nothing.

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:44 am

its amazing how quick they come down in price, where can buy a 2+ mega pixel camera now for $150.

I friend tried to sell me his very good Kodak 1.0MP camera. He was shocked to learn how many MP is actually was and that it was only worth about 50 bucks second hand.

He ended up keeping it

that 640x480 would be about 0.3mp wouldnt it?

Psycho · Unread post by **Psycho** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 6:48 am

Yeah, I made the offer of $50, but can't really go above that.... there is an absolute load of very cheap digicams with similar/better specs available now.

It's the price of technology I guess.

I paid near-$300 each for my Matrox G200 8mb and Diamond Voodoo 2 video cards... guess how much they're worth now?

Anach · Unread post by **Anach** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:21 am

heh, it took me ages to get rid of my 12mb Voodoo2. think i sold it a year or so ago, for 10 bucks.

prototype · Unread post by **prototype** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:23 pm

if its still around i'd offer $70,