Sony MAVICA FD5: 24 YEARS later! RETRO review

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I review Sony's first Digital Mavica camera, 24 years later!
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@yuidfbse 2 года назад

My Goooooooooooooooooooood I love these series Gordon!!! I was a child when these came out and I remember going to the electronics retailers, seeing these and absolutely drooling over the dream of one day being able to have one! At that time, my parents shot with 35mm Nikon SLRs and I was already totally smitten about digital photography, video and computers! Thanks again for the video.. love it and brings back so wonderful memories :) :) :)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

You are very welcome! I was really looking forward to making this one!

@yuidfbse 2 года назад

Thanks again Gordon!!! I wanted to add the the story, MY FIRST digital camera, MANY MANY years later, eneded up being a Sony DSC-F828, present from my parents at the time! Oh God how much I loved AND STILL LOVE this camera.. I still have it, still working like new and still taking awesome photos. A very unique and special camera and one I would absolutely love to see you review one day. Back then, digital photography was so exciting.. new designs every year, new groundbreaking advancements every year, new amazing products every year. I must admit, now digital cameras are of amazing IQ and features (I shoot professionally with a GFX100 and own several Sony mirrorlesses). Yes, these new cameras are great and the tech in them is unimaginable compared to when the DSC-F828 was released. BUT, excitement like things were 20 years ago??? Nothing! The truly exciting days of digital photography are long gone. We live now in the times of ever improving pixel-perfection-boredom. I really miss the exciting times! Thanks again for your wonderful reviews and channel, love :)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

@@yuidfbse thanks! I remember very fondly reviewing the 828 and I almost bought one this week on eBay but the seller pulled it - bah!

@livonian 2 года назад

Back in 1998 took some photos for a band with one of those, which were later printed by the record company into their CD booklet. Looked rather good, despite the VGA resolution 😁

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Excellent! Have they since become famous?

@Dedubya- 2 года назад

Another wonderful review, thanks Gordon. I had the joy of receving a picture taken on this camera by my friend who lived overseas, while on the phone to her (at great expense!) she said she'd borrowed the Mavica from work and took a selfie and emailed it to me so I hung up, dialled my ISP, waited 5 mins to download the email with the picture attached and thought how wonderful technology was.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

That's brilliant! It really was a brave new world!

@nmeister67 2 года назад

The school my dad worked at had a Mavica FD7 (one the 10x optical zoom) and he brought it home once to show it to me. I remember the zoom seeming incredible but low light performance was so bad you simply couldn't expose anything under standard artificial lighting. Also I remember there being a high quality setting (possibly .BMP) where it took minutes to write a single image and that one image filled up a whole floppy disc 😂 I'm loving the channel, it's great to look back and see how far things have come 🙂

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

thanks!

@youareawesome8 2 года назад

Watching this brings me back to the good old days where you appreciate any new tech that comes out. unlike nowadays where we complaint about missing features of almost every camera that comes out.. I must say I have so much Fun watching all your retro reviews. BIG THANK YOU. have a coffee on me.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Cheers, much appreciated! And I agree, we all loved this tech when it was evolving in the early days...

@AndrewWaltonPhotography 2 года назад

Great video Gordon. I think they are a fantastic piece of design - we might think of them as being strange now but utilising that everyday object the floppy disc you could be up and running and adding photos to you desk top publishing file or web page almost instantly. When the internet was strangled by 56k/second dial up, those low res files weren't a problem, similarly with e-mail with file size limits. The Mavica was the most practical of solutions out there, no wonder they sold well.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Exactly, I think people who weren't around then don't understand just how slow and hard it was to work with digital images.

@snappiness 2 года назад

Seriously cool camera! Awesome work getting some nice pictures out of it. I do like the look of those files.

@arthurgphotography 4 месяца назад

Agreed the colors are gorgeous

@john2wheels860 2 года назад

You inspired me to go dig through my closet and find mine! Unfortunately, my battery no longer works as you mentioned, but I did find the Mavica! Turns out mine is an FD75 model. May have to find a USB floppy drive and a battery and go play with it some time. Lots of memories with this old thing!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yep with a new battery you should be ok

@yawningmarmot 2 года назад

Love this nostalgia series. I wasn't around for most of these old cameras (or they weren't around where I live), but it's fascinating to learn about the rise of digital photography and the different technologies that were invented to make it possible. P.S. Also, that forest bokeh in the beginning looks buttery smooth!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Thanks! I filmed my pieces to camera with a Sony A6400 and e 24mm f1.8 at f1.8 for this one.

@Crixtop 21 день назад

I bought one back in '99 when I was 12 years old. I still own it and am still using it now in 2024. It has a pretty impressive build; mine has never been repaired, so every mechanical part is still original, but I do regular cleaning maintenance.

@DinoBytes 20 дней назад

What do you clean?

@ChemaGD 2 года назад

This is gold, damn!!! love it! your channel should have millions of views! just shared it to many friends ;)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Thankyou! Many more to come!

@evanspaulding672 2 года назад

Yes yes yes! This is the RU-vid channel I've been looking for, plenty of vintage tech youtuber but your product style is something special! You've earned a sub

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Thankyou, many more to come including the legendary GameBoy camera later today!

@thegreatujo Год назад

Love the series. Thank you for making this channel !

@DinoBytes Год назад

Thanks! many more to come soon!

@rudyreimer302 2 года назад

Cool! and thanks for another installment on these retro cameras. Fun watching.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Thanks, many more to come!

@margaretfrewin9313 2 года назад

Informative and fun....always entertaining...thankyou Gordon

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

You're very welcome!

@Trance88 10 месяцев назад

Back in 1998-2001 or so, this was the only digital camera I was aware of. Someone brought one of these to to my school back in the early 2000's.

@ihaveacoolhat1 Год назад

No way, we used these in primary school. The first digital camera I ever used! Thanks for the throwback!

@DinoBytes Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! What did you use them for? Newsletters?

@SL-jo4om 2 года назад

Wonderfully thought out and executed review. Thank you! I remember buying a Sony miniDV camcoder in 2002. One of the selling points of the model I chose was the presence of a slot for a Sony Magicgate memory stick and the ability to record stills on it at the incredible resolution of 1 megapixel! Good times.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Me too! I filmed my first videos for YT on a Mini DV camcorder that also had a memory stick slot in it - the mini kind...

@SteveMorton 2 года назад

A friend of mind had one of these cameras! This is a great series Gordon, thank you for devoting so much time to these type of videos. No matter what the limitations of the camera, your creativity still shines through But a thought… Imagine if the development of the floppy disc had continued beyond the 3.5 inch 1.44 MB disc in the same way that spinning disc hard drives has exploded over the years to crazy capacities. This type of camera might still be practical for something like Instagram or similar!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Exactly! To be fair, it was kind of developed further by SyQuest and especially Iomega, the latter with ZIP discs...

@KD5NJR 2 года назад

Great video !! We had a Mavica at the office for “departmental use” back when .

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yes, it's always fun to playback some of those disks!

@dunnymonster 2 года назад

Awesome, I've still got a fully working FD87 and 20 floppy discs. Likewise I use an external floppy disc reader to get the images onto my laptop. Great fun, I still get mine out now and again 😁

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Great to hear!

@neilmossey7951 2 года назад

Great video thanks Gordon -- Love the original stickers on the camera... there must be a video about those... to peel or not to peel...

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

On my Sony S70 video you can see I peeled them off, but then stuck them to the base!

@MicahBBurke 2 года назад

I worked for a company in the mid-late 90s that sold cameras and software to orthodontists and oral surgeons. We sold these specifically, then the Fuji DS-220 (640x480) with a macro attachment, later the Nikon Coolpix 900 (1.3MP). It was an amazing time seeing the industry change so quickly.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

And they all looked completely different! Hope you enjoy my other videos!

@perilthecat 2 года назад

You seem like you’re having so much fun making these throw-backs! NGL, the (bad bad) image quality of that thing made me physically uncomfortable, lol

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yes, they're really fun to do, but quite stressful as I generally ad-lib the whole thing...

@mcrazza Год назад

Oh man, the gloriously garish jaggies! There’s something about low res, jaggy and interlaced images from the late 90s to the mid 00s. Lots of nostalgia right there. I remember pouring over Sony’s PULSE magazine in the early-mid 00s absorbing their consumer electronic offerings. Among the products that caught my eye was Sony’s Mavica lineup, especially the MVC-CD400. A digital camera that can record onto CDs?! It blew my mind. 20 years later and I still want one.

@DinoBytes Год назад

I remember reviewing the CD Mavicas and hope to have one on this channel soon!

@mcrazza Год назад

@@DinoBytes Please do! I was just searching for a review of Sony's CD Mavicas on YT and there are very little.

@SinaFarhat 2 года назад

Sony is a company with a rich history of trying things out and the floppy series cameras are a cool reminder of what creativity can create! I like that the battery for that camera is so used that you can get a good one today! Have a good weekend!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Thanks!

@MichaelGerrard 2 года назад

This is the review I have been waiting for! A trip down memory lane. I had the FD7! I also was drawn to the flexibility of using floppies. Other cameras of the time had cables to connect but that was before USB was a proper standard, so there were cumbersome drivers to install and other complications. The floppy disk was fab! I had the Memory Stick reader too. It was faster and higher capacity. But the picture quality was rubbish and the camera was too big. Around 2000 I went back to film with a tiny APS camera. I wish I still had my FD7, I gave it away a long time ago. Ah well, fun times!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

You should try and pick one up for old time's sake! They are fun to use today!

@TheLeiPol 2 года назад

Gordon, I enjoy your channel very much. Only used a Sony Mavica once at a party when my analog compact broke. Had the digital files transferred to a CD by a local Apple retailer since I did not have a floppy drive on my iMac. A classic digital camera I own, still love and use from time to time, is the Leica Digilux 2. The Panasonic counterpart is the Lumix DMC-LC1.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

I remember testing the LC1, and hope to cover it again on this channel at some point. Yes, the irony behind Sony's cunning plan was that at around the same time they released the Mavica, Apple ditched floppy drives!

@borderlands6606 2 года назад

About this time Viz comic had a cartoon which said, don't worry if you haven't got a digital camera, simply use your film camera and build the shot with Lego! The resolution was the same.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Ha ha! Yeah, you wouldn't need many bricks...

@79Hokie 2 года назад

Gordon, love these videos. A walk down memory lane.....

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

You're very welcome, have you seen them all?

@79Hokie 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes No but I have enjoyed and responded to a few I have seen.

@alanvanallen7762 2 года назад

Thanks Gordon,interesting video about the Mavica,the earliest digital camera I have is a Ricoh RDC-300Z which uses a smart media card,it came free with a Tiny computer I bought many years ago.The camera still worked last time I checked a few months ago

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Excellent! Richoh made some interesting cameras back in the day and I look forward to including some here!

@daniel635biturbo 2 года назад

Wonderful video Gordon, seems that you like this retro adventure as well ! Very strange that Sony put the disc in the wrong way on the poster @1:12 🤔 Equally interesting is that the trademarks Stamina, and info Lithium Still exists to this day. ("Fun" fact I actually used a 3,5" floppy just a couple of months ago when rebooting a ABB insustrial robot manufactured in 1998)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yes, I was a little triggered by the floppy the wrong way round in that advert, but it dd make it easier to see what it was.

@vladimirpereira2009 Год назад

These take me back to the time when I was a little kid and digital photography was just starting to build its ground. I remember my aunt gave us a Fujifilm point & shoot digital camera and it had a 2MP resolution (which I considered really high back then) with a 32 MB XD picture card.

@DinoBytes Год назад

I hope to do some early Fujifilms soon...

@Raptor50aus 2 года назад

You have to love Sony and the amount of products they churned out to see if it would take off. I have a Mavica floppy based camera still and recently bought new batteries for it which also fit my Sony Digital 8 handycam. Still lots of fun to use and with a USB FDD easy to use on modern pcs.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Great to hear you've got it working again!

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

Seriously considering getting a case with two drive bays just do I can load in a bluray drive and a floppy drive, partly out of spite for current trends and because it's still useful to be able to read all those media types, especially since I just found a Mavica FD75 so having a more substantial floppy drive would be nice even if USB floppy drives work well enough to start

@EDHBlvd 2 года назад

We had one of these in 1997/1998. I remember using it in photo class of high school for a “different medium”, because we were shooting B&W film by default.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

How did you find the experience versus film?

@EDHBlvd 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes I remember thinking it was a joke and not a real photography tool. That said all our film photos were physical. We had no way to scan for uploading onto computer.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

@@EDHBlvd exactly, if the goal was to get them into a computer, this was so quick and easy.

@riggerjeff 2 года назад

Takes me back to the days when AOL bought my “film”. (That’s the primary reason why I chose this particular camera for my first digital.) It was far from perfect - but it was good enough to convince me that digital was the future. Mine was passed off to a local school’s “gifted students” program once I’d replaced it.

@tonyzhu403 2 года назад

Probably ruined a ton of floppy discs by playing with the gates and putting my fingers on the disc itself. Fun times. Fascinating stuff to me back in the day.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Totally understandable, we all did it! 5.25in floppies were even worse!

@bilkon 2 года назад

Love your videos Gordon, it brings back memories of drooling over these hi-tech cameras back in the day. Yes, remember these but never bought one though because back then I thought the quality wasn't as good compared to film, well... not yet, and they were quite expensive. Talking about disk cameras I came across a camera made by Sharp and it records pictures on MD disks at the flea market. Not sure if this was marketed outside Japan though.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yeah, I've heard of some MiniDisc cameras, I need to look into that...

@LesFieldPhotos 2 года назад

I'm Brighton based and was working in San Fransisco when they first came out. I actually queued in line to get one. Computers were only VGA or XVGA anyway so the quality was fine, much better then I could get with a photo and my blank and white Logitech hand scanner. I upgraded it a year layer to an Olympus C-820 with XGA (1024x768) resolution and I remember I was blown away by the image quality. This was 1998 though, and the quality was in a different world than the Leica I use now.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Hope you're enjoying the Brighton shots in my reviews!

@johntonks7171 2 года назад

Used one of these for taking images of the machinery in the Cadbury factory where I worked in the early nineties. It was a revelation at the time as we moved up from a Kodak that could store 6 images from memory.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

I love the idea of a floppy disc camera in a chocolate factory!

@thissidetowardscreen4553 2 года назад

Awesome review and love the series! I have seen them in charity shops many times and just not picked one up, my bad.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Bet you won't find any now!

@improbablehandle 2 года назад

Thanks Gordon. Mine's a functional MVC-FD83 with its original battery + charger, strap, lens cap, and assorted body stickers all faded to the point of illegibility. There's considerable rubbing down to bare plackiness (placking, not brassing :) around the shutter button. The camera's paid for itself many times over shooting listings for an estate agency.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Nice one! Yews, they were very popular with real-estate and other regularly updated listings.

@thegreatvanziniphotos5976 2 года назад

Cool! Looks like film from the 40', 50's or something. I think I still have mine around here somewhere.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Try and get it working again!

@rosshilton Год назад

OMG my first digital camera. 1998 and I was working across Asia. Big, slow and poor quality photos but I loved it.

@DinoBytes Год назад

Glad you found my video about it!

@detroit-ironakasuspect6403 Год назад

I remember when I was in high school, they had a similar camera, but it was I think a MVC-FD87. They protected that camera like it was made of gold. I never got to use it, but I always thought it was pretty cool. Over the years I've somehow managed to get two cameras, MDC-FD5 and the MVC-FD87. I remember getting the FD87, a friend of mine's girlfriend left it in my 73 Datsun 620 Pickup. I offered it back to her a few times, but she didn't want it back. The FD5, I don't remember getting the camera. Anyways I charged both batteries, only one took charge. Both cameras powered on, but only the FD5 actually writes to floppy, other one has disk error. I'm a fan of retro things, its really cool that one of the two cameras I have actually works.

@DinoBytes Год назад

Glad you're using it!

@k-scopeinc2262 11 месяцев назад

My Dad had one of these back in the day and it even had a screw on zoom lens. So much nostalgia

@DinoBytes 11 месяцев назад

Nice! Do you still have it?

@k-scopeinc2262 11 месяцев назад

I don't think so. Not been home in over 10 years@@DinoBytes

@TheBasementChannel 2 года назад

Nice one Gordon. I used to use one of these 20 years ago to take product photos at my work. Currently bidding on one to showcase on my channel 😆

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Nice one! Which model are you going for? I wouldn't mind the CD1000 and CD500 as well...

@TheBasementChannel 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes I can’t tell exactly, ironically the picture is too low res to tell. It’s a local auction house so I might pop on Monday and check it out in person. It’s definitely a floppy disc model though.

@RestorationAustralia 2 года назад

Great detailed review. 👍 Nice camera from the Jurassic period. 😊🦖🦕

@agenericaccount3935 2 года назад

Whoa. A memory stick floppy adapter. Of all the things I didn't expect to learn existed today, this would have been in the top slot.

@JaronHorst 2 года назад

This was the first digital camera that I used! My dad had it for his online store. It take was a have changer.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yes, it definitely powered a few online stores!

@UdoKrawallo 2 года назад

Great review as always! This is surely an interesting device. Also nice to hear your experience with it from your work. Anecdotes like this are the icing on the cake. This adapter is also very interesting - I really wonder how big the capacity is it can read. I still got some memory sticks laying around, from my Sony R1 time 😎

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Do you still have the R1? That was a lovely camera! As for the adapter I suspect it'll work with any card, but may only recognise the first, say, 64MB of it. If I ever get hold of one I'll tell you!

@UdoKrawallo 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes No, I sold it back then, when I was switching in whole to DSLR. As much as I liked it, the AF and continuous shooting speed were too slow for my needs. Yes, this adapter would be very interesting! I wonder if it also works in a PC floppy drive 😁

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

@@UdoKrawallo I assume it would...

@alanbates1471 Год назад

Nice review. Did you know there was an improved version, the FD51, having a few extra features including one that does not seem to be documented, the lens mount is threaded for filters and supplementary lens.It's an odd size though, 26mm. Tiffen produced a kit for this camera containing tele, wide angle and close up lens, all having 37mm threads and a 26mm to 37mm adaptor.

@DinoBytes Год назад

Yes I remember that model. Sony made lots of Mavicas, they were v popular!

@EdselAmbience 2 года назад

okay call me weird but i want one of these because i feel it would beautiful for taking nostalgic, and liminal space photos just because of the artifacts, low res, the colors, ect its honestly a beauty

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

It's a fun system to use

@ziginox 2 года назад

I have three of these in my collection, two FD75s and an FD100 or 200 (Can't remember which, the only difference was the megapixel count) Absolutely love how goofy they are, I really need to get some batteries for them so I can take them out. Thankfully I have wall power supplies for them. All three came from a school at some point. It must be said that ejecting a floppy on the later models was even more satisfying, moving the eject lever sideways and the sliding it down! A really neat feature on the 100/200 was the screen, if you look along the top there's a weird translucent bar across that would actually take ambient light in to illuminate the display.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

AH yes I remember those sceens! As for chargers, my second hand one didn't come with one BUT I was able to use the third party charger I use to charge the bigger batteries for my HDMI recorder - nice to have a standard fitting!

@benzcrazy 2 года назад

My Camera has arrived DSC F-1 pretty cool and I just downloaded the instructional manual ,I thought it included any how I will read the book first and I have a older PC with windows XP to load the software disc ,Stay Tuned .Am happy so far .this camera is really cool if nothing else 👍👍👍

@TheAaronalden 2 года назад

I was so jealous of these cameras, feeling stuck shooting film!

@jacobnathanielzpayag3885 2 года назад

I don't really remember what was our family's first camera but from what I know, my mom used a Yashica rangefinder starting around the late 80's (which is still in working order to this day). She and my dad went with several cameras along the years with some even using MMC cards and the last point-and-shoot they bought was a Sony DSC-W320 (currently in my possession). Around 2015 they bought our first DSLR, a Canon 1200D. Upto that point, I mainly use my phone as my camera and when I first used the 1200D and shot raw, that was when I was hooked with the power that even a basic DSLR had. I used that camera for a long time until I accidentally lost it in 2019. In 2020, I was able to replace it with a Canon 50D which I still daily drive to this day. My country is still in lockdown but during the pre-COVID era, I would bring my camera to school every day and me and friends would just have fun shooting with it. It's amazing how even older DSLRs can still produce stunning results when used properly. I can't wait to go back out and shoot again.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

I remember reviewing the 50D, it was an still is a strong camera. When I was studying, I had an old film SLR and loved taking candid photos of my friends. Quality isn't paramount there, it's capturing precious moments.

@benharveyphotography 2 года назад

When I took that photo of you in the cafe, it took so long I thought it had switched off! Imagine having to wait that long for a digital photo now….I owned one of these but I must have a selective memory about waiting for the images to record. Strangely the exit data on the images I found don’t have the camera model number on them - perhaps something that wasn’t around at the time?

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yeah, mine didn't have EXIF info either, just the date and time, I'll look into when that started... PS - thanks for the photo BTW!

@thehobnob 2 года назад

Great video! We actually still have a couple of these at work, they’re in a classroom display cabinet though so no idea if they’re functional

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Get them out!

@jan-hendrikbussmann4644 2 года назад

My company has a Nikon F90 with a Kodak DCS digital back in a display case. Whenever I am in that room, I take a moment to soak up the view.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

@@jan-hendrikbussmann4644 very nice! I actually have a similar model on loan from Canon at the moment, but no means to charge it, argh!

@thestevej2001 2 года назад

I used to be a pediatrician and I used a Polaroid to take pictures of all my newborn patients (always including their parents so I'd remember them if they called). After a stay on my bulletin board (a real, not digital one) they went into the baby's chart. My Polaroid died, so I replaced it with one of these and printed out the images on an ink jet. Between the low resolution of the Sony and the primitive ink jet, the pictures weren't good but satisfactory. My most vivid memory was taking the camera to a concert in which my about 10 yr old daughter was singing. I then took the camera home and emailed the pic†uses to my brother 3000 miles away. Both he and I were amazed at the ease and speed of sharing the pictures. It was a real eye opener. I realized what a game changer digital photography could be. I used the Sony camera in the office for several years, but bought myself a Canon G1 for my own use.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

PS - have you seen my video about the G1?

@thestevej2001 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes Yes, that's how I found you. Great stuff. Thanks!

@benzcrazy 2 года назад

I have seen them in thrift stores I had a few with the floppies but couldn't take very many pictures on the floppy so I gave them to my nephew to practice on .Since then however I found a floppy that was later available as in your video that could add a memory stick or something like that .If I find another i might buy it just to have .I think I have most of the MVC mini disc cameras from my MVC 1000 to the last newest being I think 5 meg ,.I love using this vintage stuff it makes photography more fun .

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

They are fun to play with!

@brentsummers7377 Год назад

Loving this series on the old cameras! I would have been happy with one of these Sony Mavica FD cameras but unfortunately I bought a Casio QV which had terrible battery life on AA batteries, slow serial transfer of the photos, and image quality about the same as the Sony. Maybe my Casio had a fault but it would chew through a set of alkaline batteries in about 15 minutes just by having it turned on! I watched the Sony review on a smartphone & the image quality looked pretty nice. Back in those days many people would have had 12 or 14 inch monitors so the small file sizes would have been o.k.

@DinoBytes Год назад

I'm actually after one of the first Casio QV models to make a video about it!

@joshrose3195 2 года назад

I remember using one of these in high school. You could not even fit a modern cell phone picture on one of those floppy disks.

@davidwarwick7968 Год назад

I didn't own one of them, but do remember selling them. Estate agents found them useful for the reasons you mentioned. The first digital I purchased was a Kodak DC25 which used CF cards. I bought a Sony DSC S70 was convinced digital was the way forward!

@DinoBytes Год назад

I bought an S70 too! I've made a video about it if you're interested...

@777callen 11 месяцев назад

Sold these cameras in college and used one for many projects. It was a marvelous piece of tech! So much better than Apple’s QuickTake. Great video thanks for sharing!

@DinoBytes 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching! Hope you get a chance to watch a couple more!

@UKMike2009 2 года назад

My first digital camera was a Panasonic NV-DCF2 with a princely 0.35MP (I think). It gave grainy pictures with limited exposure control - but it was DIGITAL and probably no worse than some of the cheap Polaroids. Of course, printing and photo-manipulation software was also way behind what we enjoy now. I still have the camera somewhere in a box and this video just might inspire me to go and find it for some retro-pictures.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Nice one, I hope it still works!

@benzcrazy 2 года назад

Thanks to you I had to have the very first Sony digital The DSC F-1 I found one on E-bay I think the guy was happy to unload it and replied quickly to my offer .It has the camera and the software Cd and all the cables and the instructional manual .I can't wait to see it ,I'll keep you posted .One thing those optics are so high quality that my MVC 1000 still puts out great very clear high quality pictures and the later ones with 5 meg pixels and the Zeiss optics aside from being a little slower are still some of the best cameras .the DSC F-717 is also still one of the highest quality affordable camera .Its fun using vintage cameras especially the ones that were the most advanced and high quality of their day.And the great thing about using the MVC cameras is I have every cd since I bought the camera in 1998 or 1999 so I can always access all events and recopy pictures that had they been on a Sd card would now be long gone .

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

You'll love the DSC F1, it's amazing! I'm trying to collect ALL the F series models, but the asking prices sometimes are a little ambitious to say the least!

@matsknutsson114 2 года назад

Used at work. Enjoyed it and would still as a flirt to old better times...floppy is so tactile.

@MrJ0mmy 2 года назад

great video i own 2 fd-73 1 fd-91 1 fd 200 i still really like taking photos with these cameras and for its age the fd200 photos look quite decent for only 2mp even some mid range phones with higher MP take worse photos them my fd200

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

CCD sensors are funny like that, they were actually pretty great at they're job but weren't nearly as fast as modern CMOS sensors among other issues so they got overtaken for the most part. Some applications like Astrophotography still use CCDs because they are really good at the long exposures and extreme sensitivity requirements of trying to image dim galaxies, nebulae, and other stellar sights, CMOS "can" manage but they generate a lot more visual noise during long exposure while also not being quite as efficient at catching every photon to make a clear, clean image. Even with just a regular DSLR though Astrophotography is fun, you don't need a specialized astronomy camera to capture some really beautiful pictures

@SWATmagvids 2 года назад

That was my first digital camera, and I held onto it for a few years after it was definitely obsolete simply because of the convenience of the floppy discs. Surely every computer would always have a floppy drive, right?

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

I know, right?!

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

My fancy, VR capable modern desktop is going to be getting a USB floppy drive installed shortly, since I just found a Mavica FD75, sure it stands no chance against my EOS Rebel T6 it doesn't matter, sometimes is more fun to work with something limited and weird rather than the modern standard

@hedley.bradstone-unbridled 2 года назад

I'm rather glad that my last SLR camera didn't kick the bucket until 2003, because it seems that the quality of the early digital photographs wasn't up to much, though I can see the development of such new tech must have been very exciting at the time, particularlry for those who could see where it was all going.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

It did move pretty quickly. By 2000 we had 3MP and they were already looking pretty good...

@UNSCPILOT 2 года назад

Found a sony Mavica FD75 for 2$ at a thrift store, eagerly ordered a new battery, a pack of freash floppies, and a USB floppy drive for my desktop. It's a a seemingly absurd device to have hanging beside my EOS Rebel T6, yet I adore the retro hardware and eagerly await the confusion and questions is someone sees me using this thing, especially when that floppy drive starts accessing with those rather distinctive sounds

@DinoBytes Год назад

It's great when you swap discs in public!

@nullish0 7 месяцев назад

I see a review 24 years later - i subscribe

@DinoBytes 7 месяцев назад

I have plenty of these!

@robstammers7149 Год назад

High Gordon, I'm currently in process of collecting early Sony digital cameras. I already have several of there key models, like the DSC R1 and F828, the H1 and H2, the Mavica range recently caught my attention, and yes I'm looking at several models on my favourite buying site, as an aside, I thought the images you took looked very film like in appearance. As for the Mavica, not sure which model should be my first... many thanks.

@DinoBytes Год назад

I'll be making vintage videos about the 828 snd R1 soon! As for Mavica, I'd get the first if you're a collector, or one with a bigger zoom

@robstammers7149 Год назад

@@DinoBytes Thanks Gordon, 👍

@Sutlore007 2 года назад

this camera reminds me of the old time, first digital cam for me :)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

I hope it's happy memories!

@zetorek83 11 месяцев назад

i own FD81 and FD200 Arriving today so far i love it

@DinoBytes 11 месяцев назад

Nice one!

@zetorek83 11 месяцев назад

@@DinoBytes but will hunt for FD5s but havent seen any on ebay lately

@superyamagucci 2 года назад

Cheers mate, just came to see if you’d done this yet! You’ve inspired me to leave it in the box it’s stored in ha ha However, I may raid the box to see if the batteries fit an old A65 I have. Shit at low light, but still damn good for sports on a sunny day.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Oh no! I insist you get it out and take some shots with it again!

@superyamagucci 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes Hmm… mavica I have to buy discs and a drive for and get crappy shots, or the beauty I just spent good-used-car money on…? I may need to think abou- Nah. 😉

@twinkie1773 2 года назад

I have been looking for this camera for a while now and finally got my hands on a working 1. I only paid $9 and it have the memory duo slot!

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Nice buy! Which model?

@twinkie1773 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes I got the fd 100

@willidevegt8831 2 года назад

Last time you can record 20 pics on a single floppy disk. Now i would need 20 floppy disk foor a single pic LOL

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Weeeell, I did a test and if you turn the JPEG compression all the down to about 1 or 2 in photoshop, you can get some - horrible looking - but very small files!

@willidevegt8831 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes LOL

@yizhakshachar 2 года назад

great explanation, funny to see that today a $300 cellphone takes much better pictures then those expansive cameras. I became a photography enthusiast after digital photography started.

@nickg164 8 месяцев назад

I never owned one, but I used them in school. Can’t remember the exact model but just found one on eBay to play with my kids.

@DinoBytes 8 месяцев назад

Nice one, hope it works - and that you have a drive to read them!

@therealciava 2 года назад

It is the in my collection, fully functional. 🤩🤩🤩

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Excellent!

@richardward4243 Год назад

I used to be Lead 1hr Lab Tech at a Walgreens once upon a time and I had a customer who shot with one of these!

@DinoBytes Год назад

How did the prints look?

@richardward4243 Год назад

@@DinoBytes My recollection is of thinking they looked "awful" - then again my benchmark at the time was shooting high quality images with high quality prime lenses on 35mm, or my Yashica TLR, or my Busch Pressman 45D 4x5. Yet - Still wanting one!

@benzcrazy 2 года назад

I have 5 Mavicas I love them I still use the MVC 1000 on a regular basis the best thing is that I have every mini cd saved since I purchased it new in the 90's I have since purchased most of the MVC's up to the 5 meg on the mini Cd ,the only thing that changed was that you must use a pc .Macintosh stopped any software with os-10 so I have a few pc's for that but they rugged and it without intending it i started a collection of them ,and the mini cd's get still be bought online .

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Nice one, maximum respect for your collection and commitment!

@karim2k Год назад

I wish I would have that back on the 90s or even on the early 2000s that would be sick

@DinoBytes Год назад

It's even cooler now!

@headwerkn Год назад

The FD71 was the first digital camera I got to use on a regular basis back in 1999/2000. A work colleague had one and I used it regularly for staff photos and the like… resolution was rather limited (compared to flat bed scanning a 4x6” print) but with good light the quality wasn’t terrible. Floppies of course were massively cheaper than solid state media of the era, but ironically upgrading to the then new and floppy-less PowerMac G4 made accessing the photos kinda annoying 😂

@DinoBytes Год назад

It was amazing how many of us used these floppy cameras in a production environment!

@Raptor50aus 2 года назад

I also have a Sony TRV-900 MiniDV Handycam which also included a cardbus adapter to connect either the included FDD or memory stick for photos.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Hang on, a Mini DV camcorder that could record stills to a floppy accessory? That's brilliant, not sure I ever saw that!

@Raptor50aus 2 года назад

@@DinoBytes Yes the Sony TRV-900 has 3CCD and the card bus adapter is removable so you can swap the memory stick cardbus for the FDD. So you have the somehow hold the floppy drive while holding the camera to take stills :) I just today had to repack the battery pack for a Sony Vaio UX UMPC with new 18650 cells because unlike the mavica camera the UMPC used a special battery that I can not find online anymore but it now works great again :) The Vaio UX takes quite good pics for its age considering it's a windows 7 pc and the first ever pc to have an SSD drive 32GB. Really enjoying your videos by the way :)

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

@@Raptor50aus thanks!

@chris_b101 2 года назад

I had no idea you could get a USB floppy disk reader. Great. Now I’m going to make another ridiculous purchase because of one of your videos! Question- did this thing write EXIF info?

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Ooh good question, I've just checked and sadly no EXIF info apart from the date and time.

@deathdoor 2 года назад

Still better colors than the latest iPhone, amazing.

@Fakerbey 2 года назад

Just got FD5 off eBay. A technical question please. Where the camera keeps time and date for each image file? After all most of Mavicas including this one don't put an exif header to images. Another files on a floppy are .411 - thumbnails used for Index viewing. You can delete them and still able to see .jpg images. The only idea I have is the camera's floppy drive records time and date for each image at floppy itself and then reads it back. Any other ideas?

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Hmm, good point, I'm not sure but will try to find out

@BillyBobDingledorf 2 года назад

Local police department was quick to adopt these for taking pictures of crashes and other such things. Quick easy way to document damage and at $600, they could put one in every squad car.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yep, good application that...

@FalandodeAmenidades 2 года назад

Images look great considering they're only 1/3 megapixel. My first digital camera was a Polaroid which had no LCD screen in the back, can't remember the exact model (PDC something, I guess).

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Yes, I remember they did some digitals. And yeah, if you look at my Instagram I posted one of those portraits and it looks ok!

@GaryR55 2 года назад

My second digital camera, which I bought in 2000. I hated carrying a boxful of floppies with me, though.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

Imagine doing that today! I'd actually quite enjoy seeing people's reactions!

@streetsafari0 2 года назад

That is a hard camera to love lol

@ericwolff6059 2 года назад

Had the FD7 not too long after it was released. My first digital camera. Cost nearly a months wages, about NZ$1399 on special, saving a couple of hundred dollars. Was okay, but resolution was a letdown, and slow record speed was not ideal.

@DinoBytes 2 года назад

What did you use it for? Do you still have it?