Another day, another dumpster dive, another hit… a digital camera that uses 3.5″ floppy drives as storage device. A Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD73.
My first surprise was that I was still able to charge the cameras battery. The second surprise was that it was still working flawless. And when doing some background research there was a third surprise that Sony still provides a manual (PDF). I did not expect any of these points.
| MVC-FD73 | |
| Max. resolution | 640 x 480 (0.4 megapixels) |
| Sensor type | CCD (ISO 100) |
| Optical zoom | 10x (focal length ~ 40-400 mm) |
| Screen size | 2.5" |
| Screen dots | 84,000 |
| Min shutter speed | 1/60 sec |
| Max shutter speed | 1/4000 sec |
| Weight (inc. batteries) | ca. 500 g |
| Dimensions (ca.) | 138 x 103 x 62 mm |
I’ve taken two sample pictures with the camera – one of my keyboard (in low resolution) and one of my children’s toys (in high resolution). In both cases the resolution is 640 x 480 pixel (VGA) but the compression and thereby the file size differs. It is also visible by the higher number of artefacts.
