Description

The Sony Mavica CD500 combines the advantages and capacity of the instant-archive CD-R/RW format with advanced resolution and control flexibility. The Mavica CD500 features a 5-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, and a movie mode that shoots full-frame video.

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Here's a Sony feature that adds value to this digital camera and differentiates it from other models in the Sony lineup.

CD-RW Media: CD Mavica cameras shoot directly to 156 MB CD-R/RW discs, so there's room for hundreds of images and movie clips for instant archiving.

Optics and Resolution
Optimized for photo enthusiasts, the MVC-CD500 offers a 5-megapixel Super HAD sensor for image detail up to 2,592 x 1,944 pixels and print enlargements up to 20 by 30 inches. Get closer to your subjects with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 3x optical zoom lens (34-102mm equivalency in 35mm photography). The Mavica CD500 also features a 3.2x digital zoom.

Storage and Transfer
Images are stored on high-capacity 156 MB CD-R (recordable) and CD-RW (rewritable) discs, enabling you to instantly archive your shots. Images can be downloaded to either a Mac or PC via USB connectivity, which means it can be connected to any USB-based Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or later computer without installing any software.

Movie Mode
You can capture far more than still images with the MPEG Movie VX function. Most digital cameras' movie modes are limited to 30- or 60-second clips, but the Mavica CD500 can keep shooting until you've filled the CD-R/RW, approximately 6 minutes at full VGA resolution (640 x 480, 16 frames per second).

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Flexible exposure control is provided with aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual exposure modes. For

Sony MVCCD500 CD Mavica 5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

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$81.5

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$63

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$19.95

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Description

Step-up Value
Here's a Sony feature that adds value to this digital camera and differentiates it from other models in the Sony lineup.

CD-RW Media: CD Mavica cameras shoot directly to 156 MB CD-R/RW discs, so there's room for hundreds of images and movie clips for instant archiving.

More Features
Flexible exposure control is provided with aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual exposure modes. For

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Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing! And this thing right here is the Sony Mavica MVC-FD5, released in 1997 at a suggested retail price of $599. This was not only the first of Sony's FD Mavica line of digital cameras but it was the first digital camera to use 3.5" diskettes as its storage medium of choice. Sony ad guy: "Take a look at the Sony Digital Mavica! High resolution and VGA images on a full-featured digital camera, all of the convenience of a floppy disk! Imagine that!" LGR: Oh yes, no need for any bizarre formatting or disk types, all you needed was a standard 1.44 megabyte floppy disk like you'd use with most any PC of the time period. This was a big deal since most competing digital cameras were using internal flash memory and often required serial cables and proprietary software. So these cameras may have had an advantage in terms of read/write times while taking photos,