Finally bought some! These are the factory discs that Mavica CD cameras need to work properly. I tried other-than-Sony, and they were VERY unreliable; these work fine. I just wish Sony wasn’t so proprietary.
There is a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is very true but to get this thousand word picture you need really high quality cameras or digital cameras. While many of us take for granted the presence of digital cameras and the many marvelous things that they can do we have forgotten the history of digital photography.
This history of digital photography is not that long but the events that took place have changed the way that we take our photographs.
In 1969 October 17th George Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge coupled device or the CCD as we know it. This device was originally made for use in computers as a semi-conductor memory. These inventors of the CCD were also thinking about ways to incorporate their device into video phones.
With all of their plans and sketches finalized Smith and Boyle finally built Sony Mavica MVC CD500 Digital Camera the CCD into the world’s first CCD camera. This changed the history of digital photography altogether.
The camera that was built by them was a solid state video camera. During 1975 the CCD camera with its image sharp pictures was shown on television for the first time. The image that was shown was clear enough to be seen by the viewers of television.
In the history of digital photography the first prototype of the digital camera was created by Sony in1981. This digital camera was called Mavica which meant Magnetic Video Camera. The Sony Mavica was essentially a video camera that was used to capture video freeze-frames.
In 1986 Kodak scientists invented the first megapixel senor. This senor was capable of recording 1.4 million pixels. These were capable of producing a 5 x 7 inch digital photo quality print. In 1987 Kodak released 7 products that had the ability to manipulate digital images.
In 1991 Kodak in partnership with Nikon, released the Nikon F-3 camera. This camera was equipped with a 1.3 megapixel sensor by Kodak. This shows how the history of digital photography merged scientific know-how to produce a digital camera.
At about this same time Logitech produced and released their Dycam model with black and white images. Apple produced a digital camera that could transfer images to the computer from the camera.
This is the short version of the history of digital photography. Today 30 years after the first digital camera was produced and released digital photography has changed our lives. The next time that you buy a digital camera you might want to see what other information you can find out about the history of digital photography.
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I purchased this after leaving my heavy duty camera charger at home -which was 2200 miles away… I bought it because of it’s price-considerably less than most available. I have only charged once-taking a over-night to charge fully (my normal camera charger takes 3 hours). I got a full charge and have taken hundreds of highly pixelated pictures with this one charge. It is not a heavy duty unit-and the wires are on the delicate side, and with constant carrying or moving, I am sure they would not last too long. I wouldn’t recommend this if you are going to be using it all the time-buy something heavy duty. I intend to keep it in the RV, for back-up-just incase I forget my charger again. Overall though, for the price-it is a great value!
I use this battery charger to charge the NB-2L battery for my Cannon Rebel camera. It’s very easy to use, is compact and charges the battery quickly and completely. I have two and my daughter has one.
I am thoroughly satisfied with my recent purchase. Not only was this charger at a bargain price, it also does what it says it can do! I would definitely order from this company again.
I own eight of these (yes, eight!), and so far they’ve worked just fine.
Better to charge generic batteries in these units than on your camera.
I bought this charger with battery to replace my camera’s charging unit and the batteries which are dying after 4 years. There was a initial problem with the detection of the battery and the camera kept on saying “Only Li-ion battery” for the first few times. Each time it did that the camera stopped working after intial booting and I had to restart the camera. This doesnot happen with my Sony batteries. However for the last few times the camera has stopped protesting and has yeilded good pictures with sattisfactory working time for each recharge. The charger is extremely attractive and light weight – hence easy to carry. If one has more batteries and want to charge a additional battery in car whie taking pictures this is an ideal pack.
It was great, while it lasted. Although it’s too heavy to take on every trip and take those impulsive candid shots. It fits in my diaper bag, but not my purse. About 6 months ago (after 18 months of ownership) we started having trouble getting it to turn on. My husband figured out a “trick” to turn it on (push down on the button while pushing the lever), which worked for a month or so. Then suddenly, the problem disappeared. Yippee! Now, with Christmas less than a month away, it WON’T TURN ON AT ALL!!! I cannot explain how furious I am. It’s not like I can send it for repair and have it back by the holidays. My other complaint is with the batteries. Over time, they last less and less….. and take longer and longer to charge up. You will definitely need more than 2 batteries after a while. My next camera will NOT be a Sony. IT’s not like we were rough with it; we treated that thing with more care than the baby… and it still busted. grrrr…..
The Sony Mavica series started it all with the Floppy disk Cameras ( that are still the most popular camera for internet pictures.)
Starting with the Mavica MVC CD1000 20X Zoom Sony did it again..
Mini Compact disks, the CD1000 could only use read only disks – CD-Rs.
With the CD200 Sony set real lead in Media with a camera that uses CD-R and rewriteable CD-RW disks. General Cost 50 cents for a CD-R and $2 bucks for a rewriteable CD-RW.
Using the Small ring in CDrom drives the mini CDs work just like a normal full sized CD. Capacity from 150 to 220 Megabits, or 200 to 2500 pictures depending on your selected resolution for each picture.
With all the newer operating systems XP ect the Camera Scanner wizards and viewers make it Childs play to download pictures and look at them. The camera is easy to use, anyone can pick it up and soon be taking digital pictures.
The entire series of Mavica MVC CDs are great.. with the CD500 at 5 megapixels with upgraded Lazers and CCDs is the top of the line.
I had a Sony Mavica 400 and it worked beautifully for 4 years. I never, ever had a problem with it, and it went everywhere with me. I took around 8,000 photos with it and it was wonderful. But then it was stolen from around my neck by a gang of thugs in St Petersburg, Russia in 2005.
The insurance company replaced the 400 with this model, the MVCCD500, which I was very excited about getting – the next-generation model, with improved picture quality and more megapixels. How wrong I was to be excited.
This piece of junk lasted a total of 6 months before it suddenly stopped doing what it was meant to do. It suddenly and without warning wasn’t able to access a disc that hadn’t been finalised, and after changing batteries it wasn’t able to access the disc. To top this off, it also now can’t write any photo taken on 5 megapixels – all I get is a ‘Disc Error’ everytime I take a 5 megapixel photo. I now have to finalise the disc when the battery gets low, and I have to be very, very careful the back door (where the CD-R goes in) and the battery door don’t open .
I relocated to the UK soon after getting this camera, and Sony UK refused to honour the ‘Worldwide Warranty’, even though I had the receipt and the warranty with me. As the camera came from Australia, Sony refused to even deal with me – they told me I had to talk to Sony Australia … on the other side of the planet, and then asked me to leave their premises!
I am now struggling to take ANY photos with this thing. It is now out of warranty, only takes 1 in 3 photos properly (none in 5 megapixels), and to top it all off, the 8cm CD-R’s are next to impossible to buy outside the USA. And you can’t even mail-order them from the US – no shop will sell them overseas. Sony couldn’t even help me to locate a supplier of the CD-R’s in the UK, even when they featured the Sony CD-R’s on the Sony UK web site. In response to my enquiry regarding the discs, I was told they couldn’t help me and suggested I do a search on an internet search engine for them. (Gee Sony, I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks for the help.) I eventually found one shop in central London that sells them. When this shop stops selling them, the camera will be a useless paperweight.
If you are stupid enough to buy this camera, expect it to stop working within a year of buying it, and expect zero support from Sony. In fact, just expect abuse from Sony when it stops working.
I have just bought a Nikon D80, and am thrilled with the brilliance of this camera. Buy a digital camera from a manufacturer of real cameras, not a company that produces junk. Obviously Sony have given up on this technology, and tough luck if you were fooled into buying it. My assumption is they are no longer supporting the Mavica technology and refuse to have anything to do with any customer that owns one.
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