page_title: Sony Mavica
hierarchical_section_title: Sony Mavica
caption_attribution_description: CP+ 2011: 1981 Sony Mavica prototype
context_page_description: Mavica was a brand of Sony cameras which used removable disks as the main recording medium. On August 25th 1981, Sony unveiled a prototype of the Sony Mavica as the world's first electronic still camera.
  As with all Mavica cameras until the early 1990s this first model was not digital. Its CCD sensor produced an analog video signal in the NTSC format at a resolution of 570 × 490 pixels. Mavipak 2.0" disks were used to write 50 still frames onto tracks on disk. The pictures were viewed on a television screen. Otherwise, this camera is positioned as the "pioneer of the digital era".
  During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sony reused the Mavica name for a number of digital cameras that used standard 3.5" floppy disk or 8 cm CD-R media for storage.
context_section_description: Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera) was a brand of Sony cameras which used removable disks as the main recording medium. On August 25th 1981, Sony unveiled a prototype of the Sony Mavica as the world's first electronic still camera.
  As with all Mavica cameras until the early 1990s (including later models sold commercially) this first model was not digital. Its CCD sensor produced an analog video signal in the NTSC format at a resolution of 570 × 490 pixels. Mavipak 2.0" disks (later adopted industry-wide as the Video Floppy and labelled "VF") were used to write 50 still frames onto tracks on disk. The pictures were viewed on a television screen. Otherwise, this camera is positioned as the "pioneer of the digital era".
  During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sony reused the Mavica name for a number of digital (rather than analog) cameras that used standard 3.5" floppy disk or 8 cm CD-R media for storage.
caption: Sony Mavica (1981), the first still video camera in history
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