![]() 24 years has transitioned us from slow, unreliable, low-capacity magnetic. The fastest camera today can write up to 375,000 times as much data - firing off thirty, 12bit, 50mp, RAW images per second. The 2001 Mavica FD97 had the same 10x zoom as the CD1000 but opted for a dual floppy-disk/ Memory Stick storage options rather than the oddball CD-R drive. The Sony FD7 can record about 30 thousand pixels (or 4 kilobytes of data) per second - shooting one, 8bit, 0.3mp, JPG image in about 10 seconds. The CD1000's built-in CD-R burner could not reclaim disc space when unwanted images were deleted but Sony's 2001 followup Mavica CD200 and CD300 were able to use rewritable CR-RW discs (in more manageably-sized 3x zoom cameras). Also contributing to the bulk was a constant f/2.8 zoom covering a 10x range from 6–60 mm, for a 35mm equivalent of 39–390 mm. The 8 cm mini-CD format adopted by Sony for the CD1000 allowed 156 MB to be stored, although it made the camera rather large and oddly-shaped. Also, at this time floppy use was declining in the computer world, led by Apple's (controversial) omission of a floppy drive in their 1998 iMac. ![]() ![]() While floppy disks made it simple to move images onto a computer, with the maximum 1600×1200 resolution of the CD1000, a floppy would only hold about four images. Take the sleek Sony Digital Mavica ('aniera (MVC-FD81), the world's only camera that uses 21 floppy disk as film.Add images or capture short MPEG1 videos. Thus, the Mavica branding diverged even further from its original meaning of " Magnetic Video Camera." ![]() Introduced in 2000, the Mavica MVC-CD1000 was the first Mavica digital camera from Sony to use optical CD-R discs, where earlier Mavicas (like the CD1000's predecessor the FD95) used 3.5" floppies. ![]()
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