Ancient Sony CD-Mavica at a Foghat concert (pictures)

Occasionally I get bored using today's high megapixel, do everything cameras. Sometimes this manifests itself in a binge of shooting real film, or more recently a dip into turn of the century low megapixel, CCD powered "digi-cams".

A couple of days ago, my little city in far north Texas had a free concert (Foghat) scheduled for the July 4th weekend. Along with my real cameras, I took a recently acquired CD Mavica.



That's correct. The camera that writes files to a mini-cd. Originally and improvement on the camera that wrote files to 3.5 inch floppy disks, these cameras offered an alternative to high priced memory cards of the era.

The idea didn't last long, but it provided some comic relief to find some old mini-cds and figure out how to use this old beast.

If, like me, you are old enough to remember

• Foghat
• 3.5 inch floppy disks
• mini-cds
• any combination of the above

you have my sympathy and empathy. We may be in a similar demographic



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I remember the Mavica that used the floppy. I had a good friend who used one of those for a long time.

I've never seen the CD version.

I'm glad you shared these photos...It is nice to see the results of a camera that old. Pretty good photos considering the age and technology and it's obvious you know how to use it.

Randy

RLBur said:

I remember the Mavica that used the floppy. I had a good friend who used one of those for a long time.

I've never seen the CD version.

I'm glad you shared these photos...It is nice to see the results of a camera that old. Pretty good photos considering the age and technology and it's obvious you know how to use it.

Randy

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Thanks Randy,

To be honest, I was happily surprised. First, that the camera worked at all (thrift store purchase) and secondly from the files themselves. It won't replace my everyday shooters anytime soon, but it was....fun!

Holy Crapppp, they look good

I like your style/compositions, you captured the vibe of the event, well done.


Elliott

elliottnewcomb said:

Holy Crapppp, they look good

I like your style/compositions, you captured the vibe of the event, well done.

Elliott

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^^What he said. Fun event, fun pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Suzatlarge said:

elliottnewcomb said:

Holy Crapppp, they look good

I like your style/compositions, you captured the vibe of the event, well done.

Elliott

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^^What he said. Fun event, fun pictures. Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks, yes "fun" is the operative word here!

Great pictures! And I do remember all the technologies that you mentioned, except for the camera itself.

Kit

I remember the Mavica. I had the MVC-FD5 I believe. It would hold about 7 photos (Hi Res) on the floppy disc before it filled up.

Back in those days, the Mavica was the gold standard for digital cameras.

Ahh, the good old days.

Reaper said:

I remember the Mavica. I had the MVC-FD5 I believe. It would hold about 7 photos (Hi Res) on the floppy disc before it filled up.

Back in those days, the Mavica was the gold standard for digital cameras.

Ahh, the good old days.

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Nice! an original owner! I was pleasantly surprised by the quality