My primary school bought one of these, I thought it was a pretty cool camera back then. It wasn’t the best image quality available even at the time and writing to the floppy was slow but being able to swap to other disks easily was a big thing (a stack of floppies was a lot cheaper than memory cards) and being able to just stick the floppy in any computer and see the images was a real game changer compared to dealing with camera drivers to download images.
The funny thing is that it would be another decade before Sony would discover the SD card. “We do Memory Stick in this family.”
Memory Stick too big? Let me introduce Memory Stick Duo.
Surely they should have called it the memory stick demi?
they had a brief layover at cdr is cool, too. with the mavica minicd cameras… then a pitstop at nah, we really meant minidv.
and a full decade before the floppy disk camera, they also had the ‘video floppy’ used in still video cameras
Sample images for those interested
https://m.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/6427989411/sony-mavica-fd-91-real-world-samples-gallery
That’s better than I thought it was going to be
Yeah I was expecting a mosaic but it’s actually just webcam quality bad
It certainly gives a 90’s or early 2000’s vibe, especially the first 2 pics
The last one has a really early digital camera look for some reason.
I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed the sound of a 3.5" floppy being inserted into a drive. Takes me back to loading up Oregon Trail on our old Macintosh.
My first digital camera used CompactFlash cards, and had a display in the sense that a VCR has a display.
Those things still take pretty damn good shots, too. I’ve seen reviews where they compare with modern equipment, you can still easily tell the difference, but the quality is far from bad.
Now they’re sought after for the crunchy CCD style.
Mom had one of those. We had stacks and stacks of floppy disks because of it. Great digital camera for the time.
We still have ours
same storage today, 3-10+ disks per picture
My brother used to have one of those
